LGBT Connections Night at Leo Bar & Film Night
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Enjoy a fabulous evening of networking, art, and ambiance with the LGBT community, and make new professional and personal connections. Join host Global Talent Initiatives for an evening filled with intriguing people, cocktails, and culture.
6:30-8:00 pm
Directed by Loy Arcenas. 2012. Philippines. 97 min.
Directed by Loy Arcenas. 2012. Philippines. 97 min.
Swanie (Shamaine Buencamino), a small-town neighborhood politician, tries to gain notice by holding a wake for a distant relative who became a sensation after murdering a famous fashion designer overseas. Meanwhile, her estranged son turned transgender woman, Joanna (Anthony Falcon), gives up the money she has saved up for a breast transplant in order to help bury a neighbor. Messy and hilarious events unfold along the way as politics, bureaucracy, funeral fiestas, secrets and lies collide to put life and death the Pinoy way fully on display.
This exhibition of more than 100 gold objects focuses on the wealth of the golden age of Butuan (pronounced boot’ wan), a polity on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao that rose to commercial prominence in the tenth century and declined in the thirteenth century. A selection of the most extraordinary objects from a 1981 discovery—now in the collection of the Ayala Museum in Makati City and on view in the United States for the first time—forms the core of “Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms.” Featuring spectacular gold necklaces, chains, waistbands, bangles, ritual bowls, implements, and ceremonial weapons, the exhibition showcases the rich artistry and material wealth of Butuan and related island polities.
This event is co-hosted by Standard Chartered, GAPIMNY, Metro Tennis Group.
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Event Details
Fri 20 Nov 2015
725 Park Avenue (at East 70th Street), New York, NY
Free admission; cash bar.