CELEBRITY SALIN GAMIT FESTIVAL…FIRST OF ITS KIND

With the successful Hindi Kita Malimot (Kantang-Kanta, Pelikulang-Pelikula) concert, the Film Academy of the Philippines prepares for
the second in a series of events and projects to highlight this year’s celebration of the academy’s silver anniversary. This is the first ever Celebrity Salin-Gamit Festival.

The project will literally involve a handing over of treasured possessions in a fair to be held from April 25 to May 19 this year at the spacious third level of the Ali Mall at the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City.

According to the project’s press kit, the festival is a takeoff from
the Filipino family tradition of pamana or inheritance in which a certain valued object or thing is turned over to someone who is expected to cherish it for the sake of memory and/or love.

The idea of Salin-Gamit is a bigger and more organized way of this handing-over practice in which celebrities will be asked to donate a certain object or possession associated with any of their past achievements and accomplishments in the field of entertainment. These will be sold or auctioned during the festival.

The celebrities, deceased or living, may come from the film and theater world, the arts, literature, journalism, and fashion.

The festival has two main objectives: to keep the achievements of outstanding Filipino movie personalities alive in th memory of the present and coming generations; and to encourage Filipinos to collect valued objects related to Philippine cinema in line with the campaign to nurture national pride.

Proceeds from the sale or auctions as well as other activities of the festival will be used to finance the projects of the FAP, as well as the various member guilds under its umbrella.

The festival is assured of endorsement and support of various government and private agencies.

Every day for the duration of the 25-day-long festival, fans and guests will enjoy non-stop shopping and entertainment from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

An entrance fee of only P25 will be charged though students will be granted discounts or lower fees. Inside the third level venue, the public will be treated to various featured activities, events and exhibits.
Movie stars and personalities will grace the venue on an alternating schedule to meet and be with their fans.

But best of all, movie fans can buy the many items used as props or costumes in the various movies they have seen through the years.
In return, the buyer will receive a special certificate from the Academy attesting to the authenticity of the items.

Sponsored by Hewlett Packard, the first Celebrity Salin-Gamit Festival is designed to establish the foundation for what could be an annual event that will surely prove to be a treat for local movie fans.