Wazzup Pilipinas News and Events

Thursday, January 23, 2014

An Enchanted Evening with Jonathan Badon

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Internationally acclaimed tenor and classical pop artist Jonathan Badon, also known as the "Josh Groban of the Philippines" and the Prince of Popera, is performing "An Enchanted Evening" on January 30, 2014 7 pm at the Teatrino in Promenade, Greenhills, San Juan City.

Jonathan has a bachelor’s degree in Music in Voice from the University of the Philippines College of Music. An Aliw Awardee for Best Male Classical Performer in 2004 and Best Global Pinoy Performer in 2010, he is the ultimate cross-over artist in his transition from classical to pop singing. He can easily switch his singing style from classic opera to pop or vice versa.

Jonathan, also a composer and arranger, won the grand prize in the AFP National Songwriting Contest for "Dugong Pilipino."

Jonathan has traveled the world performing in major cultural festivals and with renowned orchestras and played lead roles in musicals (“Les Miserables”, “Camelot”, “Westside Story”), operas (“Candide”, “Tales of Hoffman”, “La Traviata”), oratorios, zarzuelas and done concerts in United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He is consistently the top choice to represent the Philippines in different musical competitions.

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Don’t miss your chance to step into the biggest Hennessy party of the year happening on Friday at 8 pm January 24 at the SM Aura Samsung Hall, Bonifacio Global City!

Hennessy Artistry Manila Halo is the biggest party event of the year to bring you a night of exceptional musical collaboration of both local and international talents namely Kimkat, Timomatic, Urbandub, Jessica Milner, Motherbasss and Nicole Asensio.

To perform also are Ira Cruz, DJ David Ardiente, DJ Ron Poe, DJ Emel Rowe, DJ Cammy V and Deuce Manila.

Hennessy Artistry is a famed global music campaign to promote the art of mixing various genres and blending the talents of the world's top artists. Every trademark Hennessy Artistry event is an evening pure unification; mixing sound, visual innovation and drinking experiences from around the world.

Each event features some of the most cutting edge and formidable names in music today.

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March 1 is just around the corner so if I were you, I’ll be readying myself for the biggest digital arts awards in the country.

Aspiring participants, time to show the world what you've got. This is the time to make a difference. Globaltronics presents a bigger and better National Digital Arts Awards (NDAA) for 2014.The NDAA is considered as the biggest award-giving body that seeks to recognize the top digital artists in the Philippines. It was launched by Globaltronics on November, 2012 in conjunction with its 10th year anniversary as an advocacy that aims to highlight the skills and talents of young digital artists in the Philippines.

The NDAA seeks not only to recognize the talents of the artists but also to showcase the capabilities of the local digital art community. Globaltronics sees the potential of homegrown artists and the company believes that given the chance, the Filipino talent can excel globally.

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If you are creative at heart, passionate about design or are one who appreciates the arts, you are very welcome to attend Graphika Manila.

Graphika Manila is the premiere multimedia and graphic design event in the Philippines. Since 2006, Graphika Manila has attracted over 16,000 design students and professionals and is now hailed as one of the most influential multimedia events in the country. It is the biggest creative gathering in the Philippines, with close to 3000 attendees every year.

As it celebrates its ninth year running, Graphika Manila once more brings together Manila’s creative minds to listen to inspiring stories and celebrate the works of the best multimedia and graphic designers from the Philippines and from around the globe.

Simply put it as a creative symposium with speakers from different fields of the creative arts. The conference focuses on the creative side of design rather than technology.

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A portrait is typically defined as a representation of a specific individual, such as the artist might meet in life. A portrait does not merely record someone's features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person's presence. Each portrait is thus meant to express individual identity but it also "seeks to bring out whatever the sitter has in common with the rest of humanity."

Portraiture is a sense of reality, an apparent intention to depict the unique appearance of a particular person.

Portraiture Exhibit is a 2014 kick-off fashion collaboration exhibit of Fadal Manila & Ash Reginald Evasco | Photographer showcasing the iconic personalities of music, film, fashion and arts personified by the fabulous drag queen divas !!!

Save the date and see your favorite icons relived in a photography exhibit entitled Portraiture this January 28, Tuesday at URBN Bar & Kitchen, at The Fort !

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Its huge! Its beautiful! Best of all it will open its doors to all of us cyclists and beautiful bicycles all over the metro on the Jan. 25 and 26!

Our Proud Historic Event Host will be, The Malolos Sports and Convention Center in Malolos City.

This Historic Bike Festival Event host now celebrates 115 yrs of the First Republic of the Philippines which was held in Malolos City in 1899.

The fun, food and entertaiment Bike Festival will be held in the newly built Malolos Sports and Convention Center and shall open its doors to all the cycling communities, bike clubs and bicycle collectors and enthusiasts.

Malolos City will proudly host its sports and convention centers modern amenities and its fully air-conditioned festival area for the 2 day fun bike festival.

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Looking for a good reason to break your diet this week? Look no further.

Some of the country’s top toques led by Lusso’s Margarita Fores and Antonio’s Tony Boy Escalante, will be flipping burgers once again at "Cook Out 2 Help Out: Rebuilding Visayas", for the benefit of the rebuilding efforts of Habitat for Humanity, for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

This repeat of the very successful, “Cook out to Help Out” which was held last November 2013 at Rockwell’s Power Plant Mall, will again be staged on January 24, 25, and 26 at the Powerplant Mall’s Plaza Drive located at the open air area, across Hatch 22, Starbucks and Cibo.

Every ticket holder is entitled to one free burger, fries, and drink for Php300.

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Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is the feel-good international hit sensation!

Adapted from the 1994 movie about three Australian drag queens on an epic road trip through the outback, Priscilla is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could have dreamed of.

Priscilla combines the campy sentimentality about drag life epitomized by “La Cage Aux Folles” with a singalong soundtrack spanning a bewildering array of pop from at least three decades.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is the feel-good international hit sensation! Based on the smash hit movie, Priscilla is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could have dreamed of. With a dazzling array of costumes and a hit parade of dance-floor favorites, this wildly fresh and funny new musical is a journey to the heart of FABULOUS.

Multi award-winner, Priscilla has already been seen by over 2.5 million people and grossed in excess of $250 million.

Priscilla features 20 full-length scale production numbers and a sensational song list featuring classic disco hits including: Don’t Leave Me This Way, I Will Survive, Finally, I Love The Nightlife, Color My World and Shake Your Groove Thing. With over spectacular costumes, extraordinary headdresses, stunning scenery, and a customized bus as its sparkling centerpiece, Priscilla is a must see spectacular, and it’s coming to the Newport Performing Arts Theater this summer 2014! - See more at: http://www.rwmanila.com/events/priscilla-queen-desert-musical#.dpuf

As in the movie a Sydney drag performer, Tick, professionally and personally known as Mitzi, receives a stern summons from Marion, the wife he left back in the sticks, who is determined to bring about a meeting between Tick and the son he has never known.

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Philippine Junior Marketing Association’s biggest event of the year is here!

Mad World 2014 entitled, “Selfie: How to create meaningful Personal Brand," is coming your way this Feb. 02 at the SMX Convention Center!

It is PJMA’s annual convention for budding marketing professionals all over the country. Through this event, PJMA has constantly given its best, year after year, to provide the students the perfect venue to learn the current trends in the ever-changing world of advertising and marketing.

Only the best among the big names in Marketing and Advertising in the Philippines are invited to transform the ordinary you to the extraordinary! How? By helping you create your own unique branding!

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Be prepared ! An electrifying theatrical work of art.
Coming soon ! The cast announcement of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

The main characters are Beverly and Violet Weston. They are married and live in a three-story home in Oklahoma. They have three daughters by the name of Barbara, Karen and Ivy in the order of their age.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name made its Broadway debut in December 2007 after premiering at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre earlier that year. It continued with a successful international run and was the winner of five Tony Awards in 2008, including Best Play.

A film starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, has just been released late last year.

AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY
Opens February 21.
Onstage, Greenbelt 1.