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Biliran anti-poverty program expands its cultural services
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Naval, Biliran –Local artists, children in the community and from the marginalized sectors of this province converged for a 1-day workshop on three arts discipline, as the Kalahi Cultural Services for the Poor was launched February 12 at the Capitol Grounds here.
The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) initiated the activity in collaboration with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), TESDA, and the Biliran provincial government in conjunction with the celebration of February 2005 as National Arts Month.
With the theme: “SINING GISING: Crafting Identities for Social Transformation,” the program aims to promote local culture through the arts as an avenue for progress and development.
A total of 120 local artists and youths participated in the workshops, composed of members of Naval Institute of Technology dance troupe and coaches, elementary school teachers on dance and music, a class of special children and a class of fast-learners from Naval SPED Center; and wards from the Provincial Crisis Center.
Kalahi Cultural Services for the Poor is geared to develop and empower the economically and physically challenged Filipino youth and select members coming from indigent communities to become creative and productive members of society through the arts.
Fray Paolo Ma. Diosdado G. Casurao, PBSF, Sub-Regional Coordinator for Region 8 led the team of workshop facilitators and provided the guiding principles of the program.
He is a member of the executive committee of the NCCA National Committee for Dramatic Arts, and distinguished as founding chairman and executive director of several arts council, museum and association of artists.
With him were: Roland Calleja, company manager of Leyte Kalipayan Dance Company, who handled the Creative Dance Workshop; Palanca Award winner Oskar “Melkie” Monje who handled the Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop, and; technical assistant Marilyn Lao of the Office of the Mayor of Calbayog.
Fray Paolo handled the Eurythmic and Kinetic Arts Workshop for the physically challenged.
Outputs of the three workshops were showcased later in the afternoon in a show called “Ang Ating Kagalingan” to the appreciation of Governor Rogelio Espina, and former Rep. Gerardo Espina, now the mayor of the provincial capital.
In a synthesis and planning that followed, Governor Espina assured the group that the provincial government is ready to support programs that promote local culture and arts.
He added that the launching of the Kalahi Cultural Services for the Poor has coincided with his earlier directive to local school and barangay officials to identify indigenous culture in the form of music, dance and instrument within the island province.
A two-day workshop on the same arts discipline will be conducted on March 18-19, 2005 with slots available for 100 participants.
Fray Paolo, however, requested from the provincial government to identify the poorest of the poor in the communities to participate in the workshop.
Jack C. Gadaingan, February 21, 2005, Manila Bulletin
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The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) initiated the activity in collaboration with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), TESDA, and the Biliran provincial government in conjunction with the celebration of February 2005 as National Arts Month.
With the theme: “SINING GISING: Crafting Identities for Social Transformation,” the program aims to promote local culture through the arts as an avenue for progress and development.
A total of 120 local artists and youths participated in the workshops, composed of members of Naval Institute of Technology dance troupe and coaches, elementary school teachers on dance and music, a class of special children and a class of fast-learners from Naval SPED Center; and wards from the Provincial Crisis Center.
Kalahi Cultural Services for the Poor is geared to develop and empower the economically and physically challenged Filipino youth and select members coming from indigent communities to become creative and productive members of society through the arts.
Fray Paolo Ma. Diosdado G. Casurao, PBSF, Sub-Regional Coordinator for Region 8 led the team of workshop facilitators and provided the guiding principles of the program.
He is a member of the executive committee of the NCCA National Committee for Dramatic Arts, and distinguished as founding chairman and executive director of several arts council, museum and association of artists.
With him were: Roland Calleja, company manager of Leyte Kalipayan Dance Company, who handled the Creative Dance Workshop; Palanca Award winner Oskar “Melkie” Monje who handled the Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop, and; technical assistant Marilyn Lao of the Office of the Mayor of Calbayog.
Fray Paolo handled the Eurythmic and Kinetic Arts Workshop for the physically challenged.
Outputs of the three workshops were showcased later in the afternoon in a show called “Ang Ating Kagalingan” to the appreciation of Governor Rogelio Espina, and former Rep. Gerardo Espina, now the mayor of the provincial capital.
In a synthesis and planning that followed, Governor Espina assured the group that the provincial government is ready to support programs that promote local culture and arts.
He added that the launching of the Kalahi Cultural Services for the Poor has coincided with his earlier directive to local school and barangay officials to identify indigenous culture in the form of music, dance and instrument within the island province.
A two-day workshop on the same arts discipline will be conducted on March 18-19, 2005 with slots available for 100 participants.
Fray Paolo, however, requested from the provincial government to identify the poorest of the poor in the communities to participate in the workshop.
Jack C. Gadaingan, February 21, 2005, Manila Bulletin
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