Nov 9, 2017 | Book Launch, Community, Festivals, Markets, Music, Talk, Workshops
2017 marks the sixth anniversary of Penang’s annual “Ten Days Three Festivals” season, a veritable relay race of festivals. First off the starting line is the George Town Literary Festival (GTLF), which will be held from November 24th until November 26th. Since its...
Aug 26, 2017 | Festivals, Theatre
The title of this multi-award winning play sounds like an Indie film more than anything else, and, in that respect, it does not disappoint. Much like some of the great Indie films of the modern age – for example Gentlemen Bronkos or Napoleon Dynamite – The...
Aug 25, 2017 | art installation, Festivals, Music, Theatre
Next Level is theatre as reimagined by the millennial generation. The third full-length multimedia production by America’s Voyeur Theatre Collective, like those before it, combines aspects of rave culture, cinema, performance art, screen and...
Aug 19, 2017 | Dance, Festivals, Theatre
The Italian Restaurant is an existential tale telling of a chance meeting between a woman and a man in a restaurant and the forging of their destinies as their hearts become entwined. Provocative symbolism and metaphor creates the tranquil yet chaotic forward...
Aug 14, 2017 | Choral, Festivals, Music
The Choir of Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge, is one of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs. The twenty-four singers and two organ scholars perform a wide range of sacred and secular choral music spanning the centuries. We are fortunate to have them...
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...