The Rhymes of Resistance announced that it will hold its 10th poetry reading session tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., at the Gypsy Tea Room, Ground Floor, Annex Building of Lopue's Mandalagan in Bacolod City.

An open mic for the public, or a free-for-all poetry and spoken word slam in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon and other dialects will also be held, a press release from the group said yesterday.

The Rhymes of Resistance was launched in January 2001 by three Negrense poets - Revo Yanson, Ma. Agnes Villarino-Agudana and Rey Agudana - who seek to bring poetry, art and culture back to the daily community life, the press release added.*

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IN KABANKALAN
Silliman coed wins crown
in Sinulog Queen 2006 tilt

A nursing student at Silliman University, Oriental Negros, is this year's Sinulog Queen of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.

Seventeen-year-old Ma. Stenelli Ybañez II was crowned Friday evening by Mayor Pedro Zayco Jr., assisted by wife, Dottie, and former Kabankalan Sinulog queen Kashika General.

The pageant was held during the Sinulog Festival of the city, a Kabankalan government press release said yesterday.

Adjudged first runner-up was Hazelen Rose Ganza, a 19-year-old Hotel and Restaurant student of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos in Bacolod City.

Miera Viene Montero, 18, an education co-ed also at UNO-R was second runner-up.

Ybañez also won the first prize in the talent competition with her monologue number. Ganza won the Best Fantasy Character award while Montero was handpicked by the Bacolod Camera Club as the Most Photogenic and Ms. Close up.

The pageant which took center stage at the new city hall of Kabankalan was hosted by TV personality Dominic Ochoa and Carmela Gamboa, host of "Amiga" of ABS-CBN Bacolod, the press release added.*

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