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Mula sa premyadong manunulat na si John Iremil Teodoro, tubong Antique, tumanggap ng S.E.A. WRITE Award noong 2019 mula sa Kaharian ng Thailand, Full Professor ng malikhaing pagsulat, literatura, at pagpapahalaga sa sining sa De La Salle University-Manila. Siya ay Direktor ng Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center at kasalukuyang direktor nh IYAS National Writers Workshop. Nagsilbi siya bilang Sekretaryo Heneral ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) noong 2016-2023.

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IYAS 2025

By John Iremil Teodoro

TALAGANG umulan habang nagko-closing program kami sa Balay Kalinungan para sa Ika-24 na IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop noong gabi ng Abril 25, 2025. Ito’y sa kabila ng matinding init sa loob ng isang linggo habang ginanap ang palihan mula Abril [READ]

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The foundation’s annual provocation for the Fellows of the 24th #IYAS National Writers’ Workshop and students and faculty of the Colegio de San Agustin

The work of IYAS is so vital to nation-building. They hone the craft of writing in Filipino languages, because writers are the keepers of our people’s memory. It was an honor to provide this year’s provocation lecture, this time held at the beautiful Colegio San Agustin in Bacolod. The next day we all went to Sagay.

The Constantino Foundation is a proud supporter of this essential national initiative. As the workshop organizers wrote:

“PULÚS: usefulness, service, help. To some: an obligation, to others, pointless.

“The 24th IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop panelists and fellows spent time at Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod Auditorium yesterday, April 23rd, for the provocation lecture The Importance of Getting Lost: Cognate Endings in a Climate of Uncertainty by Mr. [READ]

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Letizia Roxas Constantino: A ‘generational Filipina’

By JT Nisay | Published by BusinessMirror | April 15, 2025 IT was an almost impossible task. How does one curate a retrospective exhibition of someone like Letizia Roxas Constantino, a

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Letizia Roxas Constantino’s family marks her 105th birth anniversary with ‘Letizia: A Life in Letters’ exhibit

By Cecille Baltazar | The Philippine Star | April 13, 2025

“In my diary book of quotes, I wrote on the Nov. 17 page: ‘The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.’” Letizia Roxas Constantino—passionate nationalist, inspiring teacher, relentless chronicler, and loving wife, mother, and grandmother—wrote those words on a sheet of Stradmore stationery not knowing that she was attesting to her own life.

That letter is just one of many on display for Letizia: A Life in Letters, an immersive exhibit of Letizia’s remarkable life, as told through her letters, photos, diary entries, recipes, mementoes, to-do lists, and audio recordings of her piano playing. Taking it all in, one thought persists: Surely these were accomplished by multiple people. No one person can do all that in just one lifetime.

Except Letizia did do all that, and more.

To commemorate the 105th anniversary of her [READ]

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The ‘Letizia: A Life in Letters’ exhibit introduces historian Letizia Roxas-Constantino through her personal letters and other curio

By JOSIAH ANTONIO | Published by GMA News Online | April 10, 2025

An exhibit of letters penned by writer and historian Letizia Roxas-Constantino, wife of historian Renato Constantino, opened on Wednesday at the Linangan Gallery on Panay Avenue in Quezon City.

“Letizia: A Life in Letters” has on display Intimate letters spanning eight decades, anecdotes of her life, as well as notes of wisdom from the artist that doesn’t just introduce, but hopes to reflect her grace, intellect, heart and substance as a writer, Constantino Foundation managing director Red Constantino, says.

“It is an exhibit that honors the nationalist, the historian, the writer, the generational Filipina that she was. No burloloy, only consition, only substance and something that Letizia embodies, elegance,” he said.

“The exhibit represents a sliver of a fingernail of letters, manuscripts, and other artifacts that she worked on which represents an incredibly tiny fracture of what remains covered in [READ]

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Heritage bicycle ride visits site of first PH power plant, goes inside Old Bilibid

Fair climate policy advocates joined forces again with history buffs as they pedaled in celebration of largely unheralded landmarks in Manila. Dubbed #SintangLakbay in commemoration of the 120th founding anniversary of the country’s premier Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), [...]

RENATO2026-03-02T16:04:32+08:00March 5, 2025|Tags: #SintangLakbay|

PUP unveils mural hailing Filipino ‘science revolutionaries’

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) unveiled on Monday a gigantic campus mural, showing Filipino scientists Leonard Co, Maria Y. Orosa, and Eduardo Quisumbing for their contributions in the country's scientific reputation. The mural, titled "Mga Rebolusyonaryo," gave the three figures with their own descriptive, naming Co as "Bayani Ko," Orosa as "Tagapagligtas," and Quisumbing as "Muhon ng Bayan." [...]

RENATO2025-04-01T13:38:38+08:00March 5, 2025|Tags: #Rebolusyonaryo, MainStories|

A post of remembrance from Alpha Phi Beta

The Constantino Foundation appreciates the post of the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity of UP, which Renato Constantino was very much part of along with stalwarts such as Abraham Sarmiento and Hermon Lagman. In their post, the fraternity quotes our founder as a reminder to today's youth: "????????????????????, ???????? ???????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????... [...]

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