The country will be unveiling what it aims to be the world’s longest mural painting on canvass and dislodge the current title holder Mexico, a government official disclosed today.

In a press briefing in Quezon City, Climate Change Commission (CCC) vice chairman Secretary Heherson Alvarez said they hope to wrest the current world record for the longest mural painting, which stretches to 6,001.5 meters and set by Mexico last May 28.

Alvarez said their 7,101-meter-long mural will depict biodiversity and the worldwide issue of global warming.

“Global warming and climate change concern us all and public information on mitigation and adaptation is our best weapon. The arts is a vivid educational tool to raise a carbon-cutting consciousness. Let us join hands in this battle against climate change,” Alvarez said.

The mural will be unveiled on June 28 in Batangas City during the three-day event from June 25 to 28 in observance of World Environment Day and Climate Change Teach-In Day.

The celebration is jointly headed by the CCC, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Unesco-International Theater Institute Philippine Center-Earthsavers Dreams Academy, headed by Undersecretary Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, and the Batangas Provincial Tourism Office.

Organizers said 6,000 artists of different ages have contributed to the mural, which is now kept at the four-story livelihood center in Batangas. – By Dennis Carcamo (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)

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