EXHIBITION: THE SECRETS OF KEBAYA
Venue: National Textile Museum, Kuala Lumpur
Date: ends Dec 31
The Saindera Gallery at the prime flooring of the National Textile Museum is presenting The Secrets Of Kebaya exhibition, which is unfold throughout two halls.
The exhibition, organised by the National Unity Ministry in collaboration with the Department of Museums Malaysia (JMM), opened its doorways to the public on Oct 19 and can proceed till Dec 31. The exhibition presents a common – and accessible survey – of the kebaya story in Malaysia, together with its multi-racial roots, shared trend heritage and in addition its place in popular culture.
It additionally highlights the uniqueness, class, and variety of the kebaya by means of the generations, with conventional kebaya displays sharing exhibition area with trend ahead types.
At the gallery, guests can admire the kebaya assortment owned by JMM and in addition borrowed gadgets from exhibition collaborators.
At the (ticketed) exhibition’s latest launch, the National Unity Minister Datuk Aaron Aro Dagang mentioned the exhibition goals to assist the authorities’s function and efforts in elevating and selling kebaya below the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage of Humanity lists.
He added Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand are concerned in a joint kebaya nomination bid for inclusion in the Unesco lists.
The authorities hopes that the joint nomination will reach gaining recognition, thereby selling and celebrating the richness of historic heritage and fostering cross-cultural understanding amongst the 5 international locations.
More info here.
A video projection work titled ‘Hungry For Mamak’ seen on the facade of the MaTIC constructing in Kuala Lumpur. It is a part of the Terang 2023 public artwork collection, put collectively by digital artwork assortment Filamen. Photo: Filamen
TERANG 2023: PROJECTION MAPPING SHOW
Venue: Malaysian Tourism Centre (MaTIC) constructing, Jalan Ampang, KL
Date: ends Oct 29
Here is a free admission public arts occasion for night time birds. MaTiC, the 88-year-old heritage constructing in the coronary heart of Kuala Lumpur, is being reworked right into a canvas for a spectacular projection mapping show known as Terang 2023, which is open each night (8pm to 11pm) till this Sunday.
Terang 2023, put collectively by digital artwork collective Filamen, is presenting 34 luminous one-and-a-half-minute video mapping artworks created by each worldwide and native artists in addition to the college college students from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia – all coming along with the theme of “Warisan” (Heritage).
The works will then be judged by a panel of projection mapping specialists throughout the South-East Asian area with prizes to be awarded accordingly. A collection of digital and on-ground workshops and sharing periods can even be held the Terang 2023 show website, with the give attention to introducing the artwork of projection mapping to the lots.
Working intently with Aswara, Terang 2023 by Filamen is one among the creative highlights activated together with the SEA Futurist in Arts and Cultural Exchange 2023 (SEA Futurist 2023) to showcase the potential of preserving intangible cultural heritage by means of digitalisation.
More info here.
Adil’s Raku items is available in 5 several types of finishes: full-copper matte, half-copper matte, smoked (or ‘naked’), carbon half-copper matte, and obvara (a barely various strategy of firing). Photo: Zhan Art Space
EXHIBITION: ‘LIFE: MAGNIFIED’ CERAMIC ART
Venue: Zhan Art Space, Petaling Jaya
Date: ends Jan 2024
Zhan Art Space is collaborating with native ceramic artwork model Raaquu to introduce into the magical world of conventional Japanese Raku ceramics for all artwork lovers.
The exhibition Life: Magnified sees Perak-based ceramic artist Adil Abdul Ghani presenting works impressed by nature. This collection additionally serves as a preview to his first ceramic solo exhibition scheduled for January 2024.
The Japan-trained Adil first learnt about ceramic firing (with a scorching kiln) 15 years in the past. These ceramic sculptures comply with the similar Japanese method developed again in the 1580s and are also referred to as artwork “painted by fire”, a most important attribute of Raku creation. These ceramic items are particular on account of the unpredictability of the artwork kind’s firing method.
Over the years, Adil has additionally merged the conventional Raku method with a extra modern end. Life: Magnified is being showcased in two components, a preview assortment from now until December, and a full assortment in January 2024.
More info here.
A scene from ‘Soul Of Odyssey’, a multi-sensory work based mostly on the Greek basic ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer. Photo: KL Shakespeare Players
PERFORMING ARTS: ‘SOUL OF ODYSSEY’
Venue: Black Box, Damansara Performing Arts Centre, Petaling Jaya
Date: ends Oct 29
The KL Shakespeare Players are collaborating with the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project of Japan to stage Soul Of Odyssey, a multi-sensory work based mostly on the Greek basic The Odyssey by Homer. Directed by Hiroshi Koike with music composed and carried out by Santosh Logandran, the efficiency reimagines Odysseus’s journey and his makes an attempt to rise from the ashes of warfare, chaos and battles with deities.
Soul Of Odyssey weaves totally different performative practices, traditions and parts – dialogue, storytelling, motion, dance, dwell movies, dwell music, songs and chants – wrapped along with the aesthetic imaginative and prescient to create an built-in work that harmonises sensory perceptions.
Performers will converse in Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese, English and Japanese. The 90-minute show is the second chapter of a four-chapter worldwide undertaking, culminating in a ultimate show in 2025 that can contain performers from Japan, Poland, Malaysia and Brazil.
More info here.
A filepic of a Wayang Kulit efficiency throughout Pusaka’s Wayang Kulit panggung collection in Machang, Kelantan. Pusaka founder Eddin Khoo will likely be presenting a public speak about the conventional arts outfit’s work in documenting tradition in Malaysia at Ilham Gallery in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 28. Photo: Pusaka
CULTURE TALK: BODY, BLOOD AND SPIRIT – THE STORY OF PUSAKA AND ITS SEARCH
Venue: Level 5, Ilham Gallery,KL
Date: Oct 28, 4pm
Pusaka’s twenty first anniversary celebrations will likely be joyously rolled out in some ways – conventional arts evenings and insightful public talks proper to an upcoming ebook launch and in addition a collection of live shows.
Through the years, 1000’s have witnessed Pusaka’s exhibits – from Wayang Kulit, Mak Yong, Manora, Main Puteri, Dikir Barat traditions and extra – at cultural arts exhibits or festivals.
This Saturday night at Ilham Gallery, the conventional tradition organisation’s founder Eddin Khoo is ready to share and replicate on Pusaka’s wild and eccentric odyssey, the perennial search for reminiscence by means of explorations of collective tradition and our human nature – of semangat (spirit), angin (temperament), the important self. The creative and ritual traditions Pusaka engages with illuminate historical past, and are born of the centuries of cultural encounter which have formed neighborhood life in Malaysia, that also pulsates in the our bodies, blood and spirit of her individuals.
In this public lecture, Khoo additionally contemplates how the aesthetics of conventional arts have influenced the attitudes and approaches of latest artists in Malaysia, trying specifically at the iconography of Wayang Kulit, of stupas, and of vitality factors in the artworks of the late Malaysian artist Nirmala Dutt, which re at the moment being proven in an exhibition at Ilham Gallery.
This free admission discuss (register here) is organised by Pusaka in collaboration with Ilham Gallery.
Pusaka’s restricted commemorative version ebook, What Is Remembered – Our Masters Of Oral Tradition In Their Own Voice, will likely be out there for pre-order.
More info here.
A scene from the ‘Forkbeard: A Viking Musical Odyssey” show in Penang in March 2020. Photo: Filepic/The Star/Picby:CHAN BOON KAI/The Star/16 march 2020.
PERFORMING ARTS: ‘FORKBEARD: A VIKING MUSICAL ODYSSEY’
Venue: Pentas 1, KLPac
Date: ends Oct 29
Journey again a millennium to witness a story as grand as the Nordic seas themselves.
On the KLPac stage, Forkbeard: A Viking Musical Odyssey will sail again to one among the grandest naval confrontations of the historic Nordic Sagas.
The musical presents a narrative based mostly on the huge naval ambush, “The Battle Of Svolder”, a fruits of rivalry between Denmark’s notorious Viking chief Svend Tveskaeg (Forkbeard) and Olav Tryggvasson of Norway in late summer season of 1,000 AD.
With choreography led by dancer-choreographer Aida Redza, accompanied by a symphony of epic music led by Dominic Lucien Luk, Forkbeard guarantees a theatre show with “moving vocals and harmonies telling tales of brotherhood and betrayal, echoing through the threads of time.”
The musical is directed by Karam Tabba, a Syrian refugee, and produced by Dr Nancy P. Jenster, whose personal Danish household is descended from Forkbeard, 46 generations again.
“Fuelled by divine intervention, the tale culminates in a frenzied quest to reclaim a stolen ring of crimson amber – a symbol of royal power. Can the memory of a once indestructible brotherhood surpass the overwhelming currents of vengeance and animosity? The fate of these warriors is, after all, in the hands of the Gods …” reads the show’s notes.
More info here.
This weekend, Nazura and Sharmin (left) will wrap up their joint exhibition ‘Bapaku Pulang’ at Temu House, which pays tribute to their late fathers and their respective artwork collections. Photo: The Star/Kamarul Ariffin
EXHIBITION: ‘BAPAKU PULANG’
Venue: Temu House, Petaling Jaya
Date: ends Oct 29, 10am-5pm (weekends)
It’s the final weekend to catch this heartwarming and distinctive exhibition Bapaku Pulang, which options chosen Malaysian artworks from the collections of Nazura Rahime and Sharmin Parameswaran, the daughters of the late artwork collectors Rahime Harun (1954 –2008) and Datuk N. Parameswaran (1948–2022) respectively.
The exhibition highlights trendy and modern artwork works by 39 artists, providing a glimpse into the artists and matters/themes favoured by each Rahime and Parameswaran, who actively collected artwork and took part in the native artwork scene from the early Eighties.
Curated by Sarah Abu Bakar, this promoting exhibition options 53 artworks spanning from the Wednesday Art Group contemporaries Peter Harris, Grace Selvanayagam and Dzulkifli Buyong, to the Anak Alam artists of the Seventies with Mustapa Haji Ibrahim, Maryam Abdullah, and Ali ‘Mabuha’ Rahamad, in addition to early works (drawings, prints, pictures) from Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Eric Peris, Juhari Said, Nik Zainal Abidin and Yau Bee Ling.
Together with the exhibition’s final weekend, guests can even take pleasure in a spread of conventional pastries and extra served at the venue’s cafe.
More info here.
A common view of The Godown arts centre in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Fabian Lim
GODOWN ARTISTS MARKET
Venue: The Godown Arts Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Date: Oct 28 and 29
This weekend, The Godown KL crew has put collectively a Godown Artists Market with the theme Pink-Halloween. Visitors can take pleasure in a laidback time at this arts area, with artists and craft-makers set to show and promote their works, and native pop-ups brewing recent meals and drinks. The market (free admission) can even have a chat on Breast Cancer Awareness, workshops and performances on this weekend’s programme.
The “Featured Artist” for this upcoming Godown Artists Market is the TitikMerah Collective, notably its 5 members – Aarifin Amin, Ajim Juxta, Aleff Ahmad, Ellis Khan and Ho Mei Kei – who will likely be showcasing their latest works. Founded in June 2014, the Titikmerah Collective is a platform for native rising artists, significantly self-taught artists to showcase and market their artworks.
Make your method to The Godown and assist the native arts and inventive neighborhood. There is one thing for everybody to take pleasure in, together with gamelan and sand-art candle workshops. The workshops require a payment and pre-registration.
The market begins from midday to 8pm on each days.
More info here.
