Manila’s final weekend of August is filled with things to do, from yoga and embroidery to storytelling workshops, Japanese papercraft, and pottery.

Sometimes, the hardest part of making weekend plans is figuring out what you are actually going to do once you get there.
Coffee is always an option. So is lunch, shopping, or walking around until someone eventually asks where everyone wants to eat again. But the final weekend of August is offering a few more specific answers.
You can spend the weekend stretching to a DJ set, learning how to tell a better story online, embroidering while Taylor Swift plays in the background, assembling a miniature paper scene, or trying your hand at pottery.&nbsp;
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Sip &amp; Stretch&nbsp;</h3>
On August 29, ibis Styles Manila Araneta City is turning part of the late afternoon into a 60-minute yoga session at Bardot on the hotel’s sixth floor.

Led by Teacher Missy with a set by DJ Razor, Sip &amp; Stretch runs from 5 to 6 PM and comes with drinks as well as three-hour access to the hotel’s gym or pool and lounge before or after the session.
It is less about squeezing another workout into the weekend and more about giving the usual Saturday hangout a little movement first.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The Art of Showing Up Online</h3>
Elsewhere in Makati, Common Room co-founder Maan Agsalud is holding The Art of Showing Up Online at Mess Studio, The Atrium of Makati on August 29.

Running from 1 to 5 PM, the workshop is designed for makers and small businesses trying to figure out how to talk about their work online without turning everything into another exercise in chasing algorithms and likes. Instead, the focus is on finding the stories already sitting behind what they make and developing more manageable ways to share them.
For anyone whose creative process tends to stop the moment it is time to write the caption, four hours might be well spent.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Craft MNL Studio&nbsp;</h3>
Also on August 29, Craft MNL Studio is pairing embroidery with a Taylor Swift listening party.

It is a particularly specific combination, but maybe that is part of the appeal. The afternoon comes with something for your hands to work on and an entire soundtrack already taken care of.
Sometimes, a weekend activity does not need to be more complicated than that.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Summer Paper Theater</h3>
Over at MITSUKOSHI BGC on August 29, Co. Collectibles hosts the Summer Paper Theater Activity as part of the mall’s Tanabata-inspired third-anniversary celebration.

Using Ensky’s Japanese papercraft kits, participants assemble precisely cut pieces of paper into layered miniature scenes.
It is the kind of activity that asks for a little patience and precision, which may be exactly what makes sitting down to do it more satisfying than wandering around a mall.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Ceramic Wishes</h3>
On August 30, MITSUKOSHI BGC and Pottery Sessions continue the weekend with Ceramic Wishes: A Tanabata Pottery Experience.

The day offers three ways to get hands-on: a Pottery Crayons Workshop for drawing directly onto ceramics, a Glass Decal Art Workshop for decorating glassware, and a Pottery Wheel &amp; Tiny Pots Experience for anyone who wants to try working with clay.
The activities draw from Japanese and Filipino motifs and form part of MITSUKOSHI BGC’s third-anniversary celebration, which coincides with 70 years of Japan-Philippines diplomatic relations.
Whether you leave with something drawn, decorated, or shaped yourself depends on how much you want to get your hands involved.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">A Weekend With Something on the Agenda</h3>
What these plans have in common is simple: they give the weekend a little more shape.
Instead of meeting up and deciding what to do as you go, the day can start with a class, a workshop, or an activity already built into the plan.
The city already has plenty of places to spend a weekend. Increasingly, those places are giving people more reasons to stay awhile.
Sometimes, having an actual answer to “What are we doing today?” is enough reason to go.

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