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National Laureate Muhammad Haji Salleh to Launch Book of Pantuns at Festival Opening

National Laureate, Muhammad Haji Salleh will be launching a book of pantuns that he has edited,”Bila Terkenang Zaman Dahulu: Pantun Pulau Pinang” at the opening of the George Town Literary Festival 2011 on 26 November 2011.   These pantuns were collected from the oral and written archives of Penang - written by Penangites - Chinese, Malays and Peranakans

26 NOVEMBER 2011
Official Opening, Book Launch and Morning Tea

venue: Upstairs at China House

Time: 10.00 am - Morning Tea
11.00 am - Book Launch &
Official Opening by Chief Minister of Penang

free event

 

Here’s the blurb about the book from USM Press:

Pulau Pinang ialah di antara pusat pantun multibudaya yang terpenting. Buku ini mengumpul bait-bait yang cemerlang daripada khazanah lisan dan juga tulisan negeri ini. Bentangannya luas - daripada pantun anak-anak hinggalah kepada pantun remaja, daripada cinta hinggalah upacara.Pantun 481, Pantun Zaman Sari dan Pantun Anti-Kahwin Paksa, dan khazanah Peranakan iaitu Pantun Hiboran dan Pantun Penghiburan Hati. Dikutip juga baris indah daripada boria, bangsawan dan juga lagu-lagu Zaharah Agus. Pantun -pantun bertulis pula dinukil daripada pelbagai buku yang popular sejak tahun-tahun 1920-an, hinggalah 1950-an dan seterusnya 2000-an, termasuk

Festival Programme

November 26^th SATURDAY

Morning Tea

Venue: Upstairs at China House

Time: 10.00 am

free event

Official Opening by the Chief Minister of Penang.
Book launch, reading & book signing of Muhammad Haji Salleh’s Bila Terkenang Zaman Dahulu: Pantun Pulau Pinang

Venue: Upstairs at China House

Time: 11.00 am

free event

1^st  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

An Evening with Tan Twan Eng - dinner, reading, conversation, Q & A

Venue: Farquhar Suite, E&O Hotel

Time: 7.30 pm – 10.30 pm

ticketed event @50.00 RM per ticket*

November 27^th SUNDAY

2^nd 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

High-Tea with Farish Ahmad Noor – High-Tea, reading, conversation, Q & A

Venue: 1885, E&O Hotel

Time: 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

ticketed event @ 35.00 RM per ticket*

Performance by guitarist-composer Az Samad

Venue: The Canteen & Bar at China House

Time: 9.30 pm

free event

*to purchase tickets, call +6.017.872.7721 or email gtlfestival@gmail.com

  

Venues:          China House, 183B Lebuh Victoria, George Town, Penang

    E & O Hotel, 10 Lebuh Farquhar, George Town, Penang

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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.

Az Samad Sings at GTLF2011

Hailed as a "music extraodinaire" by BFM's That Music Show, guitarist-composer Az Samad graces the stage at The Canteen & Bar at China House with his acoustic guitar for the final evening of the George Town Literary Festival 2011.

Date:   27th November 2011

Time:   9.30pm

Venue: The Canteen & Bar @ China House 

About Az Samad

Guitarist-composer Az Samad has performed in the United States, Austria, United Kingdom,Singapore, and Malaysia. A versatile musician who has appeared on thirteen CDs (five of which are his solo releases), Az has worked with Grammy winners Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca, singer-songwriters Tara Linda and Reza Salleh, guitarists John Stowell, Stuart Ryan, and Teja Gerken; world music ensemble Bogofusion; electronic jazz-funk group Planet Loop; Cumbia-Dub band Candelaria; and string jazz ensemble JazzMine.
 
As an educator, Az has been on the faculty of Berklee College of Music's Summer Guitar Sessions and has taught workshops at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut; Culturefest in Pipestem, West Virginia; and The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. His latest release is "love letters EP", an improvised solo acoustic guitar concept album in the same spirit as his 2010 album "Emo Attack" Turtle. 

http://www.azsamad.com/