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 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 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...
Jul 30, 2017 | Festivals, Film
The George Town Festival is set to screen classic Asean films weekly during the month of August. As the name suggests, all the films are rooted in South-East Asia and display the relatively unheard of yet very versatile directing talent in Asean film. Ma Rosa,...
Jul 25, 2017 | Book Launch, Festivals, Talk
Penang Hill – A Journey Through Time began life as Penang-based author Mike Gibby’s exploration of the history of the hiking trails of the hills, expanded to include the history of the hill bungalows, and ultimately grew into an all-embracing and far-reaching...
