Sep 10, 2020 | Film, Jazz, Music
Penang’s jazz scene hit a setback back in 2018 when the long-running Penang Island Jazz Festival was cancelled. The current pandemic-related restrictions on live entertainment have made things extraordinarily difficult for all live performers, jazz musicians included....
Aug 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Sculpture
Low Chee Peng welcomes you to the garden of the apocalypse with this fantastic exhibition. Injecting a much needed dark sense of humour into what remains of this awful year, it is a witty and intelligent show. Not everything is obvious straight away so I urge you to...
Aug 10, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions
Celebrations & Nostalgic Moments – an exhibition by Alex Leong, is simply glorious. This is what we’ve been missing for the last six months. It is a magical visualisation of everything we have yearned for during the loneliness and isolation of the MCO. Alex...
Jul 1, 2020 | Comedy, Theatre
Today, July 1st, theatres are permitted to open for the first time since the lockdown started, and penangpac at Straits Quay will be the first theatre in the country to put on a live performance, The Ice Kacang Project, Friday 3rd until Sunday 5th at 8.30pm. So what...
Mar 14, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions
Murals, Now & Then is the 4th Solo Art exhibition of Mr Hoo Chee Few. It opened on March 8th at Galeri Seni Mutiara. the exhibition is about the artist’s impressions of murals and street art, represented in watercolours. Hoo Chee Few is a Penang-born artist who is...