July 2021 - Penang Monthly

Traces of Penang's Role in the Age to Revolution

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LEBUH ARMENIAN AND Lebuh Acheen meet at Lebuh Carnarvon. I used to walk along either one of them each day on the way to work, picking the sense of history that...

Batu Lanchang Market Food Court Stays Afloat with Digital Ordering and Pick-up Service

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THE BATU LANCHANG Market Food Court may be decades old but the food vendors there are making sure the place does not close down because of the Covid-19 pandemic...

Designing Solutions for Social Change

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LEARN. IMBIBE. REGURGITATE. These are hallmarks of rote learning and its derivatives are wide-ranging, from the attrition of critical and creative thinking to a...

Online Schooling: A Necessity that is Not Yet a Virtue

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CAN ONLINE CLASSROOMS reap the equalising benefits of Education that previously eluded traditional learning? Or will it share the same fate? Whether it was read...

National History Based on Half-truths Undermines the Critical Spirit of the Young

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A NATIONAL HISTORY is never fixed and instead, tends to take on chameleon-like characteristics. Malaysian history is no different. Under colonial rule, the popu...

Pottery in Penang: A Folk Art with a Future

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TO MAKE POTTERY, one must understand the nature of Earth, of clay, more fundamentally. It starts with sourcing the right body from five main clay types: earthen...

Wayang Kulit: Surviving Beyond the Shadows

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THERE WERE AROUND 40 people that night. Some of them had arrived from the nearby kampung and the town, and had settled comfortably on the mengkuang mats scatter...

George Town Festival: Surviving Covid and Other Changes

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THE GEORGE TOWN Festival (GTF), since its inception in 2010, has gone from strength to strength, cementing its name as one of the most important art festivals i...

Events

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FESTIVALGeorge Town Festival returns for its 12th edition, from July 10-18. Due to MCO 3.0, however, only the Festival’s online programmes will be presented as...

Artist and the Big C

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SO FAR THIS year, the Big C has snatched away two prominent Malaysian artists, coincidentally both Penangborn: self-taught Sylvia Lee Goh, who was based for a l...

Great Need to Network Anti-pandemic Initiatives

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ONE YEAR ON, and Malaysia's battle against Covid-19 is at its fiercest. As of June 18, 4,202 lives had been lost, a distressing jump up from 501 on January 5. A...

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When Covid-19 Infects a Family...

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"WE WERE ONE of the lucky ones," recalls Nadine of her family's harrowing brush with Covid-19. A case had been detected at the nursery of a centre where her sev...