For Word and By Word
Kooky Tuason believes in the power of words. She taps the artist in each of us, redefining talent. She is a performance poet, an educator and a radio host. She has released 4 spoken word albums – Romancing Venus, Romancing Venus Vol. 2, Bigkas Pilipinas and In:Transit Manila Meets Toronto. Her radio show then at JAM 88.3 received great reviews and nominations at the KBP Golden Dove Awards and the Catholic Mass Media Awards. Her coffee table book Picket Lines: Dialogues Between Eves, Among Eves and For Eves will be launched March 2015 in time for women’s month. So is her new program on mainstream radio. Thinking Man’s Classroom is her initiative to reinvent education through creativity.
Premieres February 23, 2015.
The Museum of Randomly Perfected Broken Bodies
Manu Respall, a visionary conceptual artist, a character actor, a poet, writer and an explorer of realms. He believes that there is beauty to all the madness in the world. Never stops believing in humanity’s goodness and pain is his power. Loves beyond understanding. Will dedicate his life to the strangeness of beauty and pain of life’s mantle. He would promise to spill his mind to the edge of his body where his soul begins. A storyteller who will fly across mindscapes and into realities never bravely discovered. He would love to say to the world: “live, BREATHE and eat ART”!!!!!!
Premieres February 23, 2015.
Random Fandom
Jon Sideño is a Marketing and Management major from PSBA who as a student, got his Star Trek fix from scouring bargain books from sidewalk booksellers in Rizal Avenue and Recto. A Trekkie (not a Trekker. Yes, there is a difference) and James Bond fan, Jon is also a member of the Philippine Garrison of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers, suiting up as a Clonetrooper for charity events. You can also find him if not working his day job as a sales executive, running his bohemian bar in Cubao during weekends or completing his collection of Pacific Rim Jaegers.
Premieres February 23, 2015.
Principals of Principle
Angel Jones started off with the international band Kulay. She expresses her artistry in a variety of mediums such as hosting in live events, on television and on radio; make up artist, brand and image consultant/speaker, fashion appreciator and writer in both the Philippine and now the Canadian entertainment industry. Currently, she devotes her time seeking spiritual inspiration, with her four children motivating her to reach beyond her limits. She hopes she can help people find their truth as she tries to find her truth while celebrating the beauty around her armed with sarcasm, positive cynicism and optimism to guide her on her way.
Vince Dioquino loves tokwa’t baboy and cheap beer. He passionately collects bus tickets and crumpled receipts. A poet-critic, his interests include philosophy, literature and contemporary art. His writings have been published here and abroad, and he has self-published his first poetry chapbook, nameless horizons. He currently serves as poetry editor for ellipsis, a forthcoming local art journal. He is currently completing a novel-in-verse project and a monograph.
Alma Anonas-Carpio is the Associate Editor of the newsweekly Philippines Graphic magazine. She has been a journalist for two decades and a slave to her imagination for much longer than that. When she is not writing her reportage, she pens poems and the odd piece of fiction and erotica. When she isn’t doing that, she hangs out with her one-eyed cat Kai, her Twin Towers and cooks for various members of her family of friends.
Kim Tengco is in Lay Pastoral Ministry but he is also open to other people’s faith. He believes there is uniqueness in each human being for there’s divinity within. He once was part of the Humanist Movement. He took up his MA in Theology at Maryhill School of Theology.
Niccolo Cosme started his career in the field of photography in 2001. He has established a name in the industry through his talent, passion, creative imagination, fascination with meanings and symbolisms, pain and sorrow and Christian iconography, his favorite subject is the Mater Dolorosa. He spearheaded The Project Headshot Clinic, merging profile photos online and advertising to promote awareness on campaigns, advertisements, and advocacies through unique digitized headshots; co-founded The Red Whistle campaign in 2011, a community response to the alarming situation of HIV and AIDS in the Philippines; a great supporter of Human Rights, the Anti-Discrimination Bill and Reproductive Health Bill, he considers activism an integral part of him as an artist and as a humanitarian vegetarian.
Nii Foronda has this delusion of grandeur in becoming a stand-up comedienne. Her passion lies in Science Fiction and pledged allegiance to the Starfleet Command. She almost became a nun and gone out of the nunnery due to lack of dental care support. She is currently a non-believer or more like a free thinker. No, it’s not because of what they lack in dental care support.
Premieres February 23, 2015.
Special thanks to:
Chapter IX Booksandmore , Chub Couture, Ananda Kanani Accessories , F*ART Fashion Art Gallery
Photography by Michael McBrayer
Poster design by Dustin Carbonera
