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Tuesday 15 OcTOber 2019

1st edition of Shoco Artfest 2019:

Unique art-honoring event

ORANJESTAD — Mark your ple that have their artistic
calendar for the 1st edi- way and with this festival
tion of Shoco Artfest that he wants to give exposure
will take place on Satur- to new and upcoming lo-
day October 19th and Sun- cal artists. The festival is a
day October 20th 2019. If mixture of urban, fine and and Paul Wong. will go to children’s home which is located between
you are looking to get a cultural art pieces. Ten dif- There will be a special sec- Casa Cuna Foundation. the airport and Oranjes-
glimpse of Aruba’s creative ferent local artists will be tion which will be displaying Just imaging such beautiful tad, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
community you don’t want displaying their creativ- art on skateboard decks. art hanging at your home on both days. Food and
to miss out on this unique ity in different types of art. Each artist will be creat- while you support a good drinks are also available.
art-honoring event. There will be wood and ing their art on these decks cause at the same time. Entrance is completely
rock sculptures, airbrush which will be auctioned off free. For more information
Paul Wong is a local art- and paintbrush art, art on to the public. All the pro- The event will take place check out the Facebook
ist and is the organizer of wheels, bikes & trucks, tat- ceeds of this silent auction at Camacuri Motorworld page Shoco artfest 2019.q
this festival. He is a great too demonstrations, murals
admirer of art. The name and local art vendors.
of the festival is based on The artists taking part of this Family honored as Distinguished Visitors
his very own painting of festival are: Sjoerd Can-
an owl “Shoco” with the ninga, George Rosel, Evris EAGLE BEACH — Recently,
Aruban flag and therefore Fearon, Dario Wilson, Jesus Kimberley Richardson of
he chose the name Shoco Fontalba, Emil Krosendijk, the Aruba Tourism Author-
Artfest. Wong knows that Nimia Geerman, Juancho ity had the great pleasure
there are a lot of local peo- Hoek, Merveline Geerman to honor Aruba’s loyal
and friendly visitors as Dis-
tinguished Visitors of Aru-
ba. The symbolic Distin-
guished visitor certificate
is presented on behalf of
the Minister of Tourism, as
a token of appreciation to
the guests who visit Aruba
10 years and more con-
secutively.
The honorees were Elmer
and Kathryn Richard- love the island very much, with the representatives
son with their daugh- especially for its year- of the Divi Aruba Phoenix
ter Yvette Ynocencio. round sunny weather, presented the certificates
This family was accompa- nice sandy beaches and to the honorees, handed
nied by brothers Alexan- beautiful sunsets, deli- over some presents and
der and Robert Stevens, cious variety of foods, and also thanked them for
all honored as Distin- Aruba’s warm and friend- choosing Aruba as their
guished Visitors of Aruba. ly people. favorite vacation destina-
This wonderful group of tion and as their home-
people stated that they Ms. Richardson together away-from-home.q