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The George Town Festival, 7 June to 7 July 2013
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The New York Times
Old Colonial City in Malaysia Becomes a Stage
George Town Festival Is Making Its Name as Major Asian Arts Event
July 31, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Four years ago, officials in George Town, a city on the island of Penang off the northwest coast of peninsular Malaysia, thought it would be a fine idea to hold an arts festival to mark its listing as a Unesco World Heritage site.
Never mind that George Town, with a population of about 700,000, had just one performance hall.
In response, festival organizers set artists loose into historic buildings, pre-war shophouses and streets, turning the two-centuries-old city into a giant stage.
“We didn’t have huge performing halls, so we had to use George Town, the city itself, as a canvas,” the festival’s director, Joe Sidek, said in a phone interview.
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‘Bra art’ to prompt women to rethink role
2 August 2014 @ 2:20 PM
GEORGE TOWN : One of Malaysia’s top 10 female visual artists aspires to bring about improvement in the stature of women in society through producing artworks that depict their determination, perseverance and optimism.
To this end, Louise Low Seok Loo, 30, has stretched her creativity to transforming 1,000 brassieres of assorted colours into art, which she proudly displayed at the month-long George Town Festival launched yesterday.
Initially, she had hoped to draw public curiousity and attention to her mission by displaying her ‘Bra Art’ on cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trishaws and hawker bikes.
“Unfortunately it is an offence to drive a decorative vehicle around without a permit. I will follow the proper procedure and hopefully get a permit from the police,” the KL-born artist told Bernama here today.
Her artworks are currently being displayed at the Hin Bus Depot Art Centre.
‘Bra art’ to prompt women to rethink role
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