by Renato Redentor Constantino

(The essay was published first in ABS-CBN.)

“If freedom is to be preserved, fascism must be destroyed at all costs.”[1]

These are the timeless words of the hero Pedro Abad Santos, born 150 years ago on 31 January 1876. He was a nationalist, a revolutionary, and a fighter who lived by the principles of the Katipunan’s Kartilya. To forget Abad Santos is to forget who we are and who we can still be as a people. Perhaps this is why so many feel so restive yet so lost today, adrift in a brutal ocean of political noise with no safe shore in sight. Divorced from our own history, we bob and roll with the waves without a rudder.

Apart from the work of theater and movie production crews in 2025, it is difficult to tell which national group or coalition organized public events last year [READ]

With 350 PH and Justice for Leonard Co as neighbors, we open!

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]

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