Open Auditions for Koine

Start:	Aug 2, '06 6:00p
Location:	Koine One Acts studio on the 2nd floor of 121 Forab bldg, Kamuning rd. Q.C.

Koine is holding auditions for Dancers who can Act for the Play Matapos ang Yihee by Niel de Mesa.

Auditions will be held on August 2 Wednesday at 6pm at the Koine One Acts studio on the 2nd floor of 121 Forab bldg, Kamuning rd. Q.C.

Please come in work out clothes and bring vitae/resume. Prepare to do
a dance routine and read the script afterwards.
(Dancers male/female 18 – 27)
Please contact 4104485 or 09189406029 for more questions and
informations.

Audtiions for Horror Musical

Start:	Aug 5, '06 2:00p
End:	Aug 5, '06 9:00p
Location:	Bulwagang Amado Hernandez (Conference Room), Upper Ground Floor, CCP Main Building, CCP Complex

Tanghalang Pilipino announces open auditions for the spine-tingling play, BAKERETTA (Ghost Operetta), to be directed by the playwright himself, multi-awarded screenwriter and one of Japan’s most exciting theater directors, Chong Wishing.

Auditions will be held on August 5, 2006, from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at the Bulwagang Amado Hernandez (Conference Room), Upper Ground Floor, CCP Main Building, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City.

The director will be in Manila to personally screen male and female actors ages 18 and up. Auditionees must prepare a 3-minute monologue in Filipino from any published local or foreign play, a movement piece and a song. All interested actors must bring their updated resume with their most flattering colored headshot.

Applicants must be available for the production schedule, with rehearsals running for five weeks prior to the opening on October 20, 2006 at the Sinag Arts Studio and a second run at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio Theater) from November 10 to 26, 2006.

A co-production with the Japan Foundation and Sinag Arts Studio, Bakeretta is a psychological thriller, somewhat in the tradition of Japanese horror films like Ring and The Grudge, but with a quirky, musical twist! An amateur theater company rehearses a modern ghost (bake) story – The Ghost in the Toilet and the mounting pressures of opening night get mixed up with
their personal dramas, comedies and horrors.

For inquiries, please call the TP office at 832-3661 or 832-1125 locals 1620/1621.


Tanghalang Pilipino
Resident Theater Company of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Roxas Blvd., Pasay City

Office Telefax: 832-3661
CCP Trunkline: 832-1125 local 1620 & 1621
(Tuesdays to Fridays)

American Idol Season 6 Auditions

Start:	Aug 21, '06
Location:	BJCC, Birmingham

Do you have what it takes to compete? Men and women must be 16 to 28 years old by Aug. 6, 2006.

More info: http://www.idolonfox.com/auditions/

Help Needed

An Autralian writer based in the Philippines is currently looking for an assistant to work on a part-time basis (3x a week, 4 hours a day). He is generous and very considerate.

If you have some aptitude in writing, common sense and love for technology, you'd fit this post comfortably. Please get in touch with me, if you are interested.

=)K

My New Baby

man, i love my mom!

she's sick and all yet she still finds a way to help me out in my direst times.

i've been out of a job since March. Times have been very tough. I barely made it though enrollment and the mounting monthly bills... all thanks to her and some help from my brother and some friends.

For my birthday, she again came through and helped me get my hands on my new toy -- a P2 300 IBM Thinkpad.

Yeah, I know, it's an old notebook but it's got most of what I need. With this baby, I can get by with my free-lance work and be mobile. I had the CD-ROM upgraded into a combo drive, the 6gb HDD into 30 gb. I also got a wifi card, an optical mouse and a USB hub (since my new toy only has one USB port).

It has encountered some problems already for which I harrassed the Open Pinoy tech support. Then I learned i can tinker with it and get results faster, less the hassle of trekking to Greenhills in the Ortigas Ave. traffic through LSGH.

Anyway, I'm just raving about my mom. She's my life-saver.

And I say it again -- man, I love my mom!!!

Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards

Sigh... I guess my imagination isn't rich enough! My entry didn't make it to the finals of the Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards.

Oh well... life goes on.

In any case, below are the finalists and they are eligible for both the top awards and The People's Choice Awards.

The winners will be announced on July 15 during the SF-Fantasy Convention at Rockwell.

A Song for Vargas
A Strange Map of Time
Stella_for_Star
The God Equation
The Great Philippine Space Mission
The Omega Project
Monstrous Cycle
Atha

To vote, go to:
http://www.fullybookedonline.com/eventdtl.php?id=10

Bring a home-made mask and be eligible for a special prize for the best mask!

To pity or not to pity...

Over the weekend, I passed by ortigas Ave. in Greenhills. While stuck in traffic near the Santolan intersection, I saw this young man in his early teens with deformities on all four of his limbs. He was selling Sampaguita garlands. From afar, I thought, "wow, that's very industrious of him, given his physical limitations."

When he got to me, his height reached only just above the lower part of my window. I politely shook my head and waved him to move on.

Now, this part is disturbing.

He looked into the car and looked straight down to my legs. I was wearing walking shorts so half my thighs were showing. Then he licked his lips, looked at me and started leering and making facial expressions as if to tell me what he intended to do with me.

Note, he never offered his garlands again after looking in.

I felt so violated. All pity evaporated. Instead, I felt utter disgust!

I waved him off with a stern expression on my face, but he just went on with what he was doing, occasionally looking down to my legs. So, I just surged the car forward. Thankfully, he went away after that.

He was practically a quadruplegic and he had no manners whatsoever! It was like his physial appearance simply mirrored his disgusting behavior.

In the end, he was a guy afterall, with his lower head working more than the higher one... Why are there too many of those around?

=)K