PoiCDO Turns 3 - plus BONUS photos (most by Jan Villegas)

All pure fun... we are adding 4 more photos of the characters our friends Jan, Alex, JC and Jazz ;) presented in the recent PoiCDO Turns 3 celebration.

Enjoy >.<

and thanks for checking these out. ;)

BONUS PHOTOS:

PoiCDO Turns 3 - Blog, Photos and Video by Jan Villegas, Ms. Malou and Shaunnee

Hi! I'm Shaunnee.  I am currently the leader of the group PoiCDO and I would just like to share one very memorable event of PoiCDO.  It happened almost a month ago.

We turned three! PoiCDO is now 3-years old!  After the hardships, trials, regrouping, restructure and expansion of the original fire dance group of Cagayan de Oro, we have finally reached the age of a toddler and the maturity of a young adult. It was absolutely a reason to celebrate!

Originally the plan was to celebrate the 3rd year celebration on the date itself, which was April 20, 2012, but we had a few things going with our individual daily lives that we had opted to have a party a week later the planned date.

There were 2 things in our minds for the celebration:
(1) BETTER LATE THAN NEVER;
and (2) NEVER PASS UP AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRESS UP FOR A PARTY.
And everybody took that seriously!

Featured Photographs by Rizelle Belamide (Fire and LED poi)

“Life of Light and Fire”

Photographer: Rizelle Belamide

( https://www.facebook.com/rizellebelamide )

Taken: 2011

Purpose: Exhibit
Poi Spinners: Hexa, Roy, Shaunnee, Egan

Bright Side (a continuation story of Sherwin's "From HipHop to Poi")

by Sherwin Jaspher V. Parrado

In my last article, "From Hip Hop to Poi", I started sharing about my first introduction to Poi. How my love for dancing resurrected that archived memory of that Anne Curtis commercial. And how, in my fight to keep doing what I love most, I was able to meet a group of amazing people. This is the second part of that tale, which starts where the last one ended, Xavier Days.

Xavier Days is annually held on December and is usually a time of merriment, but on December 2010 it wasn’t for me. It wasn’t sad or depressing; it was more of stressful because of the tons of curricular activities we had to do. That time we meet at school around 7am and go home about 8pm, everyday, for about 4 days I think.  What's worst is we had to do it on Xavier Days, the time when everyone else is busy spending money on games and booths and what not. We on the other hand were spending our money on our project. Needless to say I was almost broke, I still had money but every cent was already allotted so free pocket money was not that much, about 500 pesos perhaps. And during Xavier Days, 500 is not really enough. 

One fine early morning I was going around the booths checking out the merchandise before going to the group meeting place. It was this time that I came upon the PoiCDO booth with Shaunnee, Egan, Hexa and Roy2x selling there, I should say ours now but it might be confusing, different displays of poi. (I have no idea where Gbong was at the time but I'll mention his name so that he won’t feel left out. Hi Gbong!)