Class Recess: Diversion, You Die in this Version

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Every year new versions of things come around. Gadgets, cars, clothes, even relationships aren’t safe from the inevitable; sooner or later everything upgrades. Good thing though, some upgrades are not total overhauls of the things we know and love. An example of this is a party staple in Los Baños: Class Recess.

For ten incredible parties, the UPLB DeMolay Club and the International Order of DeMolay Mt. Makiling Chapter has quenched the thirst of ‘Elbi’ people for some old school “walwalan” with CLASS RECESS. This year, we will try to up the ante by giving you a new version of the classic party this April 20, 2017 with CLASS RECESS: DIVERSION, You Die in this Version.

By “die” we mean the figurative death you’ll experience from having too much fun (we promise there will be no deaths in this party). And since we are talking about “death” here are 7 ways party-goers can die in this version with CLASS RECESS: DIVERSION.

Run for the Mountains

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On May 21 2017, run with your family and chill on a barbeque cookout setting with inflatable parks.

See the mangyans,igorots and aetas athletes strut their skills in a ninja warrior type atmosphere. Run with smokey mountain football players scholars.

Every step you take supports their community towards a better future. Proceeds will go to the improvement of the Smokey Mountain Community Field of Dreams and the Indegenous People.


Register through the link below:

http://goorahna.com/#/event/runforthemountains/register

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Photography Exhibition at Yuchengco Museum Sheds Light on OFWs

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A nine-piece black-and-white photography exhibition at Yuchengco Museum reveals the hardships that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), especially domestic workers, endure in France. Entitled Chicken Hands: Photographs by Ryan Arbilo, the exhibition features portraits of Filipina housemaids, with a particular focus on their tired, weary, chicken feet-like hands. The images were taken by Ryan Arbilo, a Filipino photographer and videographer based in Paris. Chicken Hands will be on view from April 25 to June 17, 2017 at Yuchengco Museum.

Filipino emigration to France has a face, a female face. The women portrayed in Arbilo’s photographs just want to support their families back in the Philippines. Arbilo’s ‘chicken hands’ images have the power of an intimate face-to-face encounter. They are portraits with no touch-ups, of women, of mothers, holding out their bare damaged hands—the only tool they have. As visitors look through the photographs, they read the loneliness marked on their faces and the stories told through their hands, revealing the perseverance and endurance of these Filipino women.

Since 2009, Arbilo has been photographing the struggles of Filipino housemaids who travel to France for a better life for their family. “The significance of seeing their bare hands…. their ‘Chicken Hands,’ as a symbol of the sacrifice and demeaning treatment they endure, both inspired and moved me to tell their story the best way I knew how: through the art of photography,” shares Arbilo.