NBN Channel 4's ONE MORNING SHOW Live Performance (March 30, 2009)
Live performance during NBN Channel 4's ONE MORNING SHOW before the interview segment of Usec. ERNESTO G. CAROLINA, USCVRA, DND and Administrator, PVAO.
MGA GERILYA SA POWELL STREET (AFP Theater, 30 March 2009)
Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street: The Repeat
After playing to full houses in two successful runs at the CCP, Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street moves to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Theater.
Tanghalang Pilipino presents this limited run in cooperation with the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO). In sponsoring this timely production, DND and PVAO share TP's goal in increasing public awareness of the plight of these veterans and the cause that they are fighting for.
Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street is an original play adapted by Palanca Award-winning playwright Rody Vera from the novel of the same title by Benjamin Pimentel. Pimentel's original novel won the highest citation in last year's National Book Awards. The play is staged under the direction of Chris Millado (director of the mega-hit shows Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah and Insiang). Leading the brilliant cast are seasoned theater/film actors such as Bembol Roco, Lou Veloso, Madeleine Nicolas, Crispin Pineda and other veteran thespians. The ensemble also includes members of the TP Actors' Company, as well as other talented guest performers.
The critically-acclaimed production of Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street was first presented by CCP's Tanghalang Pilipino in 2008 as part of its 22nd Theater Season billed as Identity and Change. The plot revolves around the diverse stories of Filipino WWII veterans who applied for American citizenship in order to get the long-due benefits promised to them. These veterans brave the cold and loneliness in San Francisco's Powell Street hoping for the approval of the Equity Bill that they have lobbied for years in the US Congress and that will somehow restore their dignity as defenders of our democracy and freedom.
"Mga Gerilya ..." is one of the three(3)-part tribute to veterans where the PVAO Chorale sang Arnel De Pano's "Dakilang Katapatan". The two other tribute were the photo exhibit billed "WAR OF OUR FATHERS", and the book launching ... "Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street".
After playing to full houses in two successful runs at the CCP, Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street moves to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Theater.
Tanghalang Pilipino presents this limited run in cooperation with the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO). In sponsoring this timely production, DND and PVAO share TP's goal in increasing public awareness of the plight of these veterans and the cause that they are fighting for.
Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street is an original play adapted by Palanca Award-winning playwright Rody Vera from the novel of the same title by Benjamin Pimentel. Pimentel's original novel won the highest citation in last year's National Book Awards. The play is staged under the direction of Chris Millado (director of the mega-hit shows Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah and Insiang). Leading the brilliant cast are seasoned theater/film actors such as Bembol Roco, Lou Veloso, Madeleine Nicolas, Crispin Pineda and other veteran thespians. The ensemble also includes members of the TP Actors' Company, as well as other talented guest performers.
The critically-acclaimed production of Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street was first presented by CCP's Tanghalang Pilipino in 2008 as part of its 22nd Theater Season billed as Identity and Change. The plot revolves around the diverse stories of Filipino WWII veterans who applied for American citizenship in order to get the long-due benefits promised to them. These veterans brave the cold and loneliness in San Francisco's Powell Street hoping for the approval of the Equity Bill that they have lobbied for years in the US Congress and that will somehow restore their dignity as defenders of our democracy and freedom.
"Mga Gerilya ..." is one of the three(3)-part tribute to veterans where the PVAO Chorale sang Arnel De Pano's "Dakilang Katapatan". The two other tribute were the photo exhibit billed "WAR OF OUR FATHERS", and the book launching ... "Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street".
BOOK LAUNCHING
Photo shows Benjamin Pimentel's "Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street", launched as one of the tribute to Filipino veterans last 30 March 2009 at the AFP Theater.
A CELEBRATION OF FRIENDSHIP (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 30 May 2009)
The PVAO Chorale and The Canticle Singers of Malaysia celebrates friendship!!! The two groups were participants to the 2008 HANDS-ON CHORAL WORKSHOP of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and since then had stayed connected. The group grace the production of TCS' BE OUR GUEST at the University of Malaya.