Cultural Night honors Perla Samson-Nelmida

A PANGASINAN Cultural Night dubbed “Itandoro so Pangasinan: Glimpses of Pangasinan Life and Culture” will held on June 19, 6pm at the ChickaRue Resto in Conception Aguila Street, San Miguel, Manila.

The event is in honor of the late Perla Samson-Nelmida, whose birth anniversary was June 19, and to mark the end of Rizal's Sesquicentennial.

“All these efforts through the decades to promote Pangasinan culture through cultural festivals, formation of organizations such as OLUPAN and its paper Balon Silew would have not been realized if not through the works and ideas of my late mother,” said daughter Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores, a UP Diliman professor and part-time Commissioner for Pangasinan Language with the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino.

Dinner tickets are at Php500 each, which covers Pangasinan cultural night food, songs, dances, poetry readings by Pangasinan artists, Tambayo Cultural Group, Matalonggaring Dance Troupe and a tribute to Samson-Nelmida.

The tickets will also serve as a pass for a lecture at 2 p.m. at the Liongoren Gallery on New York Street in Quezon City by UP History professor from San Jacinto, Dr. Ma. Luisa Camagay on “Rizal's Pangasinan Connection”. Rizal's mother Teodora Alonso traces her Pangasinan roots to the Quintas clan; and Rizal's sweetheart Leonor Rivera is from Camiling and Dagupan.