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HAUTE AUTEUR SILENT VIDEO COMPETITION 2012

CINEMA NOSTALGIA: ICONS REIMAGINED & RECOLLECTED

SUBMIT A 3-5 MINUTE SILENT VIDEO THAT REFLECTS YOUR RE/INTERPRETATION OF THE ICONIC IN PHILIPPINE CINEMA AND GET THE CHANCE TO WIN CASH PRIZES, A BRAND NEW CANON CAMERA, AND SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE ASIA PACIFIC FILM INSTITUTE!

Entries will be exhibited at the Shangri-la Plaza Mall, along with a print sale featuring artworks from Manix Abrera, CJ De Silva, Apol Sta. Maria, Kasey Albano, Benjie Marasigan, Carina Santos, Rob Cham, Shin Lopez, and Stephanie Manuel.

Finalists will have their films scored live by selected musicians and see other bands perform live at B-Side, The Collective. The list includes Ciudad, The Strangeness, The Walkie Talkies, Techy Romantics, Sleepwalk Circus, Encounters With A Yeti, Musical O, The Purplechickens, Wilderness, Ivan Theory, Better In Bed, The Black Vomits, Pocket Full Of, Similar Objects, and Reese & Vica.

Visit facebook.com/HauteAuteur for more details!

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misteravid: With all the shitty tarps & billboards that politicians &  advertisers clutter our city with, I am extremely grateful to the people  behind this great art initiative to decorate Edsa with murals using  paint that absorbs pollution : )
Learn more about the awesome project here : )

More of this please!

misteravid: With all the shitty tarps & billboards that politicians & advertisers clutter our city with, I am extremely grateful to the people behind this great art initiative to decorate Edsa with murals using paint that absorbs pollution : )

Learn more about the awesome project here : )

More of this please!

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HELP Akei, PinoyG4M and Pelikula Tumblr mount Sine Bahaghari—cinematic expressions of the Philippine LGBT experience! This project is our contribution to National Arts Month and is included in the National Commission for Culture & the Arts’s (NCCA) Philippine Arts Festival this February 2012.Donate now! Please contact:Christopher Allan Abanco+63 917 365 9620lanchie@gmail.comSaves the dates! Admission is open & free.February 11 | Sat5PMChef’s Bistro, Tomas MoratoFebruary 18 | Sat2PMUPFI Film Center VideothequeFebruary 24 | Fri7PMCinema is Incomplete, Anonashttp://sinebahaghari.pelikula.infoContact: PJ Salenda | +63 918 942 8513 | prsalenda@gmail.comNational Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)Philippine Arts Festival 2012General InformationFor the list of other events celebrated during the Philippine Arts Festival and updated schedule of activities you may log on to www.ncca.gov.ph For inquiries you may reach the Philippine Arts Festival Secretariat at the following numbers: (02) 5272209; (02) 5272192 local 510 Do you want to be updated on the latest culture and arts events in your area? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! piaf_ncca@yahoo.com You may also visit our office at 633 General Luna Street Intramuros, Manila.

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HELP Akei, PinoyG4M and Pelikula Tumblr mount Sine Bahaghari—cinematic expressions of the Philippine LGBT experience!

This project is our contribution to National Arts Month and is included in the National Commission for Culture & the Arts’s (NCCA) Philippine Arts Festival this February 2012.


Donate now! Please contact:

Christopher Allan Abanco
+63 917 365 9620
lanchie@gmail.com


Saves the dates! Admission is open & free.

February 11 | Sat
5PM
Chef’s Bistro, Tomas Morato

February 18 | Sat
2PM
UPFI Film Center Videotheque

February 24 | Fri
7PM
Cinema is Incomplete, Anonas


http://sinebahaghari.pelikula.info

Contact: PJ Salenda | +63 918 942 8513 | prsalenda@gmail.com

National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
Philippine Arts Festival 2012
General Information
For the list of other events celebrated during the Philippine Arts Festival and updated schedule of activities you may log on to www.ncca.gov.ph For inquiries you may reach the Philippine Arts Festival Secretariat at the following numbers: (02) 5272209; (02) 5272192 local 510 Do you want to be updated on the latest culture and arts events in your area? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! piaf_ncca@yahoo.com You may also visit our office at 633 General Luna Street Intramuros, Manila.

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geeksturr, akeiph)

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Filipino photographer George Tapan won National Geographic’s Photo Contest (Places category) last year with an image of a rainbow stretching across the clear blue waters off the shore of Onuk Island, south of Palawan.
Read more about the winning photo here

Filipino photographer George Tapan won National Geographic’s Photo Contest (Places category) last year with an image of a rainbow stretching across the clear blue waters off the shore of Onuk Island, south of Palawan.

Read more about the winning photo here

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The Department of Education (DepEd) has decided to drop “Science” from the roster of subjects taken up by incoming Grade 1 pupils in line with its efforts to decongest the Basic Education Curriculum and to make learning more enjoyable to young learners.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the move to exclude Science in Grade 1 subjects starting this coming school year is based on the design of K to 12 curriculum. “The overall design of the new curriculum to be introduced and implemented this coming June to both Grade 1 and First Year high school students is based on the idea that we should be taking the students where they are,” Luistro said in an interview.

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RELATED: This June, Grades 1-3 will be taught in mother tongue

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The Chinese started migrating here in the Philippines to settle concurrently at the start of the Spanish Rule. But the Spanish Colonial masters distrust them, they are a constant source of trouble for them because some of them are unruly. That is why the Spanish located them in a cannon distance from the San Gabriel Bastion in Intramuros. There are two Chinese settlements during the first two centuries of the Spanish Rule: Parian and Binondo.

Parian was once located in the sites now located by the Post Office, Metropolitan Theater, Arroceros, and up to SM Manila. Some might wonder the lack of a market inside Intramuros, it is because Parian acts as the market (or mall) for the walled city. In modern terms, Parian got it all for Intramuros. By the opening of the drawbridge at 4AM, Intramuros residents will flock in Parian to shop. Parian is the first mall in the Philippines, everything is in there: traders, merchants, craftsmen and laborers.

Because of the advance the British made through the suburbs nearest the walls of Intramuros in their invasion, the Spanish decided to demolish these villages, Parian was not spared. By 1780, Parian was no more and some former residents relocated to Binondo. Only a gate in Intramuros exiting at Parian became the sole mark of the existence of the Parian.

Binondo is originally the parish for the Chinese Converts by the Dominicans, no wonder that their patroness is also the Lady of the Rosary. But when the Parian was dissolved, Binondo became the sole enclave of Manila’s Chinese Mestizos and Chinese Immigrants who love to engage in trade and business. This is the one of the reasons why Binondo is the first Business District and the Chinatown of Manila. Even today, at any Chinese Festival the meeting point of these celebrations will always be at Binondo, as always the best known Chinese festival is the Chinese New Year, which we will celebrate few hours from now.
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The Chinese started migrating here in the Philippines to settle concurrently at the start of the Spanish Rule. But the Spanish Colonial masters distrust them, they are a constant source of trouble for them because some of them are unruly. That is why the Spanish located them in a cannon distance from the San Gabriel Bastion in Intramuros. There are two Chinese settlements during the first two centuries of the Spanish Rule: Parian and Binondo.

Parian was once located in the sites now located by the Post Office, Metropolitan Theater, Arroceros, and up to SM Manila. Some might wonder the lack of a market inside Intramuros, it is because Parian acts as the market (or mall) for the walled city. In modern terms, Parian got it all for Intramuros. By the opening of the drawbridge at 4AM, Intramuros residents will flock in Parian to shop. Parian is the first mall in the Philippines, everything is in there: traders, merchants, craftsmen and laborers.

Because of the advance the British made through the suburbs nearest the walls of Intramuros in their invasion, the Spanish decided to demolish these villages, Parian was not spared. By 1780, Parian was no more and some former residents relocated to Binondo. Only a gate in Intramuros exiting at Parian became the sole mark of the existence of the Parian.

Binondo is originally the parish for the Chinese Converts by the Dominicans, no wonder that their patroness is also the Lady of the Rosary. But when the Parian was dissolved, Binondo became the sole enclave of Manila’s Chinese Mestizos and Chinese Immigrants who love to engage in trade and business. This is the one of the reasons why Binondo is the first Business District and the Chinatown of Manila. Even today, at any Chinese Festival the meeting point of these celebrations will always be at Binondo, as always the best known Chinese festival is the Chinese New Year, which we will celebrate few hours from now.

(via theurbanhistorian)

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Second day of the Dinagyang Festival. Photos by quisha.

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thiswoulddofornow: PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND FIND HIS MOM! 

“This is my mother, Lea Angeles Ng. The last time I saw, 1/20/12, approximately 10AM her I gave her a kiss on the cheek and out of nowhere she told me she loved me. She left the house a few minutes after I did in our silver Toyota Prado, plate number JUS-77 and I can’t stop blaming myself for not telling her I love her too.”

5”2, medium build, 40 years old (but looks 35)

She said she was going to the bank but she never got there (Bank of The Philippine Islands (BPI) in front of Eastwood, Quezon City)

She lives in St. Ignatius, Quezon City, Philippines (if it helps)

Please contact this number if ever you find her :( 09178045878

THANK YOU! :(

thiswoulddofornow: PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND FIND HIS MOM! 

“This is my mother, Lea Angeles Ng. The last time I saw, 1/20/12, approximately 10AM her I gave her a kiss on the cheek and out of nowhere she told me she loved me. She left the house a few minutes after I did in our silver Toyota Prado, plate number JUS-77 and I can’t stop blaming myself for not telling her I love her too.”

5”2, medium build, 40 years old (but looks 35)

She said she was going to the bank but she never got there (Bank of The Philippine Islands (BPI) in front of Eastwood, Quezon City)

She lives in St. Ignatius, Quezon City, Philippines (if it helps)

Please contact this number if ever you find her :( 09178045878

THANK YOU! :(

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