Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024

The Fraternal Order of Eagles - Philippine Eagles, Inc. was established on June 22, 1979, in Quezon City, specifically at Aberdeen Court. It proudly holds the distinction of being the pioneering fraternal socio-civic organization in the Philippines. Central to its principles is the promotion of humanitarian assistance, while concurrently nurturing “SERVICE THROUGH STRONG BROTHERHOOD” among its members.

The organization's core values are encapsulated within four pillars:

1. Brotherhood

2. Service

3. Unity

4. Divine Power

These pillars form the bedrock of the organization's mission, guiding its activities and initiatives towards the betterment of society. Through its commitment to fostering brotherhood, providing service to the community, promoting unity, and seeking divine guidance, the Fraternal Order of Eagles - Philippine Eagles, Inc. endeavors to make a positive impact on the lives of individuals and communities in the Philippines.

Mr. And Miss Philippine Eagles Club 2024 organized by  Tfoe-Pe Inc. aims to create a stage for a conservative beauty pageant, both locally and nationally. The stage values the contestants who see themselves as eagles and possess the ability to function as mediators to promote beauty, culture, and humanity. They should have knowledge, abilities, wit, and beauty embodying the qualities of the 4Ss: SMART, SPIRIT, SERVICE MIND, AND SIMPLIFY.

This year, the Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024 pageant, hosted by TFOE-PE Inc., holds a unique vision that goes beyond traditional beauty pageants. Alongside the recognition of royalty and beauty, this prestigious title comes with the responsibility of serving the community and setting a positive example for others to follow.

One of the primary goals of Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024 is to advocate for the well-being of children during their crucial developmental phase, particularly during the First One Thousand Days as mandated by Republic Act No. 11148, also known as the Kalusugan at Nutrisyon ng Mag-Nanay Act. This legislation underscores the importance of proper health and nutrition for mothers and infants during this critical period, laying the foundation for a healthy and prosperous future.

By aligning with this legislation, Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024 demonstrate their commitment to promoting health, nutrition, and overall well-being within their communities. Through their advocacy and actions, they aim to raise awareness, inspire positive change, and make a tangible difference in the lives of mothers and children across the Philippines

The titleholders of Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024 are not just symbols of beauty and royalty, but also compassionate leaders dedicated to serving their communities and championing important causes that impact the nation's future.

Indeed, the Mister and Miss Philippine Eagles 2024 pageant serves as a powerful platform to advocate for comprehensive, sustainable, and multisectoral strategies aimed at addressing the health and nutrition challenges faced by newborns, infants, young children, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescent females during the critical First 1000 Days (F1KD).

Coca-Cola Iloilo Gives Back, Fields Volunteers through Brigada Eskwela

For over a decade now, associates from Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI) Iloilo have been volunteering in the Brigada Eskwela program of the Department of Education, helping repair and prepare public elementary and high school classrooms and other facilities before the opening of classes. This is to help ensure that these structures are ready for the students upon the start of the school year.

Last May 25, over 30 volunteers from Coca-Cola Iloilo plant and distribution center trooped to the Mayor Gerardo Gorriceta Sr. Memorial School in Cabugao Norte, Pavia, Iloilo to wholeheartedly lend a hand in the cleaning and painting of the main gate, entrance pathway, and school façade; in the painting of chairs for one Grade III Classroom; and to donate cleaning materials and liquid hand soap to support the school’s hand-washing program.

“Iloilo has long played a big part in Coca-Cola’s story in the country,” said Paz Pollentes, Iloilo Plant’s Manufacturing Executive . “As a way of expressing our thanks and giving back, we actively involve ourselves in worthwhile efforts such as Brigada Eskwela. Volunteerism has always been a fundamental part of our culture at Coca-Cola. The motivation comes from purpose or, as we say it, 'why we are inspired to work.’ We want to create a positive impact through advocacies.”

Pollentes adds, “We firmly believe in the value of education, and in giving kids a conducive environment for learning. By taking part in Brigada Eskwela, we hope to have made a lasting difference in the lives of our potential leaders of tomorrow.”

Throughout the Coca-Cola system, thousands of CCBPI associates nationwide actively volunteer their time and resources to positively contribute to programs and projects on education, health, and livelihood, and environment conservation.

As a company, CCBPI ensures that it leaves a lasting positive impact in its host-communities, as it works toward continuously strengthening partnerships with all stakeholders through environmentally- and socially-conscious policies. #

Paintbrushes in hand, CCBPI associates help paint school chairs at the Mayor Gerardo Gorriceta Sr. Memorial School. #

CCBPI associates paint school chairs at the Mayor Gerardo Gorriceta Sr. Memorial School. #

All in a day’s work: CCBPI Brigada Eskwela volunteers pose for posterity, following a productive and fulfilling day of volunteering at the Mayor Gerardo Gorriceta Sr. Memorial School.

Pick One Piece of Trash and Save One Life #TravelResponsibly

#Ecowarriors, did you know that May is Ocean Month?

Apparently, the month of May is tagged as Ocean Month, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources or DENR. In 1995, then-President Fidel V. Ramos signed the Proclamation No. 75 which mandates the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) to spearhead the activities of MOO (Month of the Ocean) in collaboration with the different sectors of the society. Relatively, this year marks its 16th year in our country. The month-long celebration aims to highlight the importance and significance of conservation, protection, and sustainable management of Philippine coastal and marine resources. As described in the DENR website, this year’s theme, "STAND UP, SAVE OUR REEFS" emphasizes the cause and effect relationship of our actions towards the environment and the ecosystem services and goods that the oceans provide to create a flourishing community. True to our vision and mission to conserve, preserve, and protect our environment, Eco Hotel Philippines is also launching a campaign called #travelresponsibly.

Under the #travelresponsibly campaign are activities that will persevere our desire to save Mother Earth by traveling responsibly.

This campaign also aims to educate our nation particularly the younger generation, travelers, tourists, that picking one piece of trash can save one life; could be a human being, an animal, or even save the lives of plants and trees. Hence the activity name, "pick one save one."

In a succinct manner, the "pick one save one" campaign is a clean-up drive in our properties in Bohol, Palawan, and Siargao. The #travelresponsibly campaign is also for our local properties in Makati, Tagaytay, and Mataasnakahoy, Batangas through a series of tours with our fellow #ecowarriors.

On June, we will be opening our properties to the public as a “refilling station” for shampoo, conditioner, and bath gels. The said items were made according to our strict compliance: ingredients should be eco-friendly and hypoallergenic.


Having to share all these information, are you willing to join this campaign? Come and support us! After all, we are all under one horizon.

Having to share all these information, are you willing to join this campaign? Come and support us! After all, we are all under one horizon.

For partnerships, please email us at marketing@ecohotels.com.ph.

Keep up to date by following us on social media: www.facebook.com/ecohotelph and IG: ecohotelph.

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About Eco Hotel Philippines

Eco Hotel Philippines is a company that is passionate about conservation, preservation, and protection of our environment. As a green service hotel, Eco Hotels ensures that Eco-friendly processes are implemented from construction to day-to-day operations. This is aligned with its advocacy of minimizing its impact on the environment while imparting practices of sustainability to their staff and guests.


We aim at implementing eco-tourism principles, the protection of the environment and its eco system, preservation of the natural and cultural heritage; to benefit the immediate community where it stands; by educating and giving employment to the locals and effectively convey the message to our guests that each one can be a part of the same mission to protect their environment.

*This is Press Release

ARTISTS LIBERATE INTRAMUROS!

THE FIRST OPEN CITY FESTIVAL of the MANILA BIENNALE 2018

Bring Back the Soul of the City! Give an offering to the spirits of Intramuros by witnessing The Open City Performance Festival of the first Manila Biennale on February 21-25, 2018.  Participate in live artistic rituals, art interventions with local and international artists in the forms of music, dance, fashion, street art, installation, performance, sound, and film over a four-day extravaganza, the likes of which have not been seen before in Old Manila.

Performances highlights listed below with photographs and biography.

HIGHLIGHTS:

FEBRUARY 21, 2018 WEDNESDAY

THE OPENING OF THE STREET ART PROGRAM
Tram tours of Street Art Program curated by Adrian Alfonso
3:00PM Baluarte San Diego (Starting Point)

THE OPENING OF THE OPEN CITY FESTIVAL 

Vernissage of OPEN CITY FESTIVAL 

3:00PM Baluarte San Diego 

MODELAB

JOL3NA
5:30PM Plaza San Luis (Cocktails by Don Papa)
Performances:
TINA HAVELOCK STEVENS
MALE GAZE 

BT4A

FEBRUARY 22, 2018 THURSDAY
LIVIN' LA VIDA IMELDA by CARLOS CELDRAN

4:30PM
Teatrillo at Plaza San Luis

OPENCITY FESTIVAL AT THE PLAZA SAN LUIS

7:30PM

Featuring
M.O.B. (USA)
CAROLINE GARCIA (AUSTRALIA)
RAQUEL DE LOYOLA (PHILIPPINES)
JEF CARNAY (PHILIPPINES)
VIM NADERA (PHILIPPINES)
KHAN OF FINLAND + JOTA (GERMANY/BOLIVIA)

FEBRUARY 23, 2018 (FRIDAY)
DON PAPA INTRAMUROS ARTISTS BALL

6:00PM

Plaza San Luis
Dress Code: Be creative. Artists go free. 

Performances:

#VIVAMANILA PASYAL AND CREATIVE OPEN MARKET
HENRI LAMY
THIRD WORLD IMPROV
RHOSAM PRUDENCIADO
MIA CABALFIN
VIC Co.Lab
MAYLEE TODD

SHIGEKI FUKUDA

ATSUKO SATORI

DEX FERNANDEZ

FEBRUARY 24, 2018 (SATURDAY)
PINK SHORTS: Manila Biennale Queer Performance Program by Short + Sweet 

A TWO DAY FESTIVAL

February 24 and 25, 2018

Separate ticketing: Cost: Php300.00 / Php500.00 / Php600.00

7:00PM

Teatrillo
Text Rhadem Morados +63 9150211768

TOQA: MANILA, LUZON SEASON ONE:

Fashion show/Art Intervention and Dance Party by Toqa 

Please RSVP AT www.toqa.tv 

3:00PM

Puerta Real Gardens

FEBRUARY 25, 2018 SUNDAY
MANILA TRANSITIO MEMORIAL CONCERT AND COMMUNITY RITUAL

PRE TRANSITIO RITUAL

Ioana Georgescu 

Neo-Angono

3:00PM 

Fort Santiago 

PROCESSION TO TRANSITIO FROM FORT SANTIAGO TO PUERTA REAL

4:00PM

COMMUNITY RITUAL

6:00PM

Featuring:

Carlos Celdran

Goldie Soon

MUSIC

Bayang Barrios
The Executives Band

MARCH 4, 2O18

ART+ MANILA BIENNALE 2018 FINISSAGE

3:00PM 

Plaza San Luis (Meeting Point)

A final tram tour of the Manila Biennale 2018 by Art+ Magazine 

Description:

Much like the Glastonbury Festival in England or the Burning Man of Nevada, the Open City Festival is envisioned as a new tradition for Intramuros, an international art festival which promotes self-expression as a means of activating a sacred space. Under the umbrella of the first Manila Biennale, Open City provides the ephemeral component to the Biennale's critically acclaimed visual art installations that were unveiled on 02 February.

Curator Carlos Celdran says, “This festival caps a month long celebration using art to activate, commemorate, and reinvigorate the City of Intramuros.  We want to foster a community which will keep the City alive, not only during biennales but beyond. Proceeds from the event will benefit the succeeding Manila Biennales and will ensure that this new tradition in Philippine arts will be passed on to future generations."

Art festivals such as the Manila Biennale and its Open City Festival are a key aspect of art tourism, social development, and urban transformation. The art and artists are on show as much as the city.

This program is OPEN to all Art Passport Holders and Day Pass Holders.

BE A PATRON OF THE ARTS!

Purchase an art patron passport for Php 5,300 and support the next Manila Biennale in 2020! This passport not only gives you an all-access pass to the exhibitions, performances, talks, and film showings, but also places you as a patron of Intramuros’ revival. Each passport holder will be credited in the soon-to-published Manila Biennale 2018 catalogue. 

#MNLBNL2018 ART PATRON PASSPORT: Php5,300.00
Inclusives:
- Access to MNLBNL lounge at the Plaza San Luis.

- Access to privately planned picnics and tours. 

- Bespoke access to exhibitions.
- Unlimited access to all 3 Manila Biennale exhibition sites inside Intramuros
- Transportation to exhibition sites via kalesa ride
- Entrance to the OPENCITY Festival Performance Art Series February 21 to 25, 2018
- Entrance to the Artists Ball on February 23, 2018, Friday.
- Entrance to Manila Transitio Memorial Concert February 25, 2018, Sunday.
- Priority reservations for all lectures, movies, programs, and performances of the OPENCITY FESTIVAL 21-25 February 2018.
- Discounts and special deals with Manila Biennale partners.

- Priority Reservations of the Manila Biennale Limited Series Art Book Catalogue.
- Valid for one month (February 3, 2018 - March 5, 2018)

For more information, please come to the MNLBNL Lounge in Plaza San Luis (Barbara's), open Tuesdays to Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm, 

or message us through our Facebook page: Manila Biennale:Open City.  

SELECTED OPEN CITY FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL ARTIST BIO:

Photo: MODELAB - INSTALLATION/ART INTERVENTION

Exhibition Date: February 21–25, 2018

Collaborators: Brisa Amir (PH), Arca Ceramics (MX), Dulce Chacón (MX), Jose Mari Cuartero (PH), Tad Ermitaño (PH), Indy Paredes (PH).

Baluarte de San Diego Gardens, Manila

MODELAB is an artistic initiative that explores public space attending its past, current dynamics, and the role it plays in society both as environment and architectural materiality. Since 2014, Modelab has organized different projects, in different cities, in close collaboration with artists, scholars and scientists. Modelab is devised by Claudia Arozqueta and Rodrigo Azaola of Mexico City, United States of Mexico.

"WAYS OF SOLITUDE" is a public art project curated by Modelab in the Baluarte de San Diego gardens that explores the role of solitude in the history of Manila. Through a series of interventions involving different media (installation, sound art, painting, gardening, ceramics, stencil art) the project reflects on three periods of Manila’s history in which solitude has a strong presence: the colonial era, the post-war period and the present. An e-publication, including an essay by scholar Jose Mari Cuartero from Ateneo de Manila, will be available for download on the day of the opening at www.modelab.info

Photo: Tina Havelock Stevens (Australia) - PERFORMANCE/VIDEO

Performance date: February 21, 2018 Wednesday

TINA HAVELOCK STEVENS is an artist from Sydney, Australia who works across performance, video, sound and experimental documentary. Havelock Stevens’ background as a documentary film maker and drummer in the post punk music scene has a direct influence on the way she practices. She makes portraits exploring the state of the contemporary world and works in a spontaneous open-ended way that allows for unexpected outcomes. Havelock Stevens’ works have been exhibited at institutions and festivals worldwide with recent shows at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia 2017 (Winner Fisher Ghost Prize); Fremantle Biennale 2017; UNSW Galleries, Sydney (John Fries Award Finalist); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2017 (The Big Anxiety Festival); MILL 6 Foundation, Hong Kong, 2016; Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney 2017 -2015; Bulletspace,, New York, 2014; Dark Mofo  & Mona Foma, MONA, Hobart 2016/2013; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2015/2013; PS 122, New York ,2013; and Artspace, Sydney 2010.

"BEATS OF DARKNESS" is a video and sound work produced in the time frame of a week specifically for Manila Biennale:Open City. Made with a methodology of spontaneous response the artist uses a combination of experimental documentary and drumming performance that tunes into the frequencies of specific sites and place. Using the 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now’ as a departure point BEATS OF DARKNESS features sites that were once locations for the production shot in areas of Baler. When projected at Intramuros the work acts as a double echo to reflect on the Philippines relations with the US economically, politically and culturally. For Open City the artist will perform the soundtrack as an improvised live score in front of the projection in collaboration with local ethnomusicologist and percussionist Tusa Montes.

Photo: Khan Oral (Germany) and Jo-ta (Bolivia) - PERFORMANCE / VIDEO

February 22, 2018 Thursday. Plaza San Luis 

KHAN OF FINLAND, born of Turkish-Finnish parents in Frankfurt/Germany. 1992-2002 living in New York City, he owned the electronic record shop Temple Records NYC, hosted downtown art events and parties, run three record labels, produced and performed with a variety of artists and projects: Captain Comatose, Tiefschwarz, Air Liquide, Diamanda Galas, Julee Cruise, Kid Congo Powers, Little Annie or Brigitte Fontaine. 2002 he moved to Berlin where he works and lives as a producer, performer, and visual artist. His catalog counts more than 300 physical releases. Group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Theater and soundtrack work for television and feature film including cameos. Khan presented “Angels Of Disguise” photo-book/box-set (Fantome Verlag) at Kassel’s documenta13. 

JO-TA, born in Bolivia, he made studies in environmental engineering (BOL) and Master of Arts, Visual and Media Anthropology (DE). In 2009 he started as a Vj working at the Festival LaPazTook, shortly after he joined the collective Oi Mas Bass, with which he organized the Latin American festival Kiebre (2011-2012) in La Paz. He performed with artists like Efecto Mandarina and Bolivia National Symphony Orchestra among others. Also he participated in different audiovisual festivals worldwide. 2014 he was called as Secretary of Culture at the Embassy of Bolivia in Berlin, Germany. Jo-Ta currently works as a Video Artist for Rebeam creating International Networking and he is a partner of VisualCom. His last show was a collaboration with Monom Sound at the opening, founded by 4D Sound in Funkhaus-Berlin. 

“PHONE CUE" is a site-specific installation/performance with video projections, sound stream, and light. Artist Statement: "Today we barely see the stars. Bright city lights bleach the skies. We'd rather look at the glow on our cell phones. Today’s stories are told on our Facebook walls. The gods we evoke come as shiny electronic gadgets. We dance in line on eBay sales, we leave our marks on the corner of Instagram and Snapchat. The modern city is the place of our desire. We come to meet our dreams. A dream that seems to expand endlessly and is shared by millions. Still we feel isolated. This project proposes that we have a choice and that there are alternatives to a normative commercial life where citizens are more than mere “purchasing powers”. We do not stand in line for summer sale, we stand in line to dance and celebrate life in the city." 

Photo: Ioana Georgescu  - PERFORMANCE / ART INTERVENTION

February 25, 2018 Thursday. Fort Santiago and Puerta Real 

IOANA GEORGESCU is an artist and novelist born in Bucharest, Romania. She lives in Montreal, Canada. Her work is presented worldwide and encompasses performance art, video-installation, photography, drawing, painting and literary fiction. Her projects are often site-specific and process-based, They interrelate and trigger chains of reactions. They address memory, identity and displacement in relation to body and site. Ioana has exhibited and performed in Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, Novi Sad, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, New York, Cairo, Yogyakarta and Beijing. She has participated in three international action and media arts festivals in Manila : Tupada’05, Tama’06 and Tutok’08. Open City Manila Biennale 2018 is in continuity and marks her fourth return to the Philippines.

"MANILA CITTÀ APERTA" Two parts work with performance and video-installation components. Water Monument, a collaborative art action at Fort Santiago and Dust Monument: a video projection at Puerta Real. The Manila “open sequence” is part of the Mobile Monuments series. Memory and intersecting histories are experienced and expressed through performing bodies and performing sites. Several bodies are at play: human, architectural and even microscopic. They evolve and interact, crossing virtual and real spaces. A dialogue between past, present, life and death takes place and generates a new narrative.

Photo: Maylee Todd - PERFORMANCE / VIDEO / INSTALLATION

February 23, 2018 Friday. Teatrillo at Plaza San Luis

MAYLEE TODD is a Canadian independent musician, performance artist, producer based in Toronto, Canada. She released her first solo album, Choose Your Own Adventure 2010, and her second record Escapology 2013 on the Do Right Music label. "Baby's Got It" reached number 10 on the Billboard charts throughout Japan. Todd has performed on the Billboard Live Stage and CrossOver Jazz Fest. Her music covers a wide variety of genres including pop, indie-rock, soul, jazz, electronica, and bossa nova. She has a taste for exotic instruments, and sequencers such as the Paraguayan harp. She is distinguished as a stage performer by her flair for comedy and the dramatic arts. Maylee Todd's latest project is Virtual Womb.

"VIRTUAL WOMB" is a visual and auditory show, where the audience walks through her work and interacts with video projections. Her work is a place of gestation, rebirth, death, mediation, new ways of thinking and tapping into a collective consciousness; a multimedia show containing interactive therapy, installation, projection mapping and dancing all set to a live musical performance. 

Photo: Hamish Lang - Sound Art

Exhibition Date:February 21– March 4, 2018. Plaza San Luis

Hamish Lang is a Melbourne based sound artist.  

‘Buhat (Since) Broken’ is a reinterpretation of the classic Filipino love song ‘Buhat (Since)’ and a homage to the actor Rosario Moreno through a haunting soundscape. Unfortunately, Rosario’s career came to a tragic end during the Battle of Manila in 1945. Before this, she featured prominently in some of the earliest examples of pre-war Filipino cinema, earning her the title ‘Queen of Tearjerkers’. One of her boldest roles was playing the character Magdalena in the movie Tunay na Ina (or True Mother). The story focuses on Magdalena’s attempt to hide her secret child who was a product of rape from her soon-to-be husband. The story is one of loss, redemption, secrets and, above all, love. The film famously features the song ‘Buhat (Since)’, which is sung multiple times to convey hope and celebration. For the piece ‘Buhat (Since) Broken’, the original song has been reinterpreted into a melancholy soundscape, which stretches and breaks the original song into something familiar yet unsettling. The piece has been eroded using both modern and vintage recording techniques and is broken down, much like the walls of Intramuros were in 1945. 

Photo: M.O.B  - PERFORMANCE / ART INTERVENTION

Photo: Caroline Garcia - PERFORMANCE 

February 22, 2018 Thursday. Teatrillo at Plaza San Luis.

CAROLINE GARCIA is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist. She works across live performance and video through a hybridised aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery. Caroline’s practice is shaped by alterity. In her work, she centers peripheral bodies by adopting the role of shape shifter - sliding into the gaps between cultures, experiences of otherness, and timeless clichés of exotic femininity. She takes an intersectional approach to contemporary dance (read: twerking), the politics of diasporic identity and notions of cultural piracy. She is concerned with reimagining forgotten choreographies, alternate ways of viewing images of the past that eschew classical myths, and the mimetic capacities of the Filipina. Caroline has presented at The Art Gallery of NSW, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Institute of Modern Art (QLD), The Art Gallery of Western Australia and Fremantle Arts Centre for Proximity Festival (WA), Underbelly Arts Festival, Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival (VIC), Junction Arts Festival (TAS), and Art Month Sydney, among others. She has exhibited at the ACMI, CCP, The Substation, Firstdraft, Sydney Contemporary, The Sydney Film Festival Hub, BLINDSIDE, Blacktown Arts Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, and UTS ART. Caroline’s latest work Flygirl, was recently developed at The Curtis R. Priem EMPAC Residency in New York, facilitated by Australia Council for the Arts. 

THE BREATH OF DEATH is a new and interdisciplinary work, that will be presented across the platforms of performance, dance, installation and video art. The main performative component of this work will explore the practice of using a ‘blowgun,’ a simple weapon consisting of a narrow, long tube for firing light projectiles or darts. This weapon uses force created by one’s breath to give the projectile momentum, limited by the user’s respiratory muscles. The blowgun, also known as the sumpit is still used by indigenous groups from the Philippines, including natives from Palawan and Sabah (formerly part of Mindanao) for hunting or warfare. This blowgun performance interrogates ethnographic images of ‘the savage’ as well as subverting gendered forms of labour and war, especially in regards to the military. 

Watch Out for The Manila Biennale Opencity 2018!

The Manila Biennale will be a month long art exposition set inside the walled city of Intramuros from February 3, 2018 to March 5, 2018. It will be a collaborative effort the Manila’s art community and framed by the built heritage of Old Manila. The many gardens, plazas, museums, halls and chambers of the walled city will be transformed into artist residency studios, galleries, performance venues, lecture halls, pop up shops and cafes. The theme OPENCITY refers to Intramuros as the genesis of Manila’s culture; an homage to the walled city’s beginnings as a port for the Galleon Trade, a time when our capital opened itself up to the world and welcomed new ideas, products, and people. OPENCITY is also a tribute to Manila’s role in World War II, a vulnerable moment in December 1941 when Manila was cleared of all military presence and civilian run; a moment of freedom between two colonized periods of our history.

MANILA BIENNALE:OPENCITY2018 PASSPORT The Manila Biennale will defined by a passport. Owners of these #mnlbnl2018 passports will be defined as citizens of the #OPENCITY The passports can be bought starting December 1, 2017, Monday in time for Christmas holidays. Buyers can purchase for themselves or for friends. #mnlbnl2018 citizens can purchase the passport online or at special retail spaces in Manila. They will receive an email receipt and number for proper documentation.

Only one (1) passport per citizen and it is not transferable. The Biennale Passport purchase portal will be active in November in time for Christmas. Php3,750.00 per passport pre-sale. Php5,000.00 per passport Only 1,200 passports will be printed. \ PERKS: This passport will allow the #mnlbnl2018 citizen access to sites, events, and experiences not available to the average visitor of Intramuros. Entrance to all of the #OPENCITY curated exposition spaces.

Free electric Jeepney rides between all exhibition sites within Intramuros. Free entrance to all parks and museums of Intramuros and partner museums. VIP concierge services inside the VIP Lounge with Free Wifi and refreshments at the VIP Lounge. One (1) invitation to the Artist Ball on February 21, 2018. Priority reservations for all lectures, programs, and special exhibitions of OPEN CITY programming between February 21, 2018 – March 5, 2018. Exclusive invitations to specially planned events and parties of Manila Biennale Sponsors: Discounts and special deals will be listed on our INFOMUROS #mnlbnl2018 app.

UPON ARRIVAL at Manila Biennale grounds: Starting point is Fort Santiago. #mnlbnl2018 must immediately head to #mnlbnl2018 passport booth/conceirge. The passport citizen will present an ID at the concierge upon arrival for proper registration. No ID. No registration. This is to assure security. Passport will be handed over to citizen, citizen may now enjoy exhibtion grounds. Passport will be stamped upon entry to each site as a memento. Passport will act as an ID for access to special lounges, events, and deals with connected partners.

 

The Manila Biennale 2018 is a partnership between Intramuros Administration, The Cultural Center of the Philippines, Anthology Architecture and Design Festival, Fringe Festival Manila, Design Center of the Philippines Managed and coordinated by VivaManila. Producer: Stages under Ms. Stella Sison. Intramuros Administration under the Department of Tourism is our government partner and host of the event. This collective effort by all arts communities in the Philippines will all fall under a common #MNLBNL2018 calendar and website.

Manila Biennale:OPENCITY2018 co-festival partners Pasinaya Art Festival February 1 – 4, 2018 festival of FREE performance art, theater, music, dance, literature Producer: Cultural Center of the Philippines Location: Fort Santiago. Maestranza. Casa Manila Area Fringe Manila February 8 – 25, 2018 alternative art, performance, music, theater, visual arts Producer: Fringe Manila and Pineapple Lab Location: Various sites around Intramuros Anthology Architecture and Design Festival February 9 – 11, 2018 Architecture, Design, Literature, Performance, Visual Arts Producer: wtadesign.com Location: Fort Santiago

Simultaneous Earth Hour ceremonies in all SM Supermalls in the Philippines and China

For eight years now, Earth Hour have been creating tremendous impact on the global awareness of climate change. More people around the world are beginning to understand the significance of going beyond one hour to really make a difference. The Philippines, once proclaimed as the "Earth Hour Hero Country" for having the most number of participating communities, will once again try to take the lead – thanks to private companies like SM Supermalls.

All 52 SM malls around the country and six in China will simultaneously turn off their lights to show SM's continued support to the annual Earth Hour climate change awareness campaign of World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). With all SM malls hosting Earth Hour ceremonies for its respective communities, it will not be surprising if the country becomes a "hero" again for this environmental campaign.

All SM malls will provide the crowd with inspiring videos leading to the switch-off countdown. After the lights have been switched off, candles will be distributed to the crowd while an exciting lineup of entertainers will be presented for free.

SM Mall of Asia will be the host mall for the ceremony, with candidates from Ms. Earth as guests, among others, and AVP for Operations Mr. Perkin So to lead the switching off of the lights.