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Women's Art Exhibit Highlights Brussels PE's Celebration of International Women's Day and National Women's Month

The Philippine Embassy in Brussels celebrated International Women’s Day and the start of National Women’s Month with a women’s art exhibit entitled Pinays: Tinig ng Lakas (Filipinas: Voices of Power) and Networking Event on 08 March 2023 at the Chancery.

The art exhibit showcased thought-provoking and inspiring works of Filipina artists from Belgium, (Ms. Amihan de Sosa, Ms. Mylene Factora, Ms. Anna Beth Santilla, and Ms. Lise Paul Abitona Lackman), the Philippines (Ms. Fabi Nazareno, Ms. Kathleen Dagum, and Ms. Kevin Marie Becira), and Germany (Ms. Sandra Torrijos). The artworks were presented in different media, but all conveyed messages of love, strength, resilience, hope, and power that are every woman’s legacy.

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Philippine Embassy Participates in Belgian Trade Mission Info Session

On 7 March, around 30 Belgian companies attended an information session to know more about the opportunities in the Philippines. The webinar featured panelists from the Philippine Embassy in Brussels, the Belgian Embassy in Manila, the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) and the IP SME Helpdesk. Ms. Loubna Essabouri of Ecosteryl delivered a testimonial on its business experience in the Philippines.

The online information session was organized by the Wallonia Export and Investment Agency (AWEX), with the participation of Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT) and hub.Brussels, for Belgian companies who expressed interest to participate in the Belgian trade mission to the Philippines scheduled in June.

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Filipinos Join Brussels Library in Breaking World Record for Multilingual Reading

Maria Corazon Cabrera and her daughter, Janine Cabrera Mendoza, participated in the multilingual reading aloud relay at the Bib Sophia library in Schaerbeek, Brussels on Sunday, 26 February 2023 that broke the Guinness World Record for Multilingual Reading.

Children and parents from schools in the community set a new record for “most languages used in a reading relay” of 65 languages, eclipsing the previous record of 55 languages held by the Museum of Islamic Culture in Qatar. One sentence from ‘Mister René’, a book about the Belgian painter Rene Magritte written by Leo Timmers, was read aloud in Akkadian, Urdu and Swahili to Lingala, Welsh, Hebrew, Filipino, and 58 other languages with a maximum of ten seconds of waiting time between the languages.

Another Filipina, Ms. Maria Alicia Reyes Amarga, attested to the correctness of the Filipino translation read by Ms. Cabrera and her daughter, Janine.

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