Explore your creative side and keep healthy and happy as the Sunshine Place offers art and music online classes that will help you enhance your skills and learn new things from the comfort of your home.
A therapy on its own, art classes are beneficial for the development of cognitive functions such as imagination, creativity, motor and analyzing skills. Art lessens depression, anxiety and boredom. Art classes are one of the best ways to relax or relieve stress.
Create watercolor wonders and learn the art of calligraphy with Beth Robles of Playcrafts PH. She started scrapbooking and card making as a personal hobby and started a page to initially de-stash some items. Since then she has conducted water color, floral painting, and calligraphy workshops using different media such as watercolor, gouache, soft pastels and acrylic at the Sunshine Place.
Sunshine Place also offers acrylic painting in beginner and intermediate levels. Art Association of the Philippines President and acrylic instructor Fidel Sarmiento will mentor you all throughout the sessions with hands-on techniques, application of different brushes & basic strokes, and color rendering. You’ll get to explore different styles in creating still life, landscapes, cityscapes, as well as underwater, animals and portrait paintings.
Find your own voice under the guidance and instruction of the esteemed conductor/founder of the renowned UP Singing Ambassadors Dr. Edgardo “Ed” Manguiat, who is conducting with music and voice lessons for all ages at Sunshine Place online.
Dr. Edgardo Lumbera Manguiat has led the UP Singing Ambassadors in garnering 8 Grand Prizes and 36 First Prizes in 20 international choral competitions in Italy, France, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Wales, and Switzerland. Dr. Ed is a member of the international Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) and the Philippine Choral Directors Association (PCDA).
He has collaborated with 4 National Artists– Lucio San Pedro, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario, and Ryan Cayabyab – either as composer or as lyricist. He was the Head of the New Era University Conducting Department. In 2015, he was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Music.
The Sunshine Place, a senior recreation center under the Felicidad Tan Sy Foundation, is a venue for adults to live actively, through engaging in recreational classes and age-appropriate physical training programs. It is the venue to be entertained, to socialize and to reflect; a place of happiness and wellness for one’s mind, body and soul.
Keep yourself active, happy and healthy with these Sunshine Place online classes. Just contact mobile number (0917) 515-5656 to enroll or email at online.sunshineplace@gmail.com.
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