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The Constantino Foundation was established to advance a singular idea. In order to shape the future, the past must play an active role in the present.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · Aug 22
Here’s the new book! It can be purchased at Popular Bookstore by August 26, as well as at the book launch in Rosh Hotel the same day and at the launch in Museo El Deposito in San Juan on Aug. 29!
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 3d
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“We almost did not go to the Frankfurt Book Fair, but we decided we must because our voices must be heard even if many choose not to listen..”
"We almost did not go to the Frankfurt Book Fair, but we decided we must because our voices must be heard even if many choose not to listen. Still we were a bit afraid; if we introduced ourselves as U...
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 3d
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Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Opening
𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝟐.𝟎 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 📍 Tandang Sora Women’s Museum | October 15, 2025 📸 Photos by Bernard Testa A powerful launch honoring the unbroken line of Filipina heroism—from Gregoria de Jesus,...
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 3d
“Dito sa UP Manila ang
akademikong tahanan ni Ka Tato Constantino.”
Prof. Atoy M. Navarro, UP Manila, last October 5, 2025.

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Opening Remarks and Reflections by Atoy M. Navarro | Area Studies Week 2025, UP Manila
Pambungad na Pananalita Atoy M. Navarro | UP Manila | 3 Oktubre 2025 Sa ating mga panauhin mula sa Constantino Foundation at Knights of Rizal at sa kaguruan at mga estudyante ng Area Studies Program...
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 3d
Maraming Salamat, Manila Times!

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HEROES IMMORTALIZED People visit a comic art exhibit featuring Filipinas who transform into powerful modern-day superheroes. Dubbed 'Alas ng Bayan 2.0,' the stories reinterpret the legacy of Filipina....
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 4d
📍 Visit the exhibit at the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum, Quezon City
🗓️ October 16 to November 23, 2025 |
🕘 9:00 AM–4:00 PM | Tuesday to Sunday
🎟️ Free admission
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 4d
Her speech, delivered on International Rural Women’s Day, honored the legacy of Filipina resistance—from colonial struggles to today’s battles against repression and environmental destruction.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 4d
—Gregoria de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan—whose courage shaped our people’s history.
As a friend and fellow political prisoner of Lorena Barros, Manay Judy reminded us that the fight for justice, land, and freedom continues.
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“Hindi krimen ang maging makabayan.”
At the opening of Alas ng Bayan 2.0, activist and educator Judy Taguiwalo paid tribute to five Filipina heroes
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Mensahe sa Pasinaya sa Exhibit ng Alas ng Bayan 2. O Tandang Sora Women’s Museum Oktubre 15, 2025 Makasaysayan ang buwan ng Oktubre sa maraming dahilan. Para sa akin dalawa ang may katuturan sa...
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
Elmer Grampon (nurse in Germany, writer, and our German translator especially for the Sisa performance yesterday). #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
Dorian Merina (poet, and preserver-promoter of the Ivatan indigenous poetry laji), Chuckberry Pascual (fictionist-professor), Dani Florendo (children’s book illustrator), Aljo Joseph Lumen (caregiver-writer),
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
The night was organized by many, but we all took the lead of novelist Gen Asenjo, who will be speaking with Atef and Tariq later, and we were joined by Jay Ignacio (comics historian, writer, photographer),
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
In Frankfurt last night, a welcome dinner at a Persian place for Atef Abu Saif, former Palestinian Minister of Culture, and Tarik Hamdan, Palestinian poet and journalist. Both will speak later today in a Palestine-specific session at the Philippine Pavilion.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
Joining us was Angel Velasco Shaw, and we also met the ebullient Zoya El-Miari, whose parents are Palestinian and Ukrainian. #aPastRevisited #ConstantinoFoundation #FreePalestine
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
the climate crisis tangled with Philippine history, freedom for Palestine, and of course, the epic love story of Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino. Below are some of the slides we used and the book on the shelf.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
We spoke of origin stories of elite rule in the Philippines, why the first fossil fuel-induced conflict was coal, preceding the 1970s oil crisis, and the context of national survival framed by the 1898 Treaty of Paris and the Paris Agreement of 2015,
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
As Alas ng Bayan 2.0 opened in Quezon City, the foundation was also speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair in a panel titled The Constantino Legacy.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
#AlasNgBayan2 #ConstantinoFoundation #FilipinaHeroes
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
The work is dazzling, compelling, and provocative. Viewers will encounter powerful parallels between these heroes’ lives and today’s most urgent debates—violence against women, LGBTQ+ rights, extrajudicial killings, global warming, and national sovereignty.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
This new edition aims to spark interest in sectors not normally active in national and social issues—offering fresh notions of citizenship, nationhood, and activism in the face of multiple emergencies hammering the country today.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
It reintroduces the Philippine past and feminism to young Filipinos responding to the worsening state of national forgetting, maldevelopment, and the climate crisis.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
First launched in 2019, Alas ng Bayan is a history-through-art initiative of the Constantino Foundation, in cooperation with the Tandang Sora Women's Museum and 350 Pilipinas .
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
Alas ng Bayan 2.0 features five Filipina heroes—Gregoria “Lakambini” de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios “Kumander Liwayway” Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan—brought to life as comic book icons by visual artist Billy Pangilinan.
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐀𝐀!! 📣📣📣📣
Today’s the day! The exhibit opens to the public — Filipinas in history as Superheroes? Oh yes. See them reimagined in an exciting new exhibit in Quezon City! ⚡️
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Constantino Foundation @constantinofdn.bsky.social · 5d
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Pinangunahan ng Quezon City Tourism Department (QCTD) ang ribbon-cutting ceremony ngayong araw para sa nakatakdang pagbubukas ng Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Exhibit sa Tandang Sora Women’s Museum sa Quezon...
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ATM: Opisyal nang binuksan sa publiko ang “Alas ng Bayan 2.0” sa Tandang Sora Women’s Museum! Present sa launch ang mga opisyal ng QC at mga kaanak ng mga kilalang Pinay icons na sina Gregoria...
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