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Your Sundays just got more interesting ✨

Spend a day learning a new creative skill—from writing and filmmaking to worldbuilding and bookbinding. Whether you're trying something for the first time or expanding your practice, there's a workshop waiting for you.

🍛 Intro to Food Writing with Toni Potenciano (Kodawari)
🎥 Video Shooting & Editing Workflows with Jaeninna
🧚‍♂️ Building Magical Systems in Fiction with Vida Cruz-Borja (Song of the Mango and Other New Myths)
📓 Make Your Own Leather Journal with Sofia Bederi (Cosa Cosa Studio)

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🌈 Q***rness, like poetry, is an act of becoming.

Step into some colorful shoes with John Iremil Teodoro in a workshop on creating the q***r persona through poetry. Through close reading, discussion, and guided writing exercises, you'll explore how poetic voice can reveal, reinvent, and reimagine the self—stepping into new perspectives, possibilities, and ways of being.

✍️ Understand how persona shapes a poem
🌈 Explore how q***rness can inform poetic voice
📖 Read and discuss poems by q***r writers

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🗓️ July 11, starts at 2PM
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

What makes a q***r character feel real?

Join Det Neri for a workshop on writing q***r characters with depth, nuance, and emotional truth. Grounded in the Filipino values of kapwa and pakikipagkapwa-tao, you'll explore how identity, empathy, and lived experience come together to create authentic, compelling fiction.

✍️ Understand key ideas on gender, sexuality, and q***r literature
✍️ Create more nuanced q***r characters beyond common stereotypes
✍️ Develop new character sketches or story drafts with greater emotional depth

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🗓️ July 11, starts at 10AM
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

Poetry doesn't stop at the page—it comes alive in performance.

Join Leandro Reyes (The Basyang Kid) for an introductory workshop on spoken word and performance poetry. Discover how your poems can take on new meaning through voice, rhythm, and presence as you explore the transition from page to stage.

🎤 Learn the fundamentals of spoken word and performance poetry
🎤 Experiment with voice, cadence, and line breaks to deepen your poem's impact
🎤 Explore the unique ways poetry resonates differently in written form and live performance

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🗓️ July 10, starts at 5PM
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

Poetry doesn't end on the page.

In this introductory workshop, Leandro Reyes (The Basyang Kid) explores how poetry transforms from page to performance. Through spoken word, you'll experiment with voice, cadence, line breaks, and audience engagement while discovering new ways to bring your work to life.

🎤 Understand the fundamentals of spoken word and performance poetry
🎤 Explore how voice, cadence, and line breaks affect a poem's impact
🎤 Learn how poems function differently on the page and in performance

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🗓️ June 30, 2026
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

It's time to celebrate the art of becoming 🏳️‍🌈

Join our Pride Picks Classes and explore how q***rness is translated and done justice on the page—whether in fiction or in poetry. Part of being of the community is the responsibility to represent with love, care, and intention.

Sign up now for:
💝 Rainbow Poetry: Creating the Q***r Persona with John Iremil Teodoro
— Philippine National Book Award Winner and Director of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (DLSU Manila)
💝 Beyond Representation: Writing Q***r Characters with Det Villanueva Neri
— Six-time Palanca awardee and professor under the UP Diliman Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas

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🗓️ June 28, 2026
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

You in person: 😎 You on camera: 🧍

Whether you're speaking in a Zoom meeting or recording content for social media, your on-screen presence shapes how your message lands. In On-Cam: Delivery & Presence, will help you build confidence on camera, organize your thoughts quickly, and communicate naturally in both live and recorded formats.

Since 2018, Dani Reyes has done talks, workshops, and conversations, while building an online community through her platforms and podcast, deeper with dani.

📱 Speak more naturally and confidently on camera
📱 Organize your thoughts quickly while recording or going live
📱 Capture your audience's attention—whether via Zoom or TikTok

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🗓️ June 27, 1PM to 3PM
📍 Online
📓 PHP 1,000

For anyone who's ever spent 30 minutes writing a two-sentence Slack message.

Drawing from 25 years of corporate experience, Siops Balacania's How To Say Hard Things at Work is a practical session on communicating through conflict, feedback, negotiations, and other high-stakes workplace moments.

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🗓️ June 27, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1,000