He sold everything to buy an old yacht. Then raised funds online to produce documentary videos of grassroots conservation groups in the region fighting pollution, saving the ecosystem, doing what often goes ignored. Jase Kovacs and his first mate, Jolene Burr tell about the Voyage of the Labyrinth and how they want to contribute to saving the planet, one small step at a time.

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He travels around taking theatre skills to folks who are not going to become performers. In fact, these are marginalized groups of young people that are often in trouble with the law. Tearlach Duncanson tells how taking applied theatre to these people can help transform their lives

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Our guests give us a view into the creation of this local play, from conception to writing, workshopping and rehearsing to anticipating the opening night.

This is a project under the New Malaysian Works Grant for the script writing which was co-organised by National Department For Culture And Arts and Kakiseni.

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Seeing clone-like physical similarities between dancer Steve Goh and himself, Ng Chor Guan imagines a world where time-travel makes possible such improbabilities. He frames this performance also in the context of the nation’s ‘Vision 2020’ and the optical ‘2020’.

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A mattress is part of a bed. At least in collective vision of things. A mattress makes sleeping more comfortable. But what happens when mattresses are not so much parts of beds and sleeping but central to wakeful bodies who are prancing and dancing? The two choreographer-dancers lift the sheets off mattresses and scales off our eyes to make us inquiry our relationship with space and each other.

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The growing art industry--art schools, art galleries, art auctions, art exhibition and artists--begs the question, What’s art to the nation’s GDP? And then of course, what needs to be done to increase its contribution. The guests discuss the art economy, but what are the assumptions of art that run contrary to the impulses that keep such a system alive?

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The soloists tell of their tasks and thoughts bringing music to a live audience: the challenges of telling a story without words and trying to evoke something intangible. The director tells how he chooses the music and what this collaboration with the soloists offers and gives an insight into how an orchestra works.

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As part of actor-training, Simone Tani uses masks to help actors find something unadulterated, something spontaneous and fresh to bring to their performances. The shock of trance masks allows some actors to find the latent energy that can inject freshness and truth to the roles they play.

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In this very interesting interview, Dr. Amir Zekrgoo throws a wrench into the conventional ways of understanding modern art and modernity. For him, the movement from traditional art to modern art is a reflection of the changes from individual identity to individuality.

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The founder and creative director of Studio Basel and The Spirit of Ramadhan Photography Competition, Dr Basel Almisshal, speaks about the 2014 competition and the how this continuing competition brings works by a number of photographers ranging from aspiring professionals to talented amateurs from over 60 countries.

The 2014 theme was “Bridging Cultures and Inspiring Creativity.”

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