THE MARIA Lena Buhay Memorial Foundation Inc., the first oral school for the hearing-impaired in the country, will start accepting applications for enrollment for school year 2016-2017 on June 13.
Meanwhile, Buhay school’s Speech-based English Language and Speech Therapy summer programs are ongoing.
The oral school’s founder and executive director is speech therapist Leticia Nietes Buhay, former speech professor at University of Santo Tomas. Principal is Marie Avanzado-Paras, MA.
Last March, Buhay school held its 28th graduation for pre-school and grade school students. It was announced that graduates of the school who had finished college and were now gainfully employed included Henri Ken Parrocha, Jamille Christa Co and JP Delina.
Buhay school is at 25 Starline Road, Blue Ridge B, Quezon City. Call 6471270 to 1076.
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UP faculty-artists join Asean-China exhibit
Benjamin Cabangis and Leonilo Doloricon from University of the Philippines Diliman College of Fine Arts (CFA) represented the Philippines in the Asean-China Academies of Fine Arts Group Exhibition held in Tianjin, China, May 25 to June 5.
Asean-China Centre (ACC) had organized the event with the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and China International Cooperation Centre.
Sponsored by National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Cabangis and Doloricon exhibited 10 paintings and took part in consultations for a proposed Asean-China Arts Alliance and Asean-China interscholastic exchange on the fine arts.
According to ACC, the event commemorated the 25th anniversary of Asean-China dialogue relations and coincided with the Year of Asean-China Educational Exchange.
Cabangis is former chair of the CFA Department of Studio Arts and now curator of the UP Fine Arts Gallery. Doloricon is former CFA dean.