UPLB’s Isko’t Iska 2024: Celebrating 48 Years of Student Activism, Highlighting Fisherfolk Struggles & Philippine Histor
UPLB’s ‘Isko’t Iska’ comes back to portray plights of fisherfolks, history of student movement in its 48th year In its 48th year at the University of the Philippines-Los Banos (UPLB), Isko’t Iska seeks to show the history of student activism in the country, militarization in the campus and communities, historical revisionism, human rights violations, and the struggles of fisherfolks. Isko’t Iska is an annual community theater production initially made to welcome and enlighten freshmen about the struggles and ills faced by UPLB students, marginalized communities, and the general Filipino masses. As the biggest theater production in UPLB, Isko’t Iska continues to live by its motto, “dulang mula sa masa, para sa masa”. Recently, the production has conducted constant basic mass integrations (BMIs) in the fishing communities in Cavite for its actors and staff to have a deeper understanding of the stories of the communities they will portray. The fishing community in Cavite has been gr
