Prize-winning storyteller JK Anicoche supports Teatro Angeleño’s fundraising for Bale Anghel educational and food program in Angeles City

Teatro Angeleño (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 in 1996. Empowered by Hon. Vicenta “Vicky” Vega in the year 1998. Furthermore, 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... artists on a mission.”

For years now, Teatro Angeleno’s End Child Hunger Food Program provides breakfast for the Plaridel 1 kids in Bgry. Malabanias. 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.

Now, as Teatro Angeleno’s Food Program celebrates 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 various programs for kids through sustainable food services as well as to further their development and transformation as they look forward to more batches of street children reached out through a wholistic approach.

After their top-notch and empowering Holy Week edition of “Ang Paglilitis kay Mang Serapio” (April 2014) and the staging of their informative performance on environment protection. “Ang Asaynment ni Ana Analisa: Amlat last May; Teatro Angeleno (TA) now brings you another advocacy production for the benefit of Bale Anghel and End Child Hunger Food Program – TIKTIPAKLONG re-imAgineD | KamulAtan comes this August as a 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 be on television, in books or on stage. He was on 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. An expedition full of ambivalent moral lesson in life. A refreshing journey rediscovering the importance of hard work and planning for the future.

On its 16^th Theater Season TA is proud to bring you an adaptation of Rene Villanueva’s Tiktipaklong, the TIKTIPAKLONG re-imAgineD | KamulAtan an action-packed, interactive, informative performance and storytelling that encourages the audience to pro-actively and collectively address socio-political and cultural issues concerning children and the community. A benefit production under the direction of JK Anicoche.

Storyteller. Theater // Performance-maker. Acting Coach for television. Voice artist. Action-star.

JK Anicoche is an action-star art practitioner of multiple artistic-identities crossing boundaries from mainstream to contemporary performance art movement in the Philippines. JK is a prize-winning storyteller, actor, director and workshop facilitator for film, theatre and television. He is a Theater Arts graduate at the Philippine High School for the Arts in Mt. Makiling and took up B.A. Film and Audio-Visual Communications at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. 

Recent Directing credits include Dulaang Sipat Lawin’s Paghihintay kay Godot, Virgin Lab Fest’s Pamamanhikan, Symposium, Tanghalang Ateneo’s ANG BAKKHAI, Sipat Lawin Ensemble’s BATTALIA ROYALE Live Action Game, and LOVE: THIS IS NOT YET A MUSICAL. As devisor and performer, he just came back from a successful run of Sipat Lawin Ensemble and Too Many Weapon’s docu-theater A WAKE: Kids Killing Kids performed at the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne. 

Project banig: Si Kuya Bodjie, si JK at si Christine Bellen - magkakasangga sa pagkukuwento para sa mga bata!

JK is the artistic director of independent contemporary performance company, the Sipat Lawin Ensemble and is a founding member of PResNT: Performance Research Network Acting Without Borders, a pioneering team of acting coaches for lead actors in mainstream television networks. He is also the founder of Project Banig: Storytelling Everywhere Campaign encouraging volunteerism and storytelling in communities. He teaches Directing and Basic Acting courses for Theater Arts scholars at the Phil. High School for the Arts in Mt. Makiling. 

Watch Teatro Angeleno’s TIKTIPAKLONG re-imAgineD | 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 3^rd 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 Production Manager: John Jurado at (0927) 232 8812. 

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

‘Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO’ Jumpstart TEATRO ANGELEÑO’s 16th Season - WATCH & WIN!!! First 150 audiences will get…

Teatro Angeleño on our 16th Theater Season presents 'Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO' under the direction of Teatro Angeleño’s founding-artistic director John Jurado and with his dynamic production team, breathe new approach and parallelism into this timeless story as “bloody” contribution to Angeles City's observance of SEMANA SANTA 2014. This re-staging will serves as alternative platform for discussion on social studies such as social structure, power, poverty and survival. For students who will watch this play, it will give way for reflections on Filipino values of ambition, hope, justice and love.

TEATRO ANGELEÑO set the stage to #EndChildHunger – watch ‘Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO’ April 14-18, 2014

TeatroAngeleño has gathered a powerhouse cast of volunteers, aspiring theater actors and child advocates to stage Paul Dumol’s ‘Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO.’ 

The team has committed 30days of extensive workshops and rehearsals which started last February 2014 till present. 

‘Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO' marks Teatro Angeleño’s SEMANA SANTA 2014 “bloody” Offering

Ang PAGLILITIS kay Mang SERAPIO is a masterpiece of Prof. Paul Dumol one of the country’s premier playwright, educator and a Don Carlos Palanca Awardee. He wrote the play in late ’60s, the era in which begging and living in the street began to be an employment, a practice that is still being continued by some till today. The play is about the trial of a beggar, Mang Serapio, who was accused and punished for a considered “serious” crime under their federation: ______ ______? A judge, two interrogators, two physically handicapped men will testify and three witnesses will set his fate of a lifetime. Mang Serapio is forced to reveal his ultimate secret of survival.

World Leaders Sign Zero Hunger Declaration at Davos

BY RAPPLER.COM #HUNGERPROJECT

MANILA, Philippines - Over 50 world leaders and signatories commit to eliminating hunger within this generation during the signing of the Zero Hunger Declaration at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23, 2014.

As hunger continues to be one of the world’s most pressing issues, the declaration strengthens the commitment on the fight against hunger, pushes for the creation of policies and action, holds people accountable to their actions, and encourages others to take part in the Zero Hunger Challenge.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, one of the signatories, has placed hunger in the forefront of the UN’s agenda since he first pitched the Zero Hunger Challenge initiative during the UN conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil last June 2012.

During the signing, he reiterated his commitment to action in eradicating hunger and recognized the important roles that different sectors play, saying that the fight against hunger has been a joint effort.

“From small-scale farmers who trade their surplus at the village market to billion-dollar multinational corporations, business has played a vital role. This is needed now more than ever," said Ban.

The declaration was signed during the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Annual World Leader’s event and awards dinner that was co-hosted by WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and UN Special Representative to the Secretary-General David Nabarro.

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Lessons from South Korea's food banks

BY FRITZIE RODRIGUEZ

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – How do we end a perennial problem like hunger?

The 4th Quarter 2013 Social Weather Stations (SWS) nationwide survey on self-rated food poverty, conducted in December, shows that 41% (an estimated 8.8 million households) of respondents claim to be poor in terms of food. This is slightly higher than the 3rd quarter results (37%).

These numbers are alarming, especially with only one year left until the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – such as reducing hunger and poverty – are supposedly met.

With the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), thousands of survivors are working towards recovery; however, hunger continues to taunt devastated families.

This challenge prompts us to revisit one of the most successful food banks in Asia, specifically the one in South Korea.

Lessons from South Korea

South Korea embodies the classic rags-to-riches success story. From a war and poverty ravaged country, it has emerged as one of the richest and most innovative countries in the world. Its transformation has shocked and inspired the world.

Filipina community organizer and sociologist Maria Fides F. Bagasao stayed in South Korea for 4 years as coordinator of Leaders and Organizers of Community Organization in Asia (LOCOA).

According to her, South Korea’s food banks are a community-based initiative, with government entering the picture only later on. The initiative took off because Koreans made sure they did their best in helping the less fortunate.

Bagasao explained the influence of the Korean “Pali-pali culture,” an expression which translates to “hurry up.”

“They work fast. They’re focused. ’Yung staff ko, I just instructed her on what to do, ’di pa ko nakakaupo, tapos na,” she quipped. (I just instruct my Korean staff what to do and before I could even sit down, the task was already done.)

First, the most vulnerable groups in poor Korean communities are identified, and the volunteers make sure that these people benefit from the food banks.

The food banks have tie-ups with restaurants, groceries, convenience stores, and other private business owners who can help in donating supplies.

They also establish agreements with land owners, allowing them to convert unused lands into vegetable gardens.

These community-based food banks run a daily operation. Aside from ensuring that supply is met, the system also makes sure that the distributed food is clean and nutritious.

“Food security is also about the quality of food, preparation, and the sufficiency of nutrition,” Bagasao emphasized.

Korea’s food bank centers

In the present set-up, every month, beneficiaries may also get 5 items each (food, clothes) from Food Bank centers.

Their atmosphere is similar to a real store, making beneficiaries feel as though they’re really shopping. This aims to prevent stigmatization among beneficiaries – especially among the elderly. It’s a good place to socialize and interact with others.

Apart from providing food, Bagasao said that skills-training programs are also offered to beneficiaries as part of a Self-Reliance Support Program to lessen, if not avoid, dependency among beneficiaries.

The program instills long-term self-sufficiency, especially for those who are still capable of participating in some form of livelihood.

For many years, these community-based food banks were running on nothing but donated time, efforts, manpower, food, and cash from volunteers, community organizers, and the private sector. Later on, amid the Asian Financial Crisis, the South Korean government began supporting, funding, and participating in the food bank system.

The beneficiaries include orphans, persons with disabilities (PWDs), the aged, homeless, unemployed, and victims of natural disasters.

Today, there are over 400 food banks across South Korea supported by its welfare expenditure budget.

Bagasao said the Philippines should learn from South Korea and should adopt a similar community-based model which can work locally.

“The country’s social protection policies and initiatives to allocate more economic resources for these reforms will have to be protected by the public, organized social movements, civil society, and like-minded political leaders,” Bagasao added.

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SWS survey: More households poor, hungry at the end of 2013

BY MICHAELA ROMULO

MANILA, Philippines - The Social Weather Stations(SWS) conducted its 4th quarter nationwide survey on self-rated poverty and self-rated food poverty and the results showed an increase in Filipino households considering themselves poor at the end of 2013.

55% of the respondents (11.8 million households) consider themselves poor, while 41% (8.8 million households) consider themselves poor in terms of food. The results showed a slight increase from the 3rd quarter survey where self-rated poverty was 50% and self-rated food poverty was 37%.

The increase in poverty was seen across all regions except for Mindanao, which actually showed a two-point decrease in self-rated poverty (59% from 61%). Metro Manila yielded a two-point increase at 46%, the balance of Luzon increased by 8 points at 50%, and Visayas rose 6 points to 68%.

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