Weekender Guide: July 22, 23 and 24, 2016

When You're Strange
July 22 to 24 (Artery, Cubao)

Artery Art Space proudly presents "When You're Strange" from July 16 to August 06, 2016, a three-person show by Romeo Lee, Carlo Ricafort, and Chill featuring paintings, drawings, and prints, marked distinct by a brooding set of impressive graphic force and painterly chops-driven and disturbed to skew conventions on narrative play and visionary symbolism, which creates a strange picture on the banality of the real, laughing over the variety of suffering too joyful to be hardcore. 

Rak of Aegis Is Back For Its 5th Rerun
July 22 to 24 (The PETA Theater Center)

An exciting lineup of comebacks and new projects are to be expected as the Philippine Educational Theater (PETA), gears towards its golden year! Opening the 49th theater season is one of PETA’s biggest hits; the comedy musical Rak of Aegis is back for its 5th rerun, happening from June to August 2016 with 82 shows.

Rak of Aegis features Aileen, a promodizer with big dreams of raising her family from the knee-deep floods that have plagued their town for months. This original Filipino musical features songs from the iconic band Aegis, with songs such as “Luha” “Halik” and “Basang-basa sa Ulan” with a star-studded ensemble on an award winning, must-see set.

For more information on PETA’s productions and workshops, you may contact (63 2) 725-6244 or email them at petatheater@gmail.com

Johnoy Danao, Ebe Dancel and Bullet Dumas to Stage Damá: The Repeat Concert
July 23 (Music Museum)

After the success of their first major concert, Johnoy Danao, Ebe Dancel and Bullet Dumas are teaming up once again for Damá: The Repeat. Known in the gig circuit as 3D, the acclaimed singer-songwriters will be joined by Manila String Machine for a night of soaring, heartfelt anthems on July 23, Saturday at the Music Museum.

The first Damá concert held at the Music Museum last February 19, was sold out a week before the show, and earned rave reviews from notable music press and concertgoers.

The repeat concert will surely be one for the books as the power trio promises to deliver captivating and resonant performances that aims to challenge the first one in terms of prestige and musicality. More songs in their repertoire will be rearranged with a 7-string section and a percussion in the background, taking the ambition up a notch without losing the warm, stripped-down quality of their songs.

Ticket Prices
VIP: P2,800 | Patron: P1,900 | Balcony P1,100

Search for the Next Pinoy K-pop Star Starts
July 23 (Sky Dome)

The contest is the Philippine finals for the KBS K-pop World Festival Contest to be held in Changwon, South Korea. It will have two categories—the vocal category, which is the singing competition, and the performance category, which is both a singing and dancing competition with focus on the overall performance of the group.

Announcement of finalists is on July 1. The Philippine grand finals will be held on July 23, Saturday at Skydome, SM City North EDSA.

For further information and queries on the guidelines, please contact the Korean Cultural Center at 02 555-1711 or emailevents@koreanculture.ph. You can also visit http://koreanculture.ph for more information.

Scout Summer Camp
July 23 (Samsung Hall, SM Aura Premier)

Scout’s second birthday is going to be a lit night at the Samsung Hall on July 23, with booze flowing and acts playing all night long starting at 6 p.m. Catch bands like Ang Bandang Shirley, The Ransom Collective, Autotelic, Jensen & the Flips, Cheats, Tandems ’91, Fools & Foes, Oh, Flamingo!, Tom’s Story, Run Dorothy, and Extrapolation, as well as DJs Xtina Superstar, Ninno, Like Animals, Asch Catabona, Out of Scratch, Olympia, and much more.

You can get your tickets to the Scout Summer Camp at SMTickets.com or any SM Tickets outlet for only P350, and preregister over at inquirermobile.net/scout so you can get inside the party quicker. For more details, like Scoutmagph on Facebook, follow @scoutmagph on Twitter and Instagram, and keep checking out Scoutmag.ph.

Film on St. Ignatius to Have Live Orchestra Premiere
July 23 (The Theatre, Solaire Resort & Casino)

Ignacio de Loyola, an epic about how soldier Iñigo de Loyola journeyed from being a sinner to founding the Society of Jesus, is set to make history as the locally-produced English-language film holds a premiere screening with full live orchestra scoring at Solaire on July 23.

The premiere screening at Solaire includes a benefit dinner for the Jesuit Infirmary and the Jesuit Scholastic in the Philippines.

For tickets and inquiries, contact Cathy Cardoz or Cynthia Estrella at tel.426-5971 to 72 locals 111 or 113.

Ignacio de Loyola opens in Philippine cinemas on July 27. For more information about the film, check out facebook.com/ignaciomovie and follow ignaciomovie on Twitter and Instagram.

Food Photography with Ricky Ladia
July 23 (Ayala Museum)

Due to the abundance of restaurants around the metro and the increase in food-related publications, the demand for food photography is on the rise. In this workshop, aspiring photographers will be taught to make any cuisine look more appetizing.

Workshop Fees*

P 4,800 Regular

P 4,320** Discounted for Ayala Museum Members, Ayala Group of Companies employees, and anyone who registers and pays the workshop fee on or before July 9, 2016.

* Inclusive of of materials, handouts, snacks, one day free access to the museum and library.

** Discounts do not apply to credit card transactions.

For inquiries and reservations please call (63 2) 759-8288 local 25, email: education@ayalamuseum.org, look for Marj Villaflores, or any education associate.

Betty & Veronica #1 cover artist Rian Gonzales signing at Filbar’s UP Town Center
July 24 (U.P. Town Center)

The new Filbar’s UP Town Center is celebrating the release of the relaunched Betty & Veronica series, with Filipino cover artist Rian Gonzales, on July 24, Sunday, 2 – 6 PM.

A fine arts graduate from University of Santo Tomas, freelance artist Rian Gonzales’ candy-coated works caught the eye of Archie Comics. She was chosen to illustrate one of the variant covers for Betty & Veronica #1, alongside international artists Mahmud Asrar, Tom Bancroft, Cliff Chiang, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Tut Lotay, Audrey Mok, Ramon Perez, Ryan Sook and Chip Zdarsky. Adam Hughes is writing and drawing the regular cover and interior pages.

Aside from signing copies of her Betty & Veronica #1 variant, Gonzales will also treat Filbar’s customers with free quick sketches, on a first-come, first-served basis, on the blank cover variants of the comic book. She will also be raffling off a Veronica original art and art prints.

To reserve copies, please order at www.filbars.com.ph/comics before Tuesday noon, July 19. Please indicate Filbar’s UP Town Center as branch if you are picking the comic book during the event.