Emergence: Revitalizing Pinoy Artistry

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A new party brand is emerging and this time it emphasizes on Filipino Musical Ingenuity. That’s right! It is headlined by an all Pinoy Line-up.

Support Filipino Artistry as Emergence: A Pinoy Electronic Music Festival launches its Nationwide Tour this Saturday, April 16, 2016, at The Palace Pool Club. Emergence promises to cover not just the big room formula but a variety of other sub-genres of Electronic Dance Music. It will offer other elements such as live vocals and classical instruments fused with DJ Technology.

Emergence aims to promote Filipino Artistry and Musicality, that true to the RAVE culture of PLUR (Peace, Love, Unity and Respect), it can be celebrated and stand hand in hand with other EDM Powerhouses brought about by globalization.

Emergence: A Pinoy Music Festival

When: Saturday, April 16, 2016, 8PM until morning

Where: The Palace Pool Club, Uptown, Bonifacio Global City

Emergence: A Pinoy Music Festival will be on a year-long nationwide tour this 2016. The party will be launched at The Palace Pool Club, and will continue in 14 other destinations.

Philippines' Songwriters, Poets and Mix Artists Perform at People's Park in the Sky of Tagaytay

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A group of independent musicians from different productions recently gathered for a music fest to entertain the many visitors of People's Park in the Sky on Easter Sunday (March 27, 2016). Not only did they aim to make the place feel livelier that day but they also worked for the goal of reviving interest of the public especially youth in our local homegrown music (and bands) as well as old OPM classics that some performers/bands performed that day to remind all of us of our good old music.

The group has been performing as street performers in Manila areas and organizing open mics for new artists since August 2015 and they succeeded in helping some to get to radio or be managed and showcased with now known mainstream bands. They have organized successful busking/street performance events in Dangwa Flower Market (October 22 and February 12), Intramuros (November 12), Mendiola (November 26) and Malate-Remedios Circle (January 19).

Their performance in Dangwa last October 22, 2015 has been covered by a TV network, whereas news team of other TV networks saw their busking performances last February 12, 2015 during the Valentine shopping spree. Their moving busking group has been very well received by watchers from Intramuros and even foreigners who saw the videos and one of their busker videos in Mendiola has gone viral with more than 400,000 views already on Facebook.

One of their colleagues, Martin Riggs Nunez, has also succeeded in getting the attention of Carlos Celdran when he did his solo busk in Plaza Lawton which eventually got him to be featured on a few TV shows and opening more awareness about their music revival goal.

They continue to do random street performances especially in Alabang Town Center, Divisoria, outside Intramuros areas, just to name a few, and even get more students/locals who watch and jam with them on events.

High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom

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As the “modern teacher”, you are always expected to assist your students understand and master various technological tools that they can use in universities and college and workplaces. Custom writers website (for example customessayorder.com) can also help you in understanding issues concerning low tech classrooms. However in most parts of the country, the one-computer classroom is still in existence. Thus the question arises on how we are expected to achieve a lot with a little. How can we use limited resources in supporting learning and also familiarizing our students with the ever-developing technology?

There are some tips that you need to consider:

1) You might need more creative with the structure of the lessons so that the students have enough time to have productive interactions with the new tools.

2) As a teacher, you need to take advantage of any time yourstudents have ample access to a computer laboratory since there are multiple computers. Consider exploiting such opportunities so as to guide the students in understanding several tools. This investment will pay later if it is consistent.

3) It is important to relieve yourself of the pressure of understanding all the sides of every tool. Instead, employ strategies that will empower students such as challenging them of becoming experts who can teach one another on various ways of using the new programs.

The following are some of the methods to organize limited technology resources that can support students.