DUMAGUETE CITY – Dumaguete, the provincial capital of Negros Oriental, has been chosen as one in all two Philippine endorsements to the 2025 UNESCO Inventive Cities Community (UCCN) within the discipline of Literature.
Quezon Metropolis is the opposite endorsement below the class of movie, in line with Nimfa Virtucio, provincial director of the Division of Commerce and Business (DTI) in Negros Oriental, throughout a press convention right here Friday.
Virtucio mentioned the endorsement “underscores Dumaguete’s wealthy cultural and literary heritage and aligns with the UNESCO (United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group) imaginative and prescient of sustainable city improvement via creativity”.
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Anton Gabila, DTI-Negros Oriental’s inventive business program supervisor, mentioned in the identical press convention {that a} technical working group (TWG) comprising representatives from the native authorities unit and native creatives champions, akin to Ian Casocot, at the moment are drawing up town’s last portfolio for submission in January.
“Dumaguete Metropolis is understood for a lot of achievements within the discipline of literature, such because the Silliman College Nationwide Writers Workshop, the longest operating within the nation, and the Silliman College Library, having an enormous circulation of some 100,000 volumes of books of assorted topics,” Gabila mentioned.
Gabila additionally cited the numerous famend native writers who’re globally aggressive, akin to Casocot, who has obtained a number of awards within the nation and overseas.
Casocot wrote the preliminary profile submitted to the Philippine Nationwide Fee for UNESCO for the designation which was the premise for the endorsement to the UCCN, Gabila defined.
Following the endorsement, the TWG is now finalizing the portfolio, which wants a little bit “tweaking” for submission to UNESCO in January.
Gabila mentioned if Dumaguete Metropolis will get the designation as a UNESCO Inventive Metropolis for Literature, it is going to be becoming a member of the ranks of Baguio Metropolis (crafts and folks artwork), Iloilo (gastronomy) and Cebu (design).
The endorsement was finalized in collaboration with the Nationwide Fee for Tradition and the Arts, Workplace of Pangasinan 4th District Rep. Christopher de Venecia, and the Philippine Nationwide Fee for UNESCO.
De Venecia authored the Philippine Inventive Industries Growth Act.
The designation of cities in numerous classes by the UCCN is completed each two years.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo mentioned within the media briefer that other than “bragging rights,” the designation will bolster tourism, develop networking globally, and put Dumaguete Metropolis on the map, particularly on the inventive and cultural points.
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