Over P700,000 in cash prizes at stake DPC and PLDT launch 31st Visual Arts Competition
The much-awaited
painting competition for young artists is back!
The 31st
edition of the DPC-PLDT Visual Arts Competition (VAC 31) was launched November
8, 2016 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Manuel Conde and
will be followed by a roadshow in north and south Luzon, the Visayas and
Mindanao. The annual competition celebrates the rich creative talent of fine
arts students across the country.
Organized by
Directories Philippines Corporation (DPC) and Philippine Long Distance
Telephone Company (PLDT), the competition invites student artists, aged 18-24,
who are currently enrolled in accredited Philippine tertiary schools with a
fine arts program, to join the competition.
This year,
fine arts students are challenged to interpret the theme “Habang May Buhay, May Pag-asa” in oil or acrylic. The students’ task
is to create paintings that depict how Filipinos value life and how Pinoys
remain cheerful and hopeful despite the adversities they face everyday.
Participating schools
or departments must select a maximum of five official entries for the
competition and entries must be delivered to the DPC Main Office, 2322 Don
Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati City between February 20 and March 3, 2017
from 10 am to 5 pm. To make them official. Direct student entries will not be
accepted.
The top three
winners of the contest will have their works featured on the covers of 2017-18 telephone
directories of DPC (Yellow Pages) and PLDT (White Pages) in key cities in Luzon,
the Visayas, and Mindanao.
The first
place winner will receive P100,000 in cash and the VAC 31
grand prize trophy, aside from securing a P40,000 donation to his/her school’s
fine arts program. Cash prizes of P75,000 and P60,000, plus trophies, await the
second and third placers, with corresponding donations to their respective
schools. In addition, each of the top 30 finalists will receive P10,000.
Entries will
be judged on the basis of visual composition (25%), originality (25%),
adherence to the theme (25%), overall impact (15%), and suitability as cover
(10%). The finalist that garners the
most points, based on the judges’ score sheets and the online votes, will be
declared the VAC 31 grand prize winner. The entry with the most number of
online votes cast on www.visualarts.ph will be declared winner of the People’s
Choice Award, which carries a cash prize of P15,000.
In VAC 30,
Alfredo Martirez of Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of
Architecture and Find Arts (PUP-CAFA) won the grand prize with his entry
“History of Democracy,” interpreting the theme, “Rekindling People Power.” The
second prize was won by John Merick Eupalao of Adventist University of the
Philippines (AUP) in Silang, Cavite, and the third prize went to Artemio
Bongawan, Jr. of the University of Mindanao.
A PUP-CAFA
student, Arnica Acantilado, also won the grand prize in VAC 22 (2008-2009). Previous editions of the painting
competition have been dominated by the Far Eastern University’s Institute of
Architecture and Fine Arts with nine grand prize winners and the University of
the East College of Fine Arts with three. Alongside PUP with two grand prize
trophies so far are: Philippine Women’s University, Technological University of
the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, and University of the Philippines –
Diliman. AUP, Bulacan State University, St. Scholastica’s College, and
University of Northern Philippines have each won the grand prize once so far.
For more
information, please visit VAC 31’s website, www.visualarts.ph, and its official
Facebook page, VISUALARTSPH. Queries can also be emailed to visualartsph@gmail.com.
About Directories
Philippines Corporation
Directories
Philippines Corporation (DPC) was incorporated on June 20, 1989 to assume the
business of the Philippine Branch of GTE Directories of the United States.
Since then, DPC has emerged as the dominant market leader in the directories
advertising industry in Metro Manila and the other major urban centers across
the country. It is also the official seller of Yellow Pages advertisements, a tried and tested vehicle
for enterprises to reach ready buyers, in the Philippines.
Near
the turn of the century, DPC took the Yellow Pages (YP) online and has since
entered the mobile realm as well. Beyond being a multi-platform local search
engine and a seller of ad space, the company has evolved into a marketing
solutions company with a whole suite of value-added services—from call center
assistance to mobile apps—to help advertisers, particularly small and medium
enterprises (SMEs), reach and serve more customers.
Today,
DPC publishes more than two million phone books which are distributed in Top
1000 corporations, SMEs, hotels, hospitals, schools, government offices,
residential villages and condominiums. Around 8.4 million ready buyers,
including corporate purchasing departments, nationwide—2.7 million of them in
Metro Manila—look up the print Yellow Pages at least once a month for reliable
suppliers of products and services.
In
2016, DPC introduced the Digital eBook, an electronically searchable version of
the Metro Manila print YP, to extend the reach and utility of this precious
resource among ready buyers.
The
online YP, www.yellow-pages.ph, gets 1.5 million page views from more than
500,000 ready buyers every month. Optimized for mobile devices, it can be
accessed via smartphones and tablets. The Yellow Pages PH App can be downloaded
via the Google Play Store and Apple iTunes.
About Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
PLDT is the leading telecommunications and digital services
provider in the Philippines. Through its principal business groups – fixed
line, wireless and others – PLDT offers a wide range of telecommunications and
digital services across the Philippines’ most extensive fiber optic backbone,
and fixed line and cellular networks.
PLDT is listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE:TEL) and
its American Depositary Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE:PHI). PLDT has one of the largest market capitalizations among
Philippinelisted companies.
When PLDT was incorporated and given the franchise to establish
and operate telephone services in the country on November 28, 1928, a typhoon
had just ravaged Eastern Visayas, Bicol Peninsula, and Samar. The ability to
communicate amongst loved ones and across the country became crucial. Sadly,
phone networks then were like disconnected intercom systems and you could only
call people within your own small city. Filipinos were disconnected from
neighboring towns, disconnected from friends in the other island and, needless
to say, disconnected from the rest of the world. It was under this scenario
that the law was signed giving birth to PLDT.
What the new law hoped to achieve was to interconnect these
"intercom" systems into a seamless nationwide network that would
facilitate communication and delivery of services to the people, as well as
spur economic development in the countryside.
In 1968, PLDT became a Filipino-controlled corporation when
Ramon Cojuangco and his group of Filipino industrialists and businessmen bought
the controlling stake of GTE of New York. This paved the way for massive
investments and technological innovations in areas like satellite
communications, direct distance dialing, cellular telephony and fiber
optics.
In November 1998, Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co.
Ltd. acquired a 17.5-percent controlling stake in PLDT. The following
year, PLDT forged a strategic partnership with NTT Communications Corp
(NTTCom), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. of
Japan, the world's leading telecommunications company in terms of revenues.
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the country's largest mobile phone
operator, was also acquired by PLDT.
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