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You are invited to the inaugural lecture of the Leonard L. Co Lecture Series!

📢 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐋. 𝐂𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬

You are invited to the inaugural lecture of the Leonard L. Co Lecture Series!

🪴Branches of History: Trees, Empire, and Nation

🎙 Speaker: Dr. Ruel V. Pagunsan

Chair, Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman

🗓 November 21 (Friday)

🕝 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

📍 College of Science Auditorium, UP Diliman

Attendance is open to the public.

#LeonardLCoLectureSeries

RENATO2025-11-15T00:38:39+08:00November 10, 2025|

Leonard Co: Bayani Ko

Commemorating 15 years of Elusive Justice, Celebrating the Life of the People’s Botanist

Organized by the Justice for Leonard Co Movement, Institute of Biology-UP Diliman, Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society, Inc., Green Convergence, and the Constantino Foundation

The 15th of November marks the 15th anniversary of the murder of Leonard Co, known as the People’s Botanist. The occasion will be marked with several activities and announcements at the Institute of Biology in UP Diliman, concluding with a 1:00-3:00 PM press event that will provide a legal update on the case. Just as compelling will be the release during the event of a huge number of new and rescued images documented from Leonard’s field work, downloaded to a hard drive just before his horrific death. The images, rescued from a data storage unit thought to have been lost to rust [READ]

RENATO2025-11-15T00:20:24+08:00November 7, 2025|

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Opening

𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝟐.𝟎 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

📍 Tandang Sora Women’s Museum | October 15, 2025

📸 Photos by Bernard Testa

A powerful launch honoring the unbroken line of Filipina heroism—from Gregoria de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, to Gloria Capitan. Curated by Rio Constantino and illustrated by Billy Pangilinan, the exhibit opened with reflections from the artist, curator, and families of the heroines.

Presented by the Constantino Foundation, in partnership with 350 Pilipinas and the Quezon City Tourism Department.

Open to the public Oct 16–Nov 23, 2025 | Tues–Sun | 9AM–4PM [READ]

RENATO2025-10-18T14:58:20+08:00October 18, 2025|

Alas ng Bayan Opens as The Constantino Legacy Resonates in Europe

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. 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, 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.

Joining us was Angel Velasco Shaw, and we also met the ebullient Zoya El-Miari, whose parents are Palestinian and Ukrainian. [READ]

RENATO2025-10-16T18:24:22+08:00October 16, 2025|

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Exhibit Opens at Tandang Sora Women’s Museum

Pinangunahan ng Quezon City Tourism Department (QCTD) ang ribbon-cutting ceremony ngayong araw para sa nakatakdang pagbubukas ng Alas ng Bayan 2.0 Exhibit sa Tandang Sora Women’s Museum sa Quezon City.

Tampok sa exhibit ang mga comic-inspired na obra ni QC-based illustrator Billy Pangilinan, na muling nagbigay-buhay sa limang kababaihang lumaban para sa kalayaan, katarungan, at pagkakapantay-pantay na sina Gregoria de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, at Gloria Capitan.

Layon nitong muling ipakilala ang tapang at diwa ng kababaihang Pilipino mula 19th century hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Ang exhibit ay handog ng [READ]

RENATO2025-10-16T16:29:14+08:00October 16, 2025|

NANDITO NA SILAAAA!

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 [READ]

RENATO2025-10-16T15:34:37+08:00October 16, 2025|

1 ARAW NA LANG!

📢 1 ARAW NA LANG!

The wait is almost over — history comes alive

tomorrow! Witness the power, resistance, and legacy of

Filipina heroes in a bold and reimagined way.

🖼️ ALAS NG BAYAN 2.0

📍 Tandang Sora Women’s Museum, Quezon City

📅 Opening: Oct 16 | 3PM–5PM

🕘 Open Tue–Sun | 9AM–4PM

🎟️ Free Admission

Let these stories move you.

Let their courage inspire you.

Kita-kits bukas!

#AlasNgBayan2 #1ArawNaLang #FilipinaHeroes

#ConstantinoFoundation

RENATO2025-10-14T13:14:08+08:00October 15, 2025|

2 ARAW NA LANG!

Get ready to experience history like never before!

ALAS NG BAYAN 2.0

An exhibit honoring the unbroken line of Filipina heroism — from the 19th century to today. Reimagined in powerful, comic-style visuals that bring to life the stories of brave and defiant women.

[READ]

RENATO2025-10-14T13:10:36+08:00October 14, 2025|

3 ARAW NA LANG!

Filipinas as superheroes? Absolutely. ⚡️

Catch Alas ng Bayan 2.0—a bold reimagining of Filipina heroism from the 19th century to today. Five women. Five battles. One unbroken line of resistance.

History meets comic book power in this dazzling exhibit by Billy Pangilinan, brought to life by the Constantino Foundation, Tandang Sora Women’s Museum, QC Tourism & Promotions and 350 Pilipinas.

📍 Tandang Sora Women’s Museum, Quezon City

[READ]

RENATO2025-10-13T19:36:50+08:00October 13, 2025|

Filipinas in history as Superheroes? Oh yes. See them reimagined in an exciting new exhibit in Quezon City! #FightLikeGirls!

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a riveting new contribution to an exhibition series celebrating the unbroken line of Filipina heroism in our people’s past, from the 19th century to the present.

First launched in 2019, the Alas ng Bayan exhibit is a history-through-art initiative of the Constantino Foundation in cooperation with the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum and 350 Pilipinas. The exhibit seeks to reintroduce the Philippine past and femtinism as young Filipinos respond to the worsening state of national forgetting, maldevelopment, and the climate crisis. The exhibit hopes to generate interest in sectors not normally active in national and social issues by offering notions of citizenship, nationhood, and activism in the face of multiple emergencies hammering the country today.

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a reinterpretation by the artist Billy [READ]

RENATO2025-10-03T11:23:41+08:00October 3, 2025|