DUMAGUETE CITY – The City Tourism Office here, in coordination with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), is spearheading a one-day Cultural Awareness Seminar/Workshop, aimed at raising awareness on the importance of heritage preservation.
The activity is a project of the Dumaguete City Heritage Council (DCHC), headed by Dr. Earl Jude Cleope, Jaqueline Veloso Antonio, City Tourism officer said on Monday.
The Cultural Awareness Seminar/Workshop, titled “Heritage – Makakain Ba ‘Yan?” aims to “build knowledge on the importance of heritage preservations and its significance in community-building,” she added.
The DCHC, Antonio said, is requesting historical markers to be installed at nominated heritage sites in the city.
The group is also requesting for three volumes of historical journals on Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental by Dumaguete-based historians to be published by November this year and to be distributed to the city’s public and school libraries, she said.
Antonio said they will start the official cultural mapping of Dumaguete City by the end of the year, in collaboration with the NCCA.
The seminar/workshop on cultural awareness is set from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the Silliman University Assembly Hall.
The rationale of the activity will be given by Adelina Suemith, head of the Program Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the NCCA.
Prof. Eric Zerrudo, Director of the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics, will deliver a lecture on heritage. (Mary Judaline Partlow/PNA)