BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19700405T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701004T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2201128:Event:26684 DTSTAMP:20091212T171625Z SUMMARY:5Th Backdoor Ventures Arts and Music Festival DESCRIPTION:

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\nEMB ARK ON AN ARTISTIC JOURNEY\nThe 5th Backdoor Ventures Arts & Music Festival\n\nSurrender to the sensory journey within. Brace your sense s as the 5th Backdoor Ventures Arts and Music Festival takes you to a bigger venue…with an even greater roster of acts never before gather ed under one roof!\n\nThe annual art gathering is the pioneer of all a rts and music events in the country. Now on its fifth year, the Festiv al promises to showcase a grand lineup of activities, workshops, and p erformances that it is known for; raising the bar to a spectacular lev el year after year. With its growing audience and list of participants , Backdoor Ventures is moving to a bigger venue; this year it will be held at the Megatrade Hall 1 – a larger space adjacent to Hall 3, wh ich has been the Artsfest’s home for the past years.\n\nAll interest ed concessionaires and organizations who have products and/or services that cater to the arts & music lifestyle are welcome to join the BIGGEST gathering of arts and music aficionados from all over the coun try! Aside from a spectacular lineup of performances, the Backdoor Ven tures Arts & Music Festival also showcases a great tradefair, the only one of its kind. This is the perfect venue to sell your products and services, a captured market that lives and breathes the arts and m usic lifestyle. With a growing market every year, concessionaires cont inue to grow and diversify as well…It’s the one event you should n ot miss.\n\n“We’re taking this year’s festival to a higher level as we celebrate the 5th staging of one of the biggest if not the bigg est gathering of artists and musicians from different disciplines and genres in the country.” according to Chief Event Organizer, Jay Viri ña\n\n“Five years of bringing the people back to the arts and bring ing the arts back to the people is definitely a milestone for the enti re Arts & Music Festival family… We’re really excited for this year’s celebration. It just keeps getting better every year.” He added.\n\nAs always, new and exciting activities will be added into th e lineup this year. For one, schools and University organizations arou nd the Metro will be taking a more active role in participating at thi s year’s Festival. The hall layout and the stage design is also some thing to look forward to!\n\nThe theme for this year is Labyrinth. “ A labyrinth signifies a journey to the center.\nWe picked this concept for this year to convey that art has been and always will be within u s all…We’ve vowed to make it our very mission to take them (the pe ople) back and embrace that center. Hence, the journey back to that co re,” says Yanna Verbo Acosta, Marketing and Media Relations Director .\n\nThe 5th Backdoor Ventures Arts and Music Festival will be held on September 25-27, 2009 at the Megatrade Hall 1, SM Megamall.\n\nFor in quiries and updates, call +63 2 951 3646, +63918 540 3248, or +63927 9 173704. You may also log on to www.backdoorventures.com and www.backdo orvent.multiply.com for more details.\n\nFor more information visit ht tp://indiejam.ning.com/events/5th-backdoor-ventures-arts-and DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20090925T000000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20090926T235900 CATEGORIES:festival LOCATION:Mega Trade Hall WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Backdoor Ventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com/files/sQXb-EPYse7-RzGX HEoOfHBk4IscrqdBh1CA17GCXQPTJbAxrWY80xp6paLuOJ8U7GDdB78TuqLfMygFlD*SLd a3dG2joh*u/4716_1157751827961_1352709684_30425628_6808422_n.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Pierre F ernandez":http://indiejam.ning.com/profile/InTheMomentAudio ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=HIJA:http ://indiejam.ning.com/profile/HIJA ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Indie Ja m":http://indiejam.ning.com/profile/IndieJam END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR