Art & Performance Festival 2016
Saint Paul’s
Hill
25, 26, 27
November 2016
The above is a group photograph of the festival artists with YB Datuk Wira Dr. Abu Bakar bin Mohamad Diah, the Deputy Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation.
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My wife,
Siu Siu let me drop-off at the Discovery Café and thereafter, she drove to her
Skynet’s office this morning. I prefer to take a morning walk from there to
Saint Paul’s Hill to enjoy this year mapfest 8.
The walk
take me along the beautiful Melaka River which also provided me a fresh and
happy weekend in the past and today.
The
organizer of mapfest 8 is Art & Performance Festival Melaka Sdn. Bhd. with office
at B806, Block B, Kelana Square, No. 17 Jalan SS7/26, Kelana Jaya, 47301
Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Andrew Ching is the Festival
Director and Suen Kar Nee is the Festival Manager. Find out more on this
website www.melakafestival.com
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I have a
chance to see these beautiful people in person;
Ayako Fuji
A Melbourne
based multi-instrumentalist from Osaka, Japan, she graduated from Osaka College
of Music in 1990. She began playing Japanese traditional instruments (Taiko
drums and Shinobue Flute) from 1998.
Since then,
she has been composing and arranging original music in this genre. Ayako has
also been playing Okinawan songs since 2010. She has participated in Taiko,
Shinobue and Shanshin workshops whilst on tour in Japan during 2011 to 2015.
She currently teaches Shinobue in Melbourne.
Ayako is a
member of A. YA (Japanese Instrument & Taiko Duo), Australia Miyake Kai (Miyake
Taiko Group), Melbo-Ren (Awaodori Dance Group) and AyaTake (Okinawa Music Duo).
Kingkin Ayu
Born in
Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia, she knew traditional dance since childhood.
Her parents are traditional dancers. She studied dance in Indonesia Institute
Of Art, Surakarta in traditional and contemporary dance.
Her dance
work entitle, PRAHARA, TETEG, and BANJARAN SINTA.
Her work
often has women’s stories. She also creates children’s dances for her dance
studio, including DOLANAN SONTOLOYO, TANI UTUN, MBOK TENGGOK.
Kingkin
teaches dance in elementary and senior high schools as part of their
extra-curriculum. She is also a cultural ambassador for the arts of the city of
Klaten.
Reuben
Lewis
A
trumpeter, composer, improviser and a driving new force in the Australian Jazz
and Experimental music community, he has collaborated with many local and
international artists, performing often at known venues around Australia, Asia
and Europe.
His
unrelenting and diverse musical activity has earned him recognition within the
local and greater global community.
He has
released two albums comprising of his original compositions, Samadhi 2009 and
Fractured Spring 2011 as well as producing many others such as Dangerous
Flowers 2015 and Breath Interrupted 2016. His website www.reubenlewis.com
Blessed
enough, I have a photograph taken with Ajak Kwai.
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Ajak Kwai
Ajak Kwai’s
music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the
depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots.
Her
distinctive voice has mesmerized audiences nationally and internationally. Her
third CD of Cows, Women and War brings a rare and very personal glimpse into
the vanishing world of the nomad Dinka of South Sudan, almost destroyed by
civil war.
She has
performed at WOMADelaide, the Port Fairy Festival, Alice Springs’ Eye of the
Storm Writers’ Festival, Melbourne
International Arts Festival and The Age Music Awards.
Ajak was
awarded the African-Australia Community Female Singer of the Year and Advocates
for refugees and women’s rights. Check out her website www.ajakkwai.com
The list of
artful people continues ….
I am also
lucky enough to have a few words with Tony Yap, the Creative Director for
Melaka Arts and Performance Festival before he does the “ a gaze ”
“ a gaze ” …
a psycho-kinetic dance
Troubles my
sight; somewhere in
Sands of
the desert
A shape
with lion body and the head
of a man,
A gaze
blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving
its slow thighs, while all
about it
Reel
shadows of the indignant desert
Birds.
-
The
Second Coming,
William Butler Yeates
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