RENATO, Author at Constantino Foundation

Constantino Foundation Donates Philippine Native Trees 404 to the University of Antique

The Constantino Foundation thanks Prof. John Iremil Teodoro, Director of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC), for facilitating the Foundation’s donation of Philippine Native Trees 404: Rooted and Rising to the University of Antique.

An award-winning writer, poet, and cultural worker, Prof. Teodoro has long been a valued partner of the Foundation in advancing environmental writing and literary advocacy through various academic and cultural initiatives.

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RENATO2026-06-02T19:29:42+08:00June 2, 2026|

Felipe Salvador

Nagpupugay sa ika-156 kapanganakan ni Felipe Salvador, dakilang rebolusyonaryo na nakilala bilang Apung Ipe. Naging bahagi ng pakikibaka ng Katipunan, kasama ni Sakay sa digmaan laban sa pananalakay ng imperyalistang Estados Unidos, inspirasyon ng maraming dukha, ng mga colorum, ng maraming kilusan. Kawawang bayan na malilimutin, pati mga progresibong pwersa na nakakaalala ng bayani ng ibang sambayanan ngunit kinakalimutan ang mga muhon ng sariling kasaysayan. Itaas ang bandera ni #ApungIpe!

RENATO2026-05-26T12:16:16+08:00May 26, 2026|

What would Bob Dylan write?

“Surely not hymns praising nations that treat the Philippines as either a military outpost, geopolitical chessboard, or obedient pawn.” Do read this lovely essay by Wilson Flores.

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RENATO2026-05-25T19:16:39+08:00May 25, 2026|

The Videos Are Now Available — Renato Constantino Revisited

Watch the full recording of the April 18 convocation, Renato Constantino Revisited — a forum on the role of dissent in development, the usable past, and his lifelong romance with Letizia Roxas Constantino in pursuit of national liberation. Or jump directly to individual speaker sections. Transcripts and papers from select speakers are also available. WATCH HERE

RENATO2026-06-17T02:20:32+08:00May 18, 2026|Tags: RenatoConstantinoRevisited|

In Memory of Amadis Guerrero: Chronicler of a Nation’s Struggles and Joys

We mourn with the writing community the passing of Amadis Guerrero, who chronicled the travails and joys of this strange nation, such as this account we share on the sorrows and laughter of the Left, EDSA, and what the future – then – held for people active in the struggle for change. Thank you, Amadis, for your abiding curiosity, your faith in our people, your humor, your insights, the lightness of your touch.

RENATO2026-05-15T11:02:07+08:00May 14, 2026|

ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT before the IYAS Homecoming and Literary Festival!

We celebrate the 25th year of the #IYAS National Writers Workshop, which is now well underway. The silver anniversary homecoming is just days away! This year’s selected writers are once more having a grand time, because in #IYAS, they are challenged and encouraged, and their voices get even more lift using wings they were born with. Through the tireless work [READ]

RENATO2026-05-15T11:00:33+08:00May 12, 2026|

Towards a Language of Estuaries: Cosmic Roots and Resilient Resistance

This event is tomorrow, a provocation we hope that is fit for the 25th year of such a generous, loving, fierce, and cerebral national writers workshop, one that covers writing in several languages, in poetry, essay, short story, and so on and on and on, organized by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in partnership with the DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC). Mabuhay #IYAS!

RENATO2026-05-15T10:59:36+08:00May 12, 2026|

Gregoria de Jesus

Ang kaarawan ni Gregoria de Jesus ay laging pagkakataong magnilay-nilay. Ang paraan kung paano naaalala si Lakambini ay salamin din kung paano natin tinuturing ang kababaihan. Dapat dinadakila si Oriang bilang rebolusyonaryong may sariling tindig, na may dangal at gumagamit ng dunong at tapang sa harap ng pananakot, kasakiman, at kalaswaan ng dayuhang kaaway at mga duwag na kababayan. Katuwang, kaibigan, at kadamay man ng mga mahal niya sa buhay tulad ni Andres Bonifacio at Julio Nakpil, babae siyang handang mamuhay ng nagsasarili, na may pananagutan sa kanyang sarili at sa kanyang bayan.

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RENATO2026-05-09T19:56:24+08:00May 9, 2026|

Karina Constantino-David

Today, May 7, marks the passing of Karina Constantino-David in 2019. How is she remembered by so many? In the very words of a friend dear to her, Jurgette Honculada: “Karina Constantino David was blazing comet and blue flame, breaking ground in the 80s with Inang Laya songs, along with Becky Demetillo Abraham, that helped galvanize a generation of feminists and activists, lending form, structure and gravitas to NGO work through HASIK and its pioneering social action programs, infusing gender pedagogy with wit as in Peministang Pusoy (based on poker) and scalpel-sharp analysis as in the inverted cross encapsulating the varieties of female oppression or the typology of mushrooming NGOs which sifted chaff from grain, crossing over to public service in the late 90s, her NGO roots grounding her like a sixth sense, and, in the past few years, jolted out of retirement [READ]

RENATO2026-05-07T10:14:37+08:00May 7, 2026|

Friends across oceans? Yes!

Friends across oceans? Yes! What a lovely time spent with Lito and AA Valerio, and their inquisitive son, Teo. They dropped by the Constantino Foundation compound in late April. They were spending a few weeks in the Philippines on holiday, much of it spent visiting family in Davao. But they were also looking for a copy of the newly released 50th anniversary edition of The Philippines: A Past Revisited (APR). We both laughed at the effort by a few sellers to pass off ridiculously priced versions – used frayed copies of APR selling at P1,500-1,800, which people were actually buying, when they could have purchased the latest new hardbound edition at P699, and the newly released softbound version, the 24th printing with a new introduction, at P599.

We exchanged a lot of stories. Romance, university days, friendships, social struggles and political debacles. It was a [READ]

RENATO2026-05-04T22:51:06+08:00May 5, 2026|

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