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Taguig hosts annual graffiti, mural event

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TAGUIG City has been selected as host of the official launch of the “Meeting of Styles,” reputedly the largest annual graffiti, street art and mural festival that promotes the relationship of the international community in the field of art.

The event is an international gathering of graffiti artists and supporters and sponsors graffiti mural creation events in over sixteen countries. The events aim to promote and legitimize this art form. 

On Friday, Mayor Laarni Cayetano led the kickoff event at TLC Park on Lakeshore Laguna Lake Highway in Barangay Lower Bicutan where the participating artists will use shipping containers that first served as quarantine facilities of the local government at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A GATHERING OF ARTISTS. An artist applies finishing touches to his creation for the “Meeting of Styles,” reputedly the world’s biggest and only global graffiti and street art festival seeking to connect with the global artistic community. About 50 artists will take part in the event at the TLC Park, Laguna Lake Highway in Barangay Lower Bicutan, Taguig City. Danny Pata

Local artists including Quiccs, Egg Fiasco, Chill, Flip1, Kookoo, Meow, Nevs, EXLD, and many others attended the event and presented their talents. The Meeting of Styles will be open to the public for two days–on May 20 and May 21—providing an opportunity for everyone to experience and appreciate this event.

Cayetano said this type of event was important because it gives color and opportunity to Filipinos to show their skill and talent in the field of arts. 

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The Department of Education and the local barangays in the city also joined the project to promote the talent and skill of the people, especially the youth, in the arts and also “to make the world proud of the rich culture of the Philippines in this field.”

“We are happy because for the first time they conducted this event here in our city and they even brought it here in the first district, the old town of Taguig. Normally in this city when you say arts and culture, we all go to Fort Bonifacio,” Cayetano said.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for the local government to also showcase the first district. We have seen the beauty of the lake, it is also appropriate and timely for us to push to promote this part of the city as a tourist destination,” she added.

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