Naga hour at various bars and restaurants (Friday)
Drink for a very good cause this Friday at bars including Union, Gekko, Tin Tin Tin and Port Autonomy. They are holding a ‘Naga Hour’ to raise funds for the villages in the remote Naga Self-Administrative Zone where more than 40 people, mostly children, have died from a measles outbreak in recent weeks. Turn up between 7pm and 8pm, when all proceeds will be donated to the Council for Naga Affairs, which is organizing the transfer of aid to the area. See our story for full details.
Port Autonomy, Tin Tin Yangon, Parami Pizza, Gekko, Union. 7pm until 8pm.
Startup pitch contest at Strategy First Institute (Saturday)
Eight tech startups face off before an international panel to be crowned the most promising seed-stage project. The event is being held by the global Seedstars franchise, so the winner joins the “family” and gets a flight ticket to Switzerland to compete for the top prize, $1 million investment.
Strategy First Institute, Pyay Road. 1pm until 5pm.
Poke-walk across downtown Yangon (Saturday)
Photo: AFP
Love Pokemon but short on like-minded friends? Or want to benefit from scores of people putting Lure modules on everything? More than 1,000 people have clicked ‘attending’ to this Facebook-organized ‘Poke-walk’ in Yangon on Saturday. Meet at the North Gate of Shwedagon Pagoda, in front of Culture Valley, at 11am to 12:30pm. Then walk to Mahabandoola Park, another Pokestop-heavy location. See the Facebook event.
Shwedagon Pagoda North Gate, 12:30pm.
Grand opening at The Clubhouse (Saturday)
Yangon high-so already loves the Clubhouse, the glitzy new bar at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel. Months after it opening, unofficially, the place is finally holding an official launch party. EDM duo Lush & Simon, from Milan, are flying in for the night.
The Clubhouse, Kandawgyi Palace Hotel.
Fashion pop-up at Craft Café (Sunday)
Photo: Craft Cafe / Facebook
Nawaday Street café Craft hosts a fashion popup from Fashmob. These bomber jackets (K28,000) look like the real deal. The organizers promise 30 per cent discounts, giveaways and other ‘surprises’.
Craft, corner of Bo Yar Nyunt and Nawaday Streets. From 3pm until 9pm.
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