Ela Figura takes us on her creative journey in devising her performance, “Still Awesome,” using personal narratives and “traumaturgy,” and taking inspiration from Layeta Bucoy and Olive Nieto’s MonoVlog and Bo Burham’s online performances.

In this episode, we raise the ethical aspects of research on performing traumatic memory and discuss how to establish a safe space in creating a performance.

In this 2-part episode, Zheg Arban and Janna Cortes share their collaborative preparations as student actors for performances before and during the pandemic. We delve deeper into how collaboration in acting activates a safe space to make your co-actors and alternates an enabling presence to your growth on the stage and in life. They provide tips on how to make your acting journals your best friend.

In “The Collaborative Actors Prepare Part 2: Actors as Collaborators,” Zheg and Janna reveal how they bring the collaborative acting process into their respective Dulaang Laboratoryo thesis productions and creative works.

In this 2-part episode, Zheg Arban and Janna Cortes share their collaborative preparations as student actors for performances before and during the pandemic. We delve deeper into how collaboration in acting activates a safe space to make your co-actors and alternates an enabling presence to your growth on the stage and in life. They provide tips on how to make your acting journals your best friend.

“The Collaborative Actors Prepare Part 1: Collaborative Acting in UP Playwrights’ Theatre’s Nana Rosa” includes a glimpse of my training for student actors as "emotional athletes" through embodied dramaturgy.

TikTok’s “Conyo Girl” Rain Matienzo shares her experiences in theatre acting classes in college which are the foundations of her preparations for theatre and tv auditions. Rain also tells her stories of losing projects during the pandemic and betting on herself to create opportunities on social media.

TAWID SA HARBOUR IS BACK (with a thirst trap poster)! Season 2 is here!

Season 2 is about CENTERING. I am collecting my scattered energies by rooting myself with the people who have been doing great work. I am highlighting my former thesis advisees’ and students’ theses and creative works. I have also invited my closest friends to talk about their recent creative works and research on healing, visual arts, pageants, spoken word, etc.

ABANGAN!

Kilalanin si Uleb Nieto—your looove guru para sa espesyal na pang-Pebrerong episode ng Tuko Chroncles na pinamagatang, “3 Fez op Luv”. Pakinggan ang mga kuwento ng mga taong nadapa, bumangon, nadapa, at bumangong muli para sa pag-ibig. Tune in din para sa mga tips on how NOT to fall in love~

3 Fez op Luv

Sinulat ni Layeta P. Bucoy at pinerform ni Olive Nieto

*Collaboration: Tuko Chronicles x MonoVlog. Premiered on 28 February 2022 via Spotify account ng Tuko Chronicles (https://spoti.fi/3BUszGB).

ONLINE CLASSROOM SERIES. This episode is about my week 2 of teaching performance via Zoom. I talk about how we turn our personal spaces into our own theater at home, how we make sense of our limited and liminal spaces, and how we use available technology in performance making.

We invited James Harvey Estrada, director of "Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken" (Japan) and co-director of "Cave" (South Korea), to talk about healing, rituals, and building relationships in international collaboration during the global health crisis.

We invited MC BLCK to talk about theatre in drag and drag in theatre.   

MC BLCK / Lyg Carillo is a Theatre and Drag Artist doing arts advocacy work for the LGBTQIA+ community.   

Sharing the art of drag in the theatre world, s/he has worked, collaborated, and performed with several artists here in the Philippines and abroad.   

Currently, s/he is pioneering the First Drag Academy PH (2021), an arts program designed for Aspiring Drag Artist of all genders.

Sari Saysay, a community theatre artist in Bicol, talks about the journey of the MonoVlog in their region and the future of Sining Banwa in doing community theatre in the time of the global health crisis.