DA sponsors song-dance show

What do the harmony of bamboo sticks and mongo shakers have to do with a deep appreciation of the bounty of nature and the stewardship of man?

Find out on June 14, 6-9 p.m., with the Department of Agriculture’s Handog sa Mamamayang Filipino: "Musikahan at Sayawan." As part of the country’s Independence Day celebrations, this show presents an innovation in values and education especially designed for representatives of the DA at the Clam Shell, WOW Intramuros, Manila with singer-songwriter Joey Ayala and values educator Pauline Salvana-Bautista.

The one-and-a-half-hour concert-workshop sponsored by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources features Joey Ayala compositions on nature and human values with song-inspired reflections that participants will express as drawings and symbols in a especially designed concert journal.

Simple instruments will be distributed to the audience. Part of the workshop is an on-the-spot orchestration to illustrate sensitivity and harmony. "Education through structured experience and metaphor," said Salvana-Bautista.

The concert-workshop has been piloted to good audience response in Baguio with the National Youth Commission, the Development Academy of the Philippines and in Quezon province with the DA-BFAR. It has reached children of all ages, adolescents and adults with enjoyable formative activities, creative reflection and musical enjoyment through participation.

For more details, write to: [email protected].