FROM 28 to 30 Aug 2009, artist collective Lost Generation Space (Kuala Lumpur) collaborated with Anak-Anak Kota (Penang) to present Bangun: Penang Clan Jetties Community Arts Project. The multimedia arts festival was held on and around the clan jetties of Penang. Among the project’s objectives was to involve the clan jetty community in the arts. […]
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Chief chef Zaid
By Lainie YeohLainie Yeoh is not hopeful.
Hope for street people
Compiled by Nick Choo
GLOBAL Street Mission Kuala Lumpur (GOSM) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation that has been operating in Malaysia for the past 17 years. It reaches out to the poor, homeless and marginalised, helping them to rebuild their lives through rehabilitation and restoration. GOSM operates predominantly in the Klang Valley, providing meals, shelter, bathing, rest and counselling […]
Captured: Fish fry
By Lainie YeohLainie Yeoh is unimpressed.
Budget 2010: Before and after
By Lainie YeohLainie Yeoh is a graphic designer who doesn’t want to pay for her credit cards.
Using 350 to beat climate change
Compiled by Gan Pei Ling
TO draw public attention to “350 parts per million (ppm)”, the number scientists claim is the safe upper limit for the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, international grassroots campaign 350.org has been working hard for the past two years to raise awareness. The current amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stands at […]
A story about life’s purpose
Compiled by Nick Choo
CHORAL group The Canticle Singers presents a fresh restaging of Two From Galilee, a musical written by Robert Sterling and Karla Worley, in Kuala Lumpur from today, 23 Oct to 1 Nov 2009. Two From Galilee is the fictitious account of the Biblical characters Mary and Joseph, a young couple in love who are forced […]
1Malaysia’s flushing success?
By Lainie YeohLainie Yeoh respects many lecturers for the knowledge they shared with her even if they did not share the same toilet with her.
Life in Long Lamai, Sarawak
By Koh Lay Chin
RAPE. Blockades. Native rights denied. Such topics inevitably come up in news about Sarawak’s Penan community, such as the recent highlighting of the rape, sexual harassment and exploitation of Penan girls and women by workers of logging companies. But there are also other less prominent issues that the Penan face day-to-day in their idyllic villages […]
Ditching Malay dominance
By Nick ChooNick Choo is copy editor and graphic designer for The Nut Graph who is also a composer and playwright.
