Teatro Angeleño’s Buwan ng Wika 2014 stage production will benefit Bale Anghel and End Child Hunger Philippines

Last April 2014 Teatro Angeleño (TA) stages top-notched and empowering Holy Week edition of “Ang Paglilitis kay Mang Serapio” the informative-performance on environment protection “Ang Asaynment ni Ana Analisa: Amlat last May. Now, TA brings you another advocacy production for the benefit of Bale Anghel and End Child Hunger Food Program – the Tiktipaklong REIMAGINED | KAMULATAN comes this August as contribution to the celebration of Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa. 2014

Tiktipaklong is a one act children’s play written by the late …Rene Villanueva; a Filipino playwright and author. He is famed for his deep involvement in theater and television and in children's literature, whether it is on television, in books or on stage. He was in the hall of fame list of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, awarded the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining for Literature in 2004 and the Gawad Chanselor sa UP in 2005. Few of us know that he wrote the legendary Batibot theme song with music by Louie Campo. Rene Villanueva’s Tiktipaklong is a story of a young grasshopper in search for answers on why his mother tasked him to search out for food. His quest will lead him to meet and learn from the other exciting characters in the story. It’s an expedition full of ambivalent moral lessons in life. A refreshing journey re-discovering the importance of hard work and planning for the future.

On its 16^th Theater Season, Teatro Angeleño (TA) is proud to bring you an adaptation of Rene Villanueva’s Tiktipaklong, the TIKTIPAKLONG RE-IMAGINED | KAMULATAN, an action packed-interactive-informative-performance-storytelling that encourages audience to pro-actively and collectively address socio-political and cultural issues concerning children and the community. A benefit production under the direction of an award winning storyteller, television and stage acting coach and director, Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) representative, CCP’s Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) – Makiling alumni, the prestigious Sipat Lawin Inc. Artistic Director, JK Anicoche.

TA is the sole educational community theatre in the City. Focusing on children and youth empowerment and community transformational development through theatre and the arts. It is the rebirth and externalization of TALINO Club which originated from Angeles City High School. An initiative of Ms. Ma. Celina Vega, Abel Domingo and …Nemia Dela Cruz to be a Values Education tool way back 1996, empowered by Hon. Vicenta “Vicky” Vega on the year 1998.

TA aims to reunite theater and art enthusiasts and be the prime community theatre in the city; where actors don’t just perform. They love, grow, serve and share. They make a difference... everyday. A theater group “where artists become teacher-servant-leader... an artists on a mission.”

For years now Teatro Angeleño’s End Child Hunger Food Program provides breakfast for the Plaridel 1 kids in Bgry. Malabañias.  Children from indigent families get a full breakfast meal before they go to school or can have a free meal anytime they get hungry. A local church allows the use of their facilities for regular food services and promise to continue the food ministry as their primary duties for humanity.

This Buwan ng Wika 2014 and as Teatro Angeleño’s Food Program celebrate its 1^st year of service, they speak the “language” called “sharing” for it’s now Bale Anghel - a shelter for children under Kuliat Foundation, Inc. turns to experience an all Saturdays/weekend with End Child Hunger Food Program. This aims to support Bale Anghel’s various programs for kids through sustainable food services and to further their development and transformation as they look forward for a more batch of street children reached out through a wholistic approach.

Watch Teatro Angeleño’s TIKTIPAKLONG REIMAGINED | KAMULATAN on August 25 to 29 (Monday to Friday) and September 1 to 4 (Monday to Thursday) 2014 with 1:00 PM and 6:00PM shows at the 3rd Floor, Function Hall, Angeles City Library & Information Office, Heritage Zone, Angeles City a benefit production for #BaleAnghel and #EndChildHunger. 

For booking, sponsorship, co-presentorship, DONATIONS and ticket inquiries, contact the Kuliat Foundation, Inc. - Office (Theater Division) at (045) 887 4703, or the Production Manager: John Jurado at (0927) 232 8812 or (045) 304 2234 or email us at teatroangeleno.ds@gmail.com