The Children's Library Family Festival

The Children's Library (TCL), a project of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, will hold its 2nd Annual Family Festival on December 10, 2005 at the Robinsons Galleria Fountain Area.

The Family Festival will be highlighted by the Grand Finals of the Interschool Quiz Bee Contest where 10 students from various schools will engage in a battle of wits. The Interschool contest will be held from 2-430 pm.

Other fun activities will include storytelling sessions, theatre production and fun and games for the whole family. Even Ronald McDonald will be there to help spread the fun! Detailed schedule of activities are as follows:

10 am- 8 pm
Book fair

11 am- 12 nn
Theatre production by Entablado
(one of Ateneo University's most promising theatre groups)

12 nn- 1230
Storytelling session with Ate Noodles

1230 pm- 1 pm
Fun and Learning with Ronald McDonald

1 pm- 130 pm
Storytelling session with Kuya Boom

130 pm- 2 pm
Fun and games for the family

2 pm- 330 pm
Part I: Interschool Contest Grand Finals

330 pm- 345 pm
It’s Booklat Time

345 pm- 430 pm
Part II: Interschool Contest Grand Finals

500 pm- 530 pm
Fun and Games for the family

Publisher/ distributor friends of the Children’s Library will have booths at the Book fair which will be held all day. The book fair will offer great books at discounted price. Books make perfect gifts for kids this Christmas! Plus, a portion of the sales from the book fair will be donated to TCL’s library enrichment program (where we get additional funds to buy books for the libraries).

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Gokongwei Brother’s Foundation, Handyman, Hot Loops, Ministop, Robinsons Department Store, Robinsons Malls, Robinsons Supermarket, Summit Media Publishing, Universal Robina Corporation, Guess, McDonalds and Unilever.

The Children’s Library is a FREE access multi-media resource center for children ages 6 to 12 years old. The library aims to contribute to the transformation of the growing child into a socially responsible person of the new millennium by seeding good values, enhancing the child’s natural creativity and by stimulating and supporting the child’s thirst for knowledge.

The library offers a wide range of reference books, story books, comics, audio books, videos and CD ROMs from Filipino and international publishers along with the facilities necessary for the children to enjoy them. Internet use and educational computer games are also available and are free of charge.

The Children’s Libraries are located at Robinsons Place Novaliches and Robinsons Place Imus while the Children’s Library Corners are housed inside the Pasig Public Library and the San Juan Municipal Library.

For inquiries on the Family Festival or on TCL, please do not hesitate to call Ethel Villafranca at 6337631 local 166 or 3952112.

Please feel free to pass this e-mail to friends. To join the TCL e-mail list, please send request to ethel_childrenslib@yahoo.com

Bring the whole family and have a worthwhile day with us on December 10!
[ First posted on 11/29/2005 by Manuel Viloria ]