RENATO, Author at Constantino Foundation

Lorena Barros

We remember today Lorena Barros, who was killed in Mauban, Quezon on March 24, 1976 while fighting to bring down the Marcos dictatorship. According to the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, “Medical treatment was promised by her captors if she would cooperate with them, but she said she would rather die for her beliefs. She was shot in the nape. She was 28 years old.” Barros was a granddaughter of a 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘰. Her mother was part of the HUKBALAHAP guerilla resistance.

The artist Basilio “Billy” Pangilinan reimagined Barros in a particular way. Thanks to the ciphers noted down by the biologist Rio Constantino, who curated the Alas ng Bayan 2.0 exhibit, we know the following:

𝐌𝐊𝐁𝐊: Barros was a member of the UP Writers Club, and the founding chair of [READ]

RENATO2026-03-20T13:23:17+08:00March 24, 2026|

Great news! The Alas ng Bayan exhibit is extended by a day!

Interested folks are invited to attend the Crisis Preparedness 2026: A Global Futures Colloquium and the exhibit’s closing ceremony on March 24.

Museum of a History of Ideas, UP Manila

2:00–5:00 PM

Scan the QR code on the poster to register and [READ]

RENATO2026-03-20T13:26:29+08:00March 20, 2026|

Karina Constantino – David

Magdiwang! Sa ika-80 anibersaryo ng kapanganakan ni Karina Constantino-David, handog namin ang 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙣, ang unang awit sa album na 𝘼𝙇𝘼𝘽: １８９６-１９９６ ng kanyang grupo, ang 𝙄𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙖𝙮𝙖, sa pakikipagtulungan sa grupong pinamunuan niya mula 1988 hanggang 1998, ang Harnessing Self Reliant Initiatives & Knowledge, o HASIK, Inc. Dugtong ang kaarawan ni Karina Constantino-David sa taong ito, ang ika-130 taong anibersaryo ng pagsiklab ng Himagsikang pinamunuan ng Katipunan na nagpatalsik sa kolonyalismo ng Espanya at naglayong makamtan ng sambayanan ang kaginhawaang pinaglaban ng Rebolusyon ng Filipinas. Ang boses sa kanta ay mula kay Becky Demetillo Abraham, matalik na kaibigan at katuwang ni Karina sa 𝙄𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙖𝙮𝙖 at HASIK.

Ayon sa 𝘼𝙇𝘼𝘽: “Sinasabing ang orihinal na musika nito ay isang awit ng mga Guwardiya Sibil. Noong 1896, nilapatan ng mga Katipunero ang musika ng sarili nilang titik at ginamit [READ]

RENATO2026-03-19T14:25:43+08:00March 19, 2026|

‘Alas ng Bayan 2.0’ Exhibit Highlights Filipina Heroes Through Art and History

March12, 2026 | Text by: Charmaine A. Lingdas
Photos by: Sarah Hazel Moces S. Pulumbarit

The University of the Philippines Manila Museum of a History of Ideas (MHI) launched the “Alas ng Bayan 2.0” exhibit on March 10, 2026, as part of the university’s celebration of National Women’s Month, highlighting the stories of five Filipina heroes through comic-inspired artworks that reimagine them as modern-day superheroes.

Organized in partnership with the UP Center for Gender and Women’s Studies, the Constantino Foundation, and the 350 Pilipinas, the exhibit features Gregoria “Oriang” de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso “Kumander Liwayway,” Ma. Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan.

MHI Director Dr. Honey Libertine Achanzar-Labor said the exhibit presents these exemplary Filipinas through the digital artworks of Basilio Pangilinan, a Quezon City-based Illustrator and an alumnus of UP Diliman with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. In “Alas [READ]

RENATO2026-03-18T12:15:36+08:00March 15, 2026|

Alas Ng Bayan 2.0 opens at UP Manila.

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 continues its run at the UP Manila Museum of a History of Ideas in celebration of National Women’s Month. Through the visual language of komiks, the exhibit reimagines five Filipina heroines—Gregoria “Oriang” de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso “Kumander Liwayway,” Ma. Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan—highlighting the enduring relevance of their courage, resistance, and commitment to the nation.

This engagement at UP Manila is made possible in partnership with the UP Center for Gender and Women’s Studies and UP-MoAHi.

UP Manila – Museum of a History of Ideas

March 10–21

Free admission for women and students

#AlasNgBayan2

(Photos from University of the Philippines Manila Facebook Page) Read Original Story Here

RENATO2026-03-15T12:46:58+08:00March 13, 2026|

#ALASNGBAYAN2 is now open at the UP Manila Museum of A History of Ideas!

We thank UP MOAHI for hosting this exhibit, which traces the unbroken line of Filipina heroism from the nineteenth century to the present through the visual language of komiks. By situating these narratives within an academic space, the exhibit invites sustained engagement with questions of gender, resistance, and historical memory.

UP Manila – Museum of a History of Ideas

March 10–21

[READ]

RENATO2026-03-15T12:49:02+08:00March 13, 2026|

Renato Constantino

March 10 is the 106th birthday of the historian Renato Constantino. We share a warning he issued two years before the EDSA uprising against the dangers of merely replacing faces and names without changing the very economic policies that has kept our nation poor and underdeveloped. #RenatoConstantino #UsableHistory [READ]

RENATO2026-03-09T08:24:53+08:00March 9, 2026|

Apolonia Catra

Today is the 121st death anniversary of the Filipina hero, Apolonia Catra. She was killed in combat by U.S. occupation forces on March 5 in 1905. Her date of birth is unknown and there is no known portrait or photograph of the revolutionary. With pride we share with you three images created by Mari Laila Tulio and Chris Jerald Ubaldo, students of the esteemed teacher, Prof. Mitzi Mari Reyes, in their UP Diliman Fine Arts class in 2020, just before the pandemic lockdowns were imposed. The students were asked to imagine how Apolonia might have looked like. (Discover more in the coming Alas ng Bayan 2.0 exhibit at the UP Manila Museum of a History of Ideas from March 10-21.)

Catra is the only named woman officer in the armed forces of General Macario Sakay, President of [READ]

RENATO2026-03-05T11:55:24+08:00March 5, 2026|

#𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐍𝐆𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐍𝟐.𝟎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐘!

Following its exhibition at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Official) , Alas ng Bayan 2.0 will open at the [READ]

RENATO2026-03-03T21:28:44+08:00March 4, 2026|

Nothing New in the World

Renato Redentor Constantino, The Poverty of Memory: Essays on History and Empire (FNS-2006), p. 52-55

Nothing New in the World
The winding path the United States took to September 11th.

“Memory says, ‘I did that,’” Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. “Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.”

Three years ago in America, on September 11, airplanes fell from the sky and thousands died. Countless numbers mourned the mass murder. Countless mourn still. On the same day 31 years ago, the sky fell in Chile when the democratically-elected Allende government was overthrown in a bloody coup staged by the American government. Who mourns the Chilean sky?

Remembering is a political act, wrote Boston Globe columnist James Carroll. “Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”

In 1953, the United States engineered a coup in Iran which ousted the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh — an Iranian colossus who happened to live in a frail [READ]

RENATO2026-03-03T17:18:30+08:00March 3, 2026|

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Nothing New in the WorldThe winding path the United States took to September 11th.

Nothing New in the World
The winding path the United States took to September 11th.