NATIONAL HERITAGE MONTH

OLIVIA Y. ISIP

The Department of Education is encouraging all schools, schools division offices (SDOs), and regional offices (ROs) to support the 2023 National Heritage Month (NHM) by undertaking related activities.

They are urged to use, post, and share the 2023 NHM advocacy materials, including the Official 2023 NHM Poster, Facebook Banner/s, and 2023 NHM Calendar of Activities in all schools divisions and schools website and social media accounts.

They are also asked to participate in the online campaign thread about the 2023 NHM celebration by sharing heritage-related content, including videos, news features, and other collaterals released by the NCCA and NHM Facebook Pages using the h ash t ags # NHM2023 and # NHMChangeAndContinuity.

They may also use various online audio-visual programs arrd content related to heritage such as Dagaut, Philippine Heritage Awards, and previous videos of National Heritage Month as part of instructional materials for students, accessible through the NCCA Learning Hub and/or NHM Facebook Page.

Schools may also organize theit own NHM activities and participate in heritage-related events such as seminars, webinars, workshops, lectures, and exhibits.

Presidential Proclamation No. 439, s. 2003 has declared May of every year as the National Heritage Month and should be celebrated annually. Relative thereto, the National Commission for Culture and tlle Arts (NCCA) announces the observance of the 2023 National Heritage Month. This year's theme, innovates to preserve products of human creativity and recognize the need to create consciousness, respect, and love for the legacies of Filipino cultural history.

The theme highlights four (4) sub-themes: Sustainable Heritage Management: the practice of managing change and risk in heritage and maximizing its social, cultural, and economic benefits for the current and future generations; Heritage Science: an interdisciplinary domain of study involving the use of innovative and creative interventions in the understanding, conservation, and use of heritage; Intangible Cultural Heritage: intergenerational transmission and the provision of a sense of identity across time, where trarsmission relies upon constant re-creation in the present context; and Urban Heritage: the conservation of urban heritage in the context of managing urban growth and change in 21st-century cities.

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The author is Teacher III at Telacsan National High School