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What’s your Pride? Calling queers and allies! Join The Rainbow Project, Virtual Pride Party, and celebrate! In this time of isolation, Black Canvas creates a space to spotlight queer joy, victories, resilience, and empowerment among the LGBTQIA+ community. Wear your rainbows, join the fun, and enter a room full of drag performances, songs, messages, and a minute each to celebrate and answer, "What's your Pride?" “We all miss the party so we created a space to gather the community again to have fun, dance, sing, and celebrate each other’s identity. At least virtually but full of rainbows.” (Abner Delina, founder-artistic director of Black Canvas). The Rainbow Project is an initiative of Black Canvas in partnership with LoveYourself, Spaces MNL, and Drag Academy PH. Featured Guests include drag queens MC Black and Mrs. Tan, filmmaker Pepe Diokno, Kiko Dacanay (LoveYourself), Riyan Portuguez (Your Millennial Psychologist), Vincent De Jesus (Caredivas, Z...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Following the success of the first round of workshops, GMG Productions announces its second season of online classes, the GMG x JSA West End Workshops. For this exciting round of workshops, the Philippines’ top international producers GMG Productions will be partnering with one of London’s strongest training schools, Jodie Steele Associates (JSA) to bring the best and brightest of the London theatre scene into the living rooms of students across the Philippines. At the helm of JSA, is West End super star, Jodie Steele whose theatre credits include, Heathers, SIX, Rock of Ages, and of course WICKED where she blew Manila audiences away when she performed as Elphaba in Manila as part of the world tour in 2017. “We have always wanted to bring the JSA training programme outside of the UK and we’re so excited to be able to do this in the Philippines”, shares JSA Principal Jodie Steele. “We have put together a musical theatre curriculum which will cover dan...

On its 42nd Theater Season, Adaptation | Pagbabanyuhay: Bagong Anyo ng Buhay, Tanghalang Ateneo, the longest-running theater company of the Loyola Schools, is proud to present M.45, the forty-five minute climax of “Makbetamaximus: Theatre of Destruction”, a 30-day deconstruction of William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” as translated by National Artist Rolando S. Tinio. M.45 boils, bubbles, & burns a bitches’ brew that pushes the boundaries of theatre both live & online. The ingredients are the “29 Days of Sodomo Robotbot” performances featuring more than 200 artists from April 12 to May 10, served with the main course, ”Pakbet Da Muzikal", a new rap musical written by Layeta Bucoy, conceptualized & directed by Khavn. M.45 opens in a post-pandemic carinderia somewhere between Mondomanila & Ilocandia, where the streets of purgatory run red with pig’s blood & chicken feet. The animal mascots that once lusted for power have now been roasted & desecrat...

QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) together with its partners, PETA Lingap Sining, Impact Leadership, and We The Youth Vote, through the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Philippines, and MISEREOR Germany, embark on a creative voters’ education campaign called Rak The Vote: Mobilizing The Youth For Change from June to October 2021 to encourage young people to register and vote in the upcoming national elections in May 2022. According to the advocacy group We the Youth Vote, the youth will make up the biggest voting population this 2022, comprising #40MillionStrong voters composed of Gen Z and Millennials ages 18-39 years old. In a society where the youth dominate in numbers, significant change in our country’s socio- economic and socio-political situation is a huge possibility – all it needs is a little push, one could say, to “rock the boat”. As elections come closer, the need for the youth to become deeply involved i...

QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Finally after much clamor since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) phenomenal hit Rak of Aegis comes to our screens through its online streaming, in partnership with Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang–Aawit (OPM), The Philpop Musicfest Foundation (Philpop), PLDT Home Fibr, and Foodpanda! Rak of Aegis has brought to the spotlight one of OPM's greatest icons, The Aegis Band, and ushered in the trend and golden age of Filipino jukebox musicals which gave birth to a newfound appreciation for theater that crosses the boundaries of social class and age. In a normal year, theaters would be brimming with excitement with thousands of audiences, young and old. However, as the lockdown in Metro Manila began in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PETA was one of those that made the heart-wrenching decision to close doors in the midst of an ongoing show and workshop cycle. Since then, PETA has remained dark ...