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June 2001
Lea Salonga Records Song for Jesuit Music Ministry
Something More - Songs for Skeptics is the title of a new CD/audio
tape produced by the Jesuit Music Ministry and Jesuit Communications
Foundation in the Philippines, with the backing of Kuangchi Program
Service in Taiwan and JESCOMEAO. Aimed at young people and their
struggles with life and Faith, the album's 15 original songs are written
and performed by Jesuit priests and scholastics of the Philippines and
Malaysia together with their colleagues. Several tracks are sung by
top Filipino recording artists. Ms. Lea Salonga, star of the
international musical Miss Saigon sings the title track of the
album, Something More, music by Manoling Francisco, SJ; lyrics by
Johnny Go, SJ. Other tracks include scholastic Arnel
Aquino’s Out of Roads, based on the Prodigal Son parable, and Teach
My Heart, sung by RB Hizon, SJ, from a prayer of St. Anselm. To
order the CDs or audio tapes in the Philippines, contact Jesuit
Communications Foundation:
jcf@pusit.admu.edu.ph
;
Fax: 632-4265970. In other countries, contact Kuangchi Program
Service kuangchi@seed.net.tw ; Fax:
886-2-27712246
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Order code: CD-SM at:
Price: US$15 shipping included
Kuangchi Program Service
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Video Documentary on Asian Migrant Workers by
Kuangchi Program Service
Asian Exile--The Gamble of Asia's Migrant Laborers,
produced by
Taipei's Kuangchi Progam Service, is a 53-minute video documentary
charting the journeys of three Thai factory workers from northeastern
Thailand to Taiwan and back again. The documentary reveals their
reasons for going abroad to work; their accomplishments, frustrations,
gains and losses while working abroad; their lives and future prospects
when they return home. The video and study guide can be used to
prepare prospective migrant workers for what lies in store for them if
they go to work abroad, and also to help them weigh the pros and cons
before deciding whether or not to do so. It is also useful in
assisting people in host countries to understand, accept, sympathize with
and assist migrant laborers in their countries. For copies, contact
Kuangchi Program Service kuangchi@seed.net.tw ;
Fax: 886-2-27712246
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Order Code: AE3
Price: US$35 (NT$600) shipping included
Available
in VCD and VHS format
from:
Kuangchi
Program Service
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Puskat Audio-visual Studio Plans International Video
Production Training Course
Puskat Audio-visual Studio, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will conduct an
international video production training course from August 1 until
September 5, 2001. This intensive course is designed to assist
people working in church communication and video/TV production to upgrade
their production skills, creativity, and values perspective. Mr.
Alberto Pigola, a producer and teacher from Uruguay, and Jerry Martinson,
SJ from Kuangchi Program Service in Taipei, will assist Mr. Fred Wibowo
and the professional production staff of Puskat in conducting this course.
Participants will stay in Puskat's ethnic-guest house in Sinduharjo
cultural compound where their production facilities are located. The
number of participants is limited to 12. Applications must be
received before June 30, 2001. For further information, please
contact Ms. Wiwit Wahyuning:Tel. 62-274-883539;Fax. 62-274-883538;
savpuskat@yogya.wasantara.net.id
(Note: This workshop has been postponed until June, 2001)
Australian News and Prayer Website
Michael Kelly, SJ announces a news and prayer web site of the Australian
Catholic Church which is available to subscribers free of charge.
Subscribe by logging on to the home page at www.cathtelecom.com
Michael and producer Peter Thomas have also started a spirituality channel
for Catholic hospitals called The Caritas Channel. 28 hours of
videotaped programming are delivered to hospitals for repeated
narrow-casting to patients' bedsides. Every three months, a new set
of programs is delivered. The hospitals put the programs on their
cable system that also delivers free-to-air channels and pay per view
channels. The Caritas Channel is free for all patients and is financed by
advertising.
New English Conversation TV Series and Website for
China
Taipei's Kuangchi Program Service has recently completed the production of
150 new English conversation TV programs for Mainland China. This
new series is a continuation of "Uncle Jerry's Practical Guide to
American English" which has been broadcast daily throughout Mainland
China over the Star TV Phoenix Channel for the past 9 years. Thanks
to a special subsidy from the EAO Assistancy and the China Province, the
new programs are of higher production quality than formerly. In
addition to segments shot on location in the United States, each program
ends with an evocative story or "homily", in English and
Chinese, highlighting a particular virtue, value, or spiritual truth.
David Reed, now working at KPS, edited and translated each of these
stories into English and also corrected and edited the program scripts and
subtitles. The news series, launched in early April, encourages
viewers to log onto an accompanying website (www.unclejerry.tv)
which will soon go on-line and provide a partial text and study guide for
each program. The website will gradually develop to include
additional values-based content and links to other web sites which may be
helpful and inspiring for the Chinese audience.
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