VIRTUAL DOCUMENTARY: CHENDERING + JIMMY BOYLE
Date and Time: Unlimited
If it takes a new model of a misplaced Malaya-era tune to get the plenty speaking about James W. Boyle, then the trouble have to be applauded. Chendering, an evocative love tune about a seashore in Terengganu, was written in 1960 by Boyle, who was popularly often called Jimmy Boyle. The Penang-born composer wrote greater than 300 tunes throughout his lifetime.
Chendering was Boyle’s personal tribute to outdated Malaya, and the haunting tune regularly discovered a new viewers when it was lined reside commonly by Penang-born singer-songwriter Bihzhu, who first heard it in 2016.
“When he was alive, Jimmy’s insistence on incorporating Malaysian parts like zapin and asli (amongst others) into his music didn’t make him the most well-liked musician round, however he was agency in his perception that ‘in any wholesome nation, music have to be primarily based within the traditions of the previous’,” Bihzhu posted on social media final 12 months, when she recorded her model of Chendering.
With the assistance of a grant from the Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana), Bihzhu expanded her analysis on Boyle’s music profession, with a documentary that includes new interviews together with his members of the family and former bandmate (Ee Fook Sin).
Yesterday, Bihzhu lastly launched the long-awaited music video for Chendering and in addition the mini documentary about Boyle’s life, that are each out there to look at on YouTube now.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Empowering Deaf Women In Malaysia Through Sign Poetry
Date and Time: Feb 26, 8.30pm
The British Council’s “Connections Through Culture” programme presents a web-based showcase of latest poetry works by Malaysian Deaf girls in English and Malaysian Sign Language (which is named BIM). BIM is not only an acronym however an identification of the Deaf neighborhood.
This digital poetry occasion that celebrates Malaysian Deaf girls’s poetry in BIM will premiere tonight. Titled Empowering Deaf Women In Malaysia Through Sign Poetry, the occasion can be held on Zoom and events could register here to attend.
The occasion can even be streamed reside on Malaysian Sign Language and Deaf Studies Association’s Facebook web page here.
Tonight’s present is the fruits of a five-months-long on-line collaboration, began in 2021 between Malaysians and British and Irish artists/educators. A complete of 13 Malaysian Deaf girls took half within the coaching. The girls members have efficiently produced a complete of six poems associated to girls’s expertise, function and struggles. The coaching was facilitated by three poet educators: Paula Clarke, a deaf educator from Belfast, and Elaine Foster and Dr Sheena Baharudin.
VIRTUAL THEATRE: ASRAMARA
Date and Time: Feb 26 and 27, 9pm
Written by Khairunazwan Rodzy and directed by Shahrul Skye, Asramara follows a group of scholars who’re attending a management camp at their very own faculty with the help of Cikgu Sabariah and Cikgu Adam. Suhaila and Nabila, two feminine college students, expertise sudden hysteria on their last night time, and the scenario turns into extra difficult as incident after incident happens, involving Cikgu Adam and Cikgu Sabariah as nicely.
Asramara, ticketed, can be streamed reside through Revolution Stage’s website. You can even catch the play on-site.
VIRTUAL THEATRE: SAREES AND SECRETS
Date and Time: Feb 26, 8pm
This digital theatre expertise makes use of sarees as a storytelling gadget to unfold the layers of secrets and techniques we hold hidden. A collaborative efficiency by author/producer Sumitra Selvaraj, multidisciplinary storyteller/theatre director Dhinesha Karthigesu and British theatre maker Abhi Arumbakkam, Sarees And Secrets is at instances lighthearted, at others incisive and introspective and asks why can we hold secrets and techniques. The present additionally options a number of interactive moments and a reside post-show dialogue through Sumitra’s Instagram web page.
Sarees And Secrets can be streamed through Zoom.
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: SPACES, LANDSCAPES AND PEOPLES IN UPPER PERAK
Date and Time: Feb 28, 7pm
As a part of the Jacques De Morgan, Exploring Perak In 1884 exhibition on the Alliance Francaise de Penang, which runs till March 4, the exhibition’s curator Dr Antonio Guerreiro will current a conference on his analysis on de Morgan’s journey by means of Malaysia.
De Morgan was a French archaeologist, who got here to Malaysia in 1884 to put money into tin mining. He regularly found the Peninsular’s unimaginable range of ecosystems. He additionally recorded how landscapes modified by modernity and was one of many first to doc Orang Asli communities in Perak, offering a extremely detailed depiction of their lifestyle in Nineteenth-century Peninsular Malaysia.
This hybrid occasion can be streamed through Zoom. If you’re in Penang, test this out on-site at Alliance Française’s centre in George Town.
More data here.
VIRTUAL DOCUMENTARY: JALAN HARAPAN
Date and Time: Unlimited
Dancer, choreographer and Five Arts Centre member Lee Ren Xin opens up on her technique of working with dance, public house, and ritual in her personal neighbourhood.
Part of this challenge was exhibited at KonsiKL’s Di Situ: An Exhibition, curated by Low Pey Sien final 12 months.
In this video, Lee recounts the observations, encounters, questions and ideas she had as she walked round in her neighbourhood within the Klang Valley. Through a collage of photos and photographs and textual content, taken sporadically between 2017-2020, Lee shares her journey of artwork and ritual, together with how she related with native communities.
This challenge was supported by the Krishen Jit Fund and the INXO Arts Fund.
