Showing posts with label Jose Badelles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jose Badelles. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Book Project Update: Filipino Folk Stories for Children
In the first quarter of 2022, my friend and colleaugue, Jose "Ouie" Badelles signed with Tuttle Publishing for a book project with a working title of Filipino Folk Stories for Children. It is a compilation of seven folk stories with notes and activitiy sheets. It is a collection we intend to share with readers young and old, especially to families of Filipino descent who are based abroad.
Today, I was able to finish all seven stories. Ang sarap ng feeling! I will rest for a few days and move on to writing the remaining parts of the book.
Sunday, December 18, 2022
A Meeting of Artists at Yuletide
That day when @STUDIO.Badelles met Amy Lopez Nayve of Pumapapel Crafts was magic!
So happy to have touched based with Amy after the lockdown.
Looking forward to collaborative projects with these two amazing people!
@zarahg_08 That day when @STUDIO.Badelles ♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) - Danilo Stankovic
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Pathways to God
Kuya Val led the group of 18 participants, comprised of four Titas and Tito of Magis Deo, one guest speaker and thirteen members of Magis Deo Teens and Young Adults in the opening song and music jam. Singing to Sunrise by Ben and Ben, Kuya Val kicked off the session on a positive and reassuirng note. This was followed by a reflection activity by Tita Zarahon the Examen. As a priming activity to Mr. Badelles' talk, she showed a video presentation about an artist, Makoto Fujimura who found God through art.
In Mr. Badelles' session, he shared his creative process and the sacred spaces of reflection one can carve out in the act of creation. By doing and demonstrating an art activity to capture feelings and memory, one is able to appreciate living in the moment. He also presented his art journal as a way to nurture the self and express his ideas, feelings and sense of being.
The one hour session spent listening and watching Mr. Badelles was akin to viewing Bob Ross on YouTube. However, with Mr. Badelles, participants got to ask questions about his technique, to identifying medium and materials suitable for the artist, making a decision to pursue art as a career cjoice, to overcoming a period of Black Swan - that dryness in an artist's creative journey. He encouraged everyone pursuing a creative endeavor to just keep giong. It is in facing one's fears where in we become better versions of ourselves.
When a Magis Deo Youth participant asked him for a description of the afternoon session and the object he will draw to represent it, he was quick to say "sunshine with clouds dispersing."
Thank you Mr. Badelles for being an inspiration to us all! As one Magis Deo Tita said after the session, "art and music are powerful pathways to God!"
Thursday, October 7, 2021
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