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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

Letizia: A Life in Letters – A Sneak Peek

A sneak peek into the exhibit Letizia: A Life in Letters which Karmina herself curated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vaDW917bU

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[READ]

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

All Photos by Josiah Antonio By JOSIAH ANTONIO | Published by GMA News Online | April 10, 2025 An exhibit of letters[READ]

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Poets and scholars visit exhibit!

What a magical day it was to receive four fine women, all of them luminaries in their respective fields, three of them Constantino Foundation partners, thanks to the IYAS and one who was a close personal friend of Letizia Roxas Constantino, and, in her words, a proud student of Renato Constantino.

This was the second visit of the esteemed feminist scholar and writer, Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, who had joined the opening of the exhibit last[READ]

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#RenatoConstantino wrote this in 1968. Is it still relevant? Today, March 10, is his 106th birth anniversary. #aPastRevisited #RememberBetter

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

RENATO2025-06-09T17:57:19+08:00April 11, 2025|

All Photos by Josiah Antonio 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[READ]

Tagteam for Nationalism: Popular Book Store and the Constantino Foundation

RENATO2025-04-10T13:38:53+08:00March 13, 2025|

If you are looking for books by Renato Constantino or Letizia Roxas Constantino, Popular Book Store is your main shop. Popular remains the main distributor of the Constantino Foundation, thanks to decades of friendship between the book store’s founder, Joaquin Po, and the historian Renato Constantino [...]

Renato Constantino Jr: The man who ‘apcet’ the world about East Timor

RENATO2025-06-09T17:58:41+08:00March 7, 2025|

MUCH has been written about the courage, rock-steady principles and tireless activism of Renato Constantino Jr., “RC” to most, since he died on April 5 at the age of 79.He was, after all, present — nay, taking a key role though much of the time behind the scenes unless truly needed — in most of the game-changing campaigns of the last five decades.Think September 1991, when the Philippine Senate voted to end the US bases treaty. [...]

PUP marks 120th founding year with climate, mobility, history ride

RENATO2025-03-29T20:20:52+08:00March 7, 2025|

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) launched Sintang Lakbay today, a pioneering initiative integrating inclusive mobility, culture, and history. The move highlights the school’s resolve to demonstrate the relevance of its academic philosophy in the face of current climate-constrained realities. [...]

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“Good read. At aliw. Ito ang kahapon na masarap balikan!”

Cherylle Lara Raguini
Subic civic leader, commenting on the foundation essay in ABS-CBN,
“Street names and the persistence of memory,” June 2024
“Frequented the area in the early ’80s because of Popular Bookstore (small door, beside the gate of Mapua High School), the only one that carried engineering books required for our course. It was still Martial Law… One buys … dangerous reading materials afraid of the Secret Marshals who were then infamous for salvaging (tokhang in the time of tatay digong) petty criminals and activists. Across Mapua High then was a parking lot of mini buses – now the Manila Grand Opera.”

Melvin Purzuelo
Iloilo environmentalist, commenting on the foundation’s history article in BusinessMirror,
“Cycling through the fabled history of an opera house, now a hotel,” June 2024.
“We have been so wonderfully blessed in the past week by the presence of tremendously inspiring people, one of them, the one who likes to “shake trees”, is Sir Renato Redentor Constantino who moved the entire plenary to feel, think, and act… people couldn’t help but share and talk about the presentation. I told Sir Red that by the second day of the event, people realized there were ‘deeper commitments than professionalism.’”

Floraime Pantaleta
Executive Director, Ateneo Zamboanga-Mindanao Institute
“Yes, third time [sila/Inang Laya] pumunta at kumanta sa rally sa Dasmarinas town plaza, sa parish church sa our Lady of Perpetual Help sa Dasmariñas Bagong Bayan and sa martsa rali ng mga maralitang lunsod from Dasmariñas to Bacoor na hinarang sumama at di sya [Karina Constantino-David] umalis hanggang kinabukasan.”

Ian Yaun
March 19, 2024
“Mabuhay ka RC. Patuloy namin ikaw inaalala at ipinagdadasal sa lakbay mo ngayon. We will continue our conversations with family, even while you have left us. You will forever live in our hearts and we celebrate your life fully!”

Loretta Ann Rosales
Former member, House of Representatives
and former chair of the Commission on Human Rights
“Thank you very much, Constantino Foundation! It was a lovely afternoon spent learning about history, poetry, art, climate change, street names, the bicycles in revolution, kickass heroines, and much more! Renato Redentor Constantino’s talk and Renato Senior’s book A Past Revisited really got under my skin. Maraming salamat!”

Gege Cruz Sugue
Flips Flipping Books book club, 12 August 2024
“Taos pusong pagpapasalamat ng angkang Orosa for your inclusion of our Beloved Maria Y. Orosa in this PUP mural. Renato Redentor Constantino, we are ever grateful for this honor and recognition. Our forebears knew each other. Mine spoke highly of the Constantinos!”

Evelyn Orosa del Rosario Garcia
Great grand niece of Maria Y. Orosa and author of National Book Award winner
Appetite for Freedom: The Recipes of Maria Y. Orosa, with Essays on Her Life and Work.

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“Good read. At aliw. Ito ang kahapon na masarap balikan!”

“Mabuhay ka RC. Patuloy namin ikaw inaalala at ipinagdadasal sa lakbay mo ngayon. We will continue our conversations with family, even while you have left us. You will forever live in our hearts and we celebrate your life fully!”

“Taos pusong pagpapasalamat ng angkang Orosa for your inclusion of our Beloved Maria Y. Orosa in this PUP mural. Renato Redentor Constantino, we are ever grateful for this honor and recognition. Our forebears knew each other. Mine spoke highly of the Constantinos!”​

“Taos pusong pagpapasalamat ng angkang Orosa for your inclusion of our Beloved Maria Y. Orosa in this PUP mural. Renato Redentor Constantino, we are ever grateful for this honor and recognition. Our forebears knew each other. Mine spoke highly of the Constantinos!”