National Ultimate Collegiate Championship 2015: Who Will Reign Supreme?

Wazzup Pilipinas!
This 2015, the University of the Philippines Diliman Ultimate Organization (UP DUO), in cooperation with Greenfield City, brings you the 4th annual National Ultimate Collegiate Championship!

NUCC is specially organized to promote sportsmanship and camaraderie among college, university and high school teams from all over the Philippines through Ultimate Frisbee. With 16 college and university-based teams, 5 teams competing for the high school open and 3 teams for the ｗomens＇division, NUCC 2015 is more competitive and more exciting than ever!

Succeeding this are the participating schools in NUCC 2015:

COLLEGIATE
University of the Philippines Diliman
Benilde Ultimate
University of the Philippines Los Baños
De La Salle University
University of Asia and the Pacific
Polytechnic University of the Philippines Ultimate
Ateneo de Manila University
University of Santo Tomas
De La Salle University – Science and Technology Complex
Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology
Malayan Colleges Laguna
Centro Escolar University
PATTS College of Aeronautics
San Beda College
Xavier University - Ateneo De Cagayan
De La Salle University – Dasmarinas

Siddhartha: The Musical on July 17

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Fo Guang Shan Philippines in cooperation with the Buddha’s Light International Association will restage Siddhartha: The Musical at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines on July 17, at 2 pm and 8 pm.

Directed by Sarah Mae Enclona-Henderson and with musical direction by Jude Gitamondoc, Siddhartha: The Musical tells the story of Siddhartha, the prince who renounced his royal status to seek enlightenment. He would eventually become the Buddha, the awakened one. His teachings are still kept alive today by millions of people all over the world.

The musical is based on the book The Biography of Sakyamuni Buddha by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order. Most of the songs used in the musical are also based on the writings of the Venerable Master.

To date, Siddhartha: The Musical has been staged a total of 55 times. It has been shown in Cebu, Manila, Iloilo, Bacolod, Taiwan and the United States. The cast of over 70 volunteer actors and dancers showcases the musical and performing talents of Filipinos, particularly of Cebuanos.

Manila Improv Festival 2015 to Be Held on July 2 to 12

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Silly People’s Improv Theatre (SPIT) is the country’s premiere improvisational theatre group known for their smart and incisive brand of comedy. Considered as one of the best improv comedy troupes in Asia, SPIT has had almost a thousand performances in the last decade to both local and international audiences whose combined numbers easily run up to the thousand. SPIT has represented the Philippines in the Los Angeles, Beijing and Hong Kong Comedy Festivals, and the Improv Festivals in New York and Chicago, and more recently, the Amsterdam Improv Festival in January of this year.

Improvisational theatre is a form of theatre where scenes are co-created by the audience and the actors in real time, without the benefit of a script or prior rehearsals for the performers. Because of this method, watching an improvised theatre show is more akin to performance art due to its non-conventional approach.

This year, Manila International Improv Festival 2015 is happening on July 2-12, 2015. This performance art festival is a partnership with two prominent Philippine institutions. Silliman University in Dumaguete will host our Tropical Improv Camp from July 2-5, and the Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA) will be our partner venue where all theatre performances will be held on July 8-12, 2015.

Our performance art fair is hosting improv comedy groups from around the world: PIP Show (Warsaw), Impro Mafia (Brisbane), Pirates of Tokyo Bay (Tokyo), Landry & Summers (Los Angeles), To Be Continued, People’s Liberation Improv, 3 Dudes Improv and Lamb Ink (Hong Kong), The Improv Company (Singapore), Taichung Improv (Taichung), The Beijing Collective (Beijing), People’s Republic of Comedy and Zmack (Shanghai), Bacolod Improv Group (Bacolod), Dulaang Atenista (Cagayan de Oro), One and a Half Men, Switch Improv, and SPIT (Manila).