Sentro Rizal

Cultural center overview
Formed	2009
Headquarters	NCCA Building, 633 General Luna Street,Intramuros,Manila 14°35′18.41″N120°58′32.40″E / 14.5884472°N 120.9756667°E /14.5884472; 120.9756667
Parent Cultural center	Office of the President of the Philippines viaNational Commission for Culture and the Arts
Website	sentrorizal.ncca.gov.ph

TheSentro Rizal (transl. Rizal Center) is aPhilippine government-sponsored organization whose main objective is the global promotion ofFilipinoart,culture, andlanguage.^[1] Established by virtue of theNational Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, its headquarters is located at theNational Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) office inIntramuros,Manila. Sentro Rizal aims to promote Philippine arts, culture, and language throughout the world through the establishment of Philippine centers in various countries which initiate and organize cultural training programs and activities for overseas Filipinos.

Sentro Rizal is named after José Rizal, the Philippines' acclaimed national hero, writer, and polymath. His worksNoli Me Tángere andEl Filibusterismo are acknowledged to have sparked the country's quest for independence in 1898. He championed love of family and country, peace, freedom, human dignity, knowledge, use of local language, bravery, women's role in nation building, unity, compassion, productive involvement of the youth, among others.

The official logo of the Sentro Rizal is composed of two elements, thebalangay andbaybayin which are both significant to Filipino heritage. The letters "S" and "R" are rendered in the ancient Filipino syllabic script known asbaybayin and are stylized to form abalangay, an ancient Philippine edged-pegged plank boat, reflecting the maritime heritage of the Philippines and depicting the character of Filipino migrants. Thebalangay also represents the quest of individuals in exploring the real essence of Filipino identity through culture and arts.

The Sentro Rizal acts as thebalangay which provides overseas Filipinos and their children the means to connect to their roots – instilling a strong sense of nationhood and pride among them in being Filipinos.

The color of the Sentro Rizal logo was patterned from NCCA's logo – blue and gold.

As of September 2020, there are 35 Sentros Rizal in the following locations:^[2]

In 2015, the firstFilipino language pilot class was conducted in Phnom Penh,Cambodia. Twenty-four students completed the first beginner's level language class, dubbed "Masayang Matuto ng Filipino".

TheCommission on Filipinos Overseas has made use ofdigital media in disseminatingFilipiniana for overseas Filipinos, called the "Virtual Sentro Rizal". This Filipiniana collection consists of 250gigabytes of data including 72 hours of video of Filipino cultural materials covering different genres across regions.^[3]

• Alliance française
• Asian Cultural Council
• British Council
• Confucius Institute
• Dante Alighieri Society
• Goethe-Institut
• Instituto Cervantes
• Japan Foundation
• Korean Cultural Centers
  • King Sejong Institute
• Taiwan Academy

• Sentro Rizal official website
• Sentro Rizal introductory video

• Cultural promotion organizations
• Memorials to José Rizal
• Government agencies under the Office of the President of the Philippines
• Education in Intramuros
• Organizations established in 2009
• 2009 establishments in the Philippines

• Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Coordinates not on Wikidata
• Pages using the Kartographer extension