Haraya: A Storytelling Festival features play adaptation of Silim: Ang Prinsesa ng Dilim
Manila City – Kei Mamangun-Sison partnered with Museo Pambata to organize Haraya: A Storytelling Festival, a celebration of Filipino children’s stories. With the theme “Pista ng Kuwento, Dula at Imahinasyon,” the event staged play adaptations of local children’s books and hosted art workshops for children.
The festival included a two-day run of theater plays which included a production called Ang Kwento ng Gabi. Mamangun-Sison adapted the CANVAS book Silim: Ang Prinsesa ng Dilim by Marc Joseph Bacho, and Rolando Inocencio directed the show. The interactive stage performance played around with light and darkness which tied together with the story. The kids shouted and cheered for Silim, and they happily pointed at her animal friends.
Part of the installations for the event is Pahina ng Haraya, a book nook filled with locally published books. CANVAS provided a variety of books, and kids leafed through the pages. Parents were even eager to purchase their own copy of some of the books. As part of the One Million Books for One Million Filipino Children campaign, more books were also donated to beneficiaries under Haraya’s Sponsor-a-Child Initiative, which brought underprivileged children the opportunity to enjoy the festival.
Haraya Storytelling Festival is part of Mamangun-Sison's creative project under the MA Theatre and Performance Praxis program at UP Diliman College of Arts and Letters under the supervision of Dr. Amihan Bonifacio-Ramolete.
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A non-profit that works with the creative community to promote literacy and explore national identity, CANVAS publishes its award-winning children's stories and donates their books to benefit children in public schools and poor communities throughout the Philippines. Its “One Million Books for One Million Filipino Children Campaign” promotes independent reading and creative thinking in Filipino children, while also exposing them to the best of contemporary Filipino art and literature.
