Aug 11, 2017 | Exhibitions, Festivals, Photography
Two of the George Town Festival exhibitions are being held within the Bangunan UAB (UAB Building) on China Street Ghaut, and both are very much worth visiting. In addition, it is a great opportunity to look inside this recently renovated heritage building. The...
Aug 10, 2017 | art installation, Exhibitions, Festivals
Of the twenty-plus art exhibitions happening during this year’s George Town Festival, five of them are within the Whiteaways Arcade, and so can be visited all in an hour or two. The temporary galleries, although small, make a good temporary use of the empty lots in...
Aug 9, 2017 | Circus, Comedy, Community, Exhibitions, Festivals, Food and Beverage, Markets, Music, Workshops
The Butterworth Fringe Festival is an annual event that first occurred in 2015 during that year’s George Town festival. It is a public and free street event celebrating art, heritage and culture, aiming to promote the development of both local and international art...
Aug 6, 2017 | Festivals, Music, World Music
The Chinese character 鼟 (teng) is an untranslatable word for a sound similar to that of a drum. The Teng Ensemble’s music is similarly difficult to characterise, intended to be contemporary, innovative, visionary, urban, and a blend of East and West, old and...
Aug 4, 2017 | art installation, Dance, Festivals
In Japanese, the word “Hakanai” means ‘impermanent, fragile, evanescent, transitory, and fleeting’, somewhere between dream and reality. Digital art directors Claire Bardainne and Adrien Mondot have undertaken to illustrate this ancient Japanese...
