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Forum " Preventive Laws - Past, Present & Future"

The KL Bar Criminal Practice Committee is organising a
Forum on " Preventive Laws - Past, Present & Future".

Date : 28.06.2008 (Saturday)
Time : 9.00a.m.
Venue : Auditorium Tun Mohamed Suffian, Law Faculty, University of Malaya

Beautiful Gate Kepong Centre is having a charity sales on July 26, Saturday, 10am-2pm, at Kompleks Desa, Kepong, to raise funds for Centre's operational cost & daily expenses, which is about RM6,000 per month.

Donation in cash and in kind are welcomed. 100 volunteers are needed to help to manage 30 food stalls, 5 games stalls, and coloring contest, setting up & cleaning, please response to bgcentre@yahoo. com if you could help up .

Your Waste Is Our Hope!

Please support charity recycling of Beverage Cartoon, to create job opportunities for disabled, and support daily expenses of Beautiful Gate Foundation Petaling Jaya Centre. Besides, we also collect old news papers, books, plastic bottles, cans, tins, old clothes, TV, computers & other electrical items.

You can send them to N0 29, SS2/59, 47300 Petaling Jaya. or No 1, SS2/23, 47300 Petaling Jaya. Please call Mr Lee at 03-78736579 or 03-78758609 for more information.

Build bridges between art/ artists and the residents of Seri Kembangan may, in the long term, enable the following:

1. the artists to understand the environment of the village and concerns of the residents, and begin to engage with these concerns and issues;

2. the residents to understand art as a medium of expressing thoughts, emotions and ideas, and begin to explore using art as a medium for expressing their own interests and concerns.

USA For Students

USA For Students http://www.usaforstudents.org is a US Education Fair to be held on 14th June 10am to 4pm at Wisma MCA.

This Education Fair is co-organized by Discover US Education, US Embassy, MACEE and American Universities Alumni Malaysia (AUAM).

There would be 51 US Universities participating, as well as another 20 student-related organizations on US there.

Part 1. Walk for Media Freedom
Organised by media activists, including Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Writers Alliance for Media Indepdence (Wami), National Alliance of Bloggers, and BENAR, a cyber group for "free and fair media".

Part 2. Talk on Media Freedom
Hosted by the National Press Club (NPC) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

Workshop on Participative and Community Art Practices: Exploring Methodologies

Please come join us for this workshop! The first session is coming up soon on Thursday evening...

Workshop on Participative and Community Art Practices: Exploring Methodologies
at 1948 Artspace, Malaysia

2 sessions:
Session 1: Thurs 21 Aug, 7.30 pm
Session 2: Thurs 4 Sept, 7.30 pm

This workshop will open up disucssions on participative and community art practices, focusing on site-specific issues, choices and strategies in engaging communities. Participants are invited to share their processes of engagement and negotiations with each project's context and communities. Participants will also discuss how to evaluate each project in order to evolve models for future practices.

Presenters for Session 1:

1. Sabina Arokiam
Sabina will present and discuss 2 community theatre projects, involving persons living with HIV/AIDS and Burmese refugees, aimed at educating and spreading awareness on HIV/AIDS.

Sabina is a community worker who is interested in finding sustainable ways to engage and empower communities through art.

2. Jay Koh
Jay will present and discuss X-PO, a project that took place in rural Ireland, which consisted of an art intervention to awaken the imagination of the residents within a small community to be creative and proactive in organising their cultural and heritage resources, producing art and cultural programmes that engages with the community's past, present, and future.

Jay Koh is an artist who takes on multifaceted roles in order to negotiate with social-political structures on site and conceives of appropriate actions in response to local needs and contexts where he works. Presently he is running projects in Ireland, Vietnam, Mongolia, in addition to Myanmar, where his activities are now sustained for over 10 years.

3. Yeoh Lean Heng
Yeoh will present and a 'kampung anak seni' project in Kampung Berembang in Indonesia.

Yeoh is the founder of Lost Generation space, which has been very active in organising and running socially engaged events and projects in Malaysia. He is the curator of the Notthatbalai Art Festival.

Presenters for Session 2:
Tan Hui Koon
Harianti Azizan/ Mark Teh

Venue: 1948 Artspace, No. 37, 2nd floor, SK 10/2, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor DE (please see attached map)
Contact person: Chu Yuan 012 914 5227

This workshop is part of ENTRY POINTS a contemporary arts project that aims to reach out to community through long term interaction. Please visit http://intraasianetwork.org/1948/1948index.htm for more information.

With support from THE ANNEXE CENTRAL MARKET GRANTS FOR GRABS

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