30th March punya gig. Thanks Prakash!

Thank you for making last night's gig an awesome one.
The Project Connect team thanks you for your support and contribution. They are stoked. Very. If you bought books or art pieces from us, we hope you are enjoying your purchases.
A big holler of thanks to our lineup of poets, performers and poseurs ;)

Photos to be up soon once they're zapped over to us. Otherwise, if you're resourceful enough, there are some already up and floating about on blogs and Facebook. Keep us bookmarked.

Thanks to Daphne and The Dram Projects for the hugs keeping us alive and housed. And to our sound fellows/Mokhtar, book sellers and photographers.


xx

Project OMG returns this Sunday, 30th March and for a good cause. We're raising funds for Project Connect (MY-UK Cultural Exchange), a one-year creative leadership exchange programme between young emerging artists in UK and M'sia. This initiative seeks to equip and develop them into pioneers and carriers of change in the various creative disciplines (visual art, theatre, writing, etc.) with an emphasis on social responsibility and community outreach. Some of the project participants will be performing that night as well.

We're at the usual spot- Block B, Happy Mansion, Jalan 17/13, PJ
Event begins at 8pm.

See you all there la.


News for Reading Junkies

There'll be a book sale the day before the gig (29 Mar 08) from 9am-3pm at the same place. Come early to grab some good picks and stock up on your yearly reading list. Choose from various genres-from chick lit to classics and children's fare. Profits will be channeled to the abovesaid Project Connect. Organised by the Dram Projects.

Just a quick note to all to say we are not dead yet.

Date of our next gig:

30th March 2008 (Sun)


Poets, performers do get in touch with us for a short slot of word-throwing and mic-wielding. You know it's going to be fun.

And a bit of news from our front as well: Project OMG in collaboration with Cloudbreak will be running poetry workshops at the Australian International School in two week's time.

More photos click here.

Project OMG!: Demystifying Art

25th November (Sunday)
at 8pm
The Dram Projects, Block B Happy Mansion
Jalan 17/13, PJ (click map link above)

Admission is free but donations are welcome.

Featuring music and spoken word by NegaRaKus, Dhivya Jiwa, George Wielgus, Shahril Nizam and more


Hey folks, we're back with our last gig for the year with more grassroots poetry and music. Expect poets with late night radio DJ voices, indie musicians, reggae infused words and perhaps the odd bit of art. And as it has been some ride on the OMG bandwagon, so we would also like to thank you for your support and for being part of this circus ;)

We hope to see you all this Sunday!

And props also to Kakiseni for plugging us!


The 60 Second Plug: "Project OMG!" by Juliet Jacobs

Well guys, next gig's this month, and we're still looking for writers and musicians!

And as an added bonus, we're testing the waters to see if any artists would like to join our little camp of delights :) We're going with the theme 'Demystifying Art', which really isn't as complicated as it sounds - just take a look at the brief below:

One common complaint by the average Malaysian about art: "Aiyoh, I don't understand la!". The myth is that art has to be complex, abstract, high brow - and ultimately, alienate the general public.

Project OMG! invites artists to challenge this myth and boldly state the overlooked fact that art is for everyone. Your work may be a direct interpretation of the theme 'demystifying art', fresh ideas to make art appeal to a wider audience or a simple attempt to make meaningful art that is pretension-free. It may be painting on crushed beer cans, sidewalk art, a collection of interesting grocery lists - how would you compel people to see the art in everyday living? How would you define art at the grassroots level?

Either email us a preview of your work (no larger than 300 KB) to nowhitespace@gmail.com or contact Priya (016 - 660 6460) and we'll work something out.

We're looking to stage an exhibition of sorts alongside our regular poetry/music gig on Nov 25 2007, so do send your applications soon!

*Note: Due to my being bad with numbers, there's been a mix up with the dates in posts elsewhere. The date of the gig is NOV 25th 2007, SUNDAY.