The Pioneers

NAME: Kathleen Joy Jovellanos Domingo NICKNAME: Kitchie B-DAY: April 17, 1973 ADDRESS: 8 Masunurin Street,                Sikatuna Village                Quezon City E-MAIL: kitchie@cas.uap.edu.ph TELEPHONE: 921-6110 / 434-5777 PAGER: 141-130724

SCHOOL ORGS JOINED: iTEC; member, 1994-1997 ROC (Rock Opera Company); member, 1995; president, 1995-1997 University Chorale; member, 1996-1997 SPECIAL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: International Week 1993-1994, Japanese class’ entry to program & member of group in charge of floor decoration. International Week 1994-1995, cast member of linkers for the program & member of group in charge of floor decoration. Shakespeare Week 1994-1995, cast member - "Nang Magkatapat Ang Magkatapat" "Moses, Moses", production staff "Masdan Ang Iyong Ina", cast member February ’97 Concert of University Chorale SCHOOL AWARDS: Best Performance, co-winner; "Nang Magkatapat Ang Magkatapat", Shakespeare Week Playfest 1994-1995 Best Floor Decoration, winner; International Week 1994-1995 president of organization given award as Most Dynamic Organization 1995-1996 "citation" from Dr. Estanislao for having been part of "Masdan Ang Iyong Ina" (Lisa, I don’t really know what that thing was called... I’m not even sure if it was really an award... but, he did treat us to a special lunch, he also gave the girls roses, and he gave all of us UA&P pins.)

It's a big day on Sesame Street! Placido Flamingo has been rehearsing his aria the whole week; Meryl Sheep has been practicing her "Five-No-Play"; Savion has been teaching the kiddies how to tap dance; and the beetles are getting ready to make a special appearance singing "Letter B". The great story teller is coming for a visit!

Lola Basyang lives for story-telling. Whenever you see a crowd gathered in one corner, craning their necks the way big bird does, you are sure to find her in the middle.

She comes from a place called heartland, two paces from fairy, in the border of waking and beside the places in between. Because she comes from a faraway place, the stories she brings to the outside seem exotic, unreal. But in truth they are not.

She speaks about ordinary lives and ordinary days which even we from the outside experience. But precisely because of their ordinariness, we fail to see anything in them. Her eyes are not as jaded as ours. Like a child, she can see right through our cover and see our scars, our marks, our beauty, our pains.

What she sees, she clothes in other people's lives and other people's dreams. She sews and weaves, but she never spins.

Her tiny stage has been set and an eager audience made up of monsters and grown-ups and muppets and children sits in a semi-circle. She looks at each of their faces, sees what she needs to see, and begins.

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