October 16, 2025
On October 16, in Frankfurt, Germany, Senator Loren Legarda spoke about the lasting strength of Filipino identity and the value of working together. She made these remarks at the launch of Impressions of an Archipelago: Spanish Travellers and Writings on the Philippines, which took place during the Philippines’ Guest of Honour program at the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair.
Legarda began by recalling the Philippines before colonization, describing it as a nation known for trade, governance, and rich languages.
“Long before the first […]
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October 16, 2025
When art takes shape in words, thought finds its form. Words transform perception into meaning, revealing how ideas shape our understanding of the world. This is the sensibility that runs through Patrick Flores’s essays, bound together in a book, “Sensible Form.” This collection of essays stands apart from its disciplined clarity, its refusal of empty statements, and its persistent attention to the details that are most significant.
Patrick Flores’s approach is consistent: he views the act of interpretation, as it were, […]
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October 16, 2025
At the heart of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour program at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025, Senator Loren Legarda joined cultural luminaries in launching Sensible Form: Essays by Patrick Flores, a collection that reaffirms the power of Filipino scholarship to shape global conversations on art, meaning, and memory.
The book’s author, Patrick Flores, also serves as curator of the Philippine Pavilion, the centerpiece of this historic role, where his vision and interpretive approach shape the country’s cultural presence on the world […]
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October 16, 2025
When Spain first arrived on our shores, it encountered a people who already governed themselves with order, traded across islands, and spoke in languages as diverse and expressive as the landscapes they inhabited. Long before the first chroniclers set ink to paper, the Philippines was already a nation of thought and discernment.
Today, we return to those early encounters through The Gallery of Spanish Travellers to the Philippines—a work that gathers centuries of observation, imagination, and exchange. From 1521 to the […]
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October 15, 2025
Senator Loren Legarda honored the lasting wisdom of Dr. Jose Rizal at the launch of the German editions of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which took place during the Philippines’ Guest of Honour program at the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair held from October 15 to 19, 2025.
Speaking before an international audience, Legarda expressed gratitude to Suhrkamp Verlag, Morio Verlag, and the translators and scholars who brought Rizal’s seminal works to German readers.
“Rizal continues to speak to the world, not […]
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