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Tembak Shots: “WOMAD Singapore’s 10th Anniversary”
My first WOMAD experience in Toronto, Canada in 1988 was a seminal experience – having…
Size Does Matter
Two thousand and seven, for a businessman and arts collector like myself, was noteworthy arts-wise…
More Than Just Another Music Festival
Two years ago, I wrote a gushing review of the 2nd Penang Island Jazz Festival…
The 60 Second Plug: KLPac’s “Aladdin – the Pantomime”
She’s done ‘Sepi’ and ‘Fawzia’ and even parodied some Broadway ditties in between. Now Doreen…
Success At First Bloom
It takes great skill to make a film about the emotional and material deprivation of…
The 60 Second Plug: ASWARA’S “Asyik”
Besides guiding, training and inspiring young minds towards greater things, the lovely folks at ASWARA…
What’s That Smell?
The shop-lot in Taman Tun Dr Ismail that the theatre companies Dramalab and Five Arts…
Tembak: Low Yi Chin & Chong Kim Chiew’s “A White House and A Temporary Road”
A red Chinese box-altar stands on one of The Annexe Gallery’s upper levels; its idol,…
Tembak Shots: “LAMU: Performance art by Donna Miranda”
When Filipina choreographer Donna Miranda of the Quezon City arts group Green Papaya Art projects…
Playing Catch Up
Malaysia has a long history of conflicts over arts and culture, pitting artists against the…
Bad Theology Leads to Bad Morality
An image deemed insulting to a prophet is printed in a newspaper. Religious leaders express…
Halcyon Days
Things began in 1975: the world’s first home computers were made available to the public;…
The 60 Second Plug: KLPac’s “4.48 Psychosis”
Director/actor/writer Gavin Yap tells us about his initial meeting and subsequent relationship with playwright Sarah…
Every Frog Has Its Day
Urgh. For some reason, when the arts community decides to embark on a production that…
Malaysia at First Sight
“Selamat Datang ke Malaysia” is a cultural expo of sorts … on one hand playing…
The Dreaming
As part of the year-long My.Oz festivities (that celebrate 50 years of friendship between Malaysia…
The 60 Second Plug: Teater Ekamatra’s “Madu II”
Fast becoming Singapore’s most important playwright, the strength of Alfian Sa’at oeuvre lies in the…
The Business of Theatre
In reply to critical comments in an article we published last year on the Kuala…
Tembak: Instant Café Theatre’s Adaptation Masterclass
“I believe we never stop learning,” said actor Anne James, sitting down at a long…
Sit Down and Talk
Held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, documenta – the Hundred Day Museum is…
More Than a Festival
It gets harder and harder to review the Rainforest World Music Festival without sounding like…
The Politics of Muslim Clothing in Indonesia
Jilbab versus Schools This article is about the dynamics of jilbab conflicting with the social,…
Philippine Art Across the Islands: Luzon
In 2002 and 2003, I essayed “preliminary assessments” of writing on art from different Philippine…
Between Revolution Stronghold and Laboratory of the West: Political Positions in Indonesian Fine Art in the 1950s
Yogyakarta was Java’s principal art centre during the 1950s. According to Claire Holt’s “Art in…