The drumming tradition of Urumee Melam - a vibrant largely Tamil folk music tradition historically associated with working class communities - is fast gaining popularity in the sphere of world traditional music. One of the most commanding of these groups on the local front is Chinna Rasa Urumee Melam Masana Kali, who speak to Ali Johan about their music and their latest album.

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A winning formula of 2+2 is what you're promised an exhibition titled Recent Works 2013 which features the works of abstract artists Drew Harris and Tajuddin Ismail and figurative artists Jalaini Abu Hassan and Ahmad Zakii Anwar. Here to discuss this further are visual artists themselves Drew Harris and Tajuddin Ismail.

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A show that boasts the musical genius of Onn San and the distinctively Malaysian writing of Mark Beau de Silva, Marrying Me is a new musical comedy that tackles a parent's dying wish, love and marriage. Director Chris Ling, cast member Sandra Sodhy and lyricist EllaRose Chary give us the scoop.

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The Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Vision Culture Program is a non-profit knowledge building program, that hopes to develop awareness of Malaysian arts with international curators and artists. Set to speak tonight is art historian and Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sandhini Poddar, who will be discussing the topic of curating Asian art to the world. She joins us to share more.

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The group Art Friends, in collaboration with Mercy Malaysia and Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers are organising a charity auction to collect funds for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines on 5th December 2013. Themed 'Art Friends for Haiyan Charity Art Auction' the auction will present about 40 works of art from 28 well known artists in he country. Here to tell us more is Datuk Rosaline Ganendra, the Director of Minoconsult Sdn Bhd and a representative of The Malaysian Art Friends. 

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One is known as the Godfather of Malaysian comedy, and the other is part of the MACC...

Funnymen Harith Iskander and Kuah Jenhan give us a teaser of what's in store for comedy show Lawak Ke Der 3, which has come a long way from YouTube to Istana Budaya.

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Challenging the idea of collaboration, the cross disciplinary contemporary dance performance, Intertwined, sees several local talents coming together to create a performing art piece that interacts between different arts disciplines, with each artist interpreting the word "intertwined' through their own artistic language. Explaining further are composer Ng Chor Guan and producer E-Jan.

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Singer Melissa Indot released her long-awaited second album MDot in October, and she joins us to discuss both the new sound she has adopted for this album and also to plug what we can expect from her upcoming performance at Alexis. 

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is English schoolmaster Edwin Abbot's satirical spin on his era's social, moral and religious conventions. This story is set to make the move from page to stage in a dance adaptation by Terry and The Cuz and daner Suhaili Micheline, and we find out all about it from Director, The Cuz and Costume Designer, Mel Page. 

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Fresh from their performance at Urbanscapes, Ali Johan catches up with the captivating ladies of Black Voices to discuss their style of performance, which follows black oral tradition – an early music form that is based on the ancient folklores and story-telling of Africa and the Diaspora and which has impacted on the development of classical and more recent music genres such as blues and jazz.

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