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CausewayEXchange 2015 - Celebrating 50 Years Of Cultural Ties Through The Arts @ Johor Bahru (10/8 - 11/9/15)
CausewayEXChange Visits Penang & Johor Bahru to Commemorate 50 Years of Singapore - Malaysia Bilateral Ties.
Penang & Johor Bahru, Malaysia - CausewayEXchange (CEX), a joint arts and culture initiative between Singapore and Malaysia is celebrating Singapore’s 50th Anniversary and 50 years of bilateral relations by staging in two Malaysian states, Penang and Johor Bahru, for the first time. While CEX will return to Penang from the 1st to 31st of August for the second year as part of the George Town Festival, it will be visiting Johor Bahru from the 10th of August to 11th September for the first time in conjunction with the JB Arts Festival.
Since its inception, CEX has played a pivotal role in increasing the support and expanding the audience base for arts and culture in both countries by introducing the two countries to each other’s diverse and multicultural arts scenes and facilitating greater opportunities and awareness for cultural exchange programmes between them through artistic and social activities.
Says Shawn Lourdusamy, Founder & Festival Director of CEX, “It is the continuous positive feedback from artistes who have performed at CEX that keeps us going. Artistes have reported to us that they have benefited from this exchange, even more so when we showcase collaborative works across disciplines and genres, which will be seen in our line-up this year.”
This year, CEX will be staging a variety of literary, visual and performance arts events in Penang and Johor Bahru. The highlights are as follows:
About CausewayExchange
A Platform that aims to foster greater collaboration between Singaporeans and Malaysians through artistic, social and business activities.
That aims too increase the support and expand audience base for the arts and culture in both countries.
And to facilitate greater opportunities and awareness for placement and exchange programmes for the arts and culture industries of both countries.
Overview & mission Causeway Exchange Through a combination of artistic and social activities, CausewayEXchange provides a holistic programme that is reciprocal in nature, aiming to foster better understanding and strengthen relations between two countries in an act of cultural diplomacy.
Artistic Vision
To present and share arts and culture of both countries via the elements of humor, wit and irony
Mission
To increase the support for the arts and culture in both Malaysia and Singapore to a more diverse segment of each society.
To expand audience base of culture arts and artists of two countries To facilitate greater opportunities and awareness for placement and exchange programmes for the arts and culture industries of both countries.
Objectives
In Celebration of Singapore’s 50th Anniversary and 50 years of Bilateral Relations with Malaysia, CausewayEXchange has been pivotal in sharing Singapore's diverse and multicultural ethnicity with its closest neighbor, Malaysia.
CEX has expanded over the years from one main festival to several fringe festivals, running in conjunction with existing state art festivals in Malaysia, and has brought hundreds intend of Singaporean artistes to Malaysia every year. CausewayEXchange is a celebration amongst local communities, engaging Singaporeans who are residing in Malaysia. It will also bring together Singaporeans in Malaysia, giving them a sense of belonging. We endeavor to showcase SINGAPORE's unique attribute as “One People, One Nation, One Singapore”
Schedule:
8.00pm, 19th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
Nadi Singapura is a Singaporean drum ensemble with more than 25 members that uses the traditional drums of the Malay Archipelago such as the kompang, rebana, jidur, and gendang in their performances. Inspired by theatrical drumming and percussion groups such Drum Tao from Japan, the UK’s Stomp and the Brazilian group Monobloco, Nadi’s performances are high energy and guaranteed to get the audiences’ feet tapping.
TBA, 12th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
The Singapore Literary Panel: The Impact of the 1965 Separation on Malaysian and Singaporean Literature is a multilingual panel of more than a dozen shortlisted Singapore authors from the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize (SLP). The SLP is unique in that it awards prizes in three categories - Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction - in Singapore’s four official languages: English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. As well as reading excerpts from their works, the panel will be discussing the impact of the 1965 separation on the literature of both countries.
8.00pm, 24th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
Heritage Films showcases six of the winning films from the Singapore Heritage Short Film Competition. The competition aims to encourage young film makers to reconnect with their heritage by documenting aspects of Singapore’s heritage and culture in film to preserve them for future generations. The films include views of the surviving Hakka and Peranakan Culture in Singapore, explorations of the city’s old kampongs and the revival of lion dancing among Singapore’s youth.
Line Up:
Visual Arts
A Limited Edition Solo Art Exhibition By: Tang Juey Lee
Mr Tang Juey Lee, is an internationally renowned & award-winning artist who has held exhibitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe & many other parts of the world. His orchid paintings, in particular, have always been very popular in Singapore right from the 1970's to the present...
Visual Arts
Friendship Wall A Collaborative Mural
Mas established the Band of Doodlers in 2013 after several years of being a mentor with Noise Singapore, a National Arts Council initiative that gives budding talents an opportunity to learn from industry practitioners. “I thought it would be good to have a platform for my mentees to interact more.” CausewayEXchange would like to initiate a cross boarder project with doodlers from Singapore and Malaysia, coming together to ONE wall, the friendship wall, where we will doodle based on the theme of “Celebrating 50 years of bilateral relationship between Singapore and Malaysia through the arts” This will be held on the first day of the festival at the festival grounds. We will then add more boards for audience members to doodle their thoughts down.
Music Showcase & Workshop Nadi Singapore
Hailing from the Lion City, their songs reflect a youthful spirit of adventure while remaining true to the group's vision of preserving, honouring and elevating Malay music while entertaining with these varied medium of expressions.Formed in November 2011, the Nadi Singapura ensemble is made up of young, aspiring and impartial musicians who believe in lifting spirits through their traditional drums and percussion's. Nadi, which means ‘pulse’ or ‘flow of consciousness’ in Malay, features the most common Malayan drums found in Singapore, namely the kompang, rebana, jidur and gendang. The ensemble is led by two renowned individuals in the Singapore Malay Arts scene, Rebana artisan, Yaziz Hassan and prominent drummer/percussionist, Riduan Zalani. Both founders aim to position Nadi Singapura as a dynamic ensemble that adopts an innovative approach in the use of the Malay Archipelago drums.
We will conduct a drum music workshop
twitter.com/nadisingapura
www.facebook.com/pages/NADI-Singapura/218515171525104
Literary Arts
Literary Panel Discussion & Readings Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) Showcase
In a bid to promote the shortlisted authors and winners of the 2014 SLP, the NBDCS has been organising events and meet the authors sessions in various libraries, bookstores, schools and even in non-traditional venues such as art galleries and cafes from November 2014 to the present day.
What - Two readings (one English, one Malay) with a maximum of five authors plus moderator per language. For the full list of shortlisted authors please visit this link and scroll down to the bottom: bookcouncil.sg/awards/singapore-literature-prize As to which authors will be selected for the event depends on their willingness, availability as well as relevance of their work to the JB audience. The programme (maximum 1.5 hours)
1. Introduction to authors by moderator plus short readings of up to three minutes per author
2. Panel discussion related to literature in Malaysia and Singapore such as: the true impact of the 1965 separation
on Singaporean and Malaysian literature
3. Sale of SLP shortlisted books by official bookshop, Closetful of Books. Maximum two reps will be setting up
shop - we only need a large enough table and two chairs for the set up
4. Autograph session with the authors
Literary Arts
Children’s Storytelling By: Kamini Ramachandran
Kamini shares Asian stories for children. The Boy With The Longest Name The Magic Tree The Competition of the Birds The Magic Pots (a Pak Pandir folk tale) Red Fish & Blue Fish (hand action rhyming story) Kamini Ramachandran co-founded MoonShadow Stories with Verena Tay in November 2004, with the sole aim of promoting the lost art of the oral narrative tradition. MoonShadow Stories strongly believes that if we can reintroduce the beauty and wonder of storytelling to adults,
then children will benefit. Hence, we were the pioneer contemporary storytellers in Singapore to spearhead storytelling for adults. MoonShadow Stories passionately promotes the tradition of storytelling through re-telling and sharing oral stories to a variety of audiences both young and old, in Singapore and in other countries.MoonShadow Stories organizes storytelling
performances and workshops for both adults and children. They provide customized storytelling training and storytelling content creation for private organizations and government entities, educational and commercial institutions, literary and storytelling festivals, counselling and therapeutic agencies as well as provide publications and research advice.Both Kamini and Verena are founder members of the Storytelling Association (Singapore).
Kamini shares Asian stories for children.
The Boy With The Longest Name
The Magic Tree
The Competition of the Birds
The Magic Pots (a Pak Pandir folk tale)
Red Fish & Blue Fish (hand action rhyming story)
Film
The Singapore Heritage Short Film (HSFC) Showcase By: the Singapore Film Society, with the support of National Heritage Board
The inaugural competition seeks to unearth and recognise young filmmaking talents who will approach our vibrant Singapore heritage with a fresh and exciting look. HSFC aims to present the unique heritage of our young nation, told through the eyes of our budding young filmmakers."
This is also the only short film competition in Singapore that emphasises on "heritage" as the main theme and criteria of the films. In 2014, amongst the four eminent panelists that we invited to give merit and judge the films submitted, two of the panelists are Singapore heritage experts - Dr. Lai Chee Kien, and Dr. Imran Tajuddin, both whom lends a keen and profession eye and angle on Singapore Heritage to our judging criterias."
CEX will showcase 7 of the finalist for 2014.
A Father’s Passion (G), by BillShootFilm | Chinese Opera Dreaming (G), by WXYZ Production
Lion City Dreamers (PG), by Han & Annie | Peranakans: Then and Now (G), by Toothless Production
Return to the Roots (PG), by Team Cloudy | The Passion of Lion Dancers (G), by G Cube Production
The Village in a City (G), by 5th Avenue Pictures
Comedy
Sons Of Singapore
Singapore has always been blessed by many things that make Singaporeans and foreigners chuckle and laugh about our everyday lives.Presenting the new up-and-coming stars of the local comedy scene... The Sons Of Singapore! Representing each major ethnic group in Singapore, these new faces are the next generation of stand-up comedians... set to entertain Singapore with their brand of comedy that will prove to the nation and the rest of the world that Singapore DOES have a sense of humour... regardless of who you are and where you come from.
Rishi Budhrani, Jinx Yeo and Fakkah Fuzz will have you roaring with laughter at the experiences of living in modern
day Singapore!
For More Information:
Phone: +65 62199314 /+65 97820821
Email: marketing@dmr.com.sg / shawn@dmr.com.sg
URL: causewayexchange.com/
TW: twitter.com/causewayEX
FB: www.facebook.com/CausewayEXchange?fref=ts
CausewayEXChange Visits Penang & Johor Bahru to Commemorate 50 Years of Singapore - Malaysia Bilateral Ties.
Penang & Johor Bahru, Malaysia - CausewayEXchange (CEX), a joint arts and culture initiative between Singapore and Malaysia is celebrating Singapore’s 50th Anniversary and 50 years of bilateral relations by staging in two Malaysian states, Penang and Johor Bahru, for the first time. While CEX will return to Penang from the 1st to 31st of August for the second year as part of the George Town Festival, it will be visiting Johor Bahru from the 10th of August to 11th September for the first time in conjunction with the JB Arts Festival.
Since its inception, CEX has played a pivotal role in increasing the support and expanding the audience base for arts and culture in both countries by introducing the two countries to each other’s diverse and multicultural arts scenes and facilitating greater opportunities and awareness for cultural exchange programmes between them through artistic and social activities.
Says Shawn Lourdusamy, Founder & Festival Director of CEX, “It is the continuous positive feedback from artistes who have performed at CEX that keeps us going. Artistes have reported to us that they have benefited from this exchange, even more so when we showcase collaborative works across disciplines and genres, which will be seen in our line-up this year.”
This year, CEX will be staging a variety of literary, visual and performance arts events in Penang and Johor Bahru. The highlights are as follows:
About CausewayExchange
A Platform that aims to foster greater collaboration between Singaporeans and Malaysians through artistic, social and business activities.
That aims too increase the support and expand audience base for the arts and culture in both countries.
And to facilitate greater opportunities and awareness for placement and exchange programmes for the arts and culture industries of both countries.
Overview & mission Causeway Exchange Through a combination of artistic and social activities, CausewayEXchange provides a holistic programme that is reciprocal in nature, aiming to foster better understanding and strengthen relations between two countries in an act of cultural diplomacy.
Artistic Vision
To present and share arts and culture of both countries via the elements of humor, wit and irony
Mission
To increase the support for the arts and culture in both Malaysia and Singapore to a more diverse segment of each society.
To expand audience base of culture arts and artists of two countries To facilitate greater opportunities and awareness for placement and exchange programmes for the arts and culture industries of both countries.
Objectives
In Celebration of Singapore’s 50th Anniversary and 50 years of Bilateral Relations with Malaysia, CausewayEXchange has been pivotal in sharing Singapore's diverse and multicultural ethnicity with its closest neighbor, Malaysia.
CEX has expanded over the years from one main festival to several fringe festivals, running in conjunction with existing state art festivals in Malaysia, and has brought hundreds intend of Singaporean artistes to Malaysia every year. CausewayEXchange is a celebration amongst local communities, engaging Singaporeans who are residing in Malaysia. It will also bring together Singaporeans in Malaysia, giving them a sense of belonging. We endeavor to showcase SINGAPORE's unique attribute as “One People, One Nation, One Singapore”
Schedule:
8.00pm, 19th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
Nadi Singapura is a Singaporean drum ensemble with more than 25 members that uses the traditional drums of the Malay Archipelago such as the kompang, rebana, jidur, and gendang in their performances. Inspired by theatrical drumming and percussion groups such Drum Tao from Japan, the UK’s Stomp and the Brazilian group Monobloco, Nadi’s performances are high energy and guaranteed to get the audiences’ feet tapping.
TBA, 12th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
The Singapore Literary Panel: The Impact of the 1965 Separation on Malaysian and Singaporean Literature is a multilingual panel of more than a dozen shortlisted Singapore authors from the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize (SLP). The SLP is unique in that it awards prizes in three categories - Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction - in Singapore’s four official languages: English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. As well as reading excerpts from their works, the panel will be discussing the impact of the 1965 separation on the literature of both countries.
8.00pm, 24th September, 2015 @ Festival Village, Puteri Harbour, Johor Bahru
Heritage Films showcases six of the winning films from the Singapore Heritage Short Film Competition. The competition aims to encourage young film makers to reconnect with their heritage by documenting aspects of Singapore’s heritage and culture in film to preserve them for future generations. The films include views of the surviving Hakka and Peranakan Culture in Singapore, explorations of the city’s old kampongs and the revival of lion dancing among Singapore’s youth.
Line Up:
Visual Arts
A Limited Edition Solo Art Exhibition By: Tang Juey Lee
Mr Tang Juey Lee, is an internationally renowned & award-winning artist who has held exhibitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe & many other parts of the world. His orchid paintings, in particular, have always been very popular in Singapore right from the 1970's to the present...
Visual Arts
Friendship Wall A Collaborative Mural
Mas established the Band of Doodlers in 2013 after several years of being a mentor with Noise Singapore, a National Arts Council initiative that gives budding talents an opportunity to learn from industry practitioners. “I thought it would be good to have a platform for my mentees to interact more.” CausewayEXchange would like to initiate a cross boarder project with doodlers from Singapore and Malaysia, coming together to ONE wall, the friendship wall, where we will doodle based on the theme of “Celebrating 50 years of bilateral relationship between Singapore and Malaysia through the arts” This will be held on the first day of the festival at the festival grounds. We will then add more boards for audience members to doodle their thoughts down.
Music Showcase & Workshop Nadi Singapore
Hailing from the Lion City, their songs reflect a youthful spirit of adventure while remaining true to the group's vision of preserving, honouring and elevating Malay music while entertaining with these varied medium of expressions.Formed in November 2011, the Nadi Singapura ensemble is made up of young, aspiring and impartial musicians who believe in lifting spirits through their traditional drums and percussion's. Nadi, which means ‘pulse’ or ‘flow of consciousness’ in Malay, features the most common Malayan drums found in Singapore, namely the kompang, rebana, jidur and gendang. The ensemble is led by two renowned individuals in the Singapore Malay Arts scene, Rebana artisan, Yaziz Hassan and prominent drummer/percussionist, Riduan Zalani. Both founders aim to position Nadi Singapura as a dynamic ensemble that adopts an innovative approach in the use of the Malay Archipelago drums.
We will conduct a drum music workshop
twitter.com/nadisingapura
www.facebook.com/pages/NADI-Singapura/218515171525104
Literary Arts
Literary Panel Discussion & Readings Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) Showcase
In a bid to promote the shortlisted authors and winners of the 2014 SLP, the NBDCS has been organising events and meet the authors sessions in various libraries, bookstores, schools and even in non-traditional venues such as art galleries and cafes from November 2014 to the present day.
What - Two readings (one English, one Malay) with a maximum of five authors plus moderator per language. For the full list of shortlisted authors please visit this link and scroll down to the bottom: bookcouncil.sg/awards/singapore-literature-prize As to which authors will be selected for the event depends on their willingness, availability as well as relevance of their work to the JB audience. The programme (maximum 1.5 hours)
1. Introduction to authors by moderator plus short readings of up to three minutes per author
2. Panel discussion related to literature in Malaysia and Singapore such as: the true impact of the 1965 separation
on Singaporean and Malaysian literature
3. Sale of SLP shortlisted books by official bookshop, Closetful of Books. Maximum two reps will be setting up
shop - we only need a large enough table and two chairs for the set up
4. Autograph session with the authors
Literary Arts
Children’s Storytelling By: Kamini Ramachandran
Kamini shares Asian stories for children. The Boy With The Longest Name The Magic Tree The Competition of the Birds The Magic Pots (a Pak Pandir folk tale) Red Fish & Blue Fish (hand action rhyming story) Kamini Ramachandran co-founded MoonShadow Stories with Verena Tay in November 2004, with the sole aim of promoting the lost art of the oral narrative tradition. MoonShadow Stories strongly believes that if we can reintroduce the beauty and wonder of storytelling to adults,
then children will benefit. Hence, we were the pioneer contemporary storytellers in Singapore to spearhead storytelling for adults. MoonShadow Stories passionately promotes the tradition of storytelling through re-telling and sharing oral stories to a variety of audiences both young and old, in Singapore and in other countries.MoonShadow Stories organizes storytelling
performances and workshops for both adults and children. They provide customized storytelling training and storytelling content creation for private organizations and government entities, educational and commercial institutions, literary and storytelling festivals, counselling and therapeutic agencies as well as provide publications and research advice.Both Kamini and Verena are founder members of the Storytelling Association (Singapore).
Kamini shares Asian stories for children.
The Boy With The Longest Name
The Magic Tree
The Competition of the Birds
The Magic Pots (a Pak Pandir folk tale)
Red Fish & Blue Fish (hand action rhyming story)
Film
The Singapore Heritage Short Film (HSFC) Showcase By: the Singapore Film Society, with the support of National Heritage Board
The inaugural competition seeks to unearth and recognise young filmmaking talents who will approach our vibrant Singapore heritage with a fresh and exciting look. HSFC aims to present the unique heritage of our young nation, told through the eyes of our budding young filmmakers."
This is also the only short film competition in Singapore that emphasises on "heritage" as the main theme and criteria of the films. In 2014, amongst the four eminent panelists that we invited to give merit and judge the films submitted, two of the panelists are Singapore heritage experts - Dr. Lai Chee Kien, and Dr. Imran Tajuddin, both whom lends a keen and profession eye and angle on Singapore Heritage to our judging criterias."
CEX will showcase 7 of the finalist for 2014.
A Father’s Passion (G), by BillShootFilm | Chinese Opera Dreaming (G), by WXYZ Production
Lion City Dreamers (PG), by Han & Annie | Peranakans: Then and Now (G), by Toothless Production
Return to the Roots (PG), by Team Cloudy | The Passion of Lion Dancers (G), by G Cube Production
The Village in a City (G), by 5th Avenue Pictures
Comedy
Sons Of Singapore
Singapore has always been blessed by many things that make Singaporeans and foreigners chuckle and laugh about our everyday lives.Presenting the new up-and-coming stars of the local comedy scene... The Sons Of Singapore! Representing each major ethnic group in Singapore, these new faces are the next generation of stand-up comedians... set to entertain Singapore with their brand of comedy that will prove to the nation and the rest of the world that Singapore DOES have a sense of humour... regardless of who you are and where you come from.
Rishi Budhrani, Jinx Yeo and Fakkah Fuzz will have you roaring with laughter at the experiences of living in modern
day Singapore!
For More Information:
Phone: +65 62199314 /+65 97820821
Email: marketing@dmr.com.sg / shawn@dmr.com.sg
URL: causewayexchange.com/
TW: twitter.com/causewayEX
FB: www.facebook.com/CausewayEXchange?fref=ts