Co-Create Charoenkrung Project: Interview with Charintip Leeyawanich
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5 – 11 Dec 2016: Singapore
Cheng Ran: In Course of the Miraculous (Southeast Asian premiere) by Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Sunday 11 Dec 2016, 11am-9pm Following its world premiere at the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015, and screenings at Art Basel, K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong and across China earlier this year, this 9-hour film will have its
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5 – 11 Dec 2016: Indonesia
Meta’s Top Picks in Yogyakarta, Solo, Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 5 – 11 December Meta is a freelance arts administrator and a traveling yogi. She spent 16 years of her life as an art practitioner and the last few years as an arts administrator. Her first love in the arts is dance. She left
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Ownself Check: SWF 2016 Lecture, Unwritten Country
By Pavithra Raja (831 words, 5-minute read) On November 5th, acclaimed literary figures Gwee Li Sui and Boey Kim Cheng both spoke on the topic, Unwritten Country, as part of the Singapore Writers’ Festival Lecture series. The softly lit Chamber Room at the Arts House – formerly the old Parliament house – set a fitting
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Losing My Religion: “Disgraced” by SRT
By Akanksha Raja (1000 words, 8-minute read) When SRT Artistic Director Gaurav Kripalani revealed that the Media Development Authority approved of Disgraced without making any edits to the script, in answer to a question about censorship, there was an audible gasp from the audience at the post-show dialogue on 22 November. Regulatory authorities are known
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Sundance of Southeast Asia: Luang Prabang Film Festival 2 – 7 Dec 2016
If you’re in withdrawal now that the 27th Singapore International Film Festival 2016 has ended, you have two days left to catch the Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF). Founded in 2010 by Gabriel Kuperman, the Luang Prabang Film Festival has been dubbed the Sundance of Southeast Asia. Only minus the sub-zero temperature and celebrities looking
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When Your Privates Become Public: From Synge to M1 Fringe
By Corrie Tan (2043 words, 15-minute read) It was January 26, 1907, a Saturday night in Dublin, Ireland. Audience members, rowdy and revolted, were pouring out of the Abbey Theatre after the premiere of playwright J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. These riots would continue throughout the play’s week-long run, with the
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Production Talk with K Rajagopal on ‘A Yellow Bird’
Tags: A Yellow Bird K Rajagopal Singapore International Film Festival
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NYT: A Malaysian Political Cartoonist on Facing His Fears, and Prison, for Art
Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as Zunar, speaks with the New York Times about the dangers of self-censorship, and continuing make art in the face of possible imprisonment.
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Preview: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions
By Akanksha Raja (530 words, 5-minute read) Blue Bean Productions’ maiden show Dear Jay was spawned from a series of e-mail exchanges between producer and lead actor Benedict Leong and playwright Euginia Tan, about personal experiences coping with mental illness. They had met while working on the Twenty-Something Theatre Festival in June 2016, him as assistant producer of the
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Podcast 7: The Second Breakfast Company’s Family by Leow Puay Tin
Duration: 30 minutes Michael Ng, who reviewed the 20th Anniversary production of Family for bakchormeeboy joins podcast co-hosts Kathy Rowland and Matt Lyon in a discussion about the staging history of Family, and the relevance of the play today. Opening music by Caspar Productions. Stream Podcast 7: To download Podcast 7, right-click here and select ‘Save Link
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28 Nov – 4 Dec 2016: Singapore
Projek Suitcase 2016: Metamorphosis by Teater Ekamatra 30 Nov – 4 Dec, from 7:30pm In the latest edition of Teater Ekamatra, 16 performing artists or performance makers across disciplines and genres have been invited to stage 8 monologues over 2 days at Aliwal Arts Centre. Exploring a multitude of issues and themes, the festival is
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28 Nov – 4 Dec 2016: Malaysia
Talk Prof. Dr. Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof: Kelantan Shadow Play: Some Challenges, 29 Nov, KL Following a brief introduction to the Kelantan shadow play, principally in terms of dramatic content, this lecture will touch upon socio-political as well as religious issues surrounding this genre, questions related to State policies and other factors which, in recent decades, have
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The Art of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Thai art platform Onarto explores the late King’s prolific art practice, including sculpture, music and photography.
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28 Nov – 4 Dec 2016: Indonesia
Meta’s Top Picks in Bali, Jakarta, and Bandung from 28 November – 4 December Meta is a freelance arts administrator and a traveling yogi. She spent 16 years of her life as an art practitioner and the last few years as an arts administrator. Her first love in the arts is dance. She left her heart
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Low Octane: SRT’s Disgraced
By Matt Lyon (482 words, 6-minute read) Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, a modern tragedy about the fall of an apostate Muslim-American lawyer, is a notable inheritor of the realist theatrical tradition. Sadly, it inherits the worst traits: Ibsen’s machine-cut-jigsaw plotting and Shaw’s parliamentary-debate dialogue. To be fair, Akhtar recognises that his play might engender a “stilted
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Don’t Say Cheese: Interchange
By Kathy Rowland (988 words, 10-minute read) Spoiler Alert: If you want to enjoy Interchange in all its suspenseful glory, watch the film before you read this review. The 27th Singapore International Film Festival opened last week with the Asian premiere of the Malaysian film, Interchange. Dain Iskandar Said’s third feature is a ‘fantasy noir
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Asiatopia Performance Conference 2016 | An open space for sharing
Culture360’s report on the recent Asiatopia Performance Conference held in Bangkok. Tags: SEA Thailand
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BFM Malaysia: Podcast interview with Lionel Shriver
Umapagan Ampikaipakan catches up with Lionel Shriver at the Singapore Writers Festival 2016 and together they discuss her controversial comments on cultural appropriation and the future of America under Trump.
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Review of Signs of a Nest with Susan Sentler
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21 – 27 Nov: Malaysia
The State of Humanity: An Evening with AC Grayling, 22 Nov 2016, Bobo Kuala Lumpur Our world is in turmoil again: and yet there has also been great progress in the state of humankind over the last four centuries. Can we learn from the past to understand the present, and to solve its problems?
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Shanghai Biennale 2016 Ditches Dichotomy between East and West
Artsy.com’s Frances Arnold discusses the 11th Shanghai Biennale curated by Delhi-based artist group Raqs Media Collective. Tags: SEA
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Two LGBT-themed films win big at Philippines Cinema One Awards
Jasmine Curtis-Smith won Best Actress for her role in the movie Baka Bukas, while the gay-themed coming-of-age flick 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten was declared Best Picture. (ABS-CBN) Tags: LGBT
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Crisis of Masculinity: Best Of (His Story)
By Matthew Lyon (480 words, 6-minute read) The Necessary Stage’s Best Of (His Story) is a response to the company’s 2013 monologue, Best Of that detailed a day in the life of a young Malay-Muslim woman. The project of the original piece was to endow a racial stereotype with such verisimilitude that when she fails her
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Indonesian artist wins 2016 UOB Southeast Asian art prize
Thai news portal The Nation reports on Indonesian painter Gatot Indrajati’s win in the 2016 UOB Southeast Asian Painting of the Year competition, based in Singapore. Tags: UOB Painting of the Year
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Healing beauty’s wounds (at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2016)
In the Bangkok Post, Philip Cornwel-Smith shares an overview of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2016.
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