Nov 30, 2019 | Children, Choral, Festivals, Music
December is a time of year when many of us, religious or otherwise, enjoy listening to the familiar melodies of Christmas music, carols and songs. Every year in Penang we are lucky enough to have a great line up of concerts, and 2019 is no exception. Always a great...
Nov 2, 2019 | Comedy, Theatre
“Everyone wanted to change the government but no one is willing to change themselves” is the message that critically-acclaimed Penang-based playwright Fa Abdul wants to communicate with her new feature-length comedy, Tales from Malaysia Baru. The two-hour play set in...
Oct 20, 2019 | Art, art installation, Exhibitions, Sculpture
If you didn’t have time to visit the 8” x 6” Project II in its first home at City Hall, don’t worry. It has moved and has re-opened in the art gallery at penangpac in Straits Quay. The first 8’’ by 6’’ Project launched as part of Open Studios Penang 2019, and...
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...
Sep 17, 2019 | Choral, Comedy, Music, opera
Iolanthe is one of fourteen Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas that the pair wrote in the late 19th century. Gilbert wrote the words, and created the fanciful, upside-down, absurd worlds that create the, often satirical, comedy of the story, and Sullivan composed the...
