Within the framework of Heritage Day, and in consideration of the close relationship of the University of Valparaíso with the history of the region, the university has organized a complete program of activities open to the entire community, which include tours of places heritage events, talks, exhibitions and concerts, which will take place from the 23rd to the 31st of this month of May.
There will be around twenty artistic, cultural and educational activities that will take place in various UV locations, constituting 25 percent of the contribution that universities throughout the country make this year to the national programming of the annual celebration held for 25 years. years by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
This Wednesday the 15th, the institution officially announced the aforementioned programming, in a meeting that took place in the El Farol room of the Extension Center, and which was attended by the rector Osvaldo Corrales; the vice-rector of Links with the Environment, Carlos Lara; the representative of the Valparaíso Regional Directorate of the National Cultural Heritage Service, Paulina Bravo; the director of Asset Management of the Municipality of Valparaíso, Claudia Ulloa, and the coordinators of Liaison with the Environment of the Faculties that make up the University of Valparaíso.
Historical ties
On the occasion, the vice-rector Carlos Lara invited the community to participate in the activities “that we have prepared for the city of Valparaíso, for the region, for this date that we hope will be a space for contact, a space for you to get to know us, a space to deepen the relationship that we have had with the city of Valparaíso in particular, opening up what our institution has, so that the citizens, who live in this city, know it, and deepen the ties that we have built with everyone.”
The academic highlighted the historical ties that unite the UV with the territories in which it is inserted: “Our institution has been able to contribute to the creation of identity. In fact, the event that we celebrate every December 31, the fireworks that put Valparaíso in the center of the country, is an initiative that was born in our university, particularly in the Faculty of Dentistry, with its first director, Ernesto Dighero, who together with the Maritime League begins the New Year celebrations with the launch of fireworks in the city bay. Today it has been installed as part of the identity of Valparaíso, but also as part of the identity of many municipalities throughout Chile. That is what we as an institution value about heritage: they are tools for the future, we do not preserve the past as old as it can be, but they are the tools for the future development of this city.”
citizen festival
For her part, Paulina Bravo, on behalf of the Valparaíso Regional Directorate of the National Cultural Heritage Service, expressed: “This Heritage Day – which turns 25 – is relevant because it is a citizen festival in which we can perhaps give a push to “that there is access to assets, to properties, to activities, to a lot of instances in which assets can be surveyed.”
He also highlighted: “We believe that the programming presented by the University highlights different areas”, allowing “to recognize our own stories, the stories of the institutions and be able to share them with the community.”
Astronomical heritage
Eduardo Ibar, director of the UV Institute of Physics and Astronomy, referred to the activity prepared by that academic unit for Sunday, May 26, which aims to rescue astronomical heritage. “The place where the first astronomical observatory in Chile was installed was here in Valparaíso, today called the Lord Cochrane Museum. Back in 1843, a person named Juan Mouat installed the first observatory, and what we are going to do in the property is a tour of the house, we are going to show where the telescope was located at that time; We are also going to do an activity for children, with a storyteller who will tell the story of Juan Mouat in a playful way, and we are also going to screen a documentary that we recently made, so that people in the community can learn and become part of this cultural heritage that they have there on the hill,” he stated.
The academic highlighted that “today we are talking about Chile as a world power in astronomy, but everything has a beginning, and that beginning was here in Valparaíso. “That story has to be told.”
The historic rocks
Another of the activities included in the UV program is the meeting and discussion “Memorial song of the wind… Long live the students!”, announced for Friday, May 31, in the Rubén Darío room and co-organized by the collective Brazier. This activity will close the 2024 Heritage Day agenda at the university.
According to Gustavo González, a member of the El Brasero collective, “our idea is to pay tribute to those precursors of the first folklore clubs that existed in Valparaíso, in August 1965, when, under the wing of the University of Chile at that time, the School of Architecture in particular, university students formed the first musical encounters that later brought renowned artists, such as Gitano Rodríguez, Payo Grondona, Violeta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui.”
He commented that it was a task “relevant as part of what at that time was considered the New Chilean Song movement. Later, at the end of the 70s, after the Military Coup, several of us, university students still at the University of Chile, formed different musical spaces. “I am part of the El Brasero club, which operated in front of the University of Playa Ancha.”
Along with extending the invitation to attend this meeting, González stated that for his group “it is a privilege to accompany the University of Valparaíso in this program.”
Full program
The UV activities program on the occasion of Heritage Day 2024 is available at https://uv.cl/diadelpatrimonio, from where you can access the forms for activities that require prior registration.
—Juan Barattini Carvelli and Marta Contreras Laporte archive delivery ceremony to the Documentation Center of the UV Theater School.
Thursday, May 23, 10:30 a.m., UV Theater School, Avenida Brasil 1647, Valparaíso.
Organized by: Valparaíso University Theater School.
—Exhibition “Of the human: retrospective of the prominent international artist Gracia Barrios.”
Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., El Farol room, Blanco 1113, Valparaíso.
Organized by: UV Extension and Communications Directorate and Balmesoso Foundation
—Valentin Letelier radio heritage tour.
Friday, May 24, 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, May 25, 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00, UV Extension and Communications Directorate, Errázuriz 1108, Valparaíso.
Activity with prior registration. Limited quotas.
Organized by: UV Extension and Communications Directorate and Radio Valentín Letelier.
—UV Cultural Heritage traveling exhibition.
Friday, May 24, 09:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., UV Extension and Communications Directorate, Errázuriz 1108, Valparaíso.
Activity with prior registration. Limited quotas.
—Workshop “Porteño Imaginary: Written and visual identity.”
Friday, May 24, 5:00 p.m., UV Law School Board Room, Errázuriz 2120, Valparaíso.
Reading promotion instance financed through the UVA 2393 project.
Facilitated by: Natalia Berbelagua, writer and visual artist, author of ten books of various genres, and Constanza Castillo, head of Reading Promotion at Editorial UV.
Activity with prior registration. Limited quotas.
Organized by: Editorial Universidad de Valparaíso.
—Concert “Memories of Valparaíso”, Waltz for Piano by J. Strauss.
Friday, May 24, 6:00 p.m., Rubén Darío room, UV Extension and Communications Directorate, Errázuriz 1108, Valparaíso.
Saturday, May 25, 11:00 a.m., Aula Magna UV Law School, Errázuriz 2120, Valparaíso.
Saturday, May 25, 1:00 p.m., central hall Palacio Astoreca, UV School of Commercial Engineering, Pasaje. La Paz 1301, Viña del Mar.
The interpretations will be carried out by the UV Chamber Musical Group based on the scores found by Professor Allan Browne and preserved by the School of Design.
Activity with prior registration. Limited quotas.
—Special weekend programming of the RVL heritage.
Transmission of programs and concerts that are part of the station’s archive.
Radio broadcast on the 97.3 FM dial, rvl.uv.cl or through the Radio Valentín Letelier app available on Google Play and the App Store.
—Guided tours of the Law School.
Saturday, May 25, 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Errázuriz 2120, Valparaíso.
Activity without prior registration.
Organized by: UV Law Faculty.
—Guided tour of the Astoreca Palace.
Saturday, May 25, 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00, Pasaje La Paz 1301, Viña del Mar.
Activity with prior registration
Organized by: UV Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences.
—Guided tour of the Santiago Campus.
Saturday, May 25, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Gran Avenida José Miguel Carrera 4160, San Miguel, Metropolitan Region.
Organized by: UV Santiago Campus.
—Firefighter exercise recording 1902-2024.
Sunday, May 26, 10:00 a.m., Plaza Sotomayor, Valparaíso.
Organized by: UV Faculty of Architecture in collaboration with the Valparaíso Fire Department.
—Montemar: the marine biology station where natural and cultural heritage interact.
Sunday, May 26, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Faculty of Marine Sciences and Natural Resources UV, Avenida Borgoño 16344, Reñaca, Viña del Mar.
Organized by: Faculty of Marine Sciences and Natural Resources
—Revaluing the port area of Valparaíso.
Monday, May 27, El Membrillo cove, Valparaíso.
Closed call, aimed at schools.
Organized by: UV Environment and Sustainability Unit.
—Learn about the astronomical heritage of Valparaíso.
Sunday, May 26, Lord Cochrane Ex-Museum, Merlet 195, Valparaíso.
3:00 p.m.: Storyteller Vicky Silva with the oral narration “Juan Mouat, traveler of time and the stars.”
4:00 p.m.: Guided tour of the Altura Heritage Foundation with astronomer Eduardo Ibar, director of the Institute of Physics and Astronomy of the UV.
4:30 p.m.: Screening of the documentary “Navigantes del tiempo”.
Organized by: UV Institute of Physics and Astronomy, with collaboration of the UV Faculty of Sciences and the National Heritage Service. Participating: Altura Heritage Foundation, UV Architecture, Cinema for All and Puerto Visual.
—Meeting and discussion “Memorial song of the wind… Long live the students!”
Friday, May 31, 6:00 p.m., Rubén Darío room, UV Extension and Communications Directorate, Errázuriz 1108, Valparaíso.
Organized by: El Brasero Collective and UV Extension and Communications Directorate.
—Valparaíso University Heritage Archive digital platform.
Website to learn about the heritage of the Textile Conservation Center (CCTex) of the School of Design, the Myriam Waisberg Fund of the School of Architecture and the Herbarium of Vascular Plants of the Faculty of Pharmacy.
https://patrimonio.uv.cl/inicio/.
