one curiosity lingered as I waited for U.S How this weekly miracle comes out every week — and has done so since 2001 — is a tribute to the folks on this page and the many who came before them I’m glad to contribute a few tricks I’ve learned from 55 years in journalism all over the map The vast majority of brand managers are uncertain about what’s in people’s minds This is because 9 in 10 brands of a measurable status don’t track their brand equity which raises the question whether the Brand Manager job title accurately reflects their responsibilities We must admit that the old ways of tracking brand health were quite off-putting; sample was scarce and restrictive and nothing was quite at the click of a button we’ve gone beyond measuring attitudes; behaviour and neuroscience interpretations from survey and non-survey data got integrated within tracking and the number of brands in high clutter categories stretched beyond sufficient levels The upgrade to mobile ready questions and the automated back-end dashboard solutions dialled up the (dare we say) enjoyment levels for both interviewees and tracker users alike if you are a marketing director who boasts about award-winning advertising or a brand manager who shines through their product refinement cycles there is now no excuse not to also focus on your brand’s winning attributes unless you monitor your brand and your competitors how would you know where to invest your marketing resources and the optimal time for doing so Your desired brand tracker should score high in its ability to do the following: Don’t settle for anything less than continuous tracking The difference between a monthly bang and a daily spread of respondents resembles the contrast between a static Continuous tracking offers a panorama view; a moving image with a great deal of definition that relates to the sequence of your activities BrandDynamics on Kantar Marketplace builds on the legacy continuous tracking that Maurice Millward & Gordon Brown invented back in 1976 It collects 100 survey responses every day of the year in each category allowing for a crisp analysis and a generous slicing and dicing of our quality sampling Have you felt in the past that some of your own or your competitors’ activities have fallen off the radar despite your respectable yearly sampling But different metrics will move at a different tempo Functional and direct metrics that measure behaviours will be moving fast whereas emotional and indirect equity indicators will shift slowly in line with attitudes You need to ensure that in all the commotion you won’t fail to notice that sedate moving of the needle in your equity metrics; for instance a slip in your Demand Power or even a spurt in the competitor’s Pricing Power Even if some metrics won’t move daily data should be updated every day and for everyone’s sanity the façade of it all should be a self-serve dashboard powered up by analytics BrandDynamics uses an AI capability that can filter out the random noise inherent to surveys (detecting structural changes can forecast how metrics are likely to move over the next 3 months and will alert you of all that with notifications Keen to identify risks and opportunities on the fly Most companies are still struggling to prioritise brand building. According to Marketing Week’s Language of Effectiveness Study 2023, less than half (42.5%) focus on brand marketing vs. performance marketing. The data and insights gap is widening and only 23% of marketers measure the short and the long term in an integrated way But marketers’ advocacy for an integrated viewpoint (86% of them concur it’s important to measure effectiveness in the short and the long term) shines through brightly so make sure you detect this maturity when looking for a platform: it’s got to be able to measure the interactions between the short and the long term answers marketing questions with a combination of both short- and long-term measures in a highly visual dashboard Keep tabs on a specific campaign response in real time while monitoring the forecast trends of your brand equity metrics Keen to measure and diagnose the intangible asset of a brand in your scorecard The integrated MDS framework will equip you amply measuring the value of brand equity accumulated in the minds of consumers – its impact on penetration and market share A few years ago, the role of brand manager was included in David Graeber’s list of BS jobs – brutal but likely an accurate observation unless you can show your brand tracking data BrandDynamics is your ticket to exit the list (or it is your ticket to lead your brand to sustainable growth and long-term success Ready to discover how continuous brand tracking can empower your daily marketing decisions? Always know how your brand is performing vs the competition and monitor the KPIs that will help you grow your brand with real-time brand tracking technology, BrandDynamics on Kantar Marketplace. Book a demo today Read: How brand tracking can make marketing investments recession-proof Read: Modern marketing dilemmas: How can you prove marketing adds value to your brand Read: Accelerate brand growth with agile brand equity measurement Read: Brand tracking essentials: Using brand insight to maximise marketing spend All News FIDE News Chess News Top Top Federations Main Page / Search Tournaments Titles Transfers Calculators Download FIDE Circuit Women's Events '24-'25 Open Cycle 2025-2026 Women’s Cycle 2025-2026 Women’s Cycle 2023-2025 All Tournaments Main Events About FIDE Handbook Documents Financial Reports Officials Commissions & Committees Federations Affiliated Organizations Affiliated Members Honourable Dignitaries Chart For the first time in Peruvian sports history the World School Chess Championship is taking place in Peru the participants from 26 countries (Argentina Venezuela and Zimbabwe) are enjoying the day off represented by its president Dina Boluarte and her council of ministers declared the World School Chess Championship the top priority which transcends to the benefit of all the participants the World School Championship has been very good for the host players Advik (United States) (pictured above) drew their game while Iman Nabiyev of Kazakhstan won his game Here is the list of participants from all categories with a perfect score: Enzo Mathias (Paraguay U11 ABS)Arana Bello Alagon Ghaydaa Ceneth (Perú U 11 FEM)Torres Ccahuay Dayana Nievevska (Peru U15 FEM)WIM Bravo Mallco Arturo Eduardo (Paraguay U 15 ABS)Garzon Zapatanga Table 1 of the U11 Women’s category in Round 5: Alagon Ghaydaa Ceneth Mandujano (Peru) vs Dana Katherine Tuk Martin (México) Enzo Vinales (Paraguay) and Bruno Arana (Peru) both netted 5/5 making it the only competition with joint leaders with a perfect score The Pan American champion and South American School champion There is a huge group of players with 4.5 points in all categories: Diego Peter (Peru U 07 ABS)Holguin Segovia Alma Camila (Ecuador U 09 FEM)Nandinjiguur Chinzorig (Mongolia U 09 FEM)Valenzuela Reinoso Jesus Daniel (Mexico U 13 ABS)Garzon Camelo Andres Santiago (Colombia U 13 ABS)Martinez Flores K A R G W D R B G (Sir Lanka U 13 ABS)Herrera Jimenez Luciana Victoria (Perú U13 FEM)Casqui Lopez Pamela Grace (Perú U 13 FEM)WCM Buyankhishig with as many as nine players tied for first place U17 Open: Tupac Russell Montesinos Parisaca (Peru) vs Christopher Leonel Garzon Zapatanga (Colombia) Written by AN Rodolfo Valentino Cabrera Huaman Official website: fidewsccperu2024.com/ © 2025 FIDE International Chess Federation stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way or by any means (including photocopying recording or storing it in any medium by electronic means) without the written permission of FIDE International Chess Federation Host: The Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug for use this week an antivenom used to treat severe scorpion stings It's called Anascorp and it was developed in Mexico Children are the most vulnerable to scorpion stings The United States ran out of its own supply of scorpion antivenom nearly a decade ago From the public media collaboration Fronteras Monica Ortiz Uribe reports that this new drug has the potential to save hundreds of lives each year.MONICA ORTIZ URIBE: Toxicologists refer to the American Southwest as the Venom Belt It's home to thousands of venomous animals some which can be extremely dangerous to humans for example.LESLIE BOYER: Without antivenom you accept the intensive care or you risk death.ORTIZ URIBE: That's Dr She's a pediatrician who directs the Venom Research Center in Tucson there are 250 severe scorpion stings a year Most of those stung are children in Arizona Drug companies in the United States have little incentive to make antivenom because one there simply aren't enough patients to guarantee a profit.BOYER: We in Arizona felt very isolated This was an orphan disease.ORTIZ URIBE: That is until Dr Boyer took a trip south of the border and discovered that Mexico had a far bigger scorpion problem.PETRA PEREZ: (Spanish spoken)ORTIZ URIBE: During summers at this Red Cross clinic in Central Mexico there can be up to 50 scorpion stings a night Petra Perez was picking out dead leaves from a flower pot when she got stung twice on her middle finger.PEREZ: (Spanish spoken)ORTIZ URIBE: The pain is too much to take a quarter of a million people are stung by dangerous scorpions each year.ALEJANDRO ALAGON: So consequently Mexico has been in truly antivenom field for many we have accumulated a big experience on how to make good antivenoms.ORTIZ URIBE: Dr Alejandro Alagon is a professor of biochemistry at Mexico's Autonomous National University hundreds of people in Mexico would die each year from scorpion stings Alagon is also an advisor to the Mexican drug company that makes the antivenom which is effective against the same species of scorpion that exists in Arizona Boyer.BOYER: We discovered that our Mexican colleagues had pushed the technology of antivenom development way beyond what we had done in the U.S.ORTIZ URIBE: So in 2004 Boyer launched a clinical study of Anascorp in the United States which was supervised by the Food and Drug Administration Twenty-eight hospitals participated and nearly 2,000 Americans received the drug.RYLEIGH WAGLEY: What kind of book is this?ORTIZ URIBE: One of the youngest America patients to receive the drug thus far is this little girl Ryleigh Wagley.WAGLEY: Scorpions are not nice.ORTIZ URIBE: Ryleigh is four now more than two hours away from the nearest ICU a small clinic in the nearby mining town of Morenci was part of the clinical study of Anascorp Fred Fox was the physician who treated Ryleigh He says the antivenom helped save her life.FRED FOX: It's allowed us to treat patients who either could have died or been seriously ill and would have been sent to the intensive care unit we can treat them and then actually send them home from here.ORTIZ URIBE: Scorpion stings are only one problem there is a severe shortage of antivenom against all kinds of venomous animals hospitals across the country are testing two more antivenoms: one against black widow spiders and another against rattlesnakes Copyright © 2011 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information Become an NPR sponsor MEXICO CITY – In the past seven years, about 2,000 Americans stung by dangerous scorpions in the southwest have been treated with antivenom made in Mexico. The drug is called Anascorp and it's in final evaluation phase before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which is evaluating the drug for use in the United States (EDITOR'S NOTE: The antivenom has been approved by the FDA.) Worldwide there is a severe shortage of all kinds of antivenom because there is little economic incentive for companies to produce it one company in Mexico has proved itself to be a leader in the production of anti-venom In Mexico, scorpion stings are a true public health dilemma. As recently as 20 years ago, hundreds of people across the country would die from severe stings. At one Red Cross clinic in Leon there can be up to fifty scorpion sting patients a night That amount of traffic makes it hard for doctors to provide supportive care like in the United States where patients are put on ventilators and given a high does of sedatives Instead the more practical solution was to come up with a quality antivenom that could be administered by via IV Instituto Bioclon began production of antivenom in the early 1990's The products it developed and distributed around the country helped drop the death rate from severe scorpion stings to about 30 per year from the hundreds just a generation ago Dr. Alejandro Alagon started working as a consultant and researcher for Bioclon 15 years ago. He is also a professor of biochemistry at Mexico's Autonomous National University (UNAM) His office is located in a lab in the city of Cuernavaca needs to look no further than the outer pane of his office window where black widows nurse yellow egg sacks His fascination with venomous animals began when he was a kid growing up on his grandfather's ranch One day one of his grandfather’s ranch hands was bitten by a vicious viper looking at that terrible wound with necrosis and tissue destruction,” Dr his grandfather's ranch is actually helping cure people like the ranch hand who was bitten The 80-year-old Alagon ranch sits on 444-acres of verdant landscape in the south central state of Puebla The air is sweet with the smell of ripe mangos and peeking out beneath the mossy soil are ancient Totonacan ruins The ranch is home to 59 horses that belong to Instituto Bioclon The horses are the source of the life-saving anti-venom Dr. Alagon's younger brother, Andres Alagon, oversees the horse ranch. The younger Alagon is a pediatrician that practices in the nearby city of Poza Rica the horses are progressively injected with a variety of animal venom over the course of four to six months the horses start off by getting a dose equivalent to half a sting they will be injected with the equivalent of 100 stings The horse's immune system responds by making antibodies against the venom It's the way any mammal's immune system works Instituto Bioclon uses horses because they are relatively healthy animals and easy to work with Once the horses are producing a sufficient level of antibodies ranch hands draw their blood The plasma is separated out and eventually processed in Bioclon's labs for human use Because anti-venom comes from animal plasma, it often cause allergies in humans. But Bioclon uses a technology called fabotherapeutics, a process that removes the parts of molecules that cause allergies while leaving in the parts that are effective against the venom. In U.S. trials patients who were given Anascorp showed signs of recovery within two hours Dr. David Warrell, a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom has spent the past 40 years studying anti-venom treatments is one of few anti-venoms that have been put through rigorous clinical trials Bioclon is currently supplying antivenom in parts of South America and sub-Saharan Africa The company is also in negotiations with the Moroccan government about supplying antivenom for the particular scorpion species native to that country Anascorp is currently in the final evaluation phase by the FDA which could make a decision sometime this month With antivenom vanishing off American hospital shelves experts say the need for new products grows greater with each passing day Two streaming services with similar penetration levels enjoy different churn rates. Why is that? Amazon Prime Video has an effective brand activation (bundled-up free shipping), but their brand equity levels lag behind Netflix’s How can Amazon Prime Video maintain their “unfair” activation advantage and reduce their churn rates Streaming might be having its moment in the spotlight but its evil cousin ‘churn’ remains one of marketers’ greatest challenges It’s churn that holds a platform back from maintaining its full subscriber/revenue potential churn that surfaces ‘bundling together’ talks among rival streamers and churn again that galvanises the idea of shifting from ad-free to ad-supported streaming Hunting for answers, we turned our attention to the Home and Video Entertainment category on Kantar’s latest brand tracking tool BrandDynamics clicked a handful of drop-down arrows and voilà: charts and story presented themselves in front of our eyes The eureka moment for this US streaming video-on-demand market case study comes from combining brand equity (attitudinal data) and point of sale (behavioural data) This unique blend of observation and discussion make the picture complete churn and Demand Power are pawns in a game of streaming chess Penetration and churn are inversely correlated Demand Power and Penetration are positively associated Given that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have comparable penetration levels one would expect their churn rates to be similar as well Amazon Prime Video’s subscriber base leaks more excessively Our sensitive brand equity measures on BrandDynamics pinpointed the answer Amazon Prime Video’s unconventional brand activation bears penetration fruits: free trials and original content lure people to sign up it’s the household membership to Amazon Prime that offers the most organic access to Prime Video you naturally qualify to watch hundreds of TV shows and movies from Amazon Prime Video on any of your devices Happy days for the viewers who make the most of their Amazon Prime membership and get busy browsing through the platform’s content The only caveat is that these new viewers drop off as soon as the complimentary shipping disappears Amazon Prime Video has weaker equity than Netflix’s so they fail to maintain their penetration levels for the long term (post the free delivery benefits) enjoys higher equity and a 50% lower churn rate Demand Power explains the differences in churn rate It’s clear that Amazon Prime Video have been using their activation advantage to facilitate current sales In order to influence consumers’ ongoing preferences though they’ve got to turn their activation advantage into a more sustainable penetration tool Or in other words: if Amazon Prime Video wants to accelerate their growth trajectory it’s time to take their brand equity up a notch Consumers don’t choose randomly between what’s available A brand’s equity plays a crucial role in consumers’ decision to choose it now Brand equity is one of your business’s most valuable assets; it unlocks penetration that hasn’t happened yet and converts existing penetration into longer-term preference But although there is undeniable evidence that the stronger the brand, the greater the shareholder returns and the higher the contribution to a business’s cash flow, many brand managers fail to track their brand’s equity what is in people’s minds about their brands *BrandDynamics analyses attitudinal data and explicit survey responses from consumers Any implicit behavioural data is currently blended manually on request and will be fully integrated into BrandDynamics in 2024 Read: Technology and brand tracking: the perfect marketing match Read: How brand tracking can make marketing investments recession-proof Read: Brand tracking essentials: Using brand insight to maximise marketing spend Read: Imbuing brands with a sense of difference Marketing is typically seen as a series of discrete activities at best as links in a chain where effect follows action once described brands as “fiendishly complicated The consumer lives in a spider’s web of marketing with brand connections all around She is touched hundreds of times a day by brands mostly in the smallest ways that she doesn’t make any effort to attend to Only some of these connections are actively controlled by marketers but all are part of the brand experience that shapes consumer attitudes and actions consumers are also creating many brand outcomes every day reading the packaging: all of these fresh connections are all potentially as important as a sale Marketers are too frequently distracted by what is measurable easily ignoring the broader and cumulative effects of their activities.  Kantar’s work with clients is designed to measure all these flows of value The Meaningful Different and Salient (MDS) framework measures the value of brand equity accumulated in the minds of consumers – its impact on penetration and market share; its impact on willingness to pay Hear more about the framework in this episode of The Sleeping Barber podcast with myself and Jorge Alagon Global Head of Data Science Innovations at Kantar We discuss what it means for brands to be salient as well as how they can use MDS to connect more in a meaningful way with customers and create value for their brands and businesses.  Listen to the podcast below or via the links: Find more analysis and thought leadership on what makes a strong brand in the Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands report Read: What are the most valuable global brands in 2022? Read: Inflation? Brands need empathy and consumer understanding Read: Modern Marketing Dilemmas: How should your brand react when prices are going up? Read: The pursuit of ‘difference’ unlocks a multitude of benefits MENU It is along this perspective that the artists of BINTANA ART GALLERY are one in expressing the bifurcated world we live in. Their artworks in this exhibit are manifestations of their conviction that there is so much to be thankful for: its beauty and bounty. And at the same time, to be cautious of how the world continuously evolves. It can be a paradise, but it can also be hell. The artworks done in varied medium and artistic persuasion are lessons in openness and clear vision. Each artist is aware of the duality of man, nature and technology. Reading the artworks in between the lines will greatly help the viewer to understand the meaning of their message beyond the lines, colors, textures, forms and perspectives. The paintings and sculptures have hidden ideas that viewers must dig and decipher – the artist’s imaginations through deep reflection. The context that the artists are coming from their own unique milieu : political, economic, philosophical and psychological roots. For this reason, the BINTANA ART GALLERY collection is an exciting bunch of artworks that provoke the viewers to think and enjoy the many nuances of the artworks. The common denomination of all the paintings and sculptures is the unique and personal take of the duality of man, nature and technology. The collection is a Davao experience. They speak of how Davao artists see the world in contemporary times. Bintana Art Gallery participating artists are: George Abaigar, Alex Alagon, Jag Bueno, Anoy Catague Mariano, Victor Bong Espinosa, Pinx T. Gaspe, JC Gonzales, Donn Manguilimotan, Gilbert Miraflor, Victor Secuya and Jong Tangiday. Born in Manila on January 26, 1977, George is a self taught artists always inclined himself in the art. He works as an airbrush artist in “Airwurks” @ SM Mega Mall (2000). He explored his airbrush talent abroad in KSA but eventually came back to Davao City to find greener pasture. He ventured into designing airbrush art on cars and motorcycles and joined prestigious motorcycle and car shows, which garnered him awards and recognitions. Trying to expand his talent he went into drawing on paper and painting on canvas doing mostly portraits on commissioned works. Whenever he makes non commissioned works he makes paintings with themes on children and nature done on pastel, acrylic and oil paintings. George gets his inspirations from his life experience, stories of friends and his daughters. He finds joy in his creations and strives to do more for his life’s passion in the arts. George always believed that the gifts he has in the arts are from God and whatever praises he receives, he gives it back to the Almighty. My artworks illustrate my personal interpretation of the people from indigenous tribes. They are rendered in invocative monochromes usually enhanced with symbolic shades of red, blue, green, black, yellow and sepia. My subject matter also include the indigenous people’s instruments such as hegalong, kulintang, kubing, dabakan, and agong. I also attempt to capture the rhythm of their dances through the movement of lines, shapes and colors.” As a visual artist, Victor Secuya is known for his vibrant abstract expressionist works on canvas and in steel. He has mounted 25 solo exhibits and several group shows in various galleries for the past 30 years. His paintings, mostly abstract compositions, are widely collected by avid art enthusiasts. His artworks are in various collections here in the Philippines and other countries. A son of a businessman-landowner, Secuya got his early education from the seminary-ran by Maryknoll Priests. In 1977, he graduated as cum laude from A.B. Sociology at the Ateneo de Davao University. During summer breaks, he studied painting at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. He is mostly self-taught. After College, he enrolled at the Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School and studied Philosophy. He became a professor of Philosophy at the Ateneo de Davao University. He also taught at the St. Scholastica’s College of Fine Arts, St. Francis Xavier Seminary, Davao Doctor’s College, and Philippine Women’s College. Further glimpse of Secuya’s philosophical view of life is contained in his published books: Reflections of a Nude (Book of Poetry, 1982), Secuya Drawing (Book of Drawings, 1984), Secuya (Book of Paintings), Metanoia, Journey to Surrender (1997), Art Insights (2017). As a writer, he was once a regular art and culture columnist of Sun-Star. Secuya writes with the same fervor and devotion as he does with his paintings. He had curatorial stints at the Ethnological Museum of the Philippines, Liongoren Art Gallery, CCP, and the Davao Museum of History and Ethnography, where he used to be the museum director and eventually a member of the board. Secuya is also a lifetime member of the Art Association of the Philippines. He is a bonafide member of the Toastmasters International where he got his training in communications and leadership. He was the 2002 Toastmaster of the Year of the Philippines’ District, the highest accolade a Toastmaster can get. He became a division governor in 2006. He is also an incessant student of management, forever studying the works of Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and other management gurus. Born in 1968, Gilbert Miraflor is a multi-awarded artist from Ford Academy of Arts. He is a recipient of three grand prizes in the national art competitions, one as a student of fine arts in 1996, and two in his professional career, including the GSIS 2019 Art Competition in Sculpture and another in national watercolor competition in 2017. He has had 5 solo exhibitions and 3 group International exhibitions in Slovakia, Italy, and Indonesia. He co-founded the Davao Watercolor Society in 2014. His works are distinguished as abstract spontaneous expressionism that have been exhibited in the country and abroad. JC Gonzales is a homegrown, self-taught and critical thinking visual artist. He worked in different local newspaper and magazine outfits in the 80s to 90s. He was involved in the arts in the early 90s where he was a founding member of Lakbay-Diwa Artist Collective and the Davao Artist Foundation Inc. He was actively participating in various group exhibits here and in Manila but went on a hiatus in 2003. He ended his hiatus from painting in 2017. Most of his works are tinted with social and political issues and he thinks in his own aesthetics rather than the academic. He is sympathetic to the outsider art where he believes is the freest and purest art – no rules and no boundaries kind of art. He had his first solo art exhibit in 2018 titled “Was ‘N’ Freaks”. Gaspe uses recycled sawdust and styrofoam. He has been in the art scene in Davao for decades and was mentored by internationally renowned Davao artist Bert Monterona who exposed him to social relevant art. This influence led Pinx to be the first artist to exhibit works on HIV-AIDS awareness for Davao in the early 1990s, and carried this on as a member of the Lakbay Diwa group which figured in local exhibits for environment and indigenous peoples’ advocacies. Seeing art as an expensive medium, Pinx incorporated innovation and resourcefulness by using recycled materials in his backyard. In creating sawdust and styropor art, he uses adhesives to produce a durable finish for his latest works. His sculptures of the Lumad and Moro are imbibed with socially relevant themes of heritage, farm life, environmentalism, and the pains of war. Alex Alagon (1966) is a Davao-born self-taught visual artist, an art coach, curator, impresario, and a gallerist. Art has been his passion since childhood and made this gift in the arts as his tool to finish college working as an artist/illustrator of the Audio Visual Center of the University of Mindanao. Right after graduating college he landed a job in a bank as an account officer until 1997 when he took an early retirement and pursued business until 2013 which he decided to make his childhood passion in the arts full time. An educator, an artist, an award winning muralist, recently the champion of Lantaw Davao and Mugna Kadayawan Wall Art Competition 2019, a semi-finalist of a national art competition conducted by a non-profit organization and recognized as a National Illustrator of DEPED National Bureau of Learning Resource. His cubic perspective of art aims to depict the complexities of life through a combination of shapes, blending of colors, texture, and symbols. A homegrown Davaoeño visual artist and sculptor, Jag Bueno attributes his exposure to the lives of Mindanaoans both in the rural and urban areas as the main influence in his art. This artist is a firm believer that art is a tool, hence, his choice of career as an artist. He understands the striking impact of arts in exposing the reality of the lower class society- the indigenous peoples, the Moro people, the farmers and the workers. To him, his art is simply a reflection of what he perceives. Growing up in a place that is home to diverse ethnicities, culture and religions, the many Filipino beliefs in legends and mythologies have become the inspiration for my artwork. Before colonialism came to our land, sculpting and carving was used over hundreds of years by many Filipino ancestors. While I majored in Painting, as a result of my fascination for the Filipino culture, my interest in sculpting has grown tremendously. Through it, I am able to connect with my ancestors. As a means of tree preservation, I repurpose drift woods, old house posts and other cut woods that can be recycled into a work of art. Since aged wood has a characteristic of its own, I explore on the possibility of creating a sculpture whilst preserving the natural colorful grains and patterns of the wood. In some occasion, I may utilize an assortment of materials and techniques in each subject. However, my philosophy remains the same. Generally I work in a figurative manner. The main subject is usually in human figures. Majority of my works is referenced to Mebuyan, the goddess of fertility. Bong Espinosa has been producing artworks even after his College of Architecture days in the University of Mindanao. He is actively participating in the art scene for decades and has mounted numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally. Most of his exhibitions are in Mindanao, Manila and the USA from 1997 up to the present. One of his memorable trip was in 2008 when he received an Asian Artists Scholarship Grant at The Vermont Studio Center USA with a Round trip Travel Grant award from the NCCA. Followed by a successive artist’s residency, exhibit and cultural exchange programs in New York, New Jersey and Chicago from 2006 up to 2016. Bong has boarded 16 solo shows from 1997 up to the present. His works have reached other parts of the globe, leaving in awe both the local and international audience. He has just recently completed Solo exhibition and artist residency at the EREHWON Center for the Arts in Quezon City. Painting is Bong’s way of contributing in the preservation of Mindanao arts and culture – to make the whole world appreciate our history and art. Despite his achievements from contests and travels abroad, Bong remained down-to-earth with his masterpieces remaining to be affordable to the public and for art collectors. SATELLITE EXHIBITS ONGOING. CHECK THIS CALENDAR  [pdf-embedder url=”https://mindanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/04MindaArtcalendar.pdf”] 23C Saturn St. GSIS Subdivision, Davao City Philippines Tel. No.: 082 297 4360 editor [at] mindanews [dot] com 'Yan-kabilar Alago ke zargin 'yan kabilar Eggon na kungiyar nan ta masu bin addini gargajiya da ake kira Ombatse da kai masu farmaki, inda suka kashe da dama daga ‘yan kabilar Alagon baya ga kona masu gidaje. 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