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Join a 20-minute script reading session featuring Lawrence Chin, Nicholas Pereira and Ahmad Danial.
Oh Malaysians! revolves around three colleagues who talk about food, race and what it means to be a Malaysian. from inside their respective cubicles of a public toilet.
Oh Malaysians! will stream on PenangPac’s Facebook. More info here.
GEORGE TOWN FESTIVAL 2021
Date: July 10-18
The annual George Town Festival goes virtual once more with a smartly-curated programming. There’s a bit of everything for everyone.
Catch
Down The Melting Pot (July 13) which explores disabilities, accessibility and inclusion or
Lights On, a virtual projection mapping installation (July 10, 8pm), which showcases George Town’s cultural and historical landscapes.
Published July 8, 2021, 1:41 PM
There are three types and it involves Neo-Nazis
“In Malaysia, there are three types of skinheads. SHARP skins, the traditional, and Nazis.” This is a line by the fiercely anti-fascist 14-year-old member of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, a subculture that stemmed out from its founding in New York back in the 1980s
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The film “Disciples,” directed by Jess Kohl (the same director for “Anarchy In The Philippines”), revolves around the tense relations between SHARP and the Malay Power, which comprises of far-right nationalists.
The Skinhead subculture (photo by Dazed)
Following the film is an event called Malaysia Skinhead Annual Dinner Festival, an annual event that welcomes everyone amidst their different ideologies.
By Bill Knight
Now showing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is “The State of Sound: A World of Music from Illinois.” Described as an “immersive and interactive exhibit,” it continues through January, exhibiting decades of the state’s popular music through displays of instruments, props and costumes from the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Benny Goodman, John Prine and scores of others.
Its text was written by music journalist and author Dave Hoekstra, an ex-Chicago Sun-Times writer, and since I’ve known Hoekstra for years, I’m sure his work will be comprehensive. But it’s a challenge.