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“Tahanan” was the theme of the 108th UP Diliman Commencement Exercises. Calling on the university to serve as home and refuge for the students, the ceremony welcomed 5,000 graduates and recognized 54 summa cum laude in the bunch.

A Tribute to the 2018 National Artist Awardees of UP Diliman and Celebration of the 111th founding anniversary of the University of the Philippines

Attendees from many walks of life flocked to the University of the Philippines Oblation Plaza and Academic Oval last December 14, 2018 to participate in and watch the annual UPD Lantern Parade.

Following the success of the UP Diliman Festival of Culture and the Arts 2018: Kat(h)awan: Bodies, Society, Culture, the university continued the identification of the Philippine body as an important device in knowledge production with the celebration of the very first Science, Technology, and Society Month, UPD STS Month 2018:  Bodies, Science, and Philippine Society.

In the early morning of June 24, 2018, the UP Diliman Amphitheater was filled with a staggering 3,576 undergraduates and 1,042 graduate diploma, masters, and doctoral students for the university’s 107th General Commencement Exercises.

UP Diliman celebrated the year-end season with colorful lanterns at the annual Lantern Parade. This year’s theme “UP Diliman, Paaralan, Palaruan” was inspired by Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, a 1938 book by Dutch historian and philosopher Johan Huizinga, who used the term homo ludens to describe the nature of man and society to create "play," which in turn forms their culture.

The University Collection Mapping (UCM) Project is a follow-up effort to the last inventory of the University of the Philippines’ art collection in 1986, and was envisioned to guide the formulation of policy with regard to the art, furniture, ethnographic, and philately collections of UP Diliman.

The simultaneous launch of the “Pasyal: UP Diliman Art Trail” monograph and the “UP Diliman Art Inventory Project” was held last 24 October 2017 at the UP Theater Lobby.

The UPD Performing Arts Scholarship Program (PASP) Certificate was awarded to fifty-seven (57) student-artists from seven (7) Official Student Performing Arts Groups. In addition, seventeen (17) student-artists comprised of undergraduates and one (1) master’s received the newly established UPD Visual Arts and Cultural Studies Program (VACSSP) Certificate.

In collaboration with the UP Office of the Chancellor, UP Diliman Information Office (UP DIO), UP Asian Center, and the University Theater Complex, the Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA), College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, College of Mass Communication, and the Department of History dedicated a month-long celebration to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aurelio Tolentino and the 45th year since the declaration of Martial Law.