“Thank you [UPV Health Lifestyle and] Wellness Committee for not dropping the ball of wellness; and it could not have come at a better time. The pandemic really tested us with the online strain of doing online work and of course the accompanying social isolation can really take its toll. We all recognize that our mental health suffered during the pandemic. The Wellness Committee got this one right.” 

The Tourism Related Initiatives Anchoring on Local History and Culture project under the Tourism Studies on Island Based Opportunities for Growth (TSIBOG) Program in Western Visayas organized the activity “Conversations on Local History and Culture, Heritage Promotion, and Eco-Tourism” last November 25-26, 2021 at the Pandan Multi-Purpose Cooperative function hall, Antique. The activity aimed to create an avenue of conversations to enhance and strengthen Pandan’s local capacities and knowledge on history, culture, and heritage promotion as integral components and pathways for sustainable tourism.

A total of 16 artworks from three local artists were donated to the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Art Gallery through the signing of the deed of donation on December 6, 2021.

Early Christmas presents were shared with the Iraynon Bukidnon indigenous peoples of Brgy. Latazon and Brgy. San Ramon in Laua-an, Antique, on December 2 and 3, 2021. 

It has become a tradition for the University of the Philippines Visayas to usher in the holiday season with a ceremonial lighting of its main campus in Miagao and its Iloilo City campus. UPV did just that on December 1, 2021. Weeks prior to the event, the personnel of the Campus Maintenance and Development Office were busy installing the Christmas décor and lights at both campuses.

This comes as FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences), the country’s leading award-giving body made the announcement in its nominee reveal event on December 1st 2021.