SEA Junction (or fully “Southeast Asia Junction”) is a knowledge center and public venue on Southeast Asia, which is located at the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre (BACC) in Bangkok. SEA Junction aims to foster understanding and appreciation of the region in all its realities and socio-cultural dimensions –from arts and craft to the economy…
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, October was a month of mixed activities, including workshops on making Balinese rice-dough offerings and classes to graduate students of AIT and Mahidol University, crowned by the fascinating public talk of art historian Chedha Tigsanchali on Buddhist art in Myanmar. This month will be dominated by the series…
The ‘Southeast Asia Junction’ (or SEA Junction for short) is a ‘knowledge venue’, an event space, a hub, a gallery, a library with the goal of fostering understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia, from arts and crafts to the economy, politics or development. As a space, SEA Junction provides knowledge resources and promotes exchanges among…
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, In September our audience was enchanted by the sound of the traditional Sundanese rice harvesting music of Tarawangsa and in spite of the limited space many could not resist joining the dance. For the series “ASEAN People in Flux”, which SEA Junction organizes in collaboration with the Heinrich…
Dear All, After the intense and artistic August program, SEA Junction is slowing down in early September to allow for my taking home leave to Italy and for the new hires to get acquainted with the job. Activities will be limited to the daily functioning as a reading room and to the holding of the…
Dear All, The month of July saw a variety of programs from the launching of an alternative tourist guide on Bangkok, the screening of a documentary on inter–ethnic relations in Myanmar and another on environmental destruction in Sarawak, to a talk by renown journalist Michael Vatikiotis on current governance issues in Southeast Asia. Of note,…
Due to staff attendance at the 10 ICAS in Chiang Mai, SEA Junction will be closed on 19-21 July. Sorry for the inconvenience!
And if you are in Chiang Mai please attend our panel on Philantrophy in Southeast Asia.
Dear All, We are glad to inform you that the celebration for our 1st Anniversary went very well with a festive bazaar, and engaging discussion on medical tourism and a constructive meeting with our founding partners and key supporters. We now enter our second year with a varied program in terms of activities and countries…
Dear All, The month of June is of particular significance to SEA Junction, as we will be celebrating our first anniversary on 25 June. During the past year we have strived with you all to fulfil our mission to facilitate sharing of knowledge and experience on Southeast Asia in all its dimensions. While pleased with…
Dear All, I am glad to inform you that April workshops on Indonesian glass paintings, making of wayang from recycling material and angklung bamboo music were very well attended, in spite of Bangkok being quite empty for the Songkran Festival. We also had a very successful launch of the series “ASEAN in Flux” on movements…
