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...
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 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...
Aug 1, 2017 | Exhibitions, Festivals
In its third year contributing to the George Town Festival, Penang gallery base2 is exploring the fragility of beauty inspired by conflict in the region. Fractured presents a mix of paintings and sculptures to exhibit the conflicting fragments of lives, people,...
