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THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 6 Number 10 | JULY 2016
ENTERTAINMENT
Ignatius ignites the world
From page 17
UPeepz (WSB International Monster Crew Champions 2015). Photo: ES Fotografi.
Battlegrounds Dance Championship
going national in July
AUSTRALIA’S
biggest international
hip-hop street
dance competition,
World Supremacy
Battlegrounds (WSB),
returns to Australia
in July with a series of
qualification events
across the country.
The international
finals will culminate
in Sydney on
September 9-11.
More than 4,000 of
the best Australian Hip
Hop dancers are expected
to register and compete
nation-wide for a chance
to represent the Australian
national team in September.
They will face some of the
best dance crews from New
Zealand, South Africa, the
Philippines, Malaysia, USA,
Canada, Solomon Islands and
Singapore.
In its thirteenth year,
the World Supremacy
Battlegrounds (WSB)
Qualifiers will be jam-packed
with cool X Factor and
YouTube celebrities, dynamic
dance battles, electrifying
musical performances, MAS
Creative Camp and market
stalls. Twelve vacant titles
are up for grabs, including the
School Division and a brandnew Kids Division.
Filipino-Australian
dancers feature prominently
in the Hip Hop dance scene
around Australia. One of the
better-known crews, Kookies
N Kream from Liverpool,
started their dance journey
from Battlegrounds before
they made it big on Australia's
Got Talent a few years ago.
K'N'K choreographer
Jet Valencia said, "We love
this competition. We are
passionate about dance. We
want to represent our families
and share our talents to
everyone."
Young dancer Michael
Flores from Merrylands added,
“Battlegrounds is an amazing
competition as it provides a
platform for dancers across the
globe to show what they got.
The reason why I compete is
to share with the community
my own expression on dance
and to further my skills as a
performer and dancer. What
excites me is the vibe of the
event, alongside the support of
all dancers.”
The Philippines will be
well represented in September
by a 400-strong RP national
squad, led by defending
international Open division
champions Asian Pride from
Mandaluyong, and two-time
champions FMD Xtreme of
Marikina City.
Battlegrounds 2016 Tour Dates
• July 9: Adelaide @ Michael
Murray Performing Arts Theatre
• July 16: Sydney @ Netball
Central Sydney Olympic Park
• July 23: Perth @ Kennedy
Baptist College
• July 30: Brisbane @ Logan
Metro Indoor Sports Centre
• Sept 9-11: WSB Championship
@ Mounties Sydney
To register online, visit www.
worldsupremacybattlegrounds.
com.
For general enquiries,
contact 0420307753.
videos Monica's House and
Monica's Seaside Adventure
which involved popular
children's entertainer and jazz
singer Monica Trapaga, his
youngest sibling.
Another work where
Ignatius showed his creative
brilliance was his direction of
Offenbach's Orpheus in the
Underworld for the Australian
Opera in 2003. For t his work,
he received a 2004 Australian
Green Room Award
nomination for Best Director
of an Opera. He also co-wrote
a new translation of Orpheus
from French, with colleagues
Philip Scott and Jonathan
Biggins. This earned the three
of them an AWGIE Award for
Best Adaptation of a Dramatic
Work, from the Australian
Writers' Guild.
NON-STOP DREAMING
Ignatius said that planning
for next year's Vivid Sydney
event has already started and
next time he hoped to infuse it
with a Pinoy touch
"I'd dearly love to have a
giant parol [lantern] featured in
Vivid Sydney. I have attended
the 2015 Giant Lantern
Festival in San Fernando,
Pampanga and was very
impressed with the amazing
parols. I have been in dialogue
with the Philippine Consulate,
the tourism department and
potential sponsors to make this
a reality. We are nearly there."
He said that one big dream
is to go back to the Philippines
and work on a show for one of
the big casinos there.
“The Philippines is the
most artistic nation on earth,
as most everyone can sing and
dance. My speciality is using
old art forms to create new
ones. It would be great to put
together a show that will bring
out the wonderful Filipino
artistic talents."
With Ignatius' passion and
creativity, it is highly likely
that these dreams will become
a reality.
** Vivid Sydney photos from
vividsydney.com
New Promo from Western Union
30-Day TFC.tv Lite Package
The Western Union Company,
a leader in global payments
services, today announced
that it has signed a promotion
agreement with ABS-CBN
Global Group to offer Western
Union consumers key
markets access to TFC.tv Lite
Package .
The promotion is open to all consumers
in participating countries who send money
to the Philippines through Western Union®
or Vigo (Canada only) Agent retail locations
or wu.com from May 15 to August 15, 2016.
Each transfer paid out in the Philippines
within five (5) days from the transaction date
qualifies the sender to one (1) redemption
of TFC.tv Lite Package valid for thirty (30)
days. A maximum of three (3) redemptions is
allowed for each sender during the promotion
period.
The promotion also offers access to a
seven (7)-day archive of programs on the
TFC.tv Lite Package and ten (10) selected
movies featuring John Lloyd Cruz, currently
Western Union’s celebrity endorser. The
promotion will be available in the US,
Canada, Middle East, Oceania, Central and
South America, as well as selected countries
in Europe, Asia and Africa.
“I am very excited about this
collaboration with ABS-CBN Global
Group. Their flagship product, TFC, is
the leading content provider for overseas
Filipinos worldwide and is accessible on a
variety of platforms; cable, satellite, videoon-demand, IPTV, mobile and online.
Offering access to the rich content that TFC
provides to consumers who send money to
the Philippines is our way of giving back
and helping them to stay connected to their
heritage,” says Patricia Riingen, Senior Vice
President, South East Asia and Oceania,
Western Union.
“Western Union is a leading global
money transfer company with services
available in over 200 countries and
territories2. Our collaboration with Western
Union will give more consumers who send
money back home to the Philippines an
opportunity to remain updated with news and
entertainment programs from our homeland
through our TFC programs, specifically
via TFC.tv,” says Raffy Lopez, ABS-CBN
Global COO.
Last year, Western Union celebrated
25 years of moving money for better in the
Philippines. Western Union recognizes that
the act of transferring money is a bridge that
not only sends remittances to friends and
families but also acts as a conduit for building
better lives in the communities it serves. This
latest promotion to offer TFC demonstrates
Western Union’s continued commitment to
moving money for better.
For more information about the
guidelines of this promotion, please visit
www.tfc.tv/wu