Nov 16, 2019 | Community, Festivals, Food and Beverage
The Penang Street Food Festival is back for its third year, with two days dedicated to Penang’s favourite cuisine. This year’s food extravaganza will bring together around 100 hawkers, with something to appeal to everyone’s taste buds, all crammed within a few...
Sep 28, 2019 | Comedy, Community, Theatre
penangpac has taken on the worthy and admirable mission of bringing English translations of successful Malay-language plays to Penang. The thought behind it is to try to attract a wide audience of theatre lovers from every background to join together and experience...
Aug 10, 2019 | Community, Festivals, opera, Theatre
You will want to watch out this month in Penang. The gates of hell have been opened — according to Chinese Buddhist and Taoist beliefs — and ghosts are roaming freely. These long-necked spirits are hungry, both for food and entertainment. And it is the role of the...
Jul 7, 2019 | Children, Community, Dance, Festivals
To address global issues of identity, belonging, trust and xenophobia to an audience of 9-14 year olds is an undeniably ambitious task. Yet this is just what The Strangers, taking place as part of the George Town Festival this month, aims to do. In a wordless...
Jul 4, 2019 | Art, Community, Dance, Festivals, Music
This month, the George Town Festival is returning for its tenth year, featuring no less than 150 exciting programmes (from theatre to workshops, from photography to music) that will take place in Penang from 13 to 28th July. It’s hard to know where to start when...
Jun 17, 2019 | Art, art installation, Community, Exhibitions, Festivals, Sculpture
Exploding onto the art scene last weekend, with the Open Studios Penang arts festival, came a new and exciting project spearheaded by Ivan Alexander Francis Gabriel. As a multi-disiplinary artist himself, he has collated work by a vast variety of Penang-based...
