UPV joins Iloilo Arts Festival 2021 with the partial opening of its three galleries - the Ed Defensor Gallery, the Nelfa Querubin Gallery, and the Lantip (Changing Exhibition Gallery) - in the UPV Museum in the city campus on December 6. 

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.

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. 

• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

“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.” 

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. 

The Deed of Donation for an additional 386 sq. m. to be added to the UP Visayas Extension Campus in Antique was signed at UP Visayas Iloilo City campus on November 29, 2021. 

• SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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.

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.

The short film, Tiempo Suerte, took home eight awards out of the 13 in the Open Category of the recently concluded SineNegrense: Negros Island Film Festival.