Front Row

Our producer was at klpac the week before Christmas when he noticed a group of performers of different nationalities. Being nosey, he asked who they were and what they were doing and discovered a gathering that sought to melt the borders among performers and arts practitioners of different disciplines and nationalities. The No Borders Project is in its sixth year.

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The government’s Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana) set up to build a “vibrant, sustainable and ambitious cultural economy” in the country today announces its call for applicant to its Emerging Artist Incubation Funding Programme. The agency’s founding CEO answers questions to clarify the nut-and-bolts of what all this funding entails and what information is required from successful applicants.

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This month on Speak Easy, Elaine Foster invites two poets to do a round-up of the year that was 2017. Azam Rais is a seasoned poet and host of Poet X, an online podcast series of spoken word poetry, while Julian Matthews only discovered spoken word poetry recently. The contrasting experiences of both guests provide a thought-provoking insight into the spoken word scene in Malaysia.

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A BFM-produced-for-the-holidays storytelling of ‘The Gift of the Magi,” by American writer, O Henry.

Performed by: Phraveen Arikiah as Jim; Hana Nadira as Della, and Sabera Shaik as Mrs Sofronie

Read by: Lim Soon Heng

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David Glass, thinking on the future of theatre, started to work with the ‘next generation’. And since the inception of the ensemble in 1990, has created works which reviewers have described as “inspiring and dynamic” and “masterful.” David shares on how to take non-traditional works and devised them into a performance, using examples from the works that he has staged, like Dickens ‘Bleak House”, “City of Darkness”, “This Changes Everything” and “Brides”.

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The four share on why they are performing early (Western) music with period instruments, and what they discover and how to enable discerning ears to hear. They have come together as a musical group, Wicked Music People. They explain how their own modern sensibilities guide their approach, and how they have to bow the fine line between being true to the period music and their contemporary ears.

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January Low returns to an interview a little more than a year after her last on to talk about her performance, ‘Bloom’. She tells about the need to dance and how through dancing Odissi, she re-imagines herself, seven years after leaving a dance company to become a wife and mother. She also informs on working with actor, Ghafir Akhbar.

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Pauline Fan tells us about the types of Kompang and the event at Publika in which a craftsman will demonstrate the making of this percussion instrument. Pusaka continues to promote and foster such traditional skills and preservation of culture.

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Our producer caught up with Jolly Koh, a senior Malaysian artist, to discover his understaning of beauty, truth and goodness. The artist is holding an exhibition--Jolly Koh @76--of works created within the last few years. He gives his opinions on contemporary art and art writing while underscoring that for him, art is about creating what is beautiful.

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After 13 weeks, training, writing and learning the skills of directing, six young directors showcase their work and the company, Anomalist Production, that nurtured them, comes on to tell about the process and the need to find, incubate and cultivate new talent.

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