‘I like it when things overlap, where there isn’t a fixed category for what you do, ’ says Fairuz, a multimedia artist. Photo: Filepic/The Star
Fairuz Sulaiman, a multimedia artist, is no stranger to incorporating traditional wayang storytelling with an experimental edge, often using digital art, videos, music and projection.
Alongside his genre-blurring Main Wayang collective, Fairuz turned an entire warehouse (KongsiKL) in Kuala Lumpur into a wayang wonderland with the Layang show in February 2018. Experimental musician Sudarshan Chandra Kumar and actor-director Ayam Fared were also part of this ambitious multimedia arts project.
In these pandemic times, Fairuz planning to roll out any public shows. Instead, the softly spoken artist is going back to basics as he teams up with arts outfit Kakiseni for the SenikidZ Online workshop series, which intends to focus on the storytelling aspects of wayang theatre.
The Food Aid Programme, driven by the Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana), aims to help 1, 500 artists and cultural workers across the nation. Photo: Cendana
With the extension of Phase One of movement control under the National Recovery Plan to curb the spread of Covid-19, the cultural and creative sectors will continue to remain shut.
The ongoing closure of performing arts spaces and the suspension of cultural events - which began in the Klang Valley on May 7 before the implementation of total nationwide lockdown on June 1 - has left the arts scene nationwide verging on Covid-induced collapse.
The immediate measures now are to get food aid to arts communities and individuals who are negatively impacted by the pandemic and the various lockdowns.
KL Shakespeare Players’ celebrates its 10th anniversary with a virtual performance of King Lear . Photo: KLSP
This year marks the KL Shakespeare Players’ (KLSP) 10th anniversary. The theatre company’s first ever show was the Bard’s
Julius Caesar, under its Shakespeare Demystified series, performed at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre.
If it wasn’t for the pandemic and the movement control order (MCO), theatregoers and Shakespeare fans alike would have been treated to a physical staging of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies
King Lear as an anniversary celebration.
With a live show not a feasible option, the KLSP decided to pivot to an online offering of the tragedy, calling it
Angelina Jolie, who has never had cancer before, decided to have a preventive double mastectomy because she has a BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts her at increased risk for breast cancer. Photo: Filepic/AFP
In 2013, American actress Angelina Jolie, who has never had cancer before, decided to have a preventive double mastectomy because she has a BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts her at increased risk (87%) of developing breast cancer. And, in 2015, she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her risk of developing ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother at the age of just 56.
During that time, there were only two genes that were usually tested for cancer risk in an individual – BRCA1 and BRCA2.
Two Malaysian future accountants scored within the Top 10 students
internationally in this year’s ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Examinations.
What’s more impressive is that Nurul Fatin Nabihah binti Hamdan, 25, and Siti Naziah binti Mohamad Nazid, 21, students from Malaysia Professional Accountancy Centre (MyPAC), managed to beat some 92,000 candidates worldwide sitting for the exam.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Exams by the global professional accounting body offers the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification- the professional body’s main qualification.
From humble beginnings to global triumph!
Nurul Fatin placed first in Malaysia and
7th globally for the “Strategic Business Reporting” paper.