Heritage advocacy group bares lectures

IN keeping with its advocacy to promote Cebuano heritage, Hambin has scheduled two lectures for October and November.

On Oct. 1, pioneering Hambin member Lilia Tio will zero in on dying Cebuano musical traditions with her video-documentation-lecture entitled “Revisiting the daygon, pasyon, gozos and the balitaw: A closer look at the vanishing religious and secular Cebuano song forms.”

The lecture will start at 4:30 p.m. at the Virgilio Yap Chapel, Metropolitan Cathedral Museum.

Tio is an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Cebu College and teaches communication arts, Philippine literature and Sugbuanon literature.
She won a Palanca Award for Cebuano Short Story in 2008.

A lecture on church iconographic interpretation will be held in November.

Hambin is the only heritage advocacy group in Cebu that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is composed of pioneering graduates of the Graduate Certificate course in Cebuano Heritage Studies of University of San Carlos as members and invited individuals as honorary members.

The lectures are supported in part by the USC History Department and are open to the public on a first-come first-served basis.

For inquiries, call Laila Labajo at 344-3801 local 443.