Sulyap sa Quiapo at Casa Consulado

Last August, the 125th anniversary of all-steel church, San Sebastian Basilica was celebrated through its weeklong festival, the Q-festival. Casa Consulado Museum and Library participates by hosting, in partnership with Kapitbahayan sa Kalye Bautista atbp, Inc., a lecture series entitled, “Sulyap sa Quiapo” (A Glance of Quiapo). This was also an opportunity to invite long time and fellow community advocates that has helped shaped Filipino culture and Quiapo community for the better, and to share again their stories and messages about their passion.

“Simula ng Maharlika Life” (The Beginning of Maharlika Life) by Mr. Ian Lucero

Young and creative local artist Mr. Ian Lucero, lead of Maharlika Life, was invited to share his passion for Filipino culture and the pre-hispanic colonial language, “Baybayin”. In the current trend of renewed interest in English calligraphy, his approach of presenting Baybayin with his creativity and graphic skills is as interesting even for the “cool” seeking youth or plain adventurous minds. Behind his passion is a movement to ignite interests for Filipino culture and pride starting from his social circle and eventually branching out to other communities. Inspired by Lucero’s previous experiences with Japanese calligraphy, the newly established group, Maharlika Life can be expected in public through their exhibits and creative enterprise.

KKK - Kabataan para sa Kalayaan at Kasarinlan 2016

On the 118th celebration of Independence Day, Mr. Paul Ituralde, the owner of Casa Consulado, and KKB not just simply celebrated this day as the house opened for the children of Quiapo, last June 12, 2016. Kapitbahayan sa Kalye Bautista at iba pa or simply called as KKB helped for this project, from cleaning the Casa, setting up the designs and audios, from canvassing up to buying the materials needed for the event, and preparing food for the guests. The organization spent almost a month to make this KKK or Kabataan para sa Kalayaan at Kalinangan successful.