Sounds and Silence: Experimental Music Permeates Penang Spaces
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Photos by Shankar Laxminarayan and courtesy of Kamal Sabran.
Warships Sunk off Penang in World War I
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THROUGHOUT WORLD WAR I, Penang was indispensable to British war eforts as a hub supplying men, commodities and funds. Apart from being an important communicatio...
Penang’s Operatic Past: A Legacy of Passion and Dedication
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IT HAS BEEN two decades since the last big-scale Italian opera was staged in Penang and it is almost unthinkable now to imagine that this quiet little island wo...
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Lights, Camera, Action: Penang’s Niche in Movie-Making
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CHEONG FATT TZE Mansion and Eastern & Oriental (E&O) Hotel were thrust into international spotlight in 2018, when Jon Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians premie...
Flyers from the Golden Age of Cinema
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THE GOLDEN AGE of Malaysian Cinema, spanning the 1950s to the 1970s, saw moviegoers lining up to catch the latest releases. For more popular shows, scalpers wou...
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Hassan Muthalib: A Life Lived in Drawings, Animations and Love of Visual Language
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HE IS THE Father of Malaysian Animation, a title bestowed on him by former Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. He was also a recipient of the 2018 Merdeka Award u...
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Vulnerable and Exposed: Saw Teong Hin on the Travails of Filmmaking
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WHEN SAW TEONG HIN started his filmmaking career in KL, he began at the bottom rung. But to even get a foot in, he had to leaf through the Yellow Pages from A t...
Raging Against the Machine: Reflections on Pendatang, Abang Adik and Maryam Pagi Ke Malam
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WHAT DO (a) a family living in a speculative, segregated Malaysia; (b) two brothers squeezed into a Pudu flat and; (c) a woman of royalty who owns an art galler...
Do Malaysian Films Have a Future?
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Badrul Hisham Ismail is the director and screenwriter of Maryam Pagi Ke Malam, a 2023 film about a Muslim woman’s struggles with religious bureaucracy and socie...
The Creative Industries Require More Organic Solidarity and Less Mechanical Solidarity
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IF YOU WISH to enhance material production, be this of electronic chips, fish and chips, or arts and crafts, the contemporary wisdom today is to aim for the est...
Flames of Fortune: The Chneah Hoay Ceremony at Penang’s Oldest Chinese Temple
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ON THE EVENING of 23 February, my friend—a heritage enthusiast from Penang Heritage Trust (PHT), Ganesh Kolandaveloo—and I went to see the venerable Chneah Hoay...
Events in May
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RUNWhether you’re an experienced runner or just starting out, the Raya Run 2024 is perfect for people of all ages and fitness levels. With a scenic route and pl...
