ART: RAFIEE GHANI’S ‘BUMI BERTUAH’
Venue: G13 Gallery, Petaling Jaya
Date: Jan 7-20
Bumi Bertuah, a brand new solo exhibition by summary artwork favorite Rafiee Ghani, opens up G13’s exhibition line-up for the 12 months. It presents a vibrant take a look at Rafiee’s travels, which have been translated vividly on canvas.
This new sequence of 36 work captures his experiences and his reminiscences alongside his lengthy travels throughout a number of continents, nations and locations the place he encountered every kind of individuals from numerous ethnic teams and cultures, walked in the footsteps of well-known European artists.
In this sequence, Rafiee challenged himself to make use of acrylic, versus oil paint, his signature medium. He believes painters needs to be versatile, and he doesn’t need to limit himself to only one method or type.
Rafiee will likely be presenting an hour-long artwork speak this Saturday, beginning 2pm.
More information here.
Mami Ita, a storyteller and tapai brewer from Keningau, Sabah. Photo: Harold Egn Eswar
TAPAI-MAKING WORKSHOP WITH MAMI ITA
Venue: Zhongshan constructing, KL
Date: Jan 7 and 8
Mami Ita, a tapai-brewer from Keningau, Sabah, will likely be flying in to conduct a workshop on the artwork of brewing tapai in the conventional method. Tapai is the ceremonial rice wine of Sabah, cousin to lihing (Sabah) and tuak (Sarawak).
The workshop, with a great deal of storytelling included, will happen over two days, with a night session on the first day (data sharing and tapai-making) and a morning wrap-up session on the second day. Mami will go into depth about the historical past and customs of tapai, and present insider scoop on the do’s and don’ts of ingesting tapai.
Mami’s conventional tapai brewing two-day workshop sequence: Jan 7 (4pm-9pm) and Jan 8 (8am-10.30am). Ticketed occasion (RM300 per pax). Email: [email protected].
More information here.
Red Hong Yi’s site-specific exhibition ‘Once Upon A Longtang’, which might be seen at the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Red Hong Yi
Venue: National Art Gallery, KL
Date: ends March 2023
The National Art Gallery has gone all outdated world Shanghai with multi-disciplinary artist Red Hong Yi’s newest site-specific exhibition Once Upon A Longtang.
The set up incorporates a sequence of artworks “painted” with burnt Chinese calligraphy paper, and options scenes impressed by outdated alleyway homes – or ‘Longtang’ homes in Shanghai.
“These homes are expensive to me as a result of my father and grandparents lived there, and I bought to reside there and reconnect with my roots in 2011-2013. These outdated homes are additionally shortly disappearing to make method for city growth,” says Red Hong Yi about the new set up.
“Bamboo scaffolding is utilized in these outdated quarters for renovation works. Fresh laundry might be seen hung throughout in these slender alleyways. To me, laundry is an indication of human life – it reveals glimpses of the kind of people that reside there,” she provides.
Free admission to the National Art Gallery.
More information here.
Gerakbudaya bookshop is internet hosting the ‘Life After: Oral Histories Of The May 13 Incident’ guide launch and sharing session this Saturday. Photo: Gerakbudaya
BOOK LAUNCH: LIFE AFTER: ORAL HISTORIES OF THE MAY 13 INCIDENT
Venue: Gerakbudaya, Petaling Jaya
Date: Jan 7, 2pm
Gerakbudaya bookshop is internet hosting the official launch of Life After: Oral Histories Of The May 13 Incident guide, which collects the narratives of those that survived that darkish episode of our nationwide historical past.
The launch will even function a panel dialogue with members of the May 13 Oral History Group, together with tutorial Sharifah Munirah Alatas and modern artist Sharon Chin.
“A must-read, particularly for college students and students of id politics and communal violence, and usually, for all who respect the worth of oral historical past and reminiscence research,” reads Sharifah’s description of the guide.
Free admission.
More information here.
The Godown in KL begins off the 12 months with the ‘Bakul’ exhibition. – Handout
EXHIBITION: BAKUL: EVERYDAY BASKETS FROM SABAH
Venue: The Godown, KL
Date: Jan 7 to Feb 23
The Godown arts area in KL begins the 12 months with the Bakul exhibition, which incorporates a assortment of conventional Sabah baskets from Sabahan creator and collector Jennifer P Linggi.
At this present, you possibly can be taught extra about Tadang, Reng, Takiding, Wakid, Barait, Saiyon and different on a regular basis baskets, that are used for home exercise, farming, looking, gathering and ritualistic practices. They are amongst the many bakul displays on present at the most important corridor of The Godown. A collection of pictures and objects collected from an tour to Kampung Bakuku in Sabah are additionally on show as a part of the exhibition.
“To know these baskets is to enter their world. And this world springs from rattan, bamboo, bemban, mengkuang and different crops from the jungle. It can be from the solar, the rain, the mud, the leeches, the bugs, the microbes, the issues that make up the fierce forest. Each basket is a sort of contemporary marvel, a change,” reads exhibition director Ling Hao’s notes.
This is a no-shoes exhibition at The Godown. Opens every day noon-6pm (Monday-Thursday) and noon-7pm (Friday-Sunday). Admission is free, with registration here.
More information here.
MUSICAL: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Venue: Istana Budaya, KL
Date: ends Jan 15
The Sound Of Music, one in all the world’s best-loved musicals, is again in KL with a model new worldwide manufacturing.
This authentic manufacturing tells the uplifting true story of Maria, the fun-loving governess who modified the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven youngsters by re-introducing them to music, and culminating the household’s flight throughout the Austrian mountains as tensions rise previous to the outbreak of WWII.
Produced by Broadway International Group and offered by Base Entertainment Asia, The Sound Of Music worldwide tour is directed by three-time Tony Award-winner and Broadway veteran Jack O’Brien, choreographed by Danny Mefford, options music supervision by Andy Einhorn and additionally consists of an all-Broadway artistic, design and manufacturing crew.
In KL, the musical additionally options 17 gifted native youngsters for the roles of the von Trapp youngsters to share the stage alongside extraordinary Broadway solid members – Jill Christine Wiley (Maria), Trevor Martin (Captain Von Trapp), and Lauren Kidwell (Mother Abbess).
More information here.
