FAILING to tickle your audience, as comedian Douglas Lim discovered at age 30, is no laughing matter. It was during his debut in stand-up comedy and h.
WHEN a craftsman finds joy in his work, he is more likely to produce the best pieces. It is no different for Salini Idris, who has created her own lin.
CELEMIE Phang Xue Mei (pix) is hard-pressed to find time to pause for a breather as she goes about her daily chores. Her brood of 23 – aged five to 77.
Weaving dreams of a better life in a faraway land SYED DANIAL SYED AZAHAR/THESUN
FOR Muang I, a Myanmar refugee who now lives in Malaysia, sweet dreams are made of simple things like woven handbags, purses and towels. It is items such as these that have given her and fellow members of the Chin community a lifeline while they await their fate.
Muang, 24, is coordinator of the Mang Tha Centre in Kuala Lumpur, a community-based project organised exclusively by and for
Chin women.
their homeland to avoid war and human
rights abuses.
Muang fled Myanmar with her parents when she was only 13. “We only had the clothes on our backs,” she told
Creating art from kitchen waste ASYRAF RASID/THESUN
THERE is art in leftovers from the kitchen. For instance, turmeric leaves a bright yellow hue, while the leaves of a carrot plant produces a light greenish-brown shade.
Given a chance, Umi Junid, an advocate of producing art from waste, will reel off a list of possibilities that an artist can achieve with onion and potato peel, ginger and every other ingredient for a delicious dish. The fact that such items are also environmentally friendly is a bonus.
Not surprisingly, it was a tribal community that first showed Umi how Mother Nature can be a palette for artists.