Message: Opening of the Homecoming of “The Spectre of Comparison”

May 23, 2019

Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Opening of the Homecoming of
“The Spectre of Comparison”
23 May 2019 | Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
 
Who is the Filipino?
 
This is a question that many of us have asked at one point in our life. The Filipino identity, even after more than a century of independence, is something that is not easily grasped.
 
Tonight, we ask this question once more as we welcome home The Spectre of Comparison, the exhibit that proudly represented the […]

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Message: Visionary and Lead Advocate of the Philippines’ Participation in the Venice Biennale

May 8, 2019

Message of Senator Loren Legarda*
Visionary and Lead Advocate of the Philippines’ Participation in the Venice Biennale
Vernissage of “Island Weather”
Philippine Pavilion at the 58th Biennale Arte
8 May 2019 | Venice, Italy
*(Delivered by Ambassador Domingo Nolasco, Philippine Ambassador to Italy)
Good afternoon and welcome to the Philippine Pavilion!
I would have wanted to personally welcome you all but we are in the midst of an election campaign in the Philippines.
It seems like just yesterday when we were trying to fill the […]

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Message: Tiringbanay Festival 2019

April 22, 2019

Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Tiringbanay Festival 2019
22 April 2019 |San Jose, Antique
Mayad nga aga ka ninyo nga tanan!
Binabati ko ang mga opisyal ng bayan ng San Jose de Buenavista at ang mga punong-abala sa pagdaraos ng Tiringbanay Festival 2019, sa pangunguna ni Municipal Mayor Elmer Untaran, at ang ating mga kasimanwa na nandito upang makiisa sa selebrasyon ng mayamang tradisyon at kultura ng San Jose de Buenavista.
Ako ay nagagalak na masaksihan at maging bahagi ng isang mahalagang pagtitipon […]

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Opening of Motions of this Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness

April 11, 2019

Opening of Motions of this Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness
April 11, 2019/ 6:00 p.m./ Brunei Gallery, SOAS
*Message of Senator Loren Legarda read by Dr. Cristina Juan
Good afternoon to all the guests present today.
We are gathered here to witness a milestone, the opening of Motions of this Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness, the “first institutional exhibition in the UK dedicated to recent contemporary art practices in the Philippines.”
We Filipinos have come a long way in the contemporary […]

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Speech: Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) Campaign Rally in Antique

March 26, 2019

Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) Campaign Rally
March 26, 2019 | Binirayan Gym, San Jose, Antique
 
Lahat tayo ay may kanya-kanyang batayan sa pagpili ng ating mga pinuno sa gobyerno. Iba-iba rin naman ang pamamaraan ng pagseserbisyo ng mga lingkod-bayan. Ang mahalaga, iisa ang hangarin na mapabuti ang buhay ng bawat Pilipino.
 
Isa po ang Nationalist People’s Coalition o NPC, na aking partido, sa mga ka-alyansang partido ng Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP). Kaya naman mainit ang ating pagbati at […]

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