The young artist, who has all the trappings of religious orthodoxy and traditionalism, explains her realistic oil-on-canvas paintings of young women--with arms, necks and feet exposed--in soft flowing, translucent night clothes. She tells about the tension between how she herself appears and the images she depicts and why realism fascinates her and best captures her intent.

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The young artist holds a debut solo exhibition of more than 80 prints created between 2013 and 2017. He tells of his serendipitous journey which started with chanced opportunities and an inquisitive and exploring mind. His present concerns and inquiry are into memories--how the mind surveys, keeps, selects, rejects, fades out, rearranges in order to create. Memories are constructed, fluid and indefinite rather factual and fixed.

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The theater practitioner shares his journey from the stage into corporate spaces to facilitate training in as diverse areas as human resource to branding and marketing. He tells about the value of storytelling not only to engender products in the form of student-essays and marketing collaterals but also to individuals as they look at their lives.

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A Singapore-play that explores how people in relationships with each other develop a language of their own. A kind of  code. A shorthand for subconscious language; a language where words are not necessarily articulated. We read their minds, we understand their body gestures and we watch their tone of voice. The producer and actor tell how this latest reincarnation, the third time in KL, is different. 

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This is the third locally-devised play being staged this year, manifesting a desire to tell local stories and in the vernacular, The performers share the devising process and also tell about the differences between acting in English-language plays and vernacular ones. They also give some insights into gamophobia.

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The ‘Aphrodisia’ exhibition is questioning the unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards portrayed within the media. The paintings challenge viewers come face to face with their own interpretations and perceptions of the ‘food and figure’ theme. We talk to Artist Alya Hatta and Curator Nazreen Abraham about how they are breaking the mold. 

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Our guest who hails from Canada is a member of the Walastoq First Nation. He shares with us his digging in the Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, Quebec to reclaim his culture and language and now to promote it so that they won’t die. He comments on the need to engage the young with the traditional, and then to evolve the traditional to embrace modernity.

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When a show that goes from the stage of a singular secondary school onto a professional stage with performers from many schools and universities, what happens then. Our guests tell about the performing arts in secondary schools and hint on the parents’ receptivity to things which are considered not academic like mathematics and science.

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Our guests, besides telling us about the offerings in the latest installment of the classical Indian festival, share their perspective on the local growth and development of Indian classical music, and how Malaysia and Malaysian-ness influence music from the Indian subcontinent.

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For its third outing, the theatre company, EJA Productions has decided on a devised play which focuses on ‘the talking cure’. With the help of a clinical psychologist, and a graduate in ‘theatre and psychology’ who functions as the assistant director, the company explores the usefulness of discovering, with a professional, our own emotional landscape in order to better navigate our real-world lives.

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