Lenten and Easter Activities at Sheraton Manila Bay

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It’s going to be a restful Holy Week capped by an activity-laden Easter Sunday at Sheraton Manila Bay.

Take time to recharge and unwind this Holy Week and Easter Sunday and be pampered at the comforting sanctuary of our accommodation. Avail of our Easter Room Package and treat the family to a staycation at our spacious Deluxe Room for two adults and two kids below 12 years old, inclusive of breakfast buffet, lunch or dinner at Pacific Lounge, Php 500 worth of food and beverage credit at the Pool Bar, special turndown amenity, and late check out up to 2PM. Stay period from April 9 to 17, 2022.

On Easter Sunday, April 17, Pacific Lounge will take you to an intergalactic space adventure with our Spacestastic Easter Party where families, friends, kids and kids-at-heart will enjoy a sumptuous Easter brunch buffet for only Php 1,200++ per adult and Php 600++ per child aged 6 to 11 years, arts and crafts activities, parlor games, goodies loot bags to take home, and access to our fun-filled Easter egg hunt where kids can get a chance to win exciting prizes and giveaways from our valued sponsors. The Spacestastic Easter Party at Sheraton Manila Bay is sponsored by Oishi Choco Chug, Bizikits Toasted Crackers, Oishi Chokulot Choco Curls, Tulip Jamonilla, Orion, Evian Natural Spring Water, Evian Brumisateur, Salonpas, ByeByeFever, and Jack ‘n Jill Cloud 9.

Meanwhile, for those who wish to celebrate at home, avail of our Easter Surprise Basket for only Php 750 and delight in delectably sweet chocolate surprises. To order, visit our Sheraton Kiosk located at Robinsons Place Manila, Padre Faura Wing, Mall Entrance or call our Culinary Courier for delivery at 0917 583 7294, 0917 583 7326 or email sh.mnlsb.fnb@sheraton.com.

Pacific Lounge is located at the 21st floor, Sheraton Manila Bay, M. Adriatico cor. Gen Malvar Sts. Malate, Manila. For reservation please call +632 5318 0788 or email reservations.manilabay@sheraton.com. Like us on Facebook and Instagram @sheratonmanilabay and Twitter at @sheratonmnlbay. For more information, please visit our website at www.sheratonmanilabay.com.

FEU features DepComm faculty’s docus on women

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The Far Eastern University Department of Communication (FEU DepComm) recently placed the spotlight on its faculty members and their documentaries about women as part of its advocacy initiative and departmental project in line with the celebration of National Women’s Month.

FEU Depcomm showed acclaimed films “DocWomentary: Women Behind the Lens” by Jayneca Reyes, “Lila” by Chrissy Cruz Ustaris, and “Maria Leonor” by Seymour Barros Sanchez in a two-part exhibition and post-screening roundtable discussion entitled “CineForum: Abante, Babae!”

In “DocWomentary,” Reyes explores why Filipino women are at the forefront of documentary filmmaking in the country and navigates the challenges they must confront in the film industry. Throughout the film, she discovers her own reflexivity as a filmmaker but most importantly, as a woman.

Meanwhile, Ustaris chronicles her 20-year journey with her son in “Lila,” a ten-minute film that presents shifts between glimpses of memories and reflections on the joys and challenges of being a mother to an individual with special needs.

Sanchez intends “Maria Leonor” as an open letter to presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo after she filed her certificate of candidacy for the nation’s top post. The documentary delves into the Filipino voter’s psyche as it trains its sight on a government office’s pandemic response efforts.

FEU DepComm Chair Herwin Cabasal shared that CineForum, one of the department’s activities, focuses on films produced and/or directed by faculty members, students, and invited filmmakers and collectives.  

The screenings were followed by talks “aimed at sharing the filmmakers’ experiences and insights on their films while engaging the public in a meaningful exchange with these creators, that is hoped to shed light on social issues emerging from their films,” Cabasal added.

Reyes, Ustaris, and Sanchez are all part of the FEU DepComm faculty. Fellow faculty member Ma. Rosa Bragais moderated the first open forum with Reyes and Ustaris as speakers. Their colleagues, Camille Nadine Magsalin-Roquel and Kristine Camille Sulit, and FEU Film Society President Lily Gomes served as reactors in the second post-screening discussion with Sanchez as speaker and Ustaris as moderator.

CineForum falls under FEU SCREEN, which advances the relevance and role of Communication as a field, specifically Convergent Media and Digital Cinema tracks, as expressed in their intersectionality with and contribution to society, culture, research, education, entertainment, and nation or the acronym SCREEN.

“The project aims to promote media and information literacy that strengthens critical thinking in both production and consumption; foster active engagement between experts in the fields of Digital Cinema and Convergent Media (media practitioners, filmmakers, communication scholars, faculty members), students, and the general public through the activities it organizes; and create various platforms that encourage cultural and social dialogue and discourse on the pressing issues anchored in the Department of Communication’s mantra “may alam, may pakialam” (socially aware and involved),” Cabasal stressed.

Apart from CineForum, other activities or projects under FEU SCREEN include “Likhang Mulat,” “Beyond the Screen,” “Green Screen Exhibition,” “Comm Talk: Brown Bag Lectures,” “CommBack Home,” “Insights/Istorya,” “Project MILA” (Media and Information Literacy Advocacy), and special projects.

OTB brand BingoPlus partners with the PBA for Season 47

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Basketball fans are going to have fun when the Philippine Basketball Association’s (PBA) 47th Season begins.

Not only will the oldest professional basketball league in Asia have a guest foreign team to make the games more interesting, it will make fans enjoy the experience better with fun and leisure options on the side.

BingoPlus, the country’s first licensed Online Traditional Bingo (OTB) services, has partnered with the PBA for all the three conferences of its 47th season. The gaming company will have branded segments and content in the PBA coverage and will enable fans to participate in traditional bingo games played on their gadgets and cellphones.

“BingoPlus and the PBA share the same passion in bringing entertainment that adds value to their audience. This is why we see this as an ideal partnership. It’s long been in the works, and now that it is a reality, our common goal is to provide high-value entertainment and leisure opportunities for our combined target markets,” said Andy Tsui, Leisure and Resorts World Corporation president, the holding company that manages and operates amusement and recreation enterprises.

“This basketball loving country is always looking for what is new and exciting. Nowadays playing games online gives a new kind of thrill. Online Traditional Bingo, like basketball, requires focus, strategy and sportsmanlike conduct for one to stay the course. We want to teach these values to our audience too. We take pride in this partnership with the second oldest professional basketball league in the world because like them, we want to be recognized as the most reputable brand in our field, which is the gaming sector,” said Jasper Vicencio, AB Leisure Exponent, Inc. (ABLE), president. BingoPlus is ABLE’s newest gaming brand under the LRWC umbrella.

The PBA and BingoPlus signed a memorandum of agreement to jointly raise the level of entertainment and recreation of Filipinos through their combined undertaking, Wednesday, April 6.

BingoPlus plans to extend more support to the sports sector in the coming days, Vicencio said.