{"id":234029,"date":"2019-10-09T03:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234029"},"modified":"2019-10-09T03:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:05:57","slug":"manila-city-mayor-isko-moreno-mourns-demise-of-carlos-celdran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/09\/manila-city-mayor-isko-moreno-mourns-demise-of-carlos-celdran\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno mourns demise of Carlos Celdran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iskomorenodomagoso\/posts\/2423262984409797\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iskomorenodomagoso\/posts\/2423262984409797\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Kahapon, nawalan tayo ng isang tao na talagang pinagmamalasakitan ang Lungsod ng Maynila. On behalf of the people of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iskomorenodomagoso\/\">Isko Moreno Domagoso<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iskomorenodomagoso\/posts\/2423262984409797\">Tuesday, October 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Manila City Mayor Francisco \u201cIsko Moreno\u201d Domagoso\u00a0mourned the passing of cultural activist and performance artist Carlos Celdran, saying that the country&#8217;s capital lost again one of its &#8216;promoters.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>&#8220;Kahapon, nawalan tayo ng isang tao na talagang pinagmamalasakitan ang Lungsod ng Maynila <\/i>(Yesterday, we lost a man who really cared for the City of Manila)<i>,&#8221; <\/i>Domagoso said in a Facebook post on Wednesday, October 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>&#8220;Nawalan na naman kami ng isang promoter, isang tagapagtaguyod ng kasaysayan ng mga magagandang aral na puwedeng matutunan sa ating mahal na Lungsod <\/i>(We lost another promoter, an advocate of history of good lessons that we can learn from our beloved city)<i>,&#8221;<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Celdran&#8217;s wife, Tesa, confirmed his passing through a Facebook post on Tuesday, October 8, saying that her husband died of &#8220;natural causes.&#8221; No further details have been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Celdran, 46, was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He came to prominence in September 2010 when he interrupted a service at the Manila Cathedral to protest against the opposition of the Catholic Church to the then Reproductive Health Bill. He dressed up as the country&#8217;s national hero, Jose Rizal, carrying a placard with the word &#8220;Damaso&#8221; in it. Damaso is an antagonist friar in Rizal&#8217;s novel, &#8220;Noli Me Tangere.&#8221; In his <a href=\"https:\/\/carlosceldranwalks.wordpress.com\/about-carlos\/\">blog<\/a>, Celdran described this as his &#8220;most shocking work to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Celdran was also known for his work &#8220;If These Walls Could Talk,&#8221; a walking tour that aims to enlighten people about Manila&#8217;s history between the 14th century and World War II. There was a sequel of it titled &#8220;Livin&#8217; La Vida Imelda,&#8217; an hour and a half long monologue of &#8220;architectural and geopolitical adventure from post-war Manila until present day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2018, he spearheaded the first-ever Manila Biennale, a month-long art exposition inside the walled city of Intramuros, Manila.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his post, the mayor said Celdran promoted Manila City in his &#8220;own little way, the way he knows it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;In fact some people may not understand him, but one thing is for sure, whatever he\u2019s doing, he\u2019s doing it for the city of Manila,&#8221; Domagoso wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vice President Maria Leonor &#8220;Leni&#8221; Robredo earlier extended her condolences to Celdran&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I will always be grateful for his support and appreciative of his contributions to raising the awareness of our fellow Filipinos regarding our history and culture. He will be missed,&#8221; she tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kahapon, nawalan tayo ng isang tao na talagang pinagmamalasakitan ang Lungsod ng Maynila. 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