Meiday! Meiday!

Ohoh yes, mark thine calendars. July 18, 6 o’clock.

Meiday at Cubao X

Bringeth ye olde (but usable) stuff for school– supplies, toys, clothes, books– for them youngins. For the benefit of ISANG BATA FOUNDATION.

Bless thine hearts and rocketh and rolleth.

Purveyor, in cooperation with Love One Another Studio presents..

Go Ahead Punk! Make Meiday!

July 18, Saturday, 6 PM at Cubao Expo. FREE ADMISSION!!

Featuring..

The Wuds, Itchyworms, Pedicab, The Dorques, Ciudad, Halik ni Gringo, Ang Bandang Shirley, Filterfilter, Arigato Hato, Markus Highway, Gorgoro, The Lowtechs, The Purplechickens, Outer Hope, Techy Romantics, The Discodall, Swissy, Sunflower Day Camp, The Charmes, Only Revulotions

*Donation boxes will be set up for school supplies, textbooks, uniforms for kids of Isang Bata Foundation

Toodles!

X’s Version

While I’m rotting silly in a place some eight train stations away from the object of this website, R is sneaking past a certain meeting just to do her assignment: to come up with a concept and a gameplan for this awesome, result-of-insomnia-attack project (That’s why you were there, right? *winks*)

Yep, I am the culprit behind the obligatory first post. I did not even delete the automated comment, whaduway know. But that’s R’s job; she’s the techy expert, whilst I provide… charm? and all-around gayness.

(I use hyphens a lot, btw, you’d know it is I.)

As far as stories go, this is my Cubao X tale.

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A State of Mind, A Sense of Place

Behold, the most heart-felt review about Cubao-X one could ever find online, first posted in 2006, and reposted sometime in 2007. A lot may have changed since, but the words “a state of mind, a sense of place” will always ring true for everything that Cubao-X is. (Okay, I cry now.) Read on. :)

Posted by Noman Nimer on PinoyCentric.com on March 11, 2007. Original post from here.

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Cubao X. The artist community. A state of mind, a sense of place.

A term coined by a filmmaker during a gathering (no staid, formal meetings here, just people sitting back, relaxing, drinking the drink of their choice and chatting unhurriedly with likeminded people), Cubao X refers to the group of artists running their own shops inside the historic Marikina Shoe Expo at the Araneta Center, but it has since come to mean the epitome of creativity and cooperativism.

Galleries, cafes, a paraphernaliac store, a bookshop, an Italian restaurant, a furniture shop, a toy store, antique shops galore. The local Greenwhich or Soho, many say. The place where nothing special really happens, some critics say. And the critics are correct some of the time.

During the day, and whole day Monday, most of the shops are quiet (because most of the artist shopowners hold down day jobs to support their art) but by 4 pm onwards, the place awakens.

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