The ‘Heritage talk’ organised by STF, in collaboration with the Sarawak Heritage Society was held at the State Tourism Complex in Kuching on 21 April 09. Minister of Tourism, Datuk Michael Manyin wanted to push for Kuching to be gazetted as a heritage city like Penang and Malacca. To do that, proper documentation had to be done, for example, on its history, people, and virtue among others. Two prominent speakers Laurence Loh from Penang and Lye Pi Chin from Malacca both gave impressive talks based on their knowledge and experiences. Loh was the international assessor in Macau’s successful bid for listing as a World Heritage Site. He also serves as a member of the Penang State Heritage Committee and was part of the Penang team responsible for the Unesco Submission Dossier for George Town’s listing as a World Heritage Site. Lye is an award-winning author, senior reporter and editor for Sin Chew Daily newspaper. She has contributed numerous articles on heritage-related issues and stories of Malacca to magazines and other publications. It was really interesting expecially the Q and A session after the talk. There's also an online poll for this topic "Kuching – A Heritage City?" which you can take part on http://www.malaysiapollster.com.my/. By doing so, you get to win some prizes in the lucky draw.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Heritage Talk
The ‘Heritage talk’ organised by STF, in collaboration with the Sarawak Heritage Society was held at the State Tourism Complex in Kuching on 21 April 09. Minister of Tourism, Datuk Michael Manyin wanted to push for Kuching to be gazetted as a heritage city like Penang and Malacca. To do that, proper documentation had to be done, for example, on its history, people, and virtue among others. Two prominent speakers Laurence Loh from Penang and Lye Pi Chin from Malacca both gave impressive talks based on their knowledge and experiences. Loh was the international assessor in Macau’s successful bid for listing as a World Heritage Site. He also serves as a member of the Penang State Heritage Committee and was part of the Penang team responsible for the Unesco Submission Dossier for George Town’s listing as a World Heritage Site. Lye is an award-winning author, senior reporter and editor for Sin Chew Daily newspaper. She has contributed numerous articles on heritage-related issues and stories of Malacca to magazines and other publications. It was really interesting expecially the Q and A session after the talk. There's also an online poll for this topic "Kuching – A Heritage City?" which you can take part on http://www.malaysiapollster.com.my/. By doing so, you get to win some prizes in the lucky draw.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Sketch on plastic
If you buy those writable cds in bundles you will get these plastics on both ends which protects the cds from scratches. I have a lot of them and decide to recycle by sketching on them. Here are some of the ones I did with permanent markers. I only have 3 color options, black, blue and red. So far, I've given some of these as gifts to friends.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Art and the Marketplace
Here's an article I read from The Malaysian Insider, regarding Art and the Marketplace:
For 20 years or more, if you were a Malaysian artist, not in the popular line-up, yet one of those lucky ones with your artwork in the National Art Gallery’s (NAG) collection, you’ll probably have a quibble with NAG because you can’t find any of your works on display in the premier art institution. Why?
There could be many reasons for this distressing situation. One was that there was simply no deliberate policy, in the past, to display a sample of ever artist, past and present, old and young, of the 3,800 artworks in their collection, for the public to get an overview and judge for themselves what sort of artistic talents we have in the country.
But thanks to the current Director General of NAG, Mohamad Najib Ahmad Dewa, many things have changed. The 54-year-old, who has a PhD in textiles, was the former Dean of the University Science Malaysia’s Centre for Art Studies. He took over the helm of NAG in 2007.
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For 20 years or more, if you were a Malaysian artist, not in the popular line-up, yet one of those lucky ones with your artwork in the National Art Gallery’s (NAG) collection, you’ll probably have a quibble with NAG because you can’t find any of your works on display in the premier art institution. Why?
There could be many reasons for this distressing situation. One was that there was simply no deliberate policy, in the past, to display a sample of ever artist, past and present, old and young, of the 3,800 artworks in their collection, for the public to get an overview and judge for themselves what sort of artistic talents we have in the country.
But thanks to the current Director General of NAG, Mohamad Najib Ahmad Dewa, many things have changed. The 54-year-old, who has a PhD in textiles, was the former Dean of the University Science Malaysia’s Centre for Art Studies. He took over the helm of NAG in 2007.
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