BOOK STREET: ‘SEMBANG BUKU SAMBIL NGOPI, LAYAN MUZIK’
Venue: Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya
Date: Dec 3 and 4
Book Street, a classic book group, is ending the 12 months with a bumper occasion, including music distributors to its good-looking checklist of rare book sellers and curators from throughout the nation. From so far as Kota Baru, Kelantan to the bountiful book vacation spot of Ipoh, the outstation sellers can be the highlights.
This weekend will see Amcorp mall’s concourse space in a festive temper as this impartial (and literary) group land at this group mall with an enormous choice of collectible and out-of-print books, rare vintage maps, prints, pictures, manuscripts and antiquities, some over 100 years outdated. The enjoyable half is to select a singular Christmas present or a year-end deal with (or extra) for your self.
An inventory of new vinyl sellers and music collectors can even be becoming a member of the fray, alongside the espresso distributors all set to maintain guests pumped up and digging via the treasure trove of books and music.
Free admission occasion. Open 10am to 8pm this weekend.
Artist Liew Chee Heai’s set up work ‘My Island’ for the Klang River Festival is seen at the KongsiKL arts house. Photo: KongsiKL
KLANG RIVER FESTIVAL
Venue: Various venues in Kuala Lumpur/Selangor
Date: ends Dec 4
The inaugural Klang River Festival (KRF) 2022, which ends this weekend, is a community-based occasion for individuals who like the indoors or open air. It options visible artwork exhibitions, dialogue periods (with students, and researchers), arts performances, workshops, gentle installations, music, curated outside arts markets, heritage walks and movie screenings.
“The pageant highlights the (Klang) river’s significance as a supply of transportation, contemporary water, meals, and spiritual rituals whereas acknowledging its transient and ever-changing nature, in addition to the approach the communities which have sprung up alongside the waterway and its tributaries have been formed and adjusted by them and vice versa,” reads the pageant notes.
Locations for the pageant embrace KongsiKL, Oriental Art And Cultural Center (OACC), Kampung Hokkien (Old Klang Road), The Godown, REXKL, Muzium Telekom and extra.
Free admission pageant. Tip: head to the KRF web site and map out the programmes, occasions and exhibitions you wish to catch. It is an activity-packed pageant and you’re certain to return greater than as soon as.
More information here.
A detailed-up element of up to date artist Ya Hui Yee’s art work ‘My Daily News Is Better … Lah’, which is featured at the ‘BOOMZOOMROOM’ exhibition at APW in KL. Photo: Handout
EXHIBITION: BOOMZOOMROOM
Venue: APW, Bangsar, KL
Date: Dec 2-18
The basic concept of an artwork exhibition is quickly altering as we converse, particularly with inventive boundaries being blurred.
BOOMZOOMROOM (BZR) takes its lead from these developments because it presents a visible artwork showcase that includes a various assortment of artists and creatives throughout inventive practises, together with visible arts, pictures, theatre, and musicians, unpacking generational conversations in response to a analysis research titled Life Of Z by R+ of GDP Architects.
The exhibition house can also be in a newly renovated APW, the place GDP Architects constructed the room construction in keeping with the exhibition. Apart from the exhibition, there can be speak periods as half of the programme, which function the artists.
From textile artwork and comics proper to lecture performances and punk music (with a Kelantanese accent), this exhibition presents a glimpse of how numerous communities and inventive mediums in Malaysia can forge new relationships and are available collectively.
The exhibition line-up contains Alvin Lau, Ang Xia Yi, Cloud Projects, Okui Lala, Mark Teh, No Good, Ellen Ang and others.
Free admission to the exhibition.
More information here.
A scene from the theatre play ‘IQ.ROCK’, which is taking part in at DPAC. Photo: Anomalist Production
THEATRE: IQ.ROCK
Venue: DPAC, Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya
Dates: Dec 1-4
After a two-year hiatus, Anomalist Production returns to the native theatre scene with a restaging of IQ.ROCK, a bilingual play which serves as a well timed reminder for a reasonable and inclusive Malaysia.
IQ.ROCK presents the story of a gaggle of SPM college students from rural Serting, Negri Sembilan, who – like many school-leavers in actual life – lack course, are aimless and doomed by the system that raised them. The story critically highlights the inequities of the schooling system; significantly how they have an effect on rural communities, via the quiet sense of chaos and social points that play out inside a sleepy rubber tapping group, which is additional stirred by the arrival of a veteran English trainer, Mary, from the metropolis.
The play presents a glimpse of the contrasts and inequalities that exist in Malaysia, which go far past only a lack of English proficiency, as Mary finds out.
More information here.
Badan Warisan Malaysia (Malaysian Heritage Trust) constructing in the coronary heart of Kuala Lumpur is about to welcome guests for its Christmas Fair this Sunday. Photo: The Star/Filepic
BADAN WARISAN MALAYSIA: CHRISTMAS FAIR
Venue: Heritage Centre, No. 2, Jalan Stonor, KL
Date: Dec 4
As the 12 months attracts to an in depth, the festive season is just starting!
This 12 months’s Badan Warisan Malaysia’s Christmas Fair falls this Sunday, with an occasion centred round gifting family members presents whereas additionally supporting heritage preservation in Kuala Lumpur.
The distributors embrace Little Syam, Emi Kaz Jewelry, Cult Curates, Down4Sundays, Seni Sara, Flavours and Memories from Mussoorie to Malaysia, Dia Guild, Fariza Basri Art, Heritage Basket, Four Summers, Letters by Eve, Ganga Café, Benang Sari and Bear Minima.
There can be handmade crafts, artisanal gadgets, classic jewelry, baked items, residence decor, books and extra.
The entry payment is RM10, which can go to in the direction of heritage preservation.
The Christmas Fair can be on from 10am to 5pm.
More information here.
A view of Liew Kwai Fei’s newest artwork exhibition ‘Pencil Exercises’, which is displaying at the Backroom Gallery in KL. Photo: Backroom Gallery
PENCIL EXERCISES BY LIEW KWAI FEI
Venue: The Back Room, Zhongshan constructing, KL
Date: ends Dec 29
If you miss the energy of pencil drawings, this present is for you. In visible artist Liew Kwai Fei’s newest artwork exhibition Pencil Exercises (and book launch), he’s showcasing 117 drawings crafted solely by graphite and colored pencils.
The exhibition focuses on two deceptively easy parts of a pencil and a grid. Liew explores the limits of the grid type, composing scenes of revolt, group, and pleasure which are irreverent and profound in equal measure.
Liew’s new drawings are additionally collected in a brand new book (Pencil Exercises), which is revealed by Cloud Projects, and can be made accessible at this month-long exhibition.
Free admission to the exhibit.
More information here.
GAME ART EXHIBITION: ALT-SHIFT-PLAY
Venue: Museum Telekom, Kuala Lumpur
Date: Dec 2-4
If you are a gamer, you then’re in luck this weekend. Alt-Shift-Play, an exhibition of up to date Australian video games, includes a line-up fan-favourites alongside obscure gems.
From award-winning titles like Cult Of The Lamb and commissioned micro-games like Apartment to the psychedelic maze of The Catacombs Of Solaris Revisited and the private tales of Wayward Strand, this exhibit highlights an array of different, ever-shifting, and playful landscapes from the Australian impartial sport and game-maker scene.
Alt-Shift-Play, curated by Chad Toprak, additionally options on-site playable video games, a collection of brief talks (by some of the creators) and workshop periods.
Free admission. Tomorrow’s launch occasion is at 8pm, weekend opening hours: 11am-9pm.
More information here.
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