'Kids at Museum' educate children on Cebuano culture, heritage

CEBU, Philippines - Two hundred and fifty children from six barangays – Parian, San Roque, Santo Niño, T. Padilla, Tejero and Tinago, the Parian Drop-in Center and kids of “tartanilla” (horse-drawn rig) drivers got involved in workshops and contests held at the Casa Gorordo Museum and at Fort San Pedro in line with the “Kids at the Museum” activity.

Children were exposed to Pinoy games such as tubig-tubig, sungka, dama, and takyan; visual arts such as drawing, collage and photography; and literary and performing arts such as the balak and sugilanon as well as storytelling in the previous Saturdays of October in celebration of the National Children’s Month. The event aims to educate children that museums are more than just repositories of heritage objects, that museums are also “venues for actively learning Cebuano culture and heritage.”

In today’s culmination, winners of various local games and other contests will be awarded and that Mrs. Margot Osmeña, wife of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, is expected to grace the program in the afternoon at the Fort San Pedro.

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation-Cultural Heritage Program, the Cebu City government, the Parks and Playgrounds Foundation, and the Carolinian Sociological-Anthropological Society are the organizers of the event. — Johanna T. Natavio/MEEV   (FREEMAN NEWS)