Message: Lunduyan ng Tradisyonal na Sining at Kultura

It is a pleasure to be here at the opening of Likha-an: Lunduyan ng Tradisyonal na Sining at Kultura. It is actually a dream come true to be able to formally open this resource center, envisioned to be an inclusive venue that will be the home to the nation’s traditional works of art and a celebration of the traditional artists from our regions.

Speech: Hibla ng Lahing Filipino Travelling Exhibition

Traditional textiles are ties that bind. It links the past to the present and brings together cultures, which, no matter how diverse, has a commonality.

It is in this premise that the Hibla ng Lahing Filipino textile gallery was born in 2012 in two small rooms of the National Museum of the Philippines.

First State of the District Address Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda

First State of the District Address
Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda
Friday, 2 August 2019
Binirayan Gym, San Jose, Antique
 
Mga kababayan, fellow Antiqueños:
Good morning.
I am very pleased to join you today and I am privileged and honored to deliver to you my first State of the District Address.
This day is like no other. As the first woman Representative of our dear province to be elected to the House of Representatives and the first Antiqueño Deputy Speaker, I am truly humbled, and I consider this opportunity to report […]

Message: Opening of the Homecoming of “The City Who Had Two Navels”

Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Opening of the Homecoming of
“The City Who Had Two Navels”
2 July 2019 | Metropolitan Museum of Manila
 
 
Dr. Edson Cabalfin’s “The City Who Had Two Navels” was our Philippine Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. That year, the theme of the Central Exhibition was “Freespace” and it urged countries to bring their own Freespace in Venice through the national pavilions.
 
Tonight, we are gathered in what Dr. Cabalfin views as […]

Inaugural Speech of Hon. Loren Legarda as Representative of the Lone District of Antique

Inaugural Speech of Hon. Loren Legarda
as Representative of the Lone District of Antique
30 June 2019 | San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
In 1998, when I received my first mandate from the Filipino people as Senator of the Republic, I came home to Antique, in Pandan, and took my oath of office before the town’s mayor. Pagkatapos kang biyente uno ka tuig. Nagpanumpa ako sa pagserbisyo sa akun pinalangga nga probinsya, sa liwat pagkatapos nga ako gintugruan kang mandato bilang inyo representante sa […]