In 2017 Larena had prevailed to work with Central Azucarera de Bais on its 100 years as their official Historian
for the CAB 100years 1917- 2018. Research adviser and winner in the Paper Presentation during the
First University Research Fair 2018 paper title THE PERCEPTION OF GRADE TWELVE
PIONEERING BATCH OF ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018 OF SAINT PAUL UNIVERSITY DUMAGUETE
IN HAVING THE K12 CURRICULUM.
In 2010 He met Miss Vilma Bravo the sister of the owner of Dayon
Magazine Atty Ediberto Bravo after the time on he begun to wrote article for
the magazine.
Tourism
Larena is one of the first accredited Tour
Guide in Negros Island by the Department of Tourism 2001-2012, because of his
busy schedule 2013 to the present he is known as heritage and adventure Tour
guide .In 2015 he was one of the national finalist coming from Central Visayas for the Tourism Star
Philippines (TSP) in Tourism Education & Cultural Heritage.
Tourism Educator for 10 years in St. Paul
University Dumaguete and pioneering organizing committee in the First Annual
Provincial Tourism Month and Tourism Congress in 2008
Tourism Organization
Dumaguete City Tourism Council from 2001 to 2016.
Negros Island Tour Guide Association in the Philippines 2001 to
2006
Negros Oriental Tour Guide Association 2007 to the present
Negros Tour Guide Club 2008 to the Present
Tourism Achievement
Miss Dumaguete Committee 2002 to 2009 Reception Committee &
Executive Committee
Dumaguete City Santa Cruzan Festival 2002 to 2006 Executive
Committee
Kabulakan Festival 2007 to 2011 Executive Committee
Charter Day Celebration Mass, Anniversary Dinner ,Arts & Crafts Bazaar Committee
2002 to 2015
Beautification Committee of the Jose Rizal Boulevard 2002 to
2015
Wow Philippines Dumaguete & Negros Oriental in Intramuros Manila Executive
Committee member 2003
Liason Officer of the Alameda- Dumaguete Sisterhood City Visited 2015
Facilitators :
Bais-Pamilacan
Dolphin & Whale Watching Tour for boat operator & fishermen 2004-2005
Resource
Person of the Basley Farmer Community tour guiding Seminar June 2018 -DOT
Central Visayas
Resource
Person of the Balanan & Twin Lakes Sibulan Farmer Community tour guiding
Seminar Sept. 2017 -DOT Central Visayas
Arts and Culture
Larena was part of so many endeavours in the field of Arts and
Culture such as Historical Marker committee with Jessica Layumas and Imelda
Jaybee Flores Aquino Campañario ,City Hall and Jose Rizal Boulevard . One of
the few delegates to the Instituto Cervantes de Manila in 2005 summer school .As
a cultural Worker he was chairman of the
first-ever Handumanan sa Dumaguete photo exhibit to launch the celebration of
the National Heritage Month in 2012. According to Penn Larena, chairperson of the Heritage Exhibit
Committee, it is hoped that through the photos on exhibit until next week,
people will learn to appreciate the glories of the past, as well as emulate the
historical figures and personages who have helped develop Dumaguete to become
what it is today, making a mark in public service, arts and culture,
good governance, civic involvement, religiosity, academe,
tourism and hospitality, entertainment, business, and community endeavors.
Adapted from the Visayan word handumanan which means sweet
remembrance, the vintage photos in the exhibit also include a commemoration of
25 years of the Salesian Fathers of Don Bosco who run the St. Louis School-Don
Bosco in Dumaguete, the Negros Revolution of 1898, past mayors of Dumaguete,
and the centennial anniversary of the History and Political Science Department
of Silliman University this year.
Heritage, Arts and Culture Achievements
Heritage Exhibit LGU Booth Committee Buglasan Festival 2006 to 2014
Reception Committee 2nd International Rondalla
Festival
Delegate to the 2017 West Visayas Regional Museum Congress
Delegate to the 10th International Conference on Philippine
Studies in 2016
Delegate to the CCP Regional Dance Worshop in
2003 Dumaguete & Bacolod in 2005
Provincial Coordinator for Negros Oriental
National Indigenous People Month 2005
Lifetime member of Cebu Stamp Club Inc.
Delegate to the Festival Management Training
and Workshop 2011 & 2014
Organizing Committee and Lecture to the Second History of Dumaguete
Seminar 2015
Assistant Treasurer Dumaguete Festival &
Arts Festival Inc 2017 to the Present
Organizing Committee National Heritage Month
Celebration in Dumaguete in 2011 to 2015
Heritage Clean Up drive for Monument,Historical sites and Public Plaza
a projects with DUFAS, St. Paul University Dumaguete & History Class Sir Penn Larena since 2014 to
the Present.
Cultural Mapping of Bais City in 2017
CAB Centennial Committee 2017-2018
SPUD High School Centennial Celebration in 2017
History & Political Science Department
Centennial Executive Committee in 2012
Delegate to the National Heritage Summit 2016.
Family
Heritage Achievements
Secretary of the Pinili Clan & Pinili Cultural Educational Heritage Society 2014 to
the Present
Pinili Clan Family Tree Committee 2009 to the
Present
Youth Representative of the Villanueva Clan
Bais City from 1999 to 2005
Teves Clan Family Tree Book contributor
Boy Scouting Achievements
Boy Scout History of Mr. Penn T.Larena Jr.
started as Kab and Junior Scout @ C.V.P.C now Negros Oriental State University
1987-1992 ,Senior Scout @ Colegio de Santa Catalina de Alejandria 1992-1996,
Rover Scout of Silliman University Batch 1999, full member from 1999- 2001.Merit
Badge Counsellor in 2018 ,he wrote several article about Boy Scout
events,activities and first person to write a short History of Boy Scouts in
Negros Oriental from 1920s to 2014. BSP member for the fiscal year 2018 to 2020.
Literature
A Baisanon Poet
some of his works influenced by family ,relatives and friends.Some of
his works including Hacienda in 2013, Hometown 2015,Rizal 2016, The space
between us 2018 Spanish Bread of Jose Rafael
2018 and Pretty Girl 2018. He is
a nephew of Literary icons in the Philippines like Fr. Rudy Villanueva aka in
literature Renato Madrid, Dr. Elsa Martinez – Coscolluela,Atty .David
C. Martinez, Lilius Pinili,Dr. Tichie Saycon E. Baena ,Atty Arturo Valencia
Umbac, and Simon Anton Niño Diego Galera
Baena .
