Sunnie Noel-Artistic Director of MSU-Sining Kambayoka & Cultural Center
Sunnie Nole with George Quimboy
George Quimboy-Maguindanaon Choreographer
Tibo Fernandez-atistic director MSU IIT-IPAG & Sunnie Noel
Sunday, August 15, 2010
ART ON THE ROAD-CDO
Sunnie Noel-Artistic Director of MSU-Sining Kambayoka & Cultural Center
Sunnie Nole with George Quimboy
George Quimboy-Maguindanaon Choreographer
Tibo Fernandez-atistic director MSU IIT-IPAG & Sunnie Noel
CCP MT MAKILING ART CAMP
Philippine School for the Arts-Mt Makiling
Waway Saway from Bukidnon
Sunnie Noel of Kambayoka, & Geejay
KE-DOSSIER-BACKGROUND
MSU – KABPAPAGARIYA ENSEMBLE: A DOSSIER
MSU-Kabpapagariya Ensemble is the official performing arm of Mindanao State University in General Santos City. The troupe serves the university as its Ambassador of Goodwill to showcase the dominant culture of its immediate environ and to fulfill the institution’s mandate by its cultural extension activities. Kabpapagariya holds office at the Office of Physical Education, Sports & Cultural Affairs (OPESCA). Its officers are Cultural Manager Alma Celesthia Dumalag-Aguja, Production Artistic Director Prof. Romeo F. Narvaez, OPESCA Director Prof. Estellita A. Aquino and University Chancellor Dr. Macapado A. Muslim.
Office Address
MSU-KABPAPAGARIYA ENSEMBLE
OPESCA, Mindanao State University
Fatima, General Santos City
PHILIPPINES
9500
Contact numbers: +639172020467 – mobile phone of Alma Aguja, cultural manager
(083) 3013102 – fax number – please state attention: Alma Aguja
+639212292731 – mobile phone of Romeo Narvaez, artistic director
kabpapagariya@hotmail.com - e-mail address
msu_ke2005@yahoo.com - e-mail address
Membership:
The university does not offer a degree in theater or any other related field of arts. As a result, the membership of Kabpapagariya are composed of college students with various academic backgrounds, many are education students, some are engineering and some are in the technical courses; but this fact does not stop them from becoming potential cultural workers, aside from honing their performance skills.
It is the member’s cultural background that guides and strengthen their exploration and creation in the cultural field. Many of them are lumads, members of the T’boli and B’laan tribes, the dominant ethnic tribes in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani. Many are also moro, of the dominant muslim groups (Maguindanaon, Maranao, and Tausog) in Mindanao. Likewise, the settlers (Cebuano, Ilonngos, Boholanos, etc.) are also represented in the group. Oftentimes, the people from Luzon are also represented, many of them are of mixed blood.
General Santos City is a melting pot of tri-people – settlers, moro and lumads. MSU – Kabpapagariya Ensemble is also a tri-people group.
Background
Kabpapagariya is a Maranao / Maguindanaon word for brethren. Founded by Mrs. Emeberta Ambalong-Nazareth in 1980s, the troupe started as a student group which regularly put up skits for lunch-time performances at the university cafeteria. The activity gained popularity and soon other groups in the campus joined in. Later, the troupe became part of the Cultural Affairs Department of the Students Affairs Office. At present, the group is officially connected with the Office of Physical Education, Sports and Cultural Affairs (OPESCA).
Kabpapagariya is a theater group that has a ready repertoire of songs, dances and rituals.
Its strength is anchored on its full-length theater productions. It has continually enriched its repertoire of dances, songs and rituals for which it is also considered as a leader locally. It has maintained its indigenous music pool composed of ethnic musicians and meticulously, it maintained a list of indigenous music. At the same time, it encourages its members to compose original musical compositions that are contemporary in its beat but its color and texture are traceable to its cultural roots.
Thrust
MSU – Kabpapagariya Ensemble would like to be part of the cultural development of its immediate and external environment by undertaking projects or activities that would stimulate critical awareness and promote communal participation.
Productions
a. Mindanao folklore is a constant source of materials mounted into full-length theater productions. Some of the productions were the Maranao trickster character Pilandok in Si Pilandok, a character among Visayans in Lanao del Norte, Torong-Torong in Si Torong-Torong, a production on the acculturation of the B’laan culture, Ulad de Tana, a production on the epic hero of the T’bolis, Tud-bulol
b. Contemporary productions were also ventured into by the troupe. Some of them were Kawing is a contemporary critical look on the tradition of buya or bethrothal culled from many true stories; Saranggola is a political satire; on the squatters in Gensan, Mga Itinagong Buhay part I and Part II, and its latest is Banay ni Crisanta (Reunion) which is the deconstruction of the Greek classic material, Medea. In this production the present Mindanao conflict is brought to prominence with focus on the refugees of Mindanao. It is a production-on-process which being toured in the provinces. Its final shape will be a product on the group’s interaction with the audience during a forum every after performance.
c. Though the troupe is basically a theater group, it has continually improved its production entitled Soara/K’dol which is a repertoire of songs, dances and rituals of the moro , lumads and the settlers. The production projects the harmonious existence of the tri-people.
Venues
The group has brought performances to the legitimate stage of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Folk Arts Theater, various colleges and universities in MetroManila, to several hotels and university gymnasiums in Mindanao, down to the cockpit area in Bulacan, Luzon, to the basketball courts, not only in Quezon City, MetroManila but also in many barrios in Mindanao, to the grassy open field in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, down to the seashore of Barangay Sangil (Sangil is a minor Muslim group) and Barrio Daliao with the Maguindanaons in Sarangani province and other makeshift platforms made available for the troupe.
Training
Kabpapagariya averaged a performance every month. The troupe through its alumni has maintained workshop facilitators and its training staff is also regularly sourced out. In all its workshop activities, the group’s facilitators always encourage participants to use local folklore materials and infused it with contemporary issues or use community problems as the germ for their workshop showcases. The basic thrust of the group’s training is
theater exercises through + community problem
games, movements,
songs
The belief is the strength of a good output in a workshop is when its major showcases present a picture of its community, when performance becomes a vehicle of raising critical awareness of communes and make them realize their capacity to evaluate problems and encourage them to present social solutions and at the same time become a strong and effective performers in a cultural action. All these are possible due to the confidence imbibed in the performers since the characters they are playing and the stories they mounting are found in their immediate environ.
Many of the troupe experiences ranged from training a school theater guild (faculty and students) to serving as production consultants, be it in dance-theater, variety show, straight drama, or art workshop In workshops like this, facilitators encourage the school or the participants to use folklore and make the production approach contemporary by infusing problems existing in the school and community. In art workshop for children from depressed areas, out-of-school youth, prostituted women, the approach is more of
Person ------------ Organization
Problem State -------------- Desired State
This direction is explored, expressed through theater exercises. Plans are in the oping for formulating theater modules for family values, gender issues.
Networking
The troupe through its alumni has organized Kalimudan Center for Culture and the Arts, a non-government organization recognized by the Security Exchange Commission in preparation for establishing local networking as its contribution to the national and Mindanao wide networking. So far, the organization handled the theater activities of Kalilangan Festival of General Santos City – Kalimudan Theater Festival in 2003 & 2004 and a forum on culture development.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Our interview by Ms Rose Zerudo, artist and owner of Enigmata Treehouse Resort, Camiguin
Her thesis paper for presentation to New York Theater Congress
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
MSU-Kabpapagariya Ensemble tour in Cyprus, Israel and Jerusalem
MSU-Kabpapagariya Ensemble tour in
Lovella Derit
Rommel Quiao
Wahab Tamama
Ma. Theresa Intal
Ismael Pantao
Romeo F. Narvaez - Artistic Director
Alma Celesthia Dumalag-Aguja - Tour Manager
The Play is about two children, but is meant not for the child in us. Indeed, the play skillfully and artistically made obscure the violence surrounding the lives of two children in a remote war-torn village. How the war affected their day to day existence and how their choice of game to play and the roles they perform in their child games show stains of violence and hostility.
The play has been characterized as innovative, artistic, socially relevant local in form but universal in content, providing not only entertainment but inspiring insights that keep us in touch with our humanity. This unique intimate theater experience is designed to draw discussion among the audience on their personal view on the issues tackled in the presentation.
The play is being performed by the members of the MSU-Kabpapagariya Ensemble,. Script, concept and direction by Mr. Romeo F. Narvaez
This is to thank the following individuals and organizations for the support afforded to KE all through out the tour:
Ms Cecille Guidote Alvarez and Ms. Malou Jacob of NCCA
Atty Abdurrahman Canacan, Chancellor of MSU Gen. Santos City
Ms. Tang Guerra of Act for Peace Programme
Mr. Giorgus Neophytou and Neophytus Neophytou if Cyrus ITI
Ms. Irina and Mr. Demetrie of University of Cyprus
Vice Consul Thadeus Hamoy , Mr. Chester Omaga Diaz and all
Phil Embassy in Tel Aviv
Mr. Simi Salpeter - Tel Aviv
Ms. Josie Fabros and Mr. Steve of Phil Embassy in tel Aviv
Prof. Leonardo Palmes of OPESCA and all faculty and staff
All KE members and the Alumni
Friday, April 10, 2009
KE joined World The World Theater DAy
Kabpapagariya Ensemble joins World Theatre Week – Kalahi Caregiving March 25-29, 2009
World Theatre Week, an inter-agency committee led by NCCA is set to conduct its 2nd Creativity Summit on Kalahi Cultural Care-giving on the UN MDGs from March 25 to 29. It aims to gather artists and teachers, cultural workers and scholars, peace and human rights advocates, and tourism and information officers of local government units for an intercultural, interfaith exchange in a festival-conference and interdisciplinary theater workshops for bio-cultural diversity.
The six selected models for the summit are: (from Mindanao) Mindanao State University Sining Kadidilimudan from Maguindanao and Kabpapagariya Ensemble from General Santos; (from Visayas) Maribojoc Punta Cruz Cultural Collective of Bohol and the Cebu Pasundayag Cultural Network and Kapunungan Ni ‘Noy Kiko; and (from Luzon) Consortium of Young Artists and Indigenous Group from Isabela and participants in the aborning Baler Academy for Performance and Media Arts.
For World Theatre Day, the International Theatre Institute (ITI) with NCCA and OPAC is set to recognize the 14 regional culture-friendly local government officials and give six special citations for the Mayors of National Capital Region as well as culture-friendly media organizations and outstanding artists with golden years of service
KE performed “Dula Ta”, a play that depicts the effects of war to women and children
KE on Youtube
KE posted a New Youtube I.D.
Please find the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFmURxKr_4
Please find the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFmURxKr_4
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