Jose Rizal Travels Documentary Completes New York Leg

From left: Cultural Officer Olive Magpile, New Jersey-based Historian Nestor Enriquez, Mr. Enrique Sadiosa, Consul General Theresa Dizon-De Vega (photos by NYPCG)

26 February 2018 NEW YORK – The book and documentary film project “Dr. Jose Rizal Travels 2020” completed its New York research leg last week.

Mr. Enrique Rueda Sadiosa, Knight Commander of Rizal for the Hong Kong and Macau Chapter of the Knights of Rizal, the man behind the initiative, spent a few days last week re-tracing the Philippine National hero’s steps in the United States, specifically his brief sojourn in the city in the Spring of 1888 en route to the port of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.  Dr. Rizal called New York “the big town” and had the opportunity to see the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and stayed for a few days in the now non-existent Fifth Avenue Hotel.

While in New York, Mr. Sadiosa, a media and communications practitioner based in Hong Kong, likewise met with members of different chapters of the Knights of Rizal in the Tri-state area and called on Consul General Theresa Dizon-de Vega of the Philippine Consulate General in New York.

The coffee table book with an accompanying documentary footage is set to be formally launched in 2020 and aims to provide documentation of the various travels of Dr. Rizal both in the Philippines and overseas. END

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