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Explore our repository of articles, essays, reviews and interviews covering a wide range of arts and culture. The majority of these were commissioned and published on the online arts magazine Kakiseni from 2002 – 2010.

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Ada Apa Dengan Bahasa Melayu?

Tulisan ini tidak bertujuan untuk mengkritik membabi buta melainkan untuk membincangkan lebih lanjut isu perlaksanaan…

Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Huzir Sulaiman can wither lesser intellects with a mere glance. Though he seems to be…

Lights, Camera…

Two years ago, something happened in Malaysian theatre: students from the Taylor’s College, presented to…

YOU DID SWELL, NELL!

I was introduced to Nell Ng’s family outside The Actors Studio Box. Her brother Joey…

Young Chinese theatre company infuses new life and fresh ideas

NEED Entertainment is presenting this week Fall of the City, a play in Mandarin but…

Songs for the Paramour

The enchanting soiree begins with a serene, light and breezy tune by Donizetti. This allows…

Bimal Roy, The First Neo-Realist Auteur in Indian Cinema

It may seem strange to discover a Bengali film director whose style has been compared…

SMORGASBORD: The drinks of our lives

The subject for today: Drinks consumed in local movies. A small subject, to be sure,…

Look Out for Those Hardy Boyz N Crazy Girls

You might have seen her as the bubbly voluptuous Chinese girl in The Instant Cafe…

La La Li La Tam Pong

Ten years is long. The P’nang Dance Station have begun life on a culturally lethargic…

An Evening of Romantic Art Songs

Walking into an adjoining Yamaha showroom has me observing a bespectacled man engrossed in perfecting…

Menjejak Kembali

Rahel Joseph, Manager of Cultural Affairs at the Australian High Commission (AHC), takes Michelle Woo…

Remaja Berkampung Lagi

Di tengah-tengah penghinaan demi penghinaan yang dipantakkan kepada bahasa kebangsaan sedang hebat dilaksanakan secara rapi,…

Akal Juhari

Berjiran dengan monyet, biawak , ular dan babi hutan? ltulah yang dialami Juhari Said, perupa…

First Malaysian Composer for the Pipe Organ

On the 27th May, we were given the world premiere of Journeys, a local composition…

Chong Siew Ying: the next Malaysian “grand artiste”?

Published on kulture.com.my on April 20, 2000 Chong Siew Ying leads her life in the…