The performing arts have transcended their essence by bringing the stage to the community to become a tool for education, empowerment, and care. This paper examines how the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde - Philippines employed a performing arts workshop for De La Salle Butitin in Nabawan, Malaysia, which is a hostel for underprivileged students who are taught to practice the Lasallian way of life. This project had seven workshops: dance, acting, music and audio, props, costume design, visual arts and set design which all aim at developing transferrable skills that allowed students to plan, design, and implement their own stage performances. The study employs mixed method. The researcher uses interview and survey questionnaire to gather the data from the participants and were analyzed using a statistical software IBM-SPSS V 27. Mean and standard deviations are used to show agreement to statements/questions and the variability of answers of respondents in the questions. Guided interviews and project evaluation results show that the participants did not only experience a nurturing process in theatre making but also achieved motivation and confidence to tell their stories onstage. Apart from proving that the performing arts come along with a nurturing pedagogy, the project has fortified a service-learning curriculum for Benilde. A way to immerse and empirically engage the Benildean students to comprehend how performing arts is an effective tool for social, education and political change via their experiences in different courses. This will aide them for a fun-filled lens to become critical, creative and productive by sharing their learned skills to their respective communities and to the underprivileged.

Authors:
Jay Binueza, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Philippines
Magdalena De Leon, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

About the Presenter(s)
Jay Binueza is currently the Principal of Senior High School Department of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. He was the former Head of the Curriculum Unit of the same institution. He is also a part-time professor.

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