Category: Arts & Culture
Top Class Ghazal
Kudos again to Greentown Indian Cultural Society (GICS) together with the Indian Cultural Centre Kuala Lumpur for presenting Ipoh residents with another top class Indian cultural event in the form of Ghazal or Hindustani Classical Songs. Ghazal singer, Suman Devgan, rated as one of the top Ghazal singers in the world, kept the audience that [...]
JUST 80 MINUTES OF CULTURE-DON’T MISS IT
A virtual reminder to check out Perak’s very own community wind orchestra, the Kinta Valley Wind Orchestra (KVWO) performing this Sunday July 31 at 8.00 p.m. at the Ballroom of the Syuen Hotel. The concert is part of the Perak Performing Arts Festival 2011. Titled “Around the World in 80 minutes,” the concert will take [...]
Superlative Sitar
The recently held Sitar performance, SANGEET, was a wonderful musical experience. Organised by Greentown Indian Cultural Society (GICS) together with the Indian Cultural Centre Kuala Lumpur, it featured a sitar performance by maestro, Ustad Mohksin Ali Khan, ranked as one of the best Sitarist in the world and his team from New Delhi, India. [...]
Perak Dance Festival 2011
The Perak Dance festival organised by the Perak Society of Performing Arts that took place on July 1-2 was a very successful and exhilarating performance of non-stop beauty, energy and passion. The Festival featured a wonderful variety of all forms of dance from classical ballet by the Singapore Dance Theatre to contemporary ballet from Bangkok [...]
Tagore Opened Teachers Conference in Ipoh
Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Malaya in 1927 is little known even amongst Tagore scholars. Tagore, a great Bengali poet who was the first Asian and non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature for his poetic work Geetanjali in 1913, was introduced by Ms. Angela Faye Oon, Research Associate at the Institute of South Asian [...]
Perak Choral Festival
The Perak Choral Festival, organised by the Perak Society for Performing Arts, was held in conjunction with the Perak Performing Arts Festival 2011 on June 18. It was designed to provide an essence of the choral art to Ipohites. The 3-day event, started off with a workshop conducted by renowned choir instructors, Susanna Saw [...]
Around The World In 80 Minutes
Perak’s very own community wind orchestra, the Kinta Valley Wind Orchestra (KVWO) will be celebrating its second season with a concert performance on July 31 at the Ballroom of the Syuen Hotel. The concert is part of the Perak Performing Arts Festival 2011. Titled “Around the World in 80 minutes,” the concert will take audiences [...]
Northern Writers
Saturday June 4 saw Muhammad Haji Salleh – a Malaysian poet laureate, launch Northern Writers at Garden Villa, 5 Jalan Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, Ipoh. The Ipoh Book Club ‘girls’ supported the event by bringing finger food. Writer and academic Paul GnanaSelvan lent his support as did the members of The Kinta Heritage Group. The [...]
Shiny Black Gold – Good Attendance
The recent staging of the musical “Shiny Black Gold”, an original in-house production by the Perak Society of Performing Arts (PSPA), has been described by many viewers as being “entertaining” and a “good effort”. Written, directed and produced by PSPA’s President Datin Rosalina Ooi, it tells of the trials and tribulations of the Chinese Hakka [...]
Shiny Black Gold – Catch It!
“They say it is black and shiny…heavy to hold…it is there aplenty…and brings riches like gold …give me this ‘shiny black gold’…so goes the lyrics of the song “Find Me Shiny Black Gold” from PSPA’s (Perak Society of Performing Arts) original musical production “Shiny Black Gold”. Written, directed and produced by Datin Rosalina Ooi, PSPA’s [...]
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