Front Row

The birth of a musical for children with setting in African, roots in Australia and music by a Malaysian.

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Growing ambitions have led to a year full of many festivals under the umbrella of the JB Arts Festival, to include a Fringe Festival 2015. In fact there will be five ancillary festivals.  The organizers paint the year ahead.

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Still in the domestic space, the kitchen. But is the tete-a-tete in the kitchen any less intimate than pillow talk? Is it pan prattle when it’s part of the cuisine conversation? The director and writer shares what is explored in these series of stories springing from the scullery of artists’ hearts and minds.

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Bringing February love that’s in the air into the hearts of the listeners. This band mixes singing with beatbox, songs in English and Mandarin.

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An original play set in an English home, posh enough to have a butler. But then a dead body appears. And as in any class-conscious culture, the lowest on the totem pole gets blamed. But just because you’re blamed, it doesn’t mean you didn’t do it. Did the butler do it? I don’t know but fingers are pointed in that direction.

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An exhibition of curated works developed through a residency program for young curators from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. This Japan Foundation-sponsored event explores the increasing privatisation of urban spaces.

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‘Dance in Place’ is a site-specific performance by dancers who spent their residency at Rimbun Dahan. Bilqis Hijjas, Lee Ren Xin and Foo Chi Wei tells about how the residency has engendered collaborations among dancers.

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Can anything good come out from Nazareth? That wasn’t rhetorical question asked by a doubter. Perhaps the same can be said of this sleepy town in Negeri Sembilan: Can anything good come out from Seremban? The answer is, ‘Come and see.’ sembilan and Alliance Francaise have collaborated to showcase the works of two artists-in-residence in sembilan’s inaugural exhibition.

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The artist and the collector collaborate to share their private collections in a public display at a gallery in town. In particular the works of Yusof Ghani. The exhibition is called Shared Passion: Art of Yusof Ghani from the Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan and the Yusof Ghani Collection.

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It started with ‘Write tales 2014’ and the public was invited to write a story in English. But now going one step further in 2015, ‘Write Tales’ require the kind of story that can be turned into a motion picture. This project is a CSR initiative to grow Malaysians’ awareness of English--reading and writing in that language--and its importance as an international language.

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