Arts Exchange, Boxes Required

New In!

Our first pilot project for 2009: A no-travelling-required arts exchange between Project Connect (Malaysia) and Harrogate Youth Theatre (UK) using cardboard boxes!

The idea is that we will send each other boxes filled with stuff from our rooms, houses, streets, floor: objects and things that have a connection to us and the place we live in.
We'll then post the box across the world and upon receiving it, we'll open it and produce a response performance/presentation based on the box we receive.

This project is open to ages 12-18 years, and will be conducted in TWO phases.



PHASE 1 - In the Box Workshop

8 Feb 2009
Sunday 1-5pm
National Art Gallery, KL (map)

This workshop will see participants filling in the box using various creative methods and exploration.

Participation is free, but registration is required! Call 012-369 2681 (Pat) or 012-976 0397 (Koon) or email nowhitespace@gmail.com to sign up. Easy peasy.



PHASE 2 - Workshops in March for the creation of performance based on the box from Harrogate

(details to be confirmed)


We are also on Facebook!



More about the project:

Project Connect

is a group of young emerging artists from various artistic backgrounds who continued as an independent collective after a year-long arts exchange programme, which comprised local training and development and a 3-week stint in the UK with York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre and Soho Theatre. They do workshops and have performed a series of devised cross-cultural performances in 2008 at York, London and the Big Youth Theatre Festival, which were also based on an exchange of boxes. The collective functions to create honest art and to use art as a tool for community work.


Harrogate Youth Theatre

is part of Harrogate Theatre, situated in Yorkshire, and is one of the largest and most respected youth theatre programmes in the UK. They run programmes, productions and workshops for young people aged 5-18 years and were recently chosen to perform at the National Theatre in London. The facilitator, Hannah Draper, is the theatre’s education and workshop leader, and has had experience with culture box exchanges.

YOUTH 09 @ PWTC

We were supposed to perform while doing some activities but with the loud music coming from the main stage just below us, it was impossible. So we decorated the walls with our (famous) mahjong papers for people to scribble their thoughts.

And we did well!

*clapclapclap*


the crowd - whoo hoo!

see?

i fell in love with this huge beanbags. pat sedang merenung masa depan.

like it!

handwritten by fairuz sulaiman



i'm gonna create something like this on my wall

Before It All Looked Pretty

Photos of the art installation process.

Mega Weekend Alert!

Hey y'all

Just a little buzz to remind us all that something good is coming up this weekend. I've just returned home from a day holing up at Findars Space with the rest, rehearsing and sorting things out for Kotak Otak. We'll begin installing our art exhibit tomorrow and figuring out wiring and technical things.

We still have spaces for the workshop! So if you haven't made up your mind yet, make up now and send us an email pronto! The more the lebih meriah. For those of you who have signed up, we look forward to seeing you this Saturday :)

It's going to be a long day tomorrow. But it's all good.


x

kotak otak lagi(!)

A bing-bang-boom of art, performance and music. A mixture of different media, an accumulation of memories.

Kotak Otak (lagi) is a newly devised performance piece-a response to foreign and familiar landscapes, perspectives, beliefs, ideas, people and places encountered during our arts exchange between Malaysia and the UK earlier this year.


Shows on 3rd, 4th January 2009, with a special workshop on devising performances (and with some fun and games thrown in for good measure) on the Saturday morning, 3 Jan. There will also be an ongoing art exhibition at the same venue and an open mic gig to close everything up nicely.


All at this venue (and kindly sponsored by):
FINDARS GALLERY, Central Market Annexe.


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Kotak Otak (lagi)
Performances

Saturday, 3 January, 8pm
Sunday, 4 January, 3pm

Admission fee: By donation of RM10
(First come first serve basis) *


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Workshop on Devising Performances

Saturday, 3 January, 11am - 4pm

Fees: RM15 (by pre-registration only)

Email nowhitespace@gmail.com or call 012 912 0243 (Fairuz) to book your places to avoid disappointment.


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Mini Project OMG! (Open Mic Gig)

Sunday, 4 January, 4pm
Admission is FREE. Huzzah!

Psst. Featuring a blackmetal musical performance by The Happy Unicorn Collective...and friends! There will also the poetry and music and nice things.
(Don't forget your black t-shirts.)


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Art Exhibition: Benda yang Dikutip Sepanjang Perjalanan

Saturday, 3 January
4.00-6.30pm

Sunday, 4 January
12-2pm and 4-8pm

An interactive art installation created with found objects, pieces of paper and intrigue picked up from roadsides, buses and people's homes while on our little trip through England.




So come one, come all. There's so much going on, so be sure not to miss it. Any enquiries do not hesitate to email/call us. See you there!


* Spaces are very limited per performance! 40pax per show.


Click here for the Facebook event page.



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Seagulls Are Indeed Evil

THIS SITE IS CURRENTLY BEING MADE INTO MORE AMOUNTS OF AWESOME.


Do note that most of the links are broken. Maintenance work will be on-going for the next few days. Please bear with us as we jazz and fix things up.

It is the time of the year where old things come to an end. But where the old leaves, the new comes. So I thought that a quick tune-up of this blogsite will be timely and apt. Or maybe I'm just fidgety like that.

In the meanwhile you may amuse yourselves by clicking here for a sum-up of the Readings gig last weekend. Enjoy.

We Are On, Baby

We have a gig this Saturday at Seksan's. And we have new pieces too. Woo-massive-hoo!