KNIGHTS OF RIZAL GOES ONLINE

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KNIGHTS OF RIZAL GOES ONLINE

On the eve of the celebration of the 151^st birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, the Order of the Knights of Rizal (KOR) will hold “Asalto Para Kay Pepe” at 6:00 PM, June 18 at Sunset  Room of the Manila Yacht Club.  The occasion will also serve as a launchpad for KOR’s #justlikeRizal project, an innovative promotional campaign using the social media.

Invited to the event are patriotic bloggers, prominent twitter followers, facebook users, members of the press, KOR members and its counterpart organizations.

Through this undertaking, KOR embraces social media as a new platform to promote Rizalian ideals and teachings and thus reach a wider audience coverage especially among the Filipino youth whom our national hero refers to as the “hope of the motherland.”

The event is supported and will be attended by Hon. Ludovico Badoy, Executive Director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Hon. Percival Cendana, Commissioner of the National Youth Commission (NYC), DOH Undersecretary Hon. Teodoro Herbosa, a descendant of our national hero and officers and members of the KOR.

“We are embarking on this innovative approach to actualize the purposes required by Republic Act No. 646 for the KOR to perform” KOR Supreme Commander Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR said. He added that the “Knights of Rizal has to catch the attention of the youth to inculcate in them the values and virtues that our national hero imparted to Filipinos in his lifetime and in all his works; this is why we are tapping the social media like facebook, twitter, youtube and the like”.

#justlikeRizal project is part of the line-up of programs and projects of the KOR  Rizalian Year 2012-2014 under the theme,  “Buhayin si Rizal sa Bawat Pilipino”.

Other institutional programs like Rizal is Alive Forum, Rizal National Festival of Excellence and National Rizal Youth Leadership Institute will also be presented in the launch. This initiative is made possible under the abled leadership of Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR in cooperation with the KOR Sucesos Chapter composed of historians.

                 The Order of the Knights of Rizal is an international fraternal organization chartered under Republic Act No. 646.  Its objectives are to study the teachings of Dr. Jose Rizal, to inculcate and propagate them in and among all classes of the Filipino people, and by words and deeds to exhort our citizenry to emulate and practice the examples and teachings of our national hero, to promote among the associated Knights the spirit of patriotism and Rizalian chivalry, to develop a perfect union among the Filipinos in revering the memory of Dr. Jose Rizal, and, to organize and hold programs commemorative of Rizal's nativity and martyrdom. Through the years, the Order has been an effective partner of the government in disseminating Rizal’s life and ideals.

Reference:     

Contact Number/s:

Sir Mark Roy Boado

09175703394

Sir Jonathan Balsamo

09062020274

Sir Xiao Chua

09176117507

Sir Emmanuel de Guia

09174059191

Project uses Facebook to teach about Rizal

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Project uses Facebook to teach about Rizal

April 8, 2011, 9:01am

MANILA, Philippines — The Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies of Holy Angel University and BINHI English Literacy Foundation, Inc. recently launched a project on Facebook as part of the sesquicentennial anniversary of Jose Rizal’s birth.

The project, called “Rizal 150 to 150: A 15—Day Countdown to Rizal’s 150th Birth Anniversary,” is designed to entice the Filipino youth to get reacquainted with the national hero by posting daily Rizal quotations on Facebook. The quotations are set against the backdrop of various Rizal monuments all over the archipelago.

Ian Christopher Alfonso, researcher at the Center for Kapampangan Studies, manages the project. “One challenge is to find 150 Rizal sayings,” Alfonso says. “Another is to collect photos of Rizal statues, busts and murals all over the country.”

The project was spearheaded by Lisa Tinio-Bayot, head of the BINHI Foundation and grand niece of Rizal through Saturnina Rizal-Hidalgo. The campaign drew positive responses from Facebook fans as well as scholars and historians.

Dr. Vicente Villan of the UP Diliman History Department called it unique and worthy to be converted into a coffee-table book. Also giving their full support to the project are Michael Charleston Chua, Philippine Historical Association (PHA) vice president and DLSU history professor; Dr. Celestina Boncan, former president of PHA; Jonathan Capulas Balsamo, PHA press relations officer and PUP history professor; and Dr. Zeus Salazar, former chair of the UP Diliman History Department.

Those who have photographs of any public statue of Rizal in schools, municipal halls, and parks are encouraged to submit them for posting in the “Rizal 150 to 150” campaign. Email them to ianalfonso7@gmail.com or personally submit a copy at the Center for Kapampangan Studies for scanning.

Those who want to receive a daily dose of Rizal quote and picture, go to the “Rizal 150 to 150” fan page on Facebook and simply click “Like.”

Historians to update PHL historical records at UST confab

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JANUARY 12, 2012

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Historians to update PHL historical records at UST confab

MANILA, Jan. 12 – Hundreds of historians nationwide will converge at the Philippine Historical Association (PHA) General Assembly and Elections for the Board of Governors for 2012 at University of Santo Tomas (UST) campus, Sampaloc, Manila, on Jan. 29, 2012, from 8 a.m to 11:30 a.m.

PHA public relations officer Jonathan Balsamo, during the Talking Points radio program aired Thursday over People’s Television-4 and Radyo ng Bayan stations nationwide, said that the association would gather about 300 members, mostly history teachers and professional historians, who are dedicated in strengthening the Filipino identity by providing “meaningful” records and studies of the past.

The PHA is a professional association of historians countrywide, which was founded in 1955 by noted historians such as Encarnacion Alzona, Gabriel Fabella, Gregorio Zaide, Nicolas Zafra, Celedonio Resurreccion, Teodoro Agoncilllo and Esteban de Ocampo.

The PHA is also affiliated with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC).

Talking Points is also produced by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) and Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). (PNA) RMA/JCA

SINO ANG CHUMORVA KAY MAGELLAN?

SINO ANG CHUMORVA KAY MAGELLAN?


By Stanley Palisada

“Sino ang CHUMORVA kay Magellan?” asks University of Asia and the Pacific History professor Alvin Campomanes. History teachers these days go to lengths (and even gimmickry) to make history appealing to students whose interest span is as short as a soap bubble’s life.

“And then my students laugh and I get their attention. I do it not because I just want to make it funny but that way naka-connect ako sa estudyante,”  justifies Campomanes.

By the way the answer to the question would be Lapu-Lapu, not the fish. Who  is  Lapu-Lapu  is another story buried in  the mythical yesteryears of this country where the rest of our history and heroes lie in state. Revisiting dates, places and names is not the coolest thing when you’re a teenager oozing with hormones and  trapped in a 1 p.m. History class under a teacher whose previous career was reading the “Cenaculo.”
The way history is generally taught in schools has led (partly) to the untimely demise of interest in History itself. An insipid teaching style and poor retention of students are the outlying reasons why interest in history is history.

A recent survey on heroes that we conducted drew a handful of the most far-fetched historical tidbits from today’s youth. A respondent said (very confidently) that Andres Bonifacio led flag-raising and Independence Day ceremonies in Cavite, an ignorant credit grab from Emilio Aguinaldo who was the one who held the flag and not the bolo.

Another respondent said Emilio Aguinaldo is “ang taong nasa pera” and that’s as far as he knows in spite of his being a college freshman and having survived his elementary and high school history classes.

A Philippine historian, Michael Xiao Chua explains that confusion results when kids are taught to memorize historical facts alone.  History is not a “fill in the blanks,  fill up the calendar”  undertaking.  Like Journalism it’s equally important to know the “hows and the whys”, aside from the whos, whats, wheres, and whens. The hows and whys provide meaning to events.

“Ang History ay salaysay na may saysay,” says 24-year old Chua who is also the vice president of the Philippine Historical Association in spite of  his youth. “Nire-remind tayo ng ating common experiences para magkaisa ang Pilipino.  Mayroon tayong common na karanasan, kolonyalismo, sama-sama tayong naghirap sa digmaan,” Chua said.

But lackluster teaching to an uninspired student is not to blame entirely. It is also pitiable that preoccupation with survival and the rush to overcome poverty make many see history a whim fit only for those who have spare time or resources.

According to Philippine historian, Celestina Boncan PhD, Filipinos can be on the road to greatness if they know their journey. “It’s as if history is an intangible that  cannot  fill up the stomach or cannot wipe hunger. But learning or understanding history is the spirit that would drive our people to become great,” Boncan said.
It’s been a while since we allowed our heroes to inspire us to love our country the way they did. We hailed them during the 2000 Centennial Celebrations but forgot all about them after the party.
And how can we love a country we don’t know?

“Ang isang mamahalin mo, kikilalanin mo muna. Hindi mo pwedeng mahalin ang isang bagay na di mo alam, na di mo kilala,” explained another Philippine historian Jonathan Balsamo.

Lastly, History is learning the past, and learning from the past.

Why do we as a country, stay trapped in a cycle of poverty, corruption, and bad governance? Why do we keep missing the lessons of the years that came and went?

It’s because in our journey, we Filipinos are engrossed with today and the future, that we don’t look back. In so doing, we’re merely walking in circles.*

from: http://batangeneo.tumblr.com/post/6654884031/sino-ang-chumorva-kay-magellan#disqus_thread

BLOGGERS' NIGHT FOR JOSE RIZAL

The Order of the Knights of Rizal would like to request your kind presence on the occasion of the 151st Birth Anniversary celebration of Dr. Jose P. Rizal on 18th June 2012, 6:00 pm at the International Headquarters of the Order of the Knights of Rizal.


The "Asalto Para kay Pepe" is our way of sharing with our Social Media friends the Life and Works of Dr. Jose Rizal as we launch the "Buhayin si Rizal sa Bawat Pilipino" program of the Knights of Rizal and to commemorate the culmination of the Sesquicentennial Celebration for Rizal.


Come and Join the Knights on a night filled with stories, music, food, ceremonies and camaraderie as we collectively relive his ideals and dreams in our own lives.


Thank you very much.


Non Omnis Moriar


Sir Reghis M. Romero II, KGCR
Acting Supreme Commander