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IMMAP Open Mic Night Pecha Kucha Manila Style

Events & Nightlife Lifestyle & Places Trending & Features November 4, 2011

 

When In Manila, Twenty Slides in Twenty Seconds is all you’ll need at the IMMAP Open Mic Night.

 

Just how many words can one pack into 20 seconds? Find out the fun way! On Wednesday, November 10, the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) will stage the IMMAP Open Mic Night at Craft, the Fort Strip at 7PM.

 

As IMMAP’s version of the Japanese concoction that is Pecha Kucha Night, this pioneer event promises surprises at every chance.

 

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Pecha Kucha — no, it is not gibberish—loosely means chitchat. This interesting, if not intriguing activity started in 2003 and is now a global activity held in over a hundred countries. In the Philippines, Pecha Kucha Night is a thriving annual event organized by agency creatives.

 

The process is truly simple: Twenty speakers with twenty slides, twenty seconds per slide. Despite the potential for an utter-sputter mouthful, fret not. As speakers engage the audience with their tales, always expect the unexpected. Count on spontaneity, candor and humor to accompany each fast-breaking slide story. From another angle, the event is merely an exercise at brevity.

 

Warming up to the event, IMMAP opened the speakers’ line-up to a vote. The results proved eclectic, to say the least. With sixteen voters choice speakers, only four are still up for grabs. The top choices include a sampling of the country’s current trending.

 

On IMMAP Open Mic Night, check out Yahoo! Philippines ‘Pitong Pinoy’, actress, writer, activist, linguist and environmentalist, Anna Oposa; recent NYSE-lister, Groupon Philippines CEO and yoyo master Pat Cuartero, blogger, SMART Communications consultant, AIM lecturer, UNO magazine tech writer and editor Jayvee Fernandez, Globe Telecom social media manager, blogger and genius Coy Caballes, musician, producer, educator, writer, television personality, workshop facilitator, and activist Jim Paredes, as well as blogger, philanthropist, new media advocate and online community organizer Jay Jaboneta, TV5 head of digital Carlo Ople, founder, as well as CEO and chief creative director of ad agency ideasXmachina Third Tres Domingo.

  

IMMAP Open Mic Night Pecha Kucha Manila Style

 

Add to that list managing director, Chimes Digital Marketing Solutions and business director of Wunderman Chay Mondejar-Saputil, Google Inc. Philippines Country consultant Aileen Apolo-de Jesus, founder and CEO of digital storytelling company Ripple 100 Andre Yap, photographer, creative director of The Lighthouse Fashion Studio and AIDS/HIV awareness activist Niccolo Cosme, managing director ABS-CBN Publishing Inc. Ernie Lopez, managing director and CTO of ArcusIT Jojo Colina, and Celeste Prize Europe award-winning contemporary artist Nasser Lubay.

Common to Pecha Kucha Night, speakers at the IMMAP Open Mic Night will also use image slides. Keywords of choice for the event are Awesome, Viral, Success, Bits-and-Pieces, Rocks and Bulbs. What the speakers will devise, unearth and invent from that is anybody’s guess.

 

Hosting IMMAP Open Mic Night is blogger, radio jock and host of TekTok TV – Vince Golangco. Other performances are in the program, so everyone’s in for more treats.

 

IMMAP likes diversity so being a digital marketeer is not a requirement for entry, so for IMMAP Open Mic Night, it’s free admission for both members and non-members alike.

 

IMMAP Open Mic Night is an earnest attempt, and with far-reaching kindness and support from major brands, industry affiliates, true friends and volunteers, it’s the green light for this groundswell event.

 

IMMAP’s Open Mic Night powered by Pecha-Kucha.org

November 10

7:00pm

Craft Fort Strip in Bonifacio Global City.

 

For more information, check out: immap.com.ph/openmic.

 

IMMAP Open Mic Night Pecha Kucha Manila Style

 

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Vince Golangco

Vince Golangco is the Founder & CEO of WhenInManila.com, where he manages writers, photographers, videographers and story tellers. Vince graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and a minor in Business. Before starting WhenInManila.com, he already had over 10 years of international experience in marketing, advertising, and creative writing. He served as an Information Systems Technician in the United States Navy, was a Marketing & Development Coordinator at the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Senior Media Planner for Bright Box Media, was a radio DJ and TV show host in Manila. Vince is an entrepreneur, restauranteur, surfer, gamer, geek, writer, a US Military Veteran, an AKPsi brother, an adventure seeker and an avid storyteller. Connect with Vince on Twitter/Instagram - @VinceGolangco.