Alas ng Bayan

A collaborative project organized by the Constantino Foundation, and 350 Pilipinas to raise awareness about the intersections between women, history, memory, climate change, and citizenship.

The project seeks to introduce and inject history and feminism as fundamental elements in the way young people respond to the worsening state of national forgetting and the climate crisis. The Alas ng Bayan exhibit intends to mobilize sectors not normally active in the climate debate by offering new notions of citizenship and nationalism responsive to the multiple emergencies we face today. Viewers of the paintings and those who listen to the lectures that accompany the exhibit will not fail to sense parallels between the lives of the women depicted and current topics under intense public debate, such as violence against women, LGBTQ+ rights, extrajudicial killings, global warming, and national sovereignty.

The Alas ng Bayan exhibit is composed of five paintings depicting individually the heroes Gregoria “Oriang” de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios “Kumander Liwayway” Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan. The dimension of each painting is 17 x 24 inches.

Project Timeline

  • 2026 (Upcoming) – Plans are underway to bring Alas ng Bayan 2.0 – Revealing the Superpowered to Yuchengco Museum, and NHCP museums, expanding its reach to new audiences and continuing its mission of engaging the public with the stories of Filipina heroines.
 
  • March 10–21, 2026 – Alas ng Bayan 2.0 – Revealing the Superpowered is displayed at the UP Manila Museum of a History of Ideas as part of the university’s Women’s Month 2026 celebration, continuing the project’s commitment to honoring Filipina heroines through contemporary visual storytelling. Interestingly, this would have been the same schedule of the first exhibit had it been held six years ago.
 
  • November 24, 2025 – January 17, 2026 – Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is exhibited at the PUP Sta. Mesa Campus in partnership with the PUP Department of History, and ran until January 17, 2026. PUP also hosted the first Alas ng Bayan exhibit in 2019.
 
  • October 16, 2025 – Launch of Alas ng Bayan 2.0 – Revealing the Superpowered at the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum (TSWM), in partnership with the Quezon City Department of Tourism. The second iteration reimagines the heroines through the visual language of komiks, manga, and manhwa, connecting their struggles to contemporary audiences. TSWM is operated and maintained by the QC government.
 
  • February 24 – March 6, 2020 – Alas ng Bayan is exhibited at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Sta. Mesa Main Campus.
 
  • February 5–19, 2020 – Alas ng Bayan is exhibited at the UP College of Fine Arts, Corredor Gallery, UP Diliman.
 
  • January 27–31, 2020 – Alas ng Bayan is exhibited at De La Salle University, The Learning Commons.
 
  • November 25–27, 2019 – Alas ng Bayan is exhibited at the UP Asian Center, ASEAN Hall, UP Diliman.
 
  • November 23, 2019 – launch at the Constantino Foundation’s Linangan Gallery, after which the paintings went on display in participating institutions.
 
  • November 2019 – March 2020 – The project was first launched during Heroes Month (November 2019) and was scheduled to conclude in the period March 10-21, 2020, aligning with the month that celebrates International Women’s Day (March 8), to be hosted by the UP Manila Museum of A History of Ideas. But lockdowns due to the pandemic meant the last leg could not proceed.

Current Partners

Past Partners