READING

The Philippines visits the Weltkulturen Museum’
Reading as part of the OPEN BOOKS 2025 book fair reading festival

Before the Republic, before Rizal, before Google Maps, there were islands. And people who moved across the sea, like it was second nature. This isn’t your grandmother’s history lesson. We’re cracking open a real cabinet of curiosities, no colonial creepiness, just living memory: a tattooed truth and a gold shard that once touched skin. Ambeth Ocampo (a.k.a. Rizal’s coolest stan) and Jay Ignacio (bladed-hand king) take us on a trip through memory, myth, and visual fire.

Location: Weltkulturen Museum Library, Schaumainkai 35
Free admission, in English