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Mark your calendars! A first is going to happen on MAY 20, 2017, as VivaManila, in cooperation with Escolta Commercial Assoc. (ECAI) and Escolta community, throws the third #EBParty along with the third MNL Urban Design Festival!

For the 3rd ESCOLTA BLOCK PARTY the Escolta community, in partnership with Viva Manila, hosts the 3rd MNL URBAN DESIGN FESTIVAL. Join us as we celebrate Manila as a Water City on MAY 20!

It will be two times the celebration and two times the fun, so don't you forget to bring your family and friends!

Source: Escolta Block Party

“The EB Party will officially take place on Saturday, Feb. 18 along Escolta Street in Binondo, Manila. There are so many things to do and experience at the EB Party, whether you want to visit stores or simply have a good time.”

Thank you International Business Times PH for this feature!

PARKING?

Bringing a car tomorrow? Take note of the available parking spaces around the area aside from the side streets. Or you can always take an @uber_phl and use our code (EBPARTY) for Php100 off!

HOW ABOUT THE RIVER?

If you're up for a different kind of commuting adventure, take the river ferry to Escolta. Yes, there's a station named after our lovely street. It's just a block away from the party! Follow their page for more info on the schedule (https://www.facebook.com/MMDA-PASIG-FERRY-1632099197098013/)

COMING BY TRAIN?

One more commuting option for tomorrow! We're just a few steps away from Carriedo Station of LRT1. You surely won't miss the grand welcome of Don Roman Santos, First United, and Regina buildings.

Either way, we hope to see you all tomorrow!

#EBParty Soon to Open: Galleries and Shops!

Watch out for these cool shops & galleries opening tomorrow for Escolta Block party! Feast your eyes on the quaint and one-of-a-kind finds from the pop-up shops, dress-up cats, and appreciate more art and photography to satisfy your artistic cravings. And... the flea market we all look forward to every one Saturday of the month, the Future Market, is BACK for tomorrow’s festivities. :)

Source: Escolta Block Party

FUTURE MARKET

Where: Escolta Street, Manila When: 11AM-12MN

It is a bazaar, garage sale, thrift shop, black market, project and meeting place. Artists, craft makers, designers and hoarders sell their wares: from artworks, limited edition or hand-made clothes, bags, jewelry, accessories, toys, zines, CDs, stickers, second-hand, vintage to unwanted things.

organized by: @98bcollaboratory

SA STORE LAUNCH

Where: @hub_ml When: February 18, 2017, 4PM-5PM (launch)

Celebrating the hustle and bustle of the noisy streets of Manila, SA STORE is a quirky conceptual shop that positions itself with the unique creativity, silly humor, and the happy-go-lucky charm that Filipinos are known for. With a fresh approach to modern selling, SA STORE is comprised of core labels SALAD DAY, SUPERSTARLET XXX, and INDAYOG, and also offers a diverse array of local hand-made goods, kitschy knick-knacks, and sustainable pre-loved items. With so much character and eye-candy going on under one roof, a trip to SA STORE promises to be a unique shopping experience that is worth the trip!

organized by: Superstarlet XXX, Salad Day

PusPin Presents: Glamourpuss

Where: @hub_ml When: February 18, 2017, 11AM-7PM

An exhibit, art-making activity with Puspin meowdels. The artworks will be sold at Magic Poppet; some of the proceeds will be donated to a shelter or animal welfare group. A handful of rescued Puspins (Pusang Pinoy, not Pusakal) will be the meowdels for the day.

From 11AM until 7PM people can visit the cats at the Magic Poppet space at the HUB | Make Lab to draw or paint them. There will be 1-2 cats at the space. Ready-made cat art from different artists will also be exhibited and sold.

Every hour a cat in a couture gown will walk around in a harness to meet and greet the visitors of the EB Party!

organized by: @magicpoppet

KOMMISSARY Pop-up Store Launch

Where: Common Area, @hub_ml When: February 18, 2017, 11AM-11PM

#Kommissary is simply defined as a store or supermarket for military personnel. Aesthetically, GEN. MDSE. pays homage to this transient military architecture with light tropical materials reminiscent of the demised American bases in tropical Manila.

ESCOLTA, was derived from the Spanish word escoltar, meaning "to escort” which became a hub for the military and expats. Commissaries came to existence when the military came during the American period. The street was lined with shops and boutiques selling imported goods from China, Europe and elsewhere in Latin America that arrived in the nearby port of San Nicolas. By the late 19th century, Escolta flourished into a fashionable business district hosting the city's tallest buildings. GEN. MDSE. wanted to showcase this "history" through the Kommissary pop-up by inviting the current locus of Filipino designers and brands in the post-colonial present, as a result of decades of change and a culmination of what fashion and its systems are today.

This pop-up is part of GEN. MDSE.'s joint exhibitions at the First United Building - Threading the Landscape - an exhibit that reassess the values of things, history and systems that revolves around Escolta and Manila, and LUXEGROCERY, a campaign treated as installation art located at the HUB.

Featured brands are: Alaala Sala Basic Commodity Denuo Elevatemnl Apparelmnl Girl in Transit GOAT ( Greatest Of All Time ) Clothing Matá Orthopedic666 Proudrace Quirk Clothing Randolf Salad Day Slaves Øf Liberty Tenement The Artisan

organized by: @gen.mdse

A PHOTO EXHIBIT Rare Photographs by Mr. Ang Sin

Where: Oriental Photographix, Escolta When: February 18, 2017, 9AM-6PM

Featuring rare Black & White photographs circa 1950s and 1960s taken and printed by the late photographer Mr. Ang Sin.

organized by: Oriental Photographix

THE DRAWING ROOM ESCOLTA TDR Escolta Soft Launch

Where: The Drawing Room Escolta, @hubmnl When: February 18, 2017, 11:00am to 11:00pm

The Drawing Room is a contemporary art gallery in Makati City, Philippines. It features artists from the Philippines whose respective practices investigate the complementary and often merging position between their oeuvre and lifestyles. The gallery exists in a dynamic and in-depth platform with its artists, presented in The Drawing Room’s support in interdisciplinary artistic processes. The artists maintain a priority towards specific cosmopolitan and urban thinking, as well as personal synchronicisms between histories we inherit and histories we are shaping. The Drawing Room’s stable of artists rarely documents. Their research-based and experientially-grounded methods represent the Philippines in constant frenetic flux – very removed from journalistic portrayals of its historical and contemporary society. However, the artists from The Drawing Room depict the ensemble of realities that make up a complex society. With a strategic and critical program of exposure, The Drawing Room propels these artists in international art fairs and through collaborations with institutions and other commercial venues local and abroad.

Founded by Cesar Villalon Jr. in 1998, The Drawing Room began as a specialist venue that moderated the revitalising of works on paper. It reinforced works by Filipino draughtsmen and soon, this alcove of a particular medium expanded to various artistic formats grounded on defined sensibilities that map the complex scope of thinking attributed to the contemporary terrain of Philippine art. The Drawing Room values the depth of relationship a gallery offers to the artist, mediating career design even in the breadth of global competence.

#EBParty Exhibitions and Art Installations!

Check out these cool displays for EB party goers! You can view them at the HUB, First United Building Lobby & Community Museum, and Panpisco Building. Enjoy!

Source: Escolta Block Party

THREADING THE LANDSCAPE

Two exhibitions: • BERG’S 2069: Future Tense of a Department Store at the First United Building Community Museum • LUXEGROCERY: DIY Luxury Collection for the 98B Esc Projects at the HUB: Make Lab

Artists Bianca Holganza, Jose Tong and Derek Tumala reassess the value of things or the process of commodification through their joint exhibitions at the First United Building Community Museum (FUBCM) and in 98B’s ESC Projects. In an attempt to bridge past and present, they expound and re-contextualize trade venue - “store” and to create “things” - within creation of objects, ideals, processes, marketing and philosophy.

BERG’S 2069: Future Tense of a Department Store will be at the FUBCM while LUXEGROCERY: DIY Luxury Collection that features brands from GEN MDSE will be at the HUB | Make Lab.

As Koketso Masuluke wrote, “Cultural heritage… is formed by those things or expressions that show the creativity of people.” This project is exactly a reflection of that.

BLACK CLOTH POETRY by Ami Yamasaki

Ami Yamasaki is a vocalist and cross-media artist based in Tokyo. Inspired by Yoko Ono’s performance of Cut Piece, where the artist invited the audience to a cut a piece of the clothes she’s wearing, Ami is working on a hybrid documentary that imagines the fates of the pieces of cloth that were cut. Entitled Black Cloth Poetry, she begins her journey in Manila where she hopes to meet people who would like to be part of her documentary. Her next stop will be New York, as an artist-in-residence of the Asian Cultural Council.

organized by: Janus Victoria

LANGIT LUPA IMPYERNO IM-IM-IMPYERNO SAK-SAK PUSO TULO ANG DUGO PATAY BUHAY ALIS KA NA DIYAN by Gino Javier

Where: PAN/// Project Space, PANPISCO, Escolta, Manila When: Opening on Feb 12, 2017 | 4PM

Show runs from Feb 12 - Mar 12, 2017

STEAM PROJECTS x ALEX DOGRUSH

Video mapping installation at the lobby of First United Building, a collaborative effort of STEAM Projects and Alex Dogrush.

Alex Dogrush is a member of ID-V, a group of Latin American artists working on moving image production such as video mapping, VJ-ing, light design, events stage design pushing the boundaries of the medium on a grand scale.

organized by: Steam Projects

FLOW COLLECTIVE X MULTIVERSE

Where: Future Market, Escolta When: February 18, 2017

Street performance with video mapping presentation.

An #EBParty is no fun without the right anthems from our crazy good friends! Strictly for your dancing pleasure, here’s our DJ lineup THIS COMING SATURDAY. It’s definitely going to be one street party you wouldn’t wanna miss! #EscoltaBlock

What: Escolta Groove Where: Fred’s Revolución When: 5PM onwards

featuring DJ sets by: - saladboy - Boy•Kills•Robot - killyourboyfriend - mikelavvet - Habibi - Ill Primitivo - Major Chie - CRWN

organized by: 98B, Fred’s Revolucion, GEN. MDSE. - General Merchandise, The Den