Naghahabol ako kasi baka tulad kagabi e maputol na naman linya ko (hirap ng nagnanakaw ng linya talaga oo!)

A-beinte na ngayon sa pinas baka pwede pang humabol itong imbitasyon ni Pula:

Dear friends,

Apologies for cross posting! To everyone who’ll be in Manila this coming
Friday — on behalf of the Constantino Foundation, I’d like to invite
all of you to the unveiling of the historic Macario Sakay and Lean
Alejandro murals this coming September 21. It’s our way of marking the
35th year of the declaration of martial rule and the 8th death
anniversary of Tato Constantino, the Foundation’s first chairperson.
Attached is the invitation and the event’s program.

The murals project was undertaken in collaboration with TutoK, the
reknowned art group led by the distinguished painter Emmanuel Garibay
and formed in response to the killing of activists and journalists, and
the city governments of Makati and San Juan.

The Foundation would like to convey big thanks to Lidy and the Lean L.
Alejandro Foundation. A news story about the event is pasted below,
along with the URL where two studies of the murals can be viewed.

See you in Makati and San Juan this Friday! For further details, just
write me back…

Warm regards.

red

Kilala ko si Macario Sakay at kilala ko rin si Lean (dagdagan ko ng Alejandro kasi baka sabihin nyo naging close kami - hindi po- lol!) pero si Tato Constantino inaapuhap ko kung saan ko nakilala (teka teka tawa muna ko mwahahahaha!)

Siyempre sinearch ko siya saka ako napalatang ng “ayun e sabi ko na nga ba lolo ni Pula e!”

Si Renato Constantino Sr. ang dakilang historian. Sa kanya ko nabasa yung kwento ng digmaan ng mga amerikano at mga pinoy nagsimula sa Pinaglabanan Bridge. Sa libro rin niya ko nalaman na pinatay ng mga sundalong kano ang kalahati ng populasyon ng pinas para daw mas madaling mapasunod ang natitira pang kalahati. Galing ano!

Pagkatapos kong basahin ang libro niyang iyon pinagtatapon ko lahat ng history book na ginamit ko sa klase nung high school ako. Pinagloloko ba naman ako e.

Itong susunod ay makikita sa Inquirer pero huwag na kayong pumunta doon baka mapagod pa kayo.

*Murals to honor Sakay, Lean Alejandro to be unveiled Sept 21*
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 05:17pm (Mla time) 09/13/2007
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=88404

MANILA, Philippines — Two public murals will be unveiled on September
21 by the Constantino Foundation to honor the centennial of Philippine
hero Macario Sakay’s execution and the 20th anniversary of the murder of
youth activist Lean Alejandro.

The date also marks the 35th anniversary of the declaration of martial law.

“It’s high time to recreate the conversation between young Filipinos
today and their collective past. We intend to reclaim public space in a
way that brings the memory of standing up to tyranny closer to our
people,” a statement from the foundation quoted managing director Renato
Redentor “Red” Constantino as saying.

“The paintings aim to start a national trend to transform public spaces
as visual tools in recapturing national memory and history. The murals
will highlight two largely neglected icons of resistance who fought for
our nation’s freedom,” he added.

The project is a collaboration between the Constantino Foundation and
TutoK, an artists’ group organized last year in response to the
continued extrajudicial killings and deteriorating human rights
situation in the country.

The Constantino Foundation and TutoK are working with the city
government of Makati, which has agreed to install a 4.5 by 24-foot mural
at the Ospital ng Makati in Pembo, and San Juan City, which will install
in its own city hall a huge painting consisting of three 10 by 12-foot
panels.

Macario Sakay was an original member of the Katipunan who continued the
struggle for national liberation against American colonial rule.
Maligned by US authorities and mainstream history books as a bandit,
Sakay was hanged on September 13, 1907, a victim of American and native
elite treachery.

Lean Alejandro has been described as the quintessential student leader
of the 1980s and hails from the University of the Philippines (UP). He
led massive rallies against the Marcos dictatorship and took part in
rebuilding the democratic order after the fall of the authoritarian regime.

On September 19, 1987, Alejandro, 27, was slain in an ambush.

“We sought to portray Sakay and Alejandro in a manner that Filipinos,
most especially our youth, can relate to — as modern, human and
contemporary. They are not larger-than-life-heroes, though their acts of
resistance are heroic,” painter Emmanuel Garibay, TutoK chairman, was
quoted by the statement as saying.

“The concept of the murals was enriched greatly by intense discussions
between the participating artists and historians, including the family
and friends of Lean Alejandro,” he said.

Formerly known as the Foundation for Nationalist Studies, the
Constantino Foundation was established in 1976 by writers Renato
Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino to promote progressive
literature and to propagate Philippine history from the point of view of
the Filipino people. #

Kung may interesado (mahilig sa art at interesado sa kasaysayan) punta na kayo at hanapin si Pula - ang aking Hooters-mate daw (hehehehe! akala ko kababayan, kaibigan, komrad e, di pala). Kita-kits kayo ng 10:30 ng umaga sa Makati at tuloy sa San Juan ng ala una ng hapon.

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