Bangun: Penang Clan Jetties Arts Project
Lost Generation Space (KL) in conjunction with Anak-anak Kota (Penang) presents Bangun: Penang Clan Jetties Arts Project , a multi-arts project consisting of workshops, exhibitions, performances and music. This series of events is to be held on and around the Chew Clan Jetty, Weld Quay Road, Georgetown.
Bangun is an ongoing series of contemporary site-specific art projects focusing on history, heritage, community and culture. For this project, Bangun will bring its focus to the Clan Jetty communities of Penang. Artworks and performances will relate to the culture, history or future of the Clan Jetty communities.
Workshops in poetry, dance, theatre performance, installation art, shadow puppet making and performance among others will be conducted during the week. Workshops are free and open to people of all ages and will culminate in performances and presentations in a program to be run over the weekend.
Artists from Penang, KL and several international artists will facilitate the workshops and also present their artworks and performances in the weekend program of events.
This program is interesting, thought-provoking, educational, experiential and a lot of fun.
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Lost Generation Space was established in early 2004 by a muhibbah group of artists. In existence now, it has entered a unique space of development and operation. Though situated in the capital city, the space has a certain quietness and edginess that comes from being off the beaten track. This self-managed experimental space aims at encouraging originality, creativity and individuality as well as contemporary arts. It provides an alternative space for exhibition and performance which are innovative, growing and new. Beginning as a small group and now moving towards the public, Lost Generation Space aims to insinuate itself into the multicultural artistic atmosphere at large. More than just a place that brings together artists, it will also provide a platform for a multilayered artistic culture. Since 2006, Lost Generation Space has begun its artist residency programme for local and foreign artists. In 2004, 2005 and 2007, Lost Generation Space organised art festival. This event was the prime activity of Lost Generation Space. It provided an exploratory domain for contacts and interactions among artists and audience.
Anak-anak Kota is a Penang-based non-profit arts education organisation founded since 1999, which explores and provides innovative and best practice non-formal arts education for young people through collaboration with local and regional arts educators, artists and communities.
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