Wetsipon Workshop : Learner Led Journeys

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 “...

  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...