Jacque & Sharaad to Make a Showing

Sharaad Kuttan

Jacqueline Ann Surin

Two group readings and discussions will feature Jacqueline Ann Surin of The Nut Graph moderating one and Sharaad Kuttan of BFM Radio, the other.  Both are personalities in Kuala Lumpur's vibrant Media & Arts scenes and promise to add some KL punch to the sessions. ( ... things do move at a different pace in George Town! )

26th November, 2011 - 1st  Reading & Discussion 
 - with Muhammad Haji Salleh & Farish Ahmad Noor.

Moderator:               Sharaad Kuttan

Venue:                       Upstairs at China House

Time:                         2.30 pm – 4.30 pm

                                  free event

27th November, 2011 - 2nd Reading & Discussion 
- with Tan Twan Eng, Iskandar Al-Bakri &  Shih-Li Kow

Moderator:                Jacqueline Ann Surin 

Venue:                        Upstairs at China House 

Time:                         10.30 am – 12.30 pm 

                                   free event

About the moderators:

Jacqueline Ann Surin

Jacqueline Ann Surin is the co-founder and the editor of The Nut Graph. She is an award-winning journalist who also co-founded MalaysiaVotes.com with Cindy Tham and Danny Lim in early 2008. A journalist since 1994 first with The Star, then The Edge and theSun, she is also the author of Shape of a Pocket.  She gained an M.A. in Media Studies at Sussex University in England as a Chevening scholar, and studied journalism in the United States under the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship. In 2007, she received the Excellence in Opinion Writing Award from the Society of Publishers in Asia for her Shape of a Pocket column which she continues to keep at The Nut Graph. She was also named by London-based Article 19 as the Pioneering Women’s Voices Candidate for Malaysia in commemoration of International Women’s Day in 2007. As of September 2010, Jacqueline is part of the collective of writers and editors who is maintaining The Nut Graph as a weekly.

Sharaad Kuttan

Sharaad Kuttan is a producer with BFM radio in the Klang Valley. He has co-edited a collection of essays on cultural politics in Singapore, Looking for Culture (1996). Trained in sociology, he has contributed a chapter to a collection of articles on the Malaysian electoral system, Elections and Democracy in Malaysia (2005). He has an interest in cultural production and has recently had an essay on the politics of performance art - Buka Jalan: Cracks and Openings - published in Sentap, a local journal of visual culture.