ColorManila Holds Successful Simultaneous Events with CM Paradise Run Laguna and CM Glitter Run Dagupan

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ColorManila, the country’s number one fun-run organizer, just had two successful events last weekend, with its CM Paradise Run Laguna, which had Honda Motors as its major sponsor, and CM Glitter Run in Dagupan City, which was co-presented by CSI Malls.

Both events, which were packed and sold out, were held simultaneously, with both Laguna and Dagupan City, experiencing the CM Paradise Run and CM Glitter Run franchises of ColorManila.

Beauty queen Zara Carbonell, Philippine National Swimming Team’s Jasmine Alkhaldi and Philippine Volcanoes’ Evan Spargo, were also seen enjoying the event, at the CM Paradise Run - Laguna leg, held at Greenfield, Santa Rosa.

ColorManila VP Justine Cordero says, “We are delighted to have had a successful weekend, marked by these two events, CM Glitter Run in Dagupan City, and CM Paradise Run, held in Laguna. Our followers can look forward to at least 20 more events for the year, which will be held in different parts of the country. Our only goal is to keep our runners happy and for them to enjoy the events that we work hard for.”

ColorManila’s next CM Paradise Run events will be held in Iloilo on May 20, and Cebu, on June 17, 2018.

For more information, visit www.colormanila.com and FB/ColorManila.

Photo Caption: (L-R), Beauty queen Zara Carbonell, Philippine Volcanoes’ Evan Spargo, and Philippine Swimming Team’s SEA Games medalist Jasmine Alkhaldi were seen enjoying themselves at the CM Paradise Run, held at Greenfield, Santa Rosa, in Laguna.

Hoppler Supports Art in the Park 2018

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Art in the Park, dubbed as the country’s most important affordable art fair, has partnered with leading online real estate brokerage Hoppler for the former’s 12th edition, which will be held on April 15, 2018, at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati.

Like its previous editions, this year’s event is set to celebrate all kinds of art with the goal of making contemporary pieces more accessible Filipinos and aspiring collectors. According to the event’s organizers, Art in the Park 2018 makes art even more affordable by prescribing a cap of Php50,000 on art pieces.

The 2018 fair is set to feature up-and-coming local artists, 59 galleries, and student groups who will be exhibiting their own unique art pieces in the event, among whom are this year’s two featured artists: Tekla Tamoria and Jacob Lindo.

Tamoria, who has participated in numerous group shows and has been working on developing a unique relationship with paper and fabrics, will be transforming her feverish energy into obsessive focus as she starts working on her installation titled “Colony”— intricately made hives attached to a tree.

On the other hand, painter and sculptor Lindo’s work similarly represents the best in Art in the Park: finding new in the familiar. Lindo is fast becoming known for his collages, some of which feature meticulously cut illustrations from old used books presented in new and exciting ways.

Hoppler Tent, Junior Art Center, and Community Wall

For its part, the Hoppler tent will feature a Junior Art Center where kids can stay for free art sessions. Parents who sign up with Hoppler will receive an art kit for their kids. The art kit is composed of a canvas and paint materials, and the after the art sessions they can use their work as decorative pieces for their bedrooms at home.

In addition, Hoppler will put up a Community Wall where fair-goers can doodle or draw things about home that inspire them—a project that is in line with Hoppler’s mission of promoting an engaged and cohesive community.

CEO Ramon Ballesca Jr. said: “Hoppler is committed to community building by making sure that Filipinos find that perfect home in the right community and by connecting them only with duly licensed and reliable real estate brokers and agents. A home is very much like an artwork. It starts like a blank canvas where every family imagines itself living in, gradually taking form, until it becomes a tangible place where children are raised and nurtured.”

Aside from paintings, sculpture, photographs, and installations, the event will also feature culinary creations (and with a hint of street food) of celebrated chef Margarita Forés, while Bea Lorenzo is scheduled to enthrall fair-goers with her kalimba and jazz music.

Art in the Park will be held on April 15, 2018, at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati. The fair will run from 10 am to 10 pm. For more details, visit Art in the Park’s website and its Facebook page. Admission is free.

Photo Caption:

From left to right: Hoppler CEO Ramon Ballesca, Jr., Hoppler COO Raymond Gonzalez, and Trickie Lopa and Lisa Ongpin Periquet, founders of Art Fair Philippines.

ONE Championship Partners with Japanese Internet TV Station AbemaTV

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The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship (ONE), has just announced that it has partnered with Japanese internet TV station AbemaTV. With the partnership, ONE Championship live events and digital content will be broadcast to AbemaTV subscribers.

Chatri Sityodtong, Chairman and CEO of ONE Championship, stated: “I am pleased to announce ONE Championship’s partnership with AbemaTV. As sports media distribution experiences a digital shift, more and more viewers are opting for live digital content over traditional television mediums. Our mission is to unleash superheroes across Asia to ignite passion, hope, strength and dreams across all segments of society, and offering our unique Hi-Definition content for digital consumption is an integral part of that mission. We hope to provide AbemaTV subscribers compelling and engaging high quality content on their mobiles and computers. We are thrilled to partner with the largest internet TV station in Japan.”

Yuji Kitano, Executive Producer of AbemaTV, stated: "AbemaTV is proud to partner with ONE Championship, the worldwide leader of martial arts. Martial arts is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture. We have a very rich background and history of martial arts, and our people embody the true values of martial arts in their everyday lives. We are excited to showcase ONE Championship's world-class content on our live sports channel. And in the second season of Surrogacy Battles, we will be searching for the next ONE Championship superstar in Japan."

The partnership will cover more than 20 live ONE Championship events in 2018, as well as offer a reality TV series called “Surrogacy Battles”, which aims to discover fresh young Japanese martial arts talent. The program will run 12 1-hour episodes featuring young martial arts prospects no older than 22 years of age. The winner of the show will receive JPY 3 million and a ONE Championship multi-bout contract amounting to over USD $100,000.

ONE Championship, the world’s largest martial arts organization, hosts bouts across all styles of martial arts such as Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Karate, Kung Fu, Silat, Sanda, Lethwei, Mixed Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do, Submission Grappling, and more. It is home to some of the biggest names in martial arts, including Japanese superstars Shinya “Tobikan Judan” Aoki, Yoshitaka “Nobita” Naito, Mei “V.V” Yamaguchi, and Koji “The Commander” Ando, among others.

Established by Cyber Agent in conjunction with TV Asahi, AbemaTV was created to provide millions of Japanese consumers with a content streaming service that offers scheduled and live programming for a wide range of smart devices which include Apple and Android smartphones and tablets, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, as well as PC and Mac machines. Content streams in Hi-Definition and links with Twitter to provide viewers an interactive platform. As of 2018, AbemaTV has become the largest internet television provider in Asia with over 28 million app downloads.

AbemaTV offers a linear programming schedule, as well as Video-on-Demand (VoD) featuring a large variety of shows including news, drama, anime, family-friendly programs, music, radio, live sports, and martial arts.

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