Spotlight
KALAYAAN AND MACARIO SAKAY
The month of July is filled with many events that deserve commemoration. The founding of the Katipunan on its seventh day in 1892 is one,[READ]
FRIENDSHIP ACROSS GENERATIONS
The exhibit Pasts Revisited contains details about the intellectual collaboration and friendship enjoyed by Renato Constantino and Letizia Constantino with scholars over the years.[READ]
“Pasts Revisited” exhibit extended until July 31 by Flow Galindez
Visitors have more time to experience a unique intersection of history, art, and intellectual resistance, as the Constantino Foundation and Yuchengco Museum have officially[READ]
Pasts Revisited
Letizia Roxas Constantino
It has been a decade since the passing of historian and writer Letizia Roxas Constantino. We feel her absence deeply.
For Letizia, “Education is not a politically neutral enterprise.” In support of teachers across the nation, Letizia considered “Teacher militancy in defense of teachers’ rights and prerogatives” vital to the realization of a free, just, and prosperous society. She was just as clear about the goal and context of teaching, regardless of the government in place:A “climate of repression and militarization and violation of human rights are ultimately traceable to economic policies instituted to benefit foreign interests and our own ruling elite. . . More than ever, we need teachers who, despite political constraints, will try their best to infuse in a new generation that firm nationalist commitment that will reverse the process of denationalization and deFilipinization of our economy, culture, and society.” *
Learn more about Letizia and her epic romance with Renato Constantino and the concept of a usable history in #PastsRevisited, an ongoing exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza, Ayala Ave. cor. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City.
* Speech delivered at the Education Forum Symposium, 27 September 1985, St. Joseph’s College.
Events
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Stories
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[READ]
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. Read Story Here
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.[READ]
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[READ]
