PARAÑAQUE CITY, Jan. 17 (PIA) Today marks the 100-day countdown to the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines (2021 QCP). Central in these commemorations is the 500th anniversary of the Victory at Mactan on 27 April 2021 (the reckoning date of the countdown).
The Lapu-Lapu City Government kicks-off the countdown at the Lapulapu Monument, Liberty Shrine, Mactan in Lapu-Lapu City in the morning.
Highlight of the event is the declaration of the shrine as a site of the permanent display of the Philippine flag through the NHCP Board Resolution No. 10, s. 2020.
Event guests include Office of the Presidential Adviser in the Visayas Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, Philippine Information Agency Director-General Ramon Cualoping III, Lapu-Lapu City Lone District Representative Paz Radaza, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan.
Published January 8, 2021, 6:28 PM
The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) received two new sculptures from contemporary Filipino glass sculpture Ramon Orlina to enhance the National Fine Arts Collection.
These are “Community of Joy”, made from carved peach amber glass, and “Elegance in Simplicity”, from carved green glass.
Orlina, accompanied by his wife Lay Ann, turned over the art works to the National Museum. Director-General Jeremy Barns and Deputy Director-General for Museums Ana Labrador received the gifts.
“The Orlina sculptures are a welcome addition to the exhibition gallery especially dedicated to Philippine modern sculpture at the National Museum of Fine Arts, and will soon be placed on display,” the NMP said.
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UP scientist Perry Ong honored with name of new flowering plant in Mindanao
“Hypericum perryongii Galindon” was discovered by botanists in Mindanao. Photo from John Michael Mamauag Galindon.
University of the Philippines Diliman scientist Dr. Perry S. Ong has been honored with the name of a new flowering plant species found in Mindanao.
The findings of the researchers have been officially published in the Phytotaxa journal on January 5, 2021, which called the discovery “the fifth Hypericum species occurring natively in the Philippines, and the second endemic.” The discovery is significant because it is the first Hypericum species in the country found outside Luzon.
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LOOK: World’s Largest Solar Rosary for Healing Shines at Luneta Park
The giant solar rosary spans 300 meters using 3,000 solar lights. Drone shots by Michael Paulo Sarayba, published with the permission of Liter of Light.
The World’s Largest Solar Rosary for Healing was lit up while the Filipino nation prayed as part of the National Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines marking 500 years of Christianity in the country.
Dubbed the Light of Faith, the 300-meter-long giant solar artwork made of 3,000 Liter of Light solar lamps begins at the cross placed on Cebu Island on the Luneta Park’s Relief Map of the Philippines and goes around the Agripina Circle.
Published December 28, 2020, 3:57 PM
The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) has transferred some of its regulatory functions to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) following a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed last Oct. 23.
In a joint public announcement, the NMP said it will transfer its important regulatory functions to the NCCA which covers the following:
· Registration of Cultural Property
· Regulation of declared National Cultural Treasures, declared Important Cultural Properties, and presumed Important Cultural Properties
· Removal of the presumption of Important Cultural Property
· Issuance of permits and certificates for the temporary or permanent exportation and importation of cultural properties where applicable