WIN’s Music Ministry Workshop: An Outreach Program
A total of 107 participants gathered in Tacloban City for a 2-day Music Ministry Workshop last July 4 &5, 2017 aimed at recollecting dormant ideas, imparting new techniques in choral singing and accompanying, teaching choirs to become independent in application and execution of knowledge with the objective of making the Eucharistic Mass more meaningful.
WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN) offered the free workshop to all the church choirs of the different dioceses of Leyte, Samar and Biliran.
The following is a listing of the parishes who participated: –
1. Our Lady of Fatima Parish (Tacloban City)
2. St. Michael the Archangel Parish (Javier, Leyte)
3. St. Anthony de Padua Parish (Tabon-tabon, Leyte)
4. Holy Trinity Parish (Alang-Alang, Leyte)
5. St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish (Libertad, Leyte)
6. St. Jude Thaddeus Parish (PHHC, Tacloban CIty)
7. Our Lord’s Transfiguration Parish (Palo, Leyte)
8. St. Francis Xavier Parish (Palompon, Leyte)
9. Immaculate Conception Parish (Burauen, Leyte)
10. Diocese of Borongan (Eastern Samar)
11. Sto. Nino Parish (Tacloban City)
12. St. Michael Archangel Parish (Tolosa, Leyte)
13. San Jose Parish (Tacloban City)
14. Our Lourdes Parish (V&G, Tacloban City)
15. Parish of Julita (Julita, Leyte)
16. Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish (Tacloban City)
17. Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Parish (Tacloban City)
18. St. Scholastica Choir (Tacloban City)
19. St. James Parish
(Caibiran, Leyte)
20. Diocese of Catarman(Catarman, Northern Samar)
21. Our Lady of Refuge Parish (Dulag, Leyte)
The workshop was designed and facilitated by WIN’s VP for Ensemble, Training and Development, Melvin Corpin.
The resource speaker was Nino Banares, a composer and a member of the Board of the Philippine Choir Directors Association (PCDA). Nino is a very good friend of Melvin and volunteered his services for the two-day workshop. He trained the Caibiran Parish choir (St. James Parish) on the eve of the workshop to fine tune the mass songs and anthem ( Melvin composed it) for the centennial celebration of the Caibiran parish on July 25,2017.
Fr. Raymund Mazo, chairperson of the Commission on Liturgical Music of the Palo Archdiocese was also on hand to facilitate the two-day workshop.
WIN would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to Fr. Mazo Raymund Ciprian Mazo for his support of this project and for presiding over a Eucharistic Mass before the start of each day of the 3-day medical mission held simultaneously during the mission’s last 2 days with the music ministry workshop.
?:Ludette Virtucio Ruiz, Melvin-Carla Corpin, and Lidu Saño.
Medical Mission: July 3 to 5, 2017 Tacloban City
Kabilin Concert held July 1 and 2 at the RTRMF Gymnasium, Tacloban City
The Waraynon Initiative Network’s (WIN) musical and cultural collaborative concert with local performance organizations, dubbed as the “Kabilin Concert,” held July 1 and 2 at the RTRMF Gymnasium.
The Waraynon Initiative Network (WIN) is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation organized in the State of California, US. It was formed to preserve and promote the national heritage of the Philippines as well as its Waraynon sub-culture, a distinct cultural identity of the islands of Leyte, Samar and Biliran.
Photos Taken by Gerry Ruiz
Kabilin Promo Video
Waraynon Initiative Network to Conduct Medical and Cultural Mission Trip this July California-based non-profit organization travels to Leyte, Philippines for Mission Trip
WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK, first Newsletter
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