NextUp PH

✨ June is all about the art of becoming.

🎙️ Whether you're finding your voice through storytelling, 🎥 building confidence on camera, 🎨 exploring a new creative practice, or 💬 learning how to navigate difficult conversations, our June classes are designed to help you grow, connect, and create.

🏳️‍🌈 This month, we're also celebrating Pride through classes, screenings, and talks that explore q***r stories, culture, creativity, and representation—inviting us all to engage with perspectives that deepen understanding and empathy.

➡️ Writing Historical Fiction with Wincy Ong
➡️ Introduction to Comics with JV Tanjuatco
➡️ Tattoo Design with Eloise Cadilo
➡️ Poetry Strategies with Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
➡️ On-Camera Confidence with Danielle Reyes
➡️ Saying Hard Things at Work with Siops Balacania
➡️ Spoken Word with Leandro Reyes

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Picks! (June 28)
Classes, screenings, and talks on q***r narratives

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Is fact stranger than fiction or can we bring out the best of both worlds? Join fictionist and bestselling author of "The Indio and the Impaler", Wincy Ong (.ong), as he takes us through the beginning of the journey in writing historical fiction.

Transform real life information and your imagined world into a compelling story! Revisit the past and more, including the core elements of fiction in one afternoon.

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🏛️ Fact to Fiction: Writing Historical Stories by Wincy Ong
🗓️ June 20, 1PM-3PM
📍 Comuna, Makati

Learn and love between the lines this June.

Keep your eyes peeled and your hearts open for our June lineup! ❤️

CLASSES THIS WEEK! (May 25 to 31, 2026)

🧑‍🏫 Get It Right: Everyday English with Alvin Santos ( )
🧑‍🏫 How To Say Hard Things at Work with Siops Balacania
🧑‍🏫 Speaking with Impact: Becoming a Better Speaker with Dani Reyes ( )
🧑‍🏫 Managing Your Writing Career with Aimee Morales

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You learned how to write. Now the harder question: how do you make a life out of it? ✍️

In Managing Your Writing Career, Aimee Morales draws from her years in writing and publishing to unpack the realities behind creative work: money, visibility, editors, clients, AI, pricing your work, and building a sustainable writing practice without losing your voice.

For writers trying to move beyond passion and into longevity, this class looks at what a writing career actually asks of you.

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🗓️ May 31, 2PM to 4PM
📍 Online
📓 PHP 1000

Need to tell your coworker they missed the deadline… again? Or survive a difficult conversation without drafting the message 12 times first? 💬

Siop Balacania shares learnings gained from 25 years in the corporate world in How To Say Hard Things at Work, a class on navigating conflict, giving feedback, closing deals, and handling high-stakes conversations with confidence. Knowing what to say matters, but knowing how to say it can change the outcome entirely.

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🗓️ May 30, 1PM to 3PM
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1000

Speaking up is a skill. So is knowing what to say.

Whether it’s stage fright, rambling during presentations, struggling through interviews, or overthinking every email and introduction, these classes are designed to help you communicate with more clarity and confidence.

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🗣️ Get It Right: Everyday English with Alvin Santos ( )
Build confidence using English in professional and everyday settings—learn to express ideas clearly, speak more comfortably, and navigate conversations with ease.

🎤 Kwento Mo Yan Eh: Speaking with Impact with Dani Reyes ( )
Develop stronger speaking habits through live drills, structured feedback, and practical training in presentations, arguments, and professional communication.

For students, fresh grads, professionals—or anyone who’s ever said, “Well, that came out wrong.”

📩 DM us to reserve your slot today!

Speaking up is a skill. So is knowing what to say.

Whether it’s stage fright, rambling during presentations, struggling through interviews, or overthinking every email and introduction, these classes are designed to help you communicate with more clarity and confidence.

Explore...
🗣️ Get It Right: Everyday English with Alvin Santos ( )
Build confidence using English in professional and everyday settings—learn to express ideas clearly, speak more comfortably, and navigate conversations with ease.

🎤 Kwento Mo Yan Eh: Speaking with Impact with Dani Reyes ()
Develop stronger speaking habits through live drills, structured feedback, and practical training in presentations, arguments, and professional communication.

For students, fresh grads, professionals—or anyone who’s ever said, “Well, that came out wrong.”

📩 DM us to reserve your slot today!

Last call for enrollment!

Every story builds a world. The question is: where do you start? 🌙📖

Join Wincy Ong for Building Worlds: The Short Story, a class exploring the foundations of fiction writing through world-building, character, voice, conflict, and structure. Whether you’re drawn to horror, speculative fiction, satire, or storytelling in any form, this class is designed to help turn ideas into compelling narratives.

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🗓️ May 23, 10AM to 12NN
📍 Comuna, Makati
📓 PHP 1500

Think outside the box and take your career to the next level!

NextUp's May offerings include spaces for young professionals to fully understand the working world they're getting into. From topics like recruitment, adulting, budgeting, and navigating the messy politics of corporate communications, these sessions are designed to help you tick off the right boxes!

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📖 Recruitment, adulting, and budgeting with Louisa Tagulinao (PHP 1000 per class)
💼 Corporate communication with Siops Balacania (PHP 1000 per class)

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