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All About Bert

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  Essay 66. ALL ABOUT BERT  We have in college, at the University of the East School of Music and Fine Arts, an art group which we named SETA (Self-expression Through Art). Our group held its first exhibit at the Galeria delas Islas in 1985. We revived that art group in 2011, this time as SETA Pilipinas, when we held in August of that year another group exhibit at Sigwada Art Gallery. To hype up that show which I titled "Renascence", I wrote a series of essays about the participating artists. The two essays below were my write-ups on Bert Falsis  1. NOBLE, BRIGHT AND FAMOUS Bert Falsis' full first name is Elberto - a variation I guess of Albert, which means noble, bright and famous. Bert initially used Bert Falsis as his Facebook profile name, but decided to change it to Treb Falsis because a cousin who's also in the same line of business (printing)  insisted on also using Bert Falsis as his profile name. As his name implies, our Bert is very bright indeed. He and wif