Love Inclusively Beneficiary Concert for Special Children
I have always been an advocate of children with special needs. So each time I get an invitation to attend an event that had something to do with them or to somehow help them, I don't even have to think twice, I readily say yes. I recently attended a concert for children with special needs entitled Love Inclusively by The Center For Possibilities Inc. held at the Carlos P. Romulo Theater, RCBC Building in Makati City. The said concert had no less than the Manila Symphony Orchestra lead by Maestro Jeffrey Solares who performed alongside the talented children with special needs. It also had a special participation of one of the country's top songwriters and performers, Mr. Ogie Alcasid. It was the kind of concert that expresses love to some of the most vulnerable in society.
Ms. Dolores Cheng, Founder of The Center for Possibilities Inc.
We all recognize that it can be very difficult for families with children to find opportunities for them to perform. The Center for Possibilities, composed of dedicated group of professionals and teachers from Reach International School, inspired and let by its founder Ms. Dolores Cheng, organized this beneficiary concert and art exhibit to provide their beneficiaries with regular opportunities and early interventions. Ms. Cheng herself had a son who had been diagnosed with global developmental delay at age 3. She had been told by North American experts back then that her son didn't have an IQ. But today, her son Andreas, who's now 25, is the epitome of Endless Possibilities. He is the living proof that the foundation works so hard to promote: the living reality of transforming one from disabled to enabled.
Vico Cham and Samantha Kaspar, two of the featured talented individuals with special needs
My aunt Cecilia Sanoy, Purple Plum Fairy, Ms. Dolores Cheng, Founder of The Center for Possibilities , ROAR executives Jennifer Rockwell and Max Arroyo
AVA Prime Media & Events invites you to LIFE ROCKS - a concert series that aims to contribute to the continuing efforts in rebuilding the lives of our incapacitated brothers and sisters across the country. You can expect none other than the best of the Philippine music scene in their most moving, collaborative performances. This is a concert of mixed music of classics by the Manila Symphony Orchestra and rock by a blend of old and new artists.
In partnership with the Philippine Life Insurance Association, the first staging of LIFE
ROCKS is on October 23, 2014 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts
World Manila; featuring Imago, Sandwich, Radioactive Sago Project, Tres Marias, Razorback, Megan Aguilar, Ebe Dancel, and Marc Abaya -—all collaborating with the Manila Symphony Orchestra.
PLIA is a co-producer with AVA Prime for this concert whose beneficiary will be orphaned children of Typhoon Yolanda and other calamities. This concert aims to promote the value of life insurance in preparing for life’s uncertainties.
In line with the theme of disaster preparedness and response, PLIA entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Couples for Christ BCOP-ANCOP (Building the Church of the Poor-Answering the Cry of the Poor) for the donation of a scholarship fund to finance ten High School students from the Typhoon Yolanda affected communities in Leyte for the school year 2015-2016.
Proceeds shall be for the scholarship of those who have been orphaned by calamities that ravaged the country. The selection process shall be via the institutional partnership with Museo Pambata and the scholarship program of the Manila Symphony Orchestra. A documentary will follow the stories of the beneficiaries for one year.
LIFE ROCKS is the first of many events that comprises the launch and advocacy of the upcoming music lifestyle show -—THE LINEUP -—which begins airing November 2014. The producers will make a formal reveal on which network it will air in the coming weeks. THE LINEUP is an original AVA Prime creation.
Here's a sample performance from the Manila Symphony Orchestra (wind members)
Tickets are now available at all Ticket World outlets and at Resorts World Manila Ticketing Office.
