Help save 'Calle Real' and win an MP3 player
Would you like to have an MP3 player by simply letting your voice be heard?
All you need to do is review the draft Iloilo City Downtown Central Business District Heritage Conservation Guidelines, email your comments and suggestions, and get a chance to win an MP3 player. Your email serves as your raffle entry.
An Acrobat PDF copy of the guidelines can be downloaded for review from www.philippines.canurb.com, the website of the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) Philippines, a co-organizer of the forum "Save Calle Real."
Five MP3 players will be raffled during the forum on May 25, 2006, 1:00 P.M. at the Iloilo Grand Hotel on Iznart Street.
Only one email per sender can be eligible for the raffle to be held at the close of the forum which is expected draw together policymakers, urban planners, architects, businessmen, students and members of the arts and culture community.
Comments and suggestions should be sent starting today until May 24, or one day before the forum, to jrpenalosa@skyinet.net, the email address of Jose Roni Peñalosa, chief of the Iloilo City Planning and Development Office (ICPDO), another forum co-organizer.
Emails should have the subject "Save Calle Real" and should contain the sender's complete name, mailing address and contact numbers, either landline or mobile phone. Comments and suggestions should be considerably substantial and relevant.
The cultural heritage conservation guidelines cover conservation, restoration and development measures for heritage buildings and sites in Iloilo City, particularly Calle Real, which originally refers only to J. M. Basa Street but has evolved as a nomenclature for Iloilo City's central business district.
The district, which is home to Art Deco-styled commercial buildings built during the 1920s up to the 1950s, consists of the streets of J. M. Basa, Aldeguer, Mapa, Guanco and Iznart. It has been declared as the Iloilo City Heritage Zone under the Ordinance No. 00-054 otherwise known as the Local Cultural Heritage Conservation Ordinance.
The forum, part of the National Heritage Month celebration, which culminates in Iloilo City on May 31, is organized is by the Iloilo City Cultural Heritage Conservation Council, the body responsible in advancing cultural heritage conservation and promotion in Iloilo City, in cooperation with CUI and the ICPDO.
For more information, you can call Jose Roni Peñalosa at 3351334 or Jay Presaldo of CUI at 3367827, or visit the CUI Philippines website at www.philippines.canurb.com.