Fashion, furniture, crafts, and food take center stage in this year’s Butlak.
The 40th Negros Trade Fair officially opened on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the SMX Convention Center Aura in Taguig, bringing 178 brands from Negros and its wider creative community to Manila.
This year’s theme, Butlak, the Hiligaynon for “”bloom,” celebrates how Negros’ creative industries have flourished over the decades—while highlighting communities that share creative and cultural ties with the province.
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Visitors can shop fashion, furniture, home crafts, food, and other locally made products until Sunday, Sept. 27.
The fair opened with the ringing of the arima, the traditional morning bell once used across Negros’ sugarcane fields to signal the start of a day’s work.
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