CULTURAL NIGHT: RECLAIM

April 18, 2021
8:15 pm - 10:15 pm
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Online Event | Zoom
About
Itinerary
8:00pm: Doors Open
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm: Opening Remarks
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm: Poetry Reading
8:25 - 8:35 pm: Virtual art gallery tour
8:35 - 9:35 pm: Indigenous Artist Panel
9:35 - 9:45 pm: ‘Klinik Ku Hutan’ Film Screening
9:45 pm - 10:15 pm: Post-Film Screening Discussion
PERFORMERS AND SPEAKERS
The Cultural Night seeks to celebrate and entrench an understanding of Indigenous art, media and culture as a vehicle through which the Indigenous knowledge and experience may be sustained and expressed.

POETRY READING PERFORMANCE

KULLEH GRASI
Kulleh Grasi is a multidisciplinary artist from the heart of Borneo. His book "Tell Me, Kenyalang" (Circumference Books, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry by the American Literary Translation Association, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020.
His work has been featured on local and international platforms, including the Poetry Society Of America, Lullabies by the Transpacific Literary Project of AAWW (Asian American Writers Workshop), and various music and literary festivals since 2011.
PAULINE FAN
Pauline Fan is a writer, literary translator and cultural researcher. Her translations from German to Malay include works by Bertolt Brecht, Immanuel Kant, Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Celan. Her English translation of poems by Sarawak poet Kulleh Grasi, ‘Tell Me, Kenyalang’ (Circumference Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards 2020.
She is the Creative Director of cultural organisation PUSAKA, and Co-Director of the George Town Literary Festival. Her writings on culture and literature have been published in various publications, including Mekong Review, Esquire Malaysia, Malaysiakini (BM), New Straits Times, and The Vibes.


VIRTUAL ART GALLERY
PANEL ON INDIGENOUS ART




KLINIK KU HUTAN


Sinopsis Filem
Jauh di dalam sebuah hutan di Perak, Nget dan Abong, dua wanita Orang Asli dari bandar dibuai ketenteraman dan keindahan alam semulajadi. Tetapi kebahagian mereka bertukar menjadi kesedihan apabila Abong tiba-tiba jatuh sakit. Dalam usaha mencari penawar bagi penyakit Abong mereka kembali kepada tradisi ubat-ubatan nenek moyang mereka. Di dalam tradisi tersebut, Nget dan Abong menjalin pertalian rohani dan fizikal dengan dunia rimba. Dengan kembalinya mereka pada identiti dan nilai-nilai tradisi, kedua-dua wanita itu menjumpai penawar hati yang sejati.
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Deep in a forest in Perak, two young Orang Asli women from the city named Nget and Abong are enjoying the beauty and calmness of nature. But their enjoyment quickly turned into despair when Abong suddenly falls gravely ill. In their quest for healing, they discover their elders' knowledge in the medicinal properties of herbs and their deep spiritual and physical ties with the forest. They experience true healing when they finally reconnect with their traditional values and identity.
Film Synopsis

POST-FILM SCREENING
DISCUSSION



