Saturday, December 1, 2012

Nativity Scenes on Ateneo Campus


1 December 2012

            When we returned from Singapore we saw that there were suddenly several incredibly ornate and intricate nativity scenes on Ateneo’s campus. Each nativity scene had a sign showing which particular group or school of students had built it. Each scene was meant to represent a nativity scene as though it had taken place in a particular region of the Philippines so the signs also explained the significance of all the various things. For example, the nativity scene for Davao, Mindanao, had a backdrop of mountains, stuffed eagles, and featured some instruments from the region.
When we went for our evening walk on 29 November we saw that all of these scenes also had lots of lights and that the groups were actually competing with each other. We walked around campus listening to some of the guides explaining their group’s efforts. 

Here are some videos of the evening walk:


nativity in library fountain



robot Jesus?




Ateneo's main church
church interior
figures made from clothes that will be donated to people in northern Luzon

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