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I introduced to you Balagon Cultural Creatives in a previous post and I also mentioned that come to Earth Day, our first event would be a free market. We called it Tao Tao, literally meaning people giving, our version of free market economy. Well, the very next day, I promptly wrote the city mayor regarding the event. I’m posting the letter here since it explains much about the BC Creatives and the event we wanted to hold.
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The Power of Little Things: Reflections on Liwanag World Festival 2013

There is nothing less than grand about the Liwanag World Festival. But this is only because it is made up of many modest, well thought-out, things. Indeed, we witnessed what Aristotle meant by “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

DSC5917_20130125_004During the last press conference. I donned my Climate Reality hat and helped announce the Beyond Carbon Neutral Initiative for Liwanag. Happy to be in the company of Liwanag’s visionary leader Nicanor Perlas;  Leo “Happy L.A.” Avila, festival consultant; and Maya Vandenbroeck, head of the Volunteer Committee. Photo by Louise Far

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