PHILIPPINE CONSULATE GENERAL

NEW YORK, 16 April 2018 - Close to 100 of the top travel agents in the East Coast were hosted by Fernando S Virgolino, Director of Marketing and Product Development, Downtown Travel and Philippine Department of Tourism Attaché for the US East Coast, Ms Susan del Mundo at the Philippine Center New York Kalayaan (Freedom) Hall, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan for a destination product update last 12 April.

NEW YORK, 26 March 2018 – DACA, racism, reverse brain drain, parental love, and family values were the core of the skits during the 17th Battle of the Barrios – the annual talent competition among Filipino student organizations under District 3 of the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue (FIND) – held last 24 March at the Douglas Student Center of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

29 March 2018, New York – The Philippine Consulate General in New York invited women from the Filipino Community to take part in a Wellness Session featuring Zumba routines led by instructor Shiran Ybañez on 27 March 2018 at the Philippine Center in New York. The activity capped the month-long commemoration of Women's Month by the Philippine Consulate General.

NEW YORK, 12 April 2018 – Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning Ernesto Pernia led a round table discussion last 10 April 2018 at the Harvard Club of New York, organized jointly by Philippine Consulate General in New York, Philippine Trade and Investment Center in New York and NYC-based Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), towards the end of the Secretary's United Nations-related trip.

New York, 11 April 2018-- The art exhibit Circle of Memories featuring the paintings of artists Grace Marie Katigbak and the late Dr. Marcelito "Mars" Custodio opened to the public on 10 April 2018 at the Lobby Gallery of the Philippine Center.

New York, 7 April 2018-- The Philippine Consulate General in New York, in cooperation with the Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia, Inc. (FECGP) and the Philippine Community of Southern New Jersey, commemorated the 76th Anniversary of Araw ng Kagitingan with a Wreath-Laying Ceremony at the Bataan Death March Memorial in Cooper River Park, Cherry Hill, New Jersey which was followed by a commemorative program at the Philippine Center in Southern New Jersey in Stratford, New Jersey on 9 April 2017.

29 March 2018, New York – The Philippine Department of Tourism Office in New York led the promotion of premiere Philippine Dive Sites at the Beneath the Sea Dive Show held at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey from 23-25 March 2018.

29 March 2018, New York – A wrap-around video screen in the middle of iconic Times Square in New York City will feature the Department of Tourism's It's More Fun in the Philippines campaign starting the last week of March and continuing for the next few months. The video campaign appears every 3 minutes in wrap-around screens in front of the Viacom Building, a major publicity spot in Times Square.

24 March, Newyork -- Twenty-eight alumni of different Philippine universities who are now based in New York participated in the training workshop for mentor-volunteers for the Gabay Mag-aaral Project organized by the Philippine Consulate General on 24 March 2018.

21 March 2018, New York - The charcoal pencil portrait exhibit of Dr. Minda Cabrera featuring the Ati, one of the ethnic groups living in Panay, opened on 20 March 2018 at the lobby gallery of the Philippine Center in New York.