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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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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!
📍 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
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.
—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.
Elmer Grampon (nurse in Germany, writer, and our German translator especially for the Sisa performance yesterday). #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity
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),
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),
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.
Joining us was Angel Velasco Shaw, and we also met the ebullient Zoya El-Miari, whose parents are Palestinian and Ukrainian. #aPastRevisited #ConstantinoFoundation #FreePalestine
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
It reintroduces the Philippine past and feminism to young Filipinos responding to the worsening state of national forgetting, maldevelopment, and the climate crisis.
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 .
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.
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! ⚡️