We’re delighted to share the eighth issue of the Helix Events Newsletter. Our goal is to share a diverse collection of events each week from a wide spectrum of communities and cultures across the Philippines. We aim to support event organizers and provide the community with an amazing way to discover great events.

Included each week:

• Main Stage feature of a particularly awesome upcoming event

• Highlights of interesting events each week

• Spotlight features a leading personality of the events community

• Big Brain Moment Trivia and data about Filipino events & culture

Let us know what you think on our Instagram Account: Helix Events. We want this to be a collaboration with the events community. You can also see a full list of events in the Philippines at helixevents.asia.

Let’s get started!

Nurture your minds and souls with different forms of adventures this week! Check out the first maid café event in the country for fun or meet young professionals and headhunters for work. Feel free to also shop ‘till you drop to support local at MOA and learn all about the Filipino ways to appreciate arts and humanities in a Tagaytay conference.

MAIN STAGE

Cosmo Summer Party
This is the sign that you should finally book that trip to Boracay this summer! Cosmopolitan Philippines is throwing the coolest summer party this coming weekend. Get summer freebies when you visit booths, experience Paraw and Crystal Kayak, and get FREE DRINKS at the bar during the party!

The first 15 to arrive and check in at the Cosmo Summer Party Booth Activities get VIP Access to the event.

Entrance is free, btw! winks

Only a limited number of attendee slots are available.

HIGHLIGHTS

1. Alaya: Arts and Humanism Conference
Guang Ming College, in partnership with the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the UP College of Music (UPCMu), will be holding workshops, paper presentations, and cultural performances by distinguished art and theater practitioners, following the theme “Weaving the Performing Arts and Humanism Through Liveliness and Ephemerality".

To connect its influence of Humanism and its mission for the performing arts, the third edition of Alaya Conference looks at humanism and human agency in any creative and philosophical endeavor.

Keynote speakers are: Dr. Michael L. Tan, Marjorie Evasco and Dr. Anril Tiatco. CCP VP-artistic director Dennis Marasigan will give the opening remarks.

2. NAKAKABAZAAR
GET READY FOR THE GRAND NAKAKALOCAL FAIR THIS YEAR!

From everything trendy to everyday necessities, you can find it all from our Nakakalocal SMEs.

Take advantage of the exciting promos, and enjoy the amazing performances of popular PPOP Groups only at Nakakabazaar.

Entrance is free!

3. EnCAPsulate 2023 Mixer
Are you racing to meet like-minded people who can accelerate your career?

This is the night for top students and corporate executives to socialize and interact in a relaxed and enjoyable setting!

This event is OPEN to students from ALL universities and year levels.

Attendees will receive a networking guide and an address book filled with contacts of company representatives from various industries!

4. Hot Couture Workshop
Sign up for this online workshop with Catherine Sarah Young! Open to kids ages 6-12, the workshop will have them create fashion designs based on their experience and imagination of what is to live in a planet that is heating up.

5. Nikke 6th Monthsary Maid Café
Greetings, Commander!

Engage and be entertained by our select members of the Nikke Creator's Club dressed up as maids from Nikke's roster.

Interact with fellow commanders, share information, strategies, help or flex your rolls alongside each other for fun.

Get a chance to take home limited official merchandise in this once in a lifetime event; including but not limited to in-game gem codes, cupsleeves, and letters from the CEOs of the Big Three, and more!

 SPOTLIGHT

Each week we will feature an interesting leader of the Filipino events community - from producers to choreographers to venue operators to performers & more. There are so many amazing personalities and creators and we are excited to share these stories!

Name: Nikolas Banzuela

Role: Model United Nations (MUN) consultant and MUN events community leader in Asia

Describe your role: As a MUN leader, my role is to serve as an example to both new and old MUNers on how to approach MUNs, especially abroad, and be successful the academic sport.

In the three main scopes of MUNs (Delegating, Chairing, and Organizing) I have a distinct role in each.

In delegating, whenever I get to delegate abroad, I take responsibility for being able to give a good impression to different MUNers in the international circuit on Filipino MUNers' capability in more ‘’competitive’’ formats of MUNs. In Asia, there are several countries that adopt the Harvard Rules of Procedure (ROP), which specializes more in debating amongst delegates, compared to the National MUN (NMUN) ROP, which leans more toward lobbying with more vague metrics on awarding, that the Philippine’s MUN circuit usually adopts. I strive to win the MUN competitions I am in to be able to not only pave the way for Filipinos on the possibility of success in MUNs abroad but also show that Filipinos can achieve great feats in competitive MUNs when they put their mind to it

In Chairing, my responsibilities is to make sure the committee sessions are conducted orderly and efficiently. I am tasked to make the committee that I have been put in charge off to be welcoming to all delegates and be able to objectively assess delegates' performance to be given awards that are meritocratic but also to show an example to delegates on what kind of MUNers that can try to become as they continue on their MUN journey.

As an organizer, my main responsibility in whatever role I am assigned to, such as Secretary-General or Chief of Staff, is to make sure the MUN I am part of is of good standards. Whenever I organize with a major leadership position, I strive to make sure my team is efficient and orderly with deliverables and to make sure our standards are able to be off approved with even international delegates. Concurrently, whenever I am not directly organizing, but asked to consult with organizers on how they conduct their MUNs, I instruct the MUNs on what the appropriate ROPs, Dais roles, or even scheduling they could do to make their conference preparations better for the delegates.

Favorite part of your job: I believe my favorite activity in MUNs is whenever there is a chair hangout. After certain days of the conference had ended, I would hang out with the chairing teams on outing around the conference area to relax, have fun, and get to know each other. Some of my favorite chair hangouts would be during the time I was chairing in International MUN Vietnam (IMUN Vietnam), where I and the chairs went around Hanoi during the night market, to shop and explore.

Best performance you ever had and why?
The best MUN I hosted was definitely when I was Secretay-General International MUN Philippines (IMUN Philippines) back in 2022. IMUN Philippines was the FIRST ever physical MUN in the Philippines since the pandemic happened as prior MUNs were all online. Moreover, IMUN Philippines was the most diverse MUN in the country, with over 20 nationalities participating. Subsequently, the MUN had the most amount of speakers, with three Ambassadors appearing and Chel Diokno becoming the closing special speaker. I was an absolute honor to serve as Secretary-General for the most multi-national MUN in the country, and to announce to the whole country, that physical MUNs have returned.

Any upcoming events you're excited for and why?
I'm excited about the upcoming Malaysia World MUN in October. It's the first of its kind in Malaysia and I was invited to chair the Security Council and become a speaker for its MUN Academy to track new MUNers on the fundamentals of MUNs.

What is your favorite movie?
I like ‘’Grave of the Fireflies’’ as I watched it with my friend on Netflix. It was an emotional story that follows two siblings in their survival during WWII in Japan.

It explored themes of desperation, family, and optimism being a luxury as life can make hell on one’s world even when they don't deserve it.

BIG BRAIN MOMENT

Interesting facts & trivia from the Philippines culture & events community

Trivia Question

Answer: The Thrilla in Manila

Taking place in the Philippines back in 1975, the event was regarded as Ali's near-death experience and the most challenging fight for Frazier because he was partially blind. Because of Ali's win, the historic boxer was able to keep his heavyweight title.

Interesting Culture Fact!

Lea Salonga became Asia's first Tony Award winner by pioneering the Vietnamese character in the 1989 original cast of London's West End while Eva Noblezada became a Tony Award nominee in her broadway debut that took place in Miss Saigon's Broadway revival in 2017.

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