Founded in 2009, Filipino Freethinkers is an Associate of Humanists International since 2019. In 2021, with this new Development Grant Filipino Freethinkers aims to scale up their organizational skills and campaigns, relaunching their websites and creating three different modules to assist humanist activists in the country.
Filipino Freethinkers has been advancing humanism and secular values since it was founded in 2009. In 2019 Filipino Freethinkers has been awarded with a Regional Hub grant to produce a travelling vodcast called “Hello Humanists!“, interviewing humanist activists from South-East Asia. Between 2019 and 2020, Filipino Freethinkers organized five Café Humaniste events on the following themes:
Participants to the 2016 Asian Humanism Conference (6-7 August 2016, Taiwan).
Filipino Freethinkers will host an Online Asian Humanism Conference in 2021 to continue Humanist International’s tradition of advancing humanist solidarity across Asia, adjusting to the new remote reality introduced by COVID-19.
Participants to the 2019 Asian Humanism Conference (6 July 2019, Singapore).
Although the activities will be done through the remote format, Filipino Freethinkers aims to use the latest technology, as well as passion and creativity, to host an event that not only tries to emulate an in-person conference but also takes advantage of the unique strengths of an online format. Talks, workshops, and discussions will still be done, but co-creative and unconference style methodology will also be integrated to ensure that activities are inclusive and that participants take ownership of the results, bringing new energy and commitment to spreading humanism to their own spaces well after the conference has concluded.
A Café Humaniste organized by Filipino Freethinkers in 2019 in Manila.
There’s another way the effects of the conference will be felt after the event itself. Through the talk and discussion recordings, activity outputs, video interviews, photos, and other multimedia, we can gather content that can be enjoyed at any time both on the Freethinkers and Humanist International websites.
