Sansó turns 83, heralds ‘New Day’
By Camille Joaquin
The break of dawn is an experience that symbolizes optimism. Dawn is about new life, a new beginning.

The break of dawn is an experience that symbolizes optimism. Dawn is about new life, a new beginning.

It was a year ago when we first sat down to lunch at Le Coude Rouge, our French “canteen” at Alliance Française de Manille (AFM). It’s a practice I established when I volunteered to manage the Total Gallery six years ago, soon after I came back home and was invited by Marivic Rufino to join the AFM board of directors.

American book author and writer Beth Day, Spanish master artist Juvenal Sanso, and balikbayan lawyer and entrepreneur Loida Nicolas Lewis are all well-renowned and respected internationally in their respective fields and they had no doubt in their minds that they wanted to make the Philippines….their home.

After all that rain, it was finally a gloriously sunny afternoon, dahlings, when those women of stature, the Congressional Spouses Inc., joined hands with Art Gallery Manila at the south wing lobby of House of Representatives for the opening of the “Proud To Be Pinoy” art exhibit. The exhibit was conceptualized “to honor global Filipinos [...]