Jul 13, 2019 | Art, art installation, Festivals
29 Lebuh Melayu, the venue for Tan Lay Heong’s new art installation A Real Fake Forest, seems highly unassuming: without signage, the building appears just like the other heritage houses it is sandwiched between. Finding the small yet other-worldly installation that...
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 5, 2019 | Festivals, Theatre
Politically resonant, emotionally stirring and socially transformative, Screaming in Silence, performing on July 14th as part of the George Town Festival, promises to be a powerful play. Directed by award-winning director and writer Saleh Sepas, this production...
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...
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...