400 pupils join “Biggest Painting in the World 2016”

BACOLOD CITY , Philippines  â€” Valentine’s Day celebration yesterday was very special at the Bacolod City Government Center where 400 pupils from the city’s public and private schools join the “Biggest Painting in the World 2016.”

Earth Identity Project, a non-profit group from Japan, in collaboration with the City Tourism Office, LOOOP and Kokonats, organized the event. The Japanese organizers were led by Eleanor Fukuda and Kyoko Nishimoto.

Fukuda decided to include the children of Bacolod in the “Biggest Painting in the World” in recognition of the consistent performance of the city in the search for the “Most Business Friendly City in the Philippines” for many years now.

Mayor Evelio Leonardia was elated and honored by the decision of Earth Identity Project to include Bacolod City in the children’s “Biggest Painting int he World” event.

The Bacolod children will paint on canvasses to be provided by the Japanese and their works will later be merged with those of other children from other parts of the world.

The “biggest painting” will then be presented during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and eventually preserved in a capsule as gift to the “Children of the World.”  (FREEMAN)