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SOLO ARTS PLATFORM This museum and Galleries Month, Fringe Manila - in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, Manila - is proud to present 1SA: Solo Arts Platform, celebrating solo artist as they present their works on the Philippine stage. In its premiere year,1SA serves as an avenue for solo performances and exhibits to engage with local communities.

Carving a historic milestone in Philippine media, the first ever documentary mini-series featuring real lives, struggles, and voices of Tomboys in Manila premiered at Pineapple Lab last February 4. Creator and Executive Producer Pj Gurnamal shares, “Masculine lesbians have either been under or misrepresented in popular media.” To directly address this, The Tomboy Files utilizes various creative channels such as media, art and performance to spread SOGIE awareness.

The Egg Theater Co together with the PARC Foundation and Pineapple Lab presents Moliere PMS , a fusion of three Moliere play adaptations: Praning (The Imaginary Invalid), Maniacal (The Learned Ladies), and Schism (The Misanthrope) on October 1 & 2 at PARC Foundation, 494 Lt. Artiaga St., San Juan City and at Pineapple Lab, 6071 Palma Street, Rockwell on October 7-9 and October 14-16.

If you ever felt like leaving everything you love, you should watch the last two performances of Egg Theater Company's production of SCHISM (Adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope) for ‪Fringe Manila. Date: February 28 - Sunday at 3:00 and 8:00 PM. Venue: Pineapple Lab Appropriated from Moliere’s “Le Misanthrope Ou L'Atrabilaire Amoureux”, the play directed by Geroge de Jesus III,  is a comedic satire that explores how hypocrisy and pretension can polarise and divide artists. After creating a brutally honest theater production that has created a schism in his community, a playwright finds himself at a crossroads in finding what art really means: an expression of his own ideals or a reflection of what society expects.