The initial meeting on an upcoming coffee table book that will showcase the Art Movement in Angeles City for the past five decades happened today, November 24, 2021.

The meeting was initiated by Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr.’s Chief Adviser IC Calaguas with Executive Assistant IV Reina Manuel, writer Minerva Zamora Arceo, and Kapampangan artist Norman Tiotuico.

Calaguas, who will be the publisher of the book with Manuel, said that the city government will shoulder the publication of the book to assist local artists.

Calaguas, together with Mayor Lazatin, is the publisher of Cong. Tarzan Lazatin: A Public Life, the story of the public service career of the late Pampanga First District Representative and three termer Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin.

Tiotuico meanwhile said that the book will be composed of four chapters and will contain highlights of the flow of art movement in the local scene for the past 50 years.

It will also feature young budding artists from Angeles City.

Aside from this, the book will also feature selected Kapampangan artists.

During the meeting, Calaguas shared that the editor of the book will be veteran journalist Caesar “Bong” Lacson, while the writers include Pampanga Press Club President and long-time Philippine Daily Inquirer writer and contributor Tonette Orejas; Minerva Zamora Arceo; Robby Tantingco, Don Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies Director and Holy Angel University Vice President for External Affairs; and environmentalist Cecile Yumul.

Meanwhile, Tiotuico, an Angeleño painter and a Kapampangan language and indigenous script (kulitan) advocate, whose love for his language is matched by his love for his art, will be the book’s project director.