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Sistemang Pilipino: Transforming Lives through Music will be on thursday, January 26, 2012 at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral starting at 7:30pm in the evening. Performances during this unique Cebu Event will be from Quartetto Espressivo, Jimmy Tagala, Jr.(1st place winner at the NAMCYA violin category C.2011), and the Peace Philharmonic Philippines Youth Ensemble.

El Sistema:
El Sistema is a countrywide outreach program in music education in Venezuela, which has been transforming lives of Venezuelan youths from lives of crime and difficulty to lives of musicians making a difference for over 35 years.

This program is supported mostly for its civic-socio impact on society, where the main goal is to create citizens, not just musicians. More than 90% of the Children in the program belongs to the poverty level. Out of these children, the program has created one of the leading orchestras in the world, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, and one of the premiere conductors of our time, Gustavo Dudamel.

This program has inspired at least 25 countries around the world to take on the same initiative for their youth. The benefit concert on January 26, at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, will be the first step towards establishing of such a project in Cebu through Sistemang Pilipino.

DONATIONS:
This event is free and open to the public, but we would like to call upon your generosity and support this endeavor.

You may bring a check written out to the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. or make a bank transfer to:
Account Name: RAFI
Account No.: 0-008-0009777-3
Swift Code: UBPHPHMM
Bank: Union Bank of the Philippines
Branch: Colon, Cebu City, Philippines

For inquiries you may contact:
Lianne M. Sala, Event Organizer
Mobile number: 0922-491-8743
Email: lianne_sala@yahoo.com