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2024 03 08 Halo Halong Hibla Hibla 1

The Philippine Embassy in Brussels hosted the HALO-HALONG HIBLA-HIBLA art exhibit, co-organized with BeLikha Art Collective and the Philippine Arts and Culture Exchange (PACE), on 08 March 2024, International Women's Day, at the Embassy Chancery. The exhibit celebrates National Arts Month (February 2024) and National Women's Month (March 2024).

Halo-Halong Hibla-Hibla was a fabric assemblage workshop held on 17 February 2024 where participants came together to learn sewing techniques and make their own works of art. These works were put together to create a single collaborative artwork, which was revealed during the opening of the exhibit. Curator Sam Domingo explains that the artwork weaves together the stories of Filipino women who leave the Philippines seeking personal emancipation, but who find that oppression takes a different form in a different country. Thus, "equality among women, achieved through communal liberation, demands that everyone beget respect for one another, from one woman to another and from one living being to another."

The exhibit also features artworks by Filipino women artists in Belgium — Aurea Calanog, Chiara Capony, Amy Dilao, Amihan de Sosa, Mylene Factora, Cybele Ku, Anna Beth Santilla, May Tabalon Cornelissen, and Suzette Villanueva.

The exhibit is open to the public at the Embassy Chancery until 26 March 2024.