Remembering Isagani Serrano as Dreamer: 4th Anniversary Commemoration

The 4th Anniversary was commemorated last 26 February 2023 (11am-12:30pm) at Feeling@Home, San Juan, Samal, Bataan (face-to-face).

Remembering Isagani Serrano as Dreamer is the theme we have chosen for the commemoration of his 4th Anniversary:

Citizens have placed their own perspective in the global agenda. They are exercising their public responsibility to keep the hands and feet of states and markets in the fire of reform even as they strive to better their lot on their own…..Surely humanity, though in trouble, has good reasons to be hopeful.
– From Isagani R. Serrano’s “Humanity in Trouble but Hopeful”, 1994


Opening Messages

Edicio de la Torre, PRRM President and RISe Vice Chairperson
Leonor Briones, RISe Chairperson

RISe Plans and Updates

Marie Lisa Dacanay, RISe President

Reflections from Bataan Youth

In addition, Jansel Neil Navarro of CSI: Earth President shared his reflections on RISe in behalf of Bataan youth.


Reading and Reflections on poems of Gani

Karl Serrano: My Children, They Are Dreamers
Aileen Serrano: Firetree
Alex Amora: Where I Am the Sun Also Gets In
Katherine Grace: Clouds Over Negros


Kwento’t Kanta Alay kay Gani

Original compositions for Gani:

  • “Hiraya” (lyrics and music by Bong Ramilo), sang by Jonathan Ronquillo
  • “Punla” (lyrics and music by Danny Bacia), sang by Danny Bacia

Songs performed by Village Idiots

  • A Sexy Feeling (lyrics by Gani, music by Leonard Reyes, Cathy Tiongson-Intalan, lead singer)
  • Akala ko (lyrics and music by Bong Ramilo)
  • Palengke (lyrics and music by Joseph Purugganan)

Present in the event were RiSe Stakeholders namely: Village Idiots, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, CSI: Earth, Bataan Peninsula State University, Serrano Clan, and Dacanay Clan.