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@ark.solves

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💸Where your money goes!💸 How Dare You Care is endlessly grateful to our community for the support you have offered us -- support which has allowed us to offer financial support to a variety of charitable groups. These organizations are doing remarkable work around the world and close to home in T'karonto. 🫂 We are excited to share an in-depth look at the recipients of our upcoming event on Monday, May 25th, as well as at how HDYC disperses our collected funds. We encourage you to look into these incredible organizations that we are so thrilled to offer our support to!  See you in less than two weeks at @dromtaberna for another exciting community concert and masarap (delicious) Filipino food! 🇵🇭
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Once Upon a Wall Street is going to Edinburgh Fringe! Crazy story how this happened. I will be at the @gildedballoon for a 1-month run in August! Aug 5-15 // 18-30. Come see it!! Aaaaaaa!! It’s a big theatre! Help me sell it out!! #edinburghfringe #theatre #comedy #wallstreet
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Just passing through, many moons of getting to know myself and the people around me. So much growth, experiences and maturity came like a tsunami before i hit 30. Here we are still with a soft and grateful heart. Salamat you guys, sharing some highlights of my 29th yr! 🤍 Thank you sa mga greetings!
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ARK’s Feed Back program emerged in 2020, but its philosophy reaches further back, to founder Ayesha Vera-Yu’s memory of her grandfather's stories. In the province, their neighbors would help with the harvest, and afterward the yield would be shared among them. “In his mind, it was just the right thing to do,” she says. “If the community helped bring the harvest in, then the harvest belonged to the community.” See the last word and full feature in the April 2026 Issue of Vogue Philippines, available on shop.vogue.ph and on newsstands. Featuring Ayesha Vera-Yu wearing @bagasaostudios Photographs by @artunepo & @chichimonsta , Deputy Editor @pamquinones , Beauty Editor @joyce.orena , Art Director @jannpascua , story by @tenshikun__ , producer @mavisulangi , styling @jiatorrato of @qurator_studio , makeup @makeupbyalodia , hair @hairbygillary , videographer @internetskater_ , photography assistants @choinarciso and @selagonzales , makeup assistant @chungarcia__ , ARK Team: @ark.solves , Ayesha Vera-Yu, @katlimchoc , @mcpagoncillo , @mkringkring , @arkibbo , Vogue Philippines, April 2026. Special thanks to Mayor Weng Rafallo-Romano, Renato Fuentes, Lany Astillero & Marissa Gaufo, Jannalyn Esureña, and Hazel Joy Fuentes of Bulusan, Mayor Mark Lozano, Leonor Forte Jr., Lara Fresado & Manny Fuentes, Shie Anne Gabanzo, Hon. Dovie Correa of Sta. Magdalena, and @milonaval .
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Mabuhay! 👋🏽 Happy spring! 🌱 All of us at @howdareyoucare are excited to announce our very first Filipino Food Fest! 🥳 Taking place on Monday, May 25 at @dromtaberna , this fundraiser concert will feature the delicious food of the Philippines! 🇵🇭💃🏼 Join us for a night of music and meals! 🍲 Funds raised will support the charities @ark.solves and @projectpearls , two organizations that are doing meaningful on-the-ground work to support women and children's safety and food security in the Philippines! 🫂 Save the date! Magkita tayo doon! (See you then!) 🌞
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April 2026- The Earth Issue
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Have you ever heard liberals and MAGA agree on ANYTHING?? And yet here they are talking about the biggest fraud in America all in plain sight: how health insurance companies steal from you every day. Legally through upcoding. And facilitated by our laws. Health insurance is the single lowest rated product by consumers in the US. It’s not working. It’s fraud. Also watch our show! Upcode Series on YT
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Harvest, hands, and heritage 🌱 Where fashion meets the land—and community is at the center of it all. Vogue Philippines Earth Issue now in store. #LongLivePrint #voguephilippines 🌎🇵🇭 - @voguephilippines : “In #Sorsogon, the relationship between land and life is visible everywhere, from backyard gardens to open-air markets, where harvests move from one pair of hands to another. @ARK.Solves founder Ayesha Vera-Yu adds, “We all have that sharing in our DNA.” The ARK Feed Back program is a community initiative that celebrates the rhythm that was shaped by being in tune with the land, the communities, and with each other. The principles of malasakit and kapwa are rooted in our history of sharing harvests. Against Sorsogon’s diverse landscapes, model #MariaIsabelaGaleria carries produce fresh from the ARK community gardens, in woven hats and baskets, the same bounty that sustains families across the region. In this story, farm and fashion exist in one narrative: of bounty, of community, and commitment. In the Earth Issue of Vogue Philippines, we explore the symbiotic connection between fashion and nature in the Philippines and beyond, from Bangkok, Phuket, and Kyoto, to Cape Town, Oahu, and Ushuaia.
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What a week and a half. Finished my run of Once Upon a Wall Street at the biggest solo theatre festival in NYC, received both the Audience Choice Award and Best Comedy. Now just learned we are getting another run!! More to come!! #soloshow #wallstreet #theatre
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Well this was kind of awesome. Once Upon a Wall Street received the Audience Choice Award AND the award for Best Comedy for @unitedsolo festival! I am truly blown away by this whole experience. Thank you to the festival especially @wendylanebailey for putting on this amazing event. BIG thanks to my director@padraic_lillis , and to @matthoverman1 whose solo show writing class is where this all began. Thanks to Matt Hallock for his expert lighting & sound design and to great light & sound technician @gi_raffaele . Big shout out to producer @barbarariethe for all things marketing & PR & SO much more! What a producer! Huge thanks to Ayesha & Roro for their love and support and for always holding me up!! Thanks to my whole amazing family for their love and support and always cheering me on!! Big thanks to my friends who turned up big in many ways to hear early readings, dress rehearsals and just big-time support me! And thank you to the AUDIENCES who voted for me!! I am deeply humbled & grateful!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Why I’m doing Once Upon a Wall Street as a solo show. Come see @theatrerow @unitedsolo directed by @padraic_lillis developed with @matthoverman1
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Before colonization, food systems in the Philippines were based on exchange and community. Fish was traded for rice, root crops for salt, and harvests were shared across villages. Spanish rule disrupted this way of my life, reshaping agriculture into export-driven monocropping. It’s a shift that @ARK.Solves founder Ayesha Vera-Yu has witnessed firsthand while restructuring her family’s farm in Capiz. “It’s a systematic issue that was unsustainable,” she explains. “Monocropping, a legacy of our colonized past, and chemical farming has put families in deep debt with little income.” ARK’s Feed Back model draws from that earlier, communal way of living. Over 16 weeks, families begin with four to six weeks of planting, followed by ongoing exchanges that encourage them to grow and sustain their harvests. To learn more about Feed Back, tap the link in bio. Photographs by @artunepo & @chichimonsta , Deputy Editor @pamquinones , Beauty Editor @joyce.orena , Art Director @jannpascua , story by @tenshikun__ , producer @mavisulangi , styling @jiatorrato of @qurator_studio , makeup @makeupbyalodia , hair @hairbygillary , videographer @internetskater_ , photography assistants @choinarciso and @selagonzales , makeup assistant @chungarcia__ , ARK Team: @ark.solves , Ayesha Vera-Yu, @katlimchoc , @mcpagoncillo , @mkringkring , @arkibbo , Vogue Philippines, April 2026. Special thanks to Mayor Weng Rafallo-Romano, Renato Fuentes, Lany Astillero & Marissa Gaufo, Jannalyn Esureña, and Hazel Joy Fuentes of Bulusan, Mayor Mark Lozano, Leonor Forte Jr., Lara Fresado & Manny Fuentes, Shie Anne Gabanzo, Hon. Dovie Correa of Sta. Magdalena, and @milonaval
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