OCTOBER 13 - OCTOBER 19, 2019


Tanghal 13 festival premieres Sigbin: Stories of the Region


Festival (Visayas leg) from Oct. 4-6, with theatre makers from Leyte, Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, Iloilo and Antique. Organized by the Youth Advocates through Theater Arts (YATTA), together with


Dumaguete City hosted Tanghal 13: the National University and Community Theater


the Negros Island Initiatives for Rural Development, the Silliman University Culture & Arts Council, and the City of Dumaguete, Tanghal is a flagship project of the National Commission for Culture & the Arts-Committee on Dramatic Arts, headed by Dumaguete- based theater artist Dessa Quesada Palm. The weekend also witnessed the premier of Sigbin: Stories of the Region, a collaborative theatre production of Tabok Central Visayas Theater Network members YATTA of Dumaguete City, Kasing Sining of Bohol, and Guang Ming Institute for the Performing Arts of Cebu, coordinated by the Sta. Fe Tourism Enterprises Association. Some snapshots of the Tanghal Festival which carried the theme, Theatre Without Borders, and Sigbin. (Photos by Francis Ryan Pabiania)


Members of YATTA perform an excerpt of Paghimamat for the opening program at the Luce Auditorium.


NORSU’s


Kabilin Dance Troupe perform to the tune of Si Pilemon during the opening program


Foundation University’s Buglasayaw in their interpretation of Pulang Lapok


Guang Ming Institute ensemble in Sigbin sa Katilingban. (Photo by Studio Evision)


Multi-awarded theater guru Lutgardo “Gardy” Labad of Bohol’s Kasing Sining presents the breakthroughs of and challenges for the theater movement


Participants create a tableaux of their vision for Tanghal and the theater network Delegates of Tanghal 13 during their conference held at Mayor Felipe Remollo’s residence


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