Gifts of Green: Christmas at Nuvali

MANILA, Philippines - There’s a cool breeze in the air, festive lights illuminate roads and houses, and carollers go house to house singing familiar and nostalgic tunes. Christmas time is here. It’s time to do some Christmas shopping, spend time with loved ones, gorge and stuff ourselves silly with the most scrumptious food, and to be merry and spread happiness. It is indeed a season that waves a magic wand over this world, making everything softer and more beautiful.    

What better way to spend the holiday season than at Nuvali. The scenic views, the fresh air and the serene and beautiful landscape make for a perfect backdrop for this season, setting the stage for a grand and unforgettable holiday celebration that’s sure to spark the Christmas spirit in our hearts.

All is ablaze with hope this month with Gifts of Green: Christmas 2011 at Nuvali. Happening every weekend of December, Nuvali has lined up a series of Christmas activities such as a chorale competition, Christmas bazaars, Christmas displays, as well as a lakeside concert featuring the country’s top performers and more.

Gifts of Green is a special one-of-a-kind treat to all those who have lived and embraced a more sustainable way of living. In the way that Nuvali is about bringing people and nature together through embracing sustainability and protecting our environment, Christmas at Nuvali is about not just giving gifts to each other, but also about giving back to our planet and to the community. This is what Gifts of Green is all about.

Top musical artists will be performing on Dec. 30 at Concert by the Lake, 6 p.m. at the Evoliving Center Dockside. A lakeside concert amidst the scenery and the cool Christmas breeze, this is sure to be an enchanting evening. Get ready for a night of holiday melodies from Billy Crawford, Kyla, Nikki Gil, Kris Lawrence, Isabella, Shiela Valderrama, Vincent Bueno and Kuh Ledesma. This is going to be one magical evening that shouldn’t be missed.

Keeping up with their vision of sustainability, Nuvali has also lined up eco-friendly Christmas activities for the whole family this season. Make your own jolly pendant lamps using old newspapers in News in a New Light, pose and play with giant musical instruments for unforgettable photos in Big Photo Op, create your own unique musical Christmas ornaments with old musical sheets in Decorative Sounds, make dainty wind chimes using old plastic bottles and beads with The Sound of Green, and create your own stylish accessories by making your own beads from plastic bottles and patterned paper and get fashionably green in Style it Right.

Christmas celebrations aren’t complete without merrymaking and cheery music. Christmas weekends at Nuvali will feature sweet holiday hymns and musical performances from Hiyas ng Pilipinas, Manila String Ensemble, Solfeggio, UP Med Choir, Coro de Sta. Cecilia and Coro TECHNUV until Dec. 25.

For details, visit www.nuvali.ph or call 0917-5ASK.NUV (275.688).