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Art for a cause

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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First Global Financial Services senior manager, Andre Gooden, and Vice-president Maria Ho Sue (first and second right) exchange pleasantries with Jean Bird (second left), as her friend Veronica Carlton, widow of the late Cecil Charlton, shares the moment. They were among guests at last Thursday's Mandeville Art Fair. - Contributed PhotoS
Organisers of the Mandeville Art Fair, sister Susan Frazer and Marcia Tai Chun (second and fourth left) with (from left) Paul Ebanks, branch manager - Mandeville; Maria Ho Sue, vice president; Sonia Brown and Melicia Jones, financial advisers; and Andre Gooden, senior manager, representatives of First Global Financial Services, major sponsor of the event held last Thursday.
Roman Catholic bishop of Mandeville, Neil Tiedemann (right), looks at some of the fine works of art displayed at the Mandeville Art Fair last weekend. With him are Kerrene Grant and Paul Ebanks, employees of First Global Bank and First Global Financial Services, the major sponsors of the event.
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Scores of persons from St Elizabeth, Manchester and adjoining areas turned out to support the recently held Mandeville Art Fair.

The annual event was held at the St John Bosco Boys Home in Mandeville, from last Thursday through Saturday. The event has been staged for the last 22 years, but more importantly, it is through the generosity and commitment of corporate sponsors like First Global Financial Services (FGFS) that the annual staging has been possible.

For four years, FGFS has given organisers the clearest signal that they would become the major sponsor as part of their corporate social responsibility.

The art fair attracted pieces from more than 80 budding and seasoned Jamaican artists including the late Albert Huie, Carl Abrahams, Christopher Gonzales, Viv Logan, David Pottinger, Barrington Watson, Fiona Godfrey, Fitzroy Symister, Patrick Waldermar, Milton Messam and Lennox Coke, among others.

22 YEARS AND GOING

Sponsorship coordinator for the art fair, Marcia Tai Chun, explained that the Mandeville Art Fair started 22 years ago under the guidance of Mandeville's first Roman Catholic bishop, Paul Boyle, along with a group of persons in the Diocese who wanted to raise funds to address a number of charitable causes.

All the earnings from the fair are channelled into charities run by the Mandeville Diocese, such as indigent and children's homes, homework programmes, education, which includes early-childhood, secondary and tertiary levels, inclusive of scholarships.

"We are just delighted to be associated with the art fair for the past 10 years. We started out as part sponsors ... , but within the past four years, we have decided to be the major sponsor. It is really good to see the paintings, beautiful plants and enjoy the warmth of the people," said Maria Ho Sue, FGFS vice president for business development.

Ho Sue said further, "It is good to give back to the community from which we earn and equally to foster our relationship with our clients.