We’re delighted to share the second 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

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Looking for exciting things to do and see around the Philippines this Holy Week? Check out our ultimate event checklist, featuring Easter-oriented retreats, eco-tours, feasts, and other activities that you won't want to miss. There's something for everyone on our list.

MAIN STAGE

Easter Salubong
The Easter Salubong is a long-standing Lenten event in the Philippines, taking place during the early hours of Easter Sunday and after the Easter Vigil on Black Saturday. The celebration involves a reenactment of the meeting, termed in Filipino as "salubong", between Jesus Christ and Mary after His resurrection.

Event Details:
The Easter Salubong hosts two kinds of processions: one for the resurrected Jesus Christ's statue, and the other for Mother Mary's veiled statue. These processions meet at a specific spot, often in the church grounds, where a young child dressed like an angel lifts the veil of Mother Mary's statue while other children representing the angels shower flowers within the area.

HIGHLIGHTS

1. Full Moon Party
Together with Moët Hennessy, Dr. Wine Rooftop is ready to start the long weekend right with FREE-FLOWING drinks, remarkable performances, and live music set by DJ Eva Smalls. Enjoy event-exclusive cocktails that are only available once in a full moon! Booking a table should be done via DM or text (09175638811).

2. Holy Week Retreat: The Healing Journey of Peace
This is a personal treat to yourself where you can spend two restful days in silence, away from the hustle and bustle of day to day tasks and responsibilities. The healing power of peace allows us to tap into our highest potential and creativity- where we are able to experience the deepest peace - the peace of the pure being. In this retreat, we shall journey back to our essence and truth so that only love, kindness, freedom and joy govern our lives. This retreat is open to anyone regardless of religious background and practices.

3. Easter at Urban Nature School Program
Weekend Wild Child partners with the Arroceros Urban Forest Park and City Government of Manila in spearheading a holistic environmental education for families, groups and schools with young children, within and around the city, to participate in a half-day urban forest nature-school program. The Easter Sunday special version of this program is a candy-free alternative to the modern Eastern celebration where children and their families can experience easter egg hunting in the forest park, making nature crafts, identifying native trees and learning about oviparous animals other than birds.

4. Easter Fun
Celebrate Easter at South Farm Panglao Bohol, a nature-based family-oriented tourism attraction park, offering an array of activities from all-you-can-eat snacking, easter egg hunting, fishing, farm tour to animal encounter. This is also accompanied by activities in for the beach, pool and bamboo walk from the farm's luxury wellness resorts, North Zen Villas and South Palms.

5. The Garden: The Feast Holy Week Retreat and Grand Easter Feast
Receive God's Garden of Blessings together with Fr. Bob McConaghy, Bro. Bo Sanchez, Bro. Alvin Barcelona, and other Feast Bay Area preachers. Walk in His presence through The Garden this Holy Thursday & Good Friday at the PICC Reception Hall and the Grand Easter Feast on Sunday at PICC Plenary Hall.

 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: A || Z Aryn and Zsaris

Role: Improv Music Duo

Describe your role: We do live performances and create songs on the spot based on audience interaction. We both sing, rap, loop, and play our own instruments. We love every performance because it's always different. Getting to know our audience is so much fun for us, so collaborating with them through improvised music brings us so much joy.

Favorite part of your job: Being able to create this closely with a friend is always fulfilling. What makes it more interesting is that we are able to collaborate with strangers and we get to know them a little bit more with each performance.

Best performance you ever had and why?
There are too many to mention, because each performance gave us something in return. But we will say that our very first performance together in La Union was magical because we had never done that in front of an audience before and it was so well-received. We were very proud of ourselves after that, and it drove us to want to do more.

Any upcoming events you're excited for and why?
We are performing in Bangkok on April 19 and in Vietnam in May. We love traveling and performing together because it makes the vacation have more purpose than just going around.

Current obsession: We love Ena Mori, 2000s pop music, and food.

BIG BRAIN MOMENT

Interesting facts & trivia from the Philippines culture & events community

Trivia Question

Answer: As a tropical country, the Philippines has been honored to host K-drama productions in its picturesque islands like Samal, Nasugbu, Mactan, and Boracay. These include shows and movies like Romantic Island (2008), Jean Woochi (2009), The Fugitive: Plan B (2010), Hindsight (2011), and No Breathing (2013).

Interesting Culture Fact!

With 206 Filipino movies on Netflix, these fall under different genres like drama, comedy, horror, historical fiction that the Philippine cinema takes pride in.

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