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Pagsalud han Dan-ag han Adlaw / Cupping the Flow of Sunlight (Gleanings from the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Eastern Visayas)
January 23, 2023 - January 24, 2023
Pagsalud han Dan-ag han Adlaw / Cupping the Flow of Sunlight (Gleanings from the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Eastern Visayas)
All are invited to visit UP Tacloban’s 50th anniversary exhibit at the Robinson’s North Activity Center during mall hours on 23-24 January 2023.
The interactive educational exhibit is the kickoff activity for UP Tacloban’s year-long celebration of its 50th founding anniversary. The exhibit features paintings, photographs, specimens, maps, and multimedia productions drawn from some of the research and creative work undertaken by UP Tacloban scholars, as well as a full-sized replica of the UP Oblation by UP Artist and Professor Emeritus Grace Javier Alfonso as centerpiece. There are also scheduled performances, short lectures, workshops, and book launchings during the two-day event.
The exhibit title “Pagsalud han dan-ag han adlaw” is Victor Sugbo’s translation of a line from his poem “The Fishers.” The line is part of a longer segment — “Beneath the mangrove trees, boats / Cupping the flow of sunlight / As if rainwater filling up an empty jar” — that we take as a metaphor for the scholarly and creative work of UP Tacloban faculty, staff, and students on the natural and cultural heritage of Eastern Visayas.
The exhibit motif is mangroves, symbolizing the rich biodiversity, culture, and traditions of Region 8, as well as the resilience of Eastern Visayan communities in the face of various natural calamities and social upheavals. It is also symbolic of the interconnectedness of the scholarly disciplines in critical and creative thinking and doing.
Through this showcase of its knowledge production as an institution of higher learning over the past 50 years, UP Tacloban hopes to inspire and engage the people of Eastern Visayas in the critical work of natural and cultural heritage preservation, environmental and biodiversity conservation, community empowerment, and sustainable development.
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