Heritage Lectures, Museum Visits Highlight Kasanggayahan 2010

Sorsogon City (5 October) -- The Sorsogon Arts Council (SAC), in partnership with the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center, Incorporated (SMHCI) and the Kasanggayahan Foundation Incorporated (KFI), will highlight the Kasanggayahan Festival 2010 with the Sorsogon Heritage Lectures and the Bisita Museo sa Kasanggayahan.

Dr. Stephen Henry Totanes, a Sorsogueño historian, book author and former professor of the Ateneo de Manila University, will discuss "The First Decade of American Rule in Sorsogon (1900 to 1910)," on October 15, 2010, 1 p.m. at the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center which will serve also as the opening program for the museum tours.

"It's a combined lecture based on about four published papers which I never got to deliver at length here in Sorsogon," Totanes said as a background on the content of his discussion.

The Sorsogon Heritage Lectures is a series of discussions on Sorsogon's historical and cultural heritage which was launched by the SAC in the late 1990s as a continuing commitment in promoting Sorsogon's distinct history and culture fittingly scheduled during the annual Kasaggayahan Festival. On the other hand, Bisita Museo is a guided museum tour at the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center (SMHC) launched during Kasanggayahan Festival 2009.

This year, these two separate activities will be harmonized as one major event with the Sorsogon Heritage Lecture slated on October 15, 2010, 1 p.m. at the SMCH that will service as an opening activity for Bisita Museo which will run from October 15 to 30, 2010.

This year's heritage lectures and museum visits are also supported by Senator Francis Escudero, Congressman Salvador Escudero III, Mr. Mitch Sulit, Aguador and Oua's On Wheels. (JJJPerez, SAC/PIA)