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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Globaltronics Presents the National Digital Arts Awards 2014

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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.

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Opens February 21.
Onstage, Greenbelt 1.

Rak of Aegis: A Rock Comedy Musical Featuring the Songs of Aegis

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RAK OF AEGIS is a rock comedy musical using the songs of Aegis that will tackle Filipino resilience, or how the country faces and resolves compromising situations, whether this be a natural disaster or a broken heart.

Set in a subdivision that has been flooded for two months, “Rock of Aegis” will revolve around the love interests of the main characters, whose names are derived from those of Aegis band members
as a tribute to the Filipino novelty rock group that made waves in the 90’s.

RAK OF AEGIS
Written by Liza Magtoto
Directed by Maribel Legarda
Musical Direction & Arrangement by Myke Salomon

JAN. 31 - MAR. 9, 2014
PETA THEATER CENTER

Call TICKETWORLD and book your tickets now !

Mark Rothko’s “Red” by John Logan

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Mark Rothko’s “Red” by John Logan is the critically acclaimed production about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko who was commissioned, for what might have been the equivalent of the Sistine Chapel commission, to paint a series of murals for the cutting edge Seagram Building on Park Avenue.

But after completing the works, he mysteriously decides to keep the paintings and returns every penny of the advance. Years later, the artist donates the works to the Tate Gallery in London and on the very day it arrives at the gallery, he commits suicide.

The play introduces a fictitious assistant who engages Rothko in arguments and conversations that ultimately make us understand why Rothko might decide to withdraw his work from the commission.

Definitely not-a-miss !!!!!

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My Own Mann Productions, the newly-formed theater company of CHERIE GIL and Actors' Actors' Inc (AAI) proudly announces its debut offering for 2014 with “ FULL GALLOP ” a play about fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland.

Written by Mary Louise Wilson and Mark Hampton, FULL GALLOP focuses on the life of Diana Vreeland, who stood at the center of American style for five decades.

As editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines, and as a member of the International Cafe Society, Diana chronicled the extraordinary people and events of her time.

FULL GALLOP is a portrait of this remarkable woman at a turning point in her life. Vreeland has just returned home to New York after four months in Europe—a trip she took after being fired from Vogue magazine. She throws an impromptu dinner party in the hope that a wealthy friend who is invited will bankroll her in starting a magazine of her own. Other friends, however, attempt to persuade her to take a job at the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her distinctive style, once she decides in which direction her life will move, she goes at it "full gallop."

The Sixth Ani ng Dangal Awards Night at Resorts World Manila

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Ani ng Dangal or "Harvest of Honors" is a state recognition given by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts under the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines. It is an annual affair in the Philippines celebrated as a highlight of the Philippine Arts Festival. A tradition of recognizing Filipino excellence in the arts.

On February 2, 2014, all roads lead to the Ani Ng Dangal Awards Night at Resorts World Manila!

Ani Ng Dangal celebrates the achievements of Filipino artists who have been recognized elsewhere in the world. This year's roster includes Eugene Domingo, Alessandra De Rossi, Jed Madela, Merlie Alunan, Joel Torre among others. The complete list will be posted soon!

Though this is a free admission event, the public is invited to register and sign up for a seat via the online guest list to reserve a seat for the awards night. Performances will be with the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Gerard Salonga.

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To those planning to get an NBI clearance today, instead of battling it out patiently in a depressing queue, you might just want to wait a couple more days.

With the recent news about the terrible service that a lot of individuals had to endure when getting their NBI clearance, the government has finally come to its senses by offering a more convenient form of getting the much needed document especially during job application. The very slow processing resulting in the long queue of applicants were terribly disappointing. Many had to fall in line at the National Bureau of Investigation offices even earlier than 2 am just to be among the first people in line.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced in a press release dated January 23, 2014 that applicants for the NBI Clearance can now apply and fill out the complete form online.

According to the DOJ’s press release, NBI Clearance applicants can now apply and fill out the complete form at www.doj.gov.ph/nbi or www.nbi.gov.ph starting Friday, January 24, 2014. After the online registration, applicants may proceed directly to any of the 55 sites nationwide for payment and biometric enrollment for the release of the clearance.

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Admission is free to the 8th Spring Film Festival this January 24 to February 2, 2014 at the Shang CinePlex of the EDSA Shangri-La Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong brought to you by the Ateneo de Manila University Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies, together with Confucius Institute and Credit Suisse, with the cooperation of Ateneo Celadon and Shangri-La Plaza.

The festival is organized every year to promote Chinese culture in the mainstream Philippine society, particularly among young Filipinos so that they may become bridges between the Philippines and China. This year’s festival features 8 movies that are close to Filipinos hearts.

The offerings for this year features eight outstanding moving tales which includes romantic comedy, family drama, historical action drama, suspense, romantic drama, and Parkour action films.

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“Smuggling has been going on since time immemorial and nobody really stopped it,” he said. “No amount of threats from government prosecution stopped smuggling. This has been going on and controlled by a cartel. If no one is willing to kill for the Filipinos–for the poor Filipino farmers–nothing will happen to this country.”

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte slams against Commission on Human Rights Chair Loretta Ann Rosales and Department of Justice Secretary Laila De Lima for scrutinizing him regarding his threat to "literally" kill the suspected smugglers. He says it's about time somebody takes a stronger stand against hardened criminals.

He is sending a strong resounding message to the two ladies to please just shut up! Wow!

How about you guys? Who do you think is right? Is it high time to bring out more than just an iron fist?