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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.

Bite-sized Goodness

We're going light and bite sized with the spotlight on the words and tunes themselves.



Sneaking up this September as promised!

Project OMG!: An Evening of Musical & Literary Snacks
Sunday, 23rd September 2007
8.00pm
at The Dram Projects (next to Food Foundry) (map)

Donations at the door (to help keep us alive!)
Edible snacks will be served as well. Yes, the real stuff.

For further enquiries email us at nowhitespace@gmail.com or you can contact Patricia (012 7839006) or Priya (016 6606460)


See you all there then?

*Updates! Line up!

Zlikha Batsheba, Catalina Rembuyan, Sheena Baharuddin

with music by Ray Cheong and Rina S.

and featuring a ragtag band with a certain Daphne Lee in it, and a djembe (now known as Mojo Pin)

The Merdeka Session: Thank you!

A big thank you to all of you who came, and for your support! We had fun, hope you did too.


The awesome crowd :)


Rashdan Harith


Tshiung Han See


kG


Chalk art. An excuse for us to have a little fun even while piecing this gig together.


Sharanya Manivannan


Dervin of The Mary Jane Foundation.


See you at our next outing? ;)

If you'd like to get in touch with us, email at nowhitespace@gmail.com
In order to exist and thrive we live on the kindness of people kind enough to support this cause. If you'd like to keep this project alive, we would love to hear from you. It doesn't have to be monetary - it can be venue/space for future gigs, printing facilities, allowing us to place flyers/posters at your premises/college/school, helping us distribute and publicise, amps, visual art - the list goes on.


Photography courtesy of Prakash Daniel. For more pictures, clickr over here.

+ Photos from someone in the audience! clickr here.

We're back and we're riding on the wave that is merdeka, pretty much like everyone else. It'll be a night of home-bred thoughts through poetry, lyrics and rhythm. Patriotism optional. But if you feel like it you can bring your miniature flags along and fly them. It'll be fun.

The Merdeka Session

Sunday, 19th August 2007
8.00pm
The Dram Projects (next to Food Foundry cafe)
Block B, Happy Mansion, Sect. 17/13, PJ (map)
Admission free


Tshiung Han See, kG, Gary Ooi, Jasmine Low, Dhivya Jiwa

and featuring: Rashdan Harith, The Mary Jane Foundation

If you flip through the pages of Youth2 today in The Star you will find this
interesting read :)

And if you are here visiting because of the link provided in the article, hello there :D We would love to hear what you think or have to say about the article, the 'poetry scene' in Malaysia, feedback if you have been to our events etc. Or questions even. Like perhaps how you can be part of our readings or gigs. Or why are we even doing this. Anything (that falls within the subject, of course).

It's worm-can opening time :)