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Promil Pre-School Nurture Camp sports new talents

10/07/2007

With their proud parents and friends in attendance, kids who joined the Promil Pre-School Nurture Camp Workshops showcased their freshly honed talents at the culminating rites held at the Music Museum.

Now on its third year, the Promil Pre-School Nurture Camp has been partnering with parents to help children develop their creative skills. Instructors from Art Attack, Trumpets and Center for Pop Music Philippines spent time with the kids, teaching them visual arts, dancing, acting and singing. After a few weeks, the children were onstage with greater self-confidence, all ready to perform.

Hosted by young mom Suzi Entrata-Abrera, the program featured more than 150 talented children in brightly colored costumes.

Waving their paintbrushes as they entered, the class of young visual artists, assisted by their Art Attack teachers, marched to an offstage location where they rendered a group masterpiece on the spot. Using not just paintbrushes but their hands as well, the children painted their worlds in full color on a big blank canvas, and proudly presented this creation at the end of the whole show.

Next came the young performers whose song-and-dance routines offered a glimpse of future entertainment stars. Under the expert eyes of teachers from the Center for Pop Music Philippines, those who underwent singing workshops showed their range while belting out classic Disney tunes from movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Pocahontas.

Taught to move, sing and act by Trumpets’ wonderful performers and instructors, the dance class, in their bright and funky outfits, came out and grooved to current street dance favorites. Also taught by Trumpets, the musical theater class took inspiration from the genre’s classics and interpreted songs from The Sound of Music and South Pacific.

With loud applause ringing inside the theater, the proud young Nurture Campers filed onstage to receive their certificates. The recital closed on yet another high note with a music video of the song Gift Inside of You performed by world-class Filipino talent Regine Velasquez.

Photo shows Wyeth Associate Marketing Director Gina Dobles, Suzi Entrata-Abrera, and Promil Pre-School Senior Product Manager Abbie Neria-Bella Jaro with proud Nurture Camp graduates.