Apple with Apolonia: A Last Look at Pasts Revisited
APPLE WITH APOLONIA: Apple and Jedd visit #PastsRevisited just before everything is dismantled! Umabot! It’s been great to introduce #RenatoConstantino and [READ]
Love Birds at Pasts Revisited
Love birds with love birds who now hold books of poems by that much loved poet, Allan Popa. Bea and James managed to catch the exhibit minutes before we began the egress process. #RenacimientoManilaLove #PastsRevisited [READ]
Don’t Miss Pasts Revisited: Final Day This Saturday at Yuchengco Museum
Tomorrow is the last day to catch Pasts Revisited: An Exhibit on A Usable History and the Romance of Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino — closing this Saturday, August 8, at the Yuchengco Museum.
Visit this creative showcase by the Constantino Foundation.
Y Space, inside the Yuchengco Museum
Open daily except Sundays, 10 AM – 6 PM
A last extension, and then we really have to end the exhibit!
Thank you everyone for the feedback, the joys shared, the happinesses, the questions, the provocations! Promote #UsableHistory, because if the past is not usable, what’s the point!
KALOKA-LIKES AND THE IMPORTANCE of CURIOSITY
Two different Filipinos are in the first photo (collage). Can you spot the difference? Is it the curve of the nose? The hairline? The tight curls that grow from it? The pursed lips that break out into a wide smile? While they bear an uncanny resemblance, these two men—prominent figures in Philippine history—had divergent views. Their names: Claro M. Recto and Carlos P. Romulo.
When the scholar Bryan Balco visited the #PastsRevisited exhibit, his sense of curiosity made him pause and wonder who the person was between Letizia and Renato, and he [READ]
HUMAN NATURE
A One-Day Choir of 140 voices gathered to sing Human Nature at YSpace the other day. We thank Yuchengco Museum’s Gloria Ocampo for taking and sharing the gorgeous clip! The #PastsRevisited exhibit is extended to August 8 – catch it and see the exquisite shows at the 3rd and 4th floors of the Yuchengco Museum in RCBC Plaza along Ayala ave. corner Gil Puyat Ave., Makati.
MUSIC OF THE HEART
uchengco Museum friends shared a clip of the Bayan Ko-Ako Ay Pilipino medley, a 30-year old arrangement by NY-based Dr Rene Dalandan (on the piano, Yspace homecoming performance) last Saturday. It certainly blended well with the #PastsRevisited Constantino Exhibit 
. Have a great week everyone, and for sure, happy Monday! Turn up the dial..
Exploring History Together: Exhibit Until August 8
We’ve had a wonderful time working with colleagues in the Yuchengco Museum. More than sharing love of history and a commitment to the nation’s future, we have developed new friendships and initiatives that we know will bear sweet fruit soon, as our collaboration deepens. And now the exhibit runs till August 8. So many insights to gain, so many perspectives to acquire from the 3rd floor and 4th floor shows of the museum. Drop by and take in everything!
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HISTORIANS IN LOVE
Theirs was a unique romance. They were a couple who wrote together and who fought for causes they shared. The move story of Renato and Letizia Roxas Constantino was epic.
In her diary entry on 6 February 1978, Letizia shares the way she and Renato worked together, as observed by Onie, her astute secretary, who recounted to her how she described to their printer the intellectual collaboration of husband and wife,: “Sir is the architect, and Ma’am is the carpenter.”
One photo shows Renato seated calmly by Letizia’s side during an events that launched a volume of Issues Without Tears. Did you notice the composition of the other image? A playful Renato takes the photo of a smiling Letizia using her reflection in a large mirror, something young Filipinos still do [READ]
WRITERS TO WRITERS
The reward of delight often goes to the curious, because stories abound. But one must look closely to capture details that reveal more than is immediately evident.
There is a panel in the exhibit #PastsRevisited, right beside the image of Senator Nene Pimentel’s speech, “Prof. Renato Constantino: A Prophet of the People,” that shows the way writers Edilberto N. Alegre and Doreen G. Fernandez interacted Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino. Alegre and Fernandez wrote Lasa: A Guide to Dining in the Provinces together, and both conveyed by hand their [READ]
