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Negrense furniture designer bags Asian Selection Awards in Thailand


 Negrense producer Christina Gaston receives the Asean Selections 2017 award from Sacict chief executive officer Amparwon Pichalai in rites held at Bangkok Arts and Crafts Center in Bangkok City, Thailand on Thursday. Photo: Erwin Nicavera
Negrense producer Christina Gaston receives the Asean Selections 2017 award from Sacict chief executive officer Amparwon Pichalai in rites held at Bangkok Arts and Crafts Center in Bangkok City, Thailand on Thursday. Photo: Erwin Nicavera

A producer from Negros Occidental was chosen as the country’s awardee for Asean Selections 2017 by the Support Arts and Crafts International Center of Thailand (Sacict), which supports the creation and sale of folk arts and crafts.

Christina Gaston, owner of Hacienda Crafts in Manapla town, received the recognition from Sacict chief executive officer Amparwon Pichalai in rites held at Bangkok Arts and Crafts Center in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday.

Gaston was the only awardee from the Philippines among the nine recipients from different Asean countries in this year’s recognition with emphasis on innovative craft and basketry.

“It is an honor to be alongside the other Asean awardees who are amazing craftsmen, artisans, designers and artists,” she said.

Gaston, also the president of the Association of Negros Producers (ANP), was nominated by the Design Center of the Philippines.

She presented her Hacienda Crafts’ Foliage Series of Coconut Twig Leaves, which was adjudged as winner by international panel of judges from Thailand, Japan and Korea.

 

Negrense producer Christina Gaston, with her Hacienda Crafts’ Foliage Series of Coconut Twig Leaves, was recognized by Sacict as one of the Asean Selections 2017 awardees in rites held at Bangkok Arts and Crafts Center in Bangkok City, Thailand on Thursday. Photo: Erwin Nicavera
Negrense producer Christina Gaston, with her Hacienda Crafts’ Foliage Series of Coconut Twig Leaves, was recognized by Sacict as one of the Asean Selections 2017 awardees in rites held at Bangkok Arts and Crafts Center in Bangkok City, Thailand on Thursday. Photo: Erwin Nicavera

The Asean Selections program is aimed at fostering the collaboration of crafts in Southeast Asia as well as giving attention to the region’s craft traditions.

Gaston has urged fellow Filipino producers to take care, preserve and propagate the country’s natural resources to be able to use them for generations to come.

“I am encouraging Filipinos to be proud of our heritage and express it because it is our own,” she said, adding that “to our Negrense producers, continue to develop excellent products for the world.” — LA, GMA News

 

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