Happy birthday, Rizal Province!

Tomorrow, our nation will mark its 127th Independence Day.

- DR. JUN YNARES

We understand that this year’s celebration will continue to echo the multi-year theme “Kalayaan, Kinabukasan, Kasaysayan” (Freedom. Future. History). We join our countrymen from across the globe in this celebration spearheaded by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).

When the NHCP launched this theme in 2023, the Commission said it aims to “give focus on the freedom that our forebears struggled for, in the future that they dreamed of for the country, and the history that we seek to remember and honor them with.”

“The multi-year commemoration seeks to highlight the events and realities that gave birth to the Filipino nation, from the proclamation of Philippine Independence up to the end of the First Philippine Republic,” the NHCP said. “It also aims to raise from the regions and provinces across the Philippines their stories of revolutionary struggle and incorporate them into the national narrative of our independence and nationhood,” the NHCP added.