The Melbourne-based actor talks about doing a one-man show which highlights the plight of ‘ethnic’ actors in a predominantly white culture. He’ll tell how humor as a standup comic differs from humor in a one-man show.

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The producer of the event tells the history of Shanghai Jazz and points out that this genre of music has a considerable following in our country because certain musicians and groups made it popular. Loh explains how this music is being made accessible to younger listeners both through its presentation and through its more contemporary arrangements. This jazz is evolving to incorporate local color: ‘Kebaya Jazz’.

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The creative arts business coach details the process of germinating an idea into a musical that can be staged on the West End. The process is often long and labor-intensive requiring a great investment of money, time and energy. While there isn’t a shortcut to the creative process to engender a performance product there are ways to create an infrastructure to assist the process and to birth works of quality.

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After weeks of running a music competition for young string players, the directors pull together a Gala Concert which celebrates not on the competition but the young musicians. Based on their encounters and meeting with these young musicians, they tell about the competition and share their observations on the future of classical music in the country.

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What needs to be in place for local artists to collaborate with ASEAN artists? But some argue that our separate politics and national boundaries point to a separation of cultures and collaboration is at best superficial. The guests explores how collaboration should and could fostered to break down these artificial walls that separate us.

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The artistic director and choreographer of the Nyoba Kan Butoh Festival marries play and dance to explore the violence committed against the individual who does not conform, who cannot fit into prescribed roles and modes of being.

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Writing plays and situating them in the country in order to explore and query our history. He’d written ‘At a Plank Bridge’ which he considered a dark play. He’s now writing comedies and will at the readings at ‘The Silverfish Festival of Cabbages’ sharing his comedies.  The playwright also explores English as spoken by Malaysians and how they should sound and whether humor would translate beyond our boundaries if more Malaysian English were used.

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Art by female artists who have created a collective to support each other in their creative endeavors. But how important is it to underscore formally the gender-specificity of the collective’s exhibition (as in the catalog), especially when the art on display is not overtly about women and women’s issues only? Yet, these are not necessarily questions asked of exhibitions if the works are all by men.

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Getting Peter Ong to strip and tell us about his naked self. We see him on stage behind makeup and costume; but in the studio, in his jeans, t-shirt and baseball cap to cover his pate, he bares almost all about what he strives to do when singing, performing.

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The opening of a new art space that seeks to educate the public on art in the month we celebrate Malaya’s independence from colonial rule. The curator also points to the inaugural exhibition, ‘Picturing a Nation’ and details some Malaysian art history.

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