This year's Christmas event will be dubbed "Kanya2 2gether sa PasQ". It typifies UP's ultimate basis for unity: agreeing to disagree. It celebrates, with the youthful pinache of text lingo, our invigorating freedom and daunting diversity in one ideal space we call home: the academic oval. It allows us to congratulate one another's work in anextended 4 day festival of the best of UP Diliman where before we were incognito revelers in a tightly squeezed crowd on Lantern Parade night.
The oval will be shut off from all forms of vehicular traffic for 4days from Dec. 12-15 to allow us to stroll with leisure in a tentcity atmosphere that features the best accomplishments of UP's academe and student organizations. Large white Murayama tents (12' x12') will line the inner academic oval which will be zoned into academic, student orgs, dry goods tiangge and food concessions areas.
The Carillon will sound Christmas Carols at 5 pm daily beginning onDec. 2 followed by the lighting of Quezon Hall signaling the beginning of celebrations. Awards for best academic and student org tents and best Parol per booth will be awarded along with a Belen competition among college student councils. One-hour daily concerts will be held at dusk in succession at the Quezon, Melchor and Palma Halls to be capped by a Rock/Reggae/Acoustic Amateur Bands Concert at the sunken garden on the evening of the 15th till the following morning followed by an Ecumenical Simbang Gabi.
Student and Academic pakulô events such as the APO's Oblation Run atthe oval at noon of the 15th and Beta Epsilon's Fireworks Display after the Lantern Parade on the evening of the 15th will be screened, scheduled and printed on flyer itineraries. The traditional LanternParade will be headed, thematized and choreographed by the College of Fine Arts. The theme will be Earth, Wind, Fire and Water Elemental Masks. It will parade once around the oval and pick-up the academic/student booth lanterns along the way.
Let us prove yet again that with a little imagination, even austerity cannot douse the spirit of celebration in Diliman.
Paunang pagbati ng maligayang Pasko!
Gerry Cao
Chancellor
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