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“Basyang” seen in international Playlists on Spotify : a Wetsitunes ORegional Song Inspired by Filipino Storytelling

Wetsipon Workshop announces “ Basyang ,” an original song under its Wetsitunes O R egional banner. Released on May 8, 2026, the 2-minute, 20-second Children’s Music single builds on the workshop’s mission of making music inspired by Philippine folk tunes and creating engaging cultural and educational experiences for young listeners. A New Sound for a Beloved Storytelling Tradition   “ Basyang ” serves as theme music for contemporary storytelling inspired by Lola Basyang. The project links Wetsipon Workshop’s folk-tune archiving and original-music practice with a familiar figure in Philippine children’s literature. Writer and playwright Severino Reyes used “Lola Basyang ” as a pen name for stories published in Liwayway ; those stories later reached audiences through books, comics, television, film, and the performing arts.   Wetsipon , extending this storytelling work through an animated folk-tale anthology. In this contemporary creative context, she may be introduced as “...
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Our 4th Gawad Alternatibo Selection

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  Wetsitales Celebrates 4th Gawad Alternatibo Selection with Wetsitales : Agyu from Ayuman (Omnibus Version)   Wetsipon Workshop proudly celebrates another milestone as Wetsitales: Agyu from Ayuman (Omnibus Version) has been selected for Gawad Alternatibo, marking the fourth time Jade Dandan Evangelista’s Wetsitales series has been presented in the festival’s programming.   Since 2022, Wetsitales has brought Philippine oral traditions, folktales, and regional stories to screen through short animated films created by the daughter-mother team of Jade and Nina Dandan Evangelista. The series began its Gawad Alternatibo journey in 2022, when Jade, then 10 years old, had three films screened: Wetsitales : Aponibolinayen and the Sun (Official Selection , ) Wetsitales : How the Moon and Stars Came to Be , and Wetsitales : The Flood Story .   In 2023, three more Wetsitales films followed: The Monkey and the Turtle , The Story of Kanag (Official Selection , ) an...
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Our Music Journey So Far

W hen I was young,  I was lucky to have access to music in different forms and styles.  It was so accessible we actually took it for granted and for a time,  wasted the opportunity.   My mother was a piano teacher,  the best basic piano teacher in our small town.  She knows how to make a person play a musical instrument with information that sticks as a core memory.  Not just the easy playing style that would make you copy playing a piece and when the session ends you will never play the instrument again.  She is good in theory and possibly child psychology or people reading she can customize a curriculum so that you can eventually play the instrument,  find your own time to go back again, and still could play and progress even after the session.    However,  she was my mother and I never was into making music as a passion so I didn't like my Saturday playtime and TV time stopped by piano practice and lessons during my you...
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And then I saw 2 cats

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W etsipon's development happened this way,  she read at around 2, could keyboard type an actual word with corresponding emoji pre-playschool (around 3,) and then struggled for her to write on pen and paper at playschool.  We had to push her for pencil skills as we did not want her to do another playschool and be accepted in Kinder. Glad that I had a sister who is into child dev and asked us one question.  Is anybody at home writing on paper?  Being with 2 adults,  our household needed a lifestyle change,  we made an effort to forget Onenote, and Evernote and made an extra effort to write on paper.  I was a phone - tablet - laptop yielding corporate mom.  My hubby also only uses the phone, tablet, and desktop.  Things had to change.  Monkey sees monkey does.   I was lucky to have an office near a paper warehouse where they consider manila paper-sized cuts of  (beautiful)  paper as spoilage I can take home.  My ink...
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