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 Boell Stiftung Southeast Asia, we had the honor of hosting the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Ms Chou Bun Eng, as a panelist to discuss pre-departure policies to protect migrants in the region. Two workshops were also held at our venue by artist Varsha Nair for refugees children and their parents to write and illustrate their stories on palm leaves to be exhibited in the month of November at SEA Junction.
This month we will have a mix of activities, including workshops on making Balinese rice-dough offerings and a class for AIT graduate students on philanthropy in Southeast Asia, ending with the second public talk of art historian Chedha Tigsanchali on Buddhist art in Myanmar following his introduction to Buddhist art in the region last year.
I look forward to welcoming you and hope you can help us in disseminating this October agenda to your network. All events are free, but we welcome donations to enable us to continue our activities.
Best regards,
Lia Sciortino Sumaryono
Founder and Executive Director SEA Junction
7 – 8 October 2017 at 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM:
SOUTHEAST ASIA MINI BOOK FAIR
The mini book fair, held once a month in the space in front of SEA Junction, showcases a limited collection of new and used books on various aspects of Southeast Asia. The incomes derived from the fair are used to support SEA Junction’s activities.
See further: http://seajunction.org/event/southeast-asia-mini-book-fair-12/
14 October 2017: 3PM-5PM
15 October 2017: 11AM-1PM
15 October 2017: 3PM-5PM
4th Event of the “The Rice of Southeast Asia” Series:
Workshop to Create CACALAN : Balinese Rice-dough Offering Figures
Offerings on the island of Bali in Indonesia are an artistic tradition for Hindu-Buddhist religious events, rites of passage, ancestral worship, and animistic ceremonies. Palm leaves, flowers, fruits, rice, and meat are shaped and assembled into an enormous variety of symbolic forms according to Balinese cosmology. In this workshop, the basic concepts behind Balinese offerings and the cacalan or rice-dough offering figures will be explained and participants will learn to create them. The figures will be made in different colors of rice-dough from a combination of rice and glutinous rice flours. After the workshop, participants can bring home the figures to dry and keep as ornaments.
29 OCTOBER 2017 at 11:00 am – 12:30 pm:
2nd Event Buddhist Art in Southeast Asia:
Exploring Buddhist Art in Myanmar
This presentation will explore Buddhist arts in Myanmar, starting from the earliest period up to Mandalay in the 19th century. Burmese stupa, Buddha images, monastery and religious objects will be introduced, discussing their styles, iconography and social and cultural function. The lecture will also address the link between Burmese Buddhist art and other schools of art in Southeast Asia.
See further: http://seajunction.org/event/2nd-event-buddhist-art-southeast-asia-exploring-buddhist-art-myanmar/
