Confessions at The Metro
by: Ian Garcia
Thanks to social networking and the wonders of blogging. Holding an event today is not as backbreaking as it was, ten years ago. Clicking the QWERTYs is indeed the new word of mouth.
That is how four friends, Mike Sy, Dingo Braganza, Bevs Lim and Marie Braganza, make their new venture work: with the aid of modern technology.
Smallfish Productions, the party organizing company which the quartet formed, is one of the up and coming events organizers in the city that has successfully produced weekend parties for the party-deprived Dabawenyos.
Seeing the need to perk up this city's nightscape especially that nightlife in Davao has recently been a bit quiet and slow with not so many new places to chill-out and to be excited about, Smallfish thought that if they can't provide (yet) the hardware (i.e., perhaps a new party venue), they might as well create the software (i.e., something for us partyphiles to look forward to on weekends).
Enter "Confessions at The Metro: Are you a Sinner or a Saint?", the group's sophomore party project which they creatively hatched in the blogosphere by drawing and asking blog visitors to post (anonymously) their deepest and darkest secrets. Aiming to titillate more net surfers, an ad of the party was then passed on via email and their Facebook accounts, fanning the curiousity even more to Davao's party set.
Finally, at the "Confessions at The Metro" party last weekend at the Metro Lounge, the clandestine messages posted on their blog were played out, complete with snazzy graphics, on the LCD screen, making the event truly engineered by and from new technology.
Backed by friends and supporters such as For The Love of Prints, Pista Lokal, Bloom Facial Spa, North Valley College Foundation, Eskinol and K1 FAmily KTV, the event was jam-packed as partyphiles enjoyed dancing to club anthems and house music of this decade, as spun by DJ Torch with DJ Zhaun on the mic. Success.
The secret is out: their name might be Smallfish but their ideas are new school and surely no small stuff.
Special thanks to Karloz Alba for the photos.
***Smallfish thanks Mr. Ian Garcia***
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