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Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News

MANILA - Portions of White Plains Avenue will be closed to give way to the construction of a People Power Experiential Museum, a temporary installation which would be one of the features of the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution. From February 14 to 22, lanes 1-3 of the westbound portion of White Plains Avenue would be closed while Lanes 4-6 would remain open to two-way vehicular traffic. From February 23 to 24, an additional lane (lane 4) would also be closed while the entire road would be closed the whole day of February 25, from 12:01 AM to 12 midnight. On February 25, the northbound lane of EDSA from Ortigas to Santolan will be closed for half a day, from 12:01 AM to 1 PM, to give way to activities that would be held on the day. February 25 this year, a Thursday, has earlier been declared a special non-working holiday nationwide to mark the milestone event. The museum is meant to &quot;shock&quot; visitors, especially young people, about the &quot;horrors&quot; and oppression of martial law and relive the events of the people power revolution. It will have nine halls that will feature the heroism of activists and personalities who joined the struggle against the dictatorship. It will also feature a brief recorded message of President Aquino who will speak along the museum&#x27;s theme, &quot;EDSA 30: Ipagpapatuloy ko ang Biyahe Tungo sa Liwanag.&quot; &quot;Napakarami sa ating millennials ang talagang blangko. To them, martial law is a surreal thing as if it never happened. Let&#x27;s not fool ourselves. We had a peaceful revolution. There was no bloodshed. But that doesn&#x27;t mean there was no bloodshed leading up to it. We went through so many years of martial law. So many people were tortured, were killed. There is no way you can cover that up,&quot; EDSA People Power Commissioner Emily Abrera said. &quot;I think it&#x27;s important that young people today understand that, that martial law wasn&#x27;t a time when people just got disciplined. There are many aspects to it. If it feels like a horror show, that&#x27;s what it was. And young people should understand that.&quot; There will be actors who will portray the role of activists such as Evelio Javier and Macli-ing Dulag who were killed during martial law. Some of the halls were named &quot;Hall of Deadly Sleep,&quot; &quot;Hall of False Dreams,&quot; &quot;Hall of the Forgotten Martyrs,&quot; and &quot;Hall of Awakening.&quot; &quot;Hindi na kasi sila basta nadadala lang sa picture na mayroong drawing, na mayroong words. Hindi na uso &#x27;yun e. Kailangan ngayon, shocking na. So &#x27;yung experiential museum, it aims to shock the audience into rethinking EDSA and of course, the reason why EDSA happened: martial law,&quot; Asec. Celso Santiago of the Presidential Communication Operations Office said. The museum will be open from February 25-26 and entrance would be free. Around P30 million-P35 million has been allotted for the celebration, around half would be spent for the museum, with some funds coming from sponsors. Organizers are currently looking for a permanent home for the museum. OPEN INVITATION President Aquino will lead the Salubungan Program at the People Power Monument on February 25 which would include traditional features of the celebration such as the flag raising and reenactment of the salubungan or meeting of the participants from the civilian and military sectors. Rather than issuing a formal invitation for the event, organizers came up with an &quot;open&quot; invitation to the public and EDSA personalities who are currently part of the opposition and not allies of the administration, including Senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Gringo Honasan. &quot;There is an open invitation for everyone for everyone to come and celebrate EDSA 30,&quot; said Abrera.&quot;This is always a delicate time particularly this year; it&#x27;s election season… And in order that there be no misconstruing any of the messages, we have decided to just make an open invitation rather than specify who will come and who will not. Kasi baka mayroon pang interpretation na ibigay.&quot; On February 22, former President Fidel Ramos will lead a wreath-laying ceremony at the Libingan ng mga Bayani to honor military heroes.

MANILA - Portions of White Plains Avenue will be closed to give way to the construction of a People Power Experiential Museum, a temporary installation which would be one of the features of the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution.

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Coming soon: People Power experiential museum

Willard Cheng,

ABS-CBN News

Published Feb 09, 2016 04:31 PM PHT

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Updated Feb 09, 2016 08:56 PM PHT

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