🧵 1/3 The mixture of #museum and #culturalHeritage centre makes visitors of all generations happy. Yesterday we had a #cake competition for our special #chocolate exhibition. I spontaneously found myself on the jury, which had to try all the cakes in order to to give points. A calory heavy work (now you know, why many museums are closed on Mondays - we have to digest.😁 ) Then cakes and torts were slaughtered for the visitors.😋 Women of our association had baken the treasures. #volunteering
🧵 2/3 It is this mixture of #association and the official institution that makes the centre so lively. The building and cashiers belong to the region, everything else is done by an association of #volunteers. It has more members than villagers. We give #guidedTours, keep the #archives in order, repair items on display, organise #exhibitions and two international #festivals, show #handicrafts and bake #cakes. The cakes served in the cafeteria on Sundays are always home-baked by the women on duty.
Holi festival celebrated by Hindus around the world – in pictures
'Holi is the Hindu festival of colours and is celebrated to mark the start of spring in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora. Celebrants rejoice by throwing coloured powders at one another on the street.'
Does this look like fun, or does this look like fun?
We are calling on the Philippine government to enforce legislation to ban the farming, slaughter, and consumption of dogs. #DogSlaughter for consumption was banned in the Philippines in 1982. This ban was reinforced in 1998 via the #AnimalWelfareAct which prohibits killing dogs for food with minimum penalties set at 1,000 pesos (equivalent to about US$22 at the time) and not less than six months in prison.
Moreover there is a #loophole which states ‘with exemptions for dogs and cats killed and eaten as part of indigenous rituals.’
Animal rights group, '#SayNoToDogMeat' has evidence that shows "ritualistic slaughter #festivals" involving the killing of dogs and cats, where to date a staggering 50,000+ dogs and some 20,000+ cats are said to be killed just in the Philippines alone. In 2019, 'Network for Animals' filmed undercover at two restaurants,
#Beijing, #China
Members of a folk dancing troupe that perform on #stilts or gaoqiao, wait to perform at a local temple fair for the Chinese lunar new year and spring festival in Beijing