the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

Description: Maayong adlaw! THOUSANDS of children don't enroll every year for lack of school supplies. How much does one notebook cost these days? P20? A ball pen, P7? For just this amount, a child is denied the right to education. The difference a few pesos make! Who's to blame? The government? The community? The parents? Is finger-pointing the answer, or part of the problem? Why not ask this question instead - what have I done to help? While the government tries bigtime solutions to the problem on education, you can do your share by helping "ismol tym". Give a little of the many that you have and send children to school. If you aim for some angrier approach here, like marching down the street and showing those congressmen the dirty finger, we salute you. But if you think of yourself as just a dot in the universe, you may choose to leave the darker, uglier side of the problem (corruption in government, world debt, general apathy) to Bono and the Pope. The point is, y...

Start:      Feb 24, '05 6:30p Location:      CINEMA 6 OF SM MEGAMALL If you missed the Premiere or if you saw the film but want friends or family to see it too, you can catch BUNSO (The Youngest) at Pelikula at Lipunan this Thursday. BUNSO is a disturbing documentary film about three boys, Tony, Itsoy and Diosel, aged eleven to thirteen who are detained in a jail for adult criminals. It is an immersion into the world of the city jail with many poignant moments from the boys who speak their truth with innocence and street smarts, pain and humor. The duo behind the documentary film: Ditsi Carolino and Nana Buxani, creators of Minsan Lang Sila Bata (1996) and Riles (2002). Bunso is not a commercial film and will not have a commercial run, so catch the Premiere while you can! Hope to see you at the screenings! *** If you have friends and colleagues who you think would be interested in watching Bunso, please help us spread the word and forward this email. ---...

After four straight years of walking on the streets, I got tired of taking photos. Besides, they were less friendly to photographers this year and I didn't want to argue so I decided to just enjoy walking and jostling with the crowds. At the end of it all, we just hung out at Bo's in Ramos taking pictures of ourselves =) and I mean we really had a pictorial session. I still don't have the other photos taken by my friends with digital cameras. The photos with the vendors and candles I took at the Sto. Nino Basilica one Sunday on February 13, when I happened to have a meeting downtown. The night shots I took at Fuente Osmena the Friday before Sinulog, on January 14. All shots handheld, the shots from the overpass taken with bulb exposure.

Description: Dear All, The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below. First, some facts: the Amazon rainforest is responsible for the generation of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe, 30% of the world's freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin, 60% of the cancer fighting drugs used today are derived from plants that can only be found within the Amazon rainforest. The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock. All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 squar...

Start:      Mar 16, '05

Start:      Mar 4, '05 9:00a End:      Mar 31, '05 9:00p Location:      Ayala Center Cebu and Robinson's Cebu Fifteen pairs of women visual artists and writers each set out to discuss the concept of "babayeng buhat" or "woman's work" and produce a collaborative artwork consisting of a painting and a poem. This is a joint project of WAI-Cebu and the Women in Literary Arts, Inc., funded by the NCCA, and is the first of its kind in Cebu.

Start:      Feb 13, '05 End:      Feb 28, '05 Location:      Wineshop, Gorordo Ave. (beside Golden Peak Hotel) Photos with women as subjects, captured by Cebu's renowned photographers. (and yes, i'm singing at the opening, but not everyone is invited to that =P)