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Bake history into our lives.

Buhay si Pingkian kung nais natin! A pleasure to break bread with Wilson Flores, NHCP’ Eufemio Agbayani III, Emilio Jacinto’s descendants, LIRA’s Abner Dormiendo, and the indefatigable Vim Nadera.

2025-12-13T11:39:00+08:00December 12, 2025|

Reimagining the nation one mushroom at a time

𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

Congratulations, 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨 for your film 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧, which won 2nd Best Film in Indie-Siyensya, the first science filmmaking competition organized by DOST’s Science Education Institute “to bring science closer to the youth and the general public through film.”

To the Constantino Foundation, your film Damayan reflects very much the quality and grace of your body of work – a veritable cosmos that encourages Filipinos to see, smell, touch, hear, and taste the fragile abundance we must learn to appreciate better and protect.

From seeds to tiny creatures, from blooms to edible plants and towering majestic trees, your work continues to utilize language that seeds and sustains informed conversation admist the pestilence of disinformation and the slop of artificial intelligence.

Damayan reminds us to treat as treasure what is native to our land. It shows how our nation can thrive. It is a perfect representation [READ]

2025-12-11T14:18:04+08:00December 11, 2025|

Merch alert!

A historian tote bag? Why yes. See more in our tent this Dec. 13 in support of QC’s Maginhawa Arts and Food Festival!

2025-12-10T15:20:03+08:00December 10, 2025|

Bapor! Paris!

Strands of Philippine history and climate change are more tangled than you think.

Many Filipinos still use the word “bapor” when they see huge sea-faring vessels, but most are not aware of the word’s origins. Bapor is from “vapor” which is another way to describe “steam” that powers up engines fueled by the dirtiest of fossil fuels: coal.

The new introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Philippines: A Past Revisited shows how closely intertwined our past is with the climate crisis. It was coal, for instance, that enabled British textile factories to produce the flood of super cheap cotton fabrics in the 19th century that decimated Filipino sinamay, jusi, and piña industries.

Coal is also what powered warships of the United States when it annexed and invaded the Philippines when Filipino revolutionaries had just defeated Spanish colonial rule.

U.S. steamers would bombard defenders of the Philippine republic then off-load American imperial troops across the archipelago [READ]

2025-12-10T15:16:02+08:00December 10, 2025|

Constantino Foundation Joins Maginhawa Festival: Merch, Memory, and Movement

We are part of the Maginhawa Arts and Food Festival this Dec. 13! Look for our tent – we will sell new Renato and Letty Constantino t-shirts, posters, tote bags, pamphlets, books, Alas ng Bayan 2.0 merch, and LunaRiver zines! The festival is yet another example of the kind of governance Quezon City has enjoyed under Mayor Joy, where arts, local food, local tourism, and mobility are given importance.

2025-12-07T16:19:12+08:00December 7, 2025|

Constantino Foundation and DLSU Celebrate 50 Years of The Philippines: A Past Revisited

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center and the Department of History of DLSU, in cooperation with the Constantino Foundation, held the launching of Renato and Letizia Constantino’s “The Philippines: A Past Revisited,” the 50th Special Edition, at the Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room, Henry Sy Sr. Hall, De La Salle University. Mr. Renato Redentor “Red” Constantino gave an informative and provocative lecture on history, literature, and the environment followed by a brief open forum, attended by students and professors.
Red Constantino is the managing director of the Constantino Foundation and the editor of the 50th Special Edition of their grandparents’ “The Philippines: A Past Revisited,” a classic reading on Philippine history.

Read Original Story [READ]

2025-11-28T12:29:05+08:00November 28, 2025|

Alas Ng Bayan 2, opisyal nang inilunsad sa PUP Mabini Campus

Matagumpay na binuksan sa PUP Mabini Campus ang Alas ng Bayan 2.0 exhibit na naglalayong itampok at pagnilayan ang unbroken line of Filipina heroism mula ika-19 na siglo hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Pinatunayan ng napakaraming dumalo ang patuloy na interes at kahalagahan ng kritikal na pag-aaral sa kasaysayan at alaala. Mananatiling bukas ang exhibit hanggang Enero 17.
2025-11-28T12:29:45+08:00November 27, 2025|

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Opens Tomorrow at PUP Sta. Mesa Campus

The Constantino Foundation, in partnership with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Official), PUP Department of History PUP Samahan ng mga Mag-aaral ng Kasaysayan , and the 350 Pilipinas proudly presents Alas ng Bayan 2.0: Revealing the Superpowered—an exhibit honoring the unbroken line of Filipina heroism from the 19th century to the present.

Opening tomorrow, November 26, 2025, at the 2nd Floor South Wing Bridge, Main Academic Building, PUP Mabini Campus, the exhibit runs until January 17, 2026, and is open to the public. Through dynamic visual storytelling, Alas ng Bayan 2.0 reintroduces five Filipina figures—Gregoria de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso, Maria Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan—whose lives illuminate urgent national concerns including climate justice, historical memory, and social resistance.

This second iteration of Alas ng Bayan invites students, educators, and the broader public to reflect on the power of memory and the responsibilities of citizenship in times of crisis.

See you!

#AlasNgBayan2 [READ]

2025-11-28T12:15:01+08:00November 25, 2025|
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