Stories from our Cultural Engagement activities

Image Description: A photo of Tesla Manaf recording Nur Handayani playing single-stringed rebab, as Graham Daniels stood behind her while looking at Tesla's camera.

Date: 29 April 2022 - 17:24

"Pararatronic" - Tesla Manaf (KUNTARI) x Graham Daniels (Addictive TV)

Indonesia’s Kuntari and UK’s Addictive TV crafted a melting pot of sounds that harked back to the past and looked forward to the future.

Image Description: A photo of Indonesian home-made meals spread on a table, consisted of boiled egg soup, fried rice, vegetable dish made of papaya leaf, and other fried dishes.

Date: 26 April 2022 - 12:34

"Our Commons: Food Resources (Harta Kampung Kota Kita)" - LabTanya x Deveron Projects

Deveron Projects (UK) and LabTanya (Indonesia) probe into the layered and nuanced relations between food and community in a pandemic-stricken world.

Image Description: Letters written "Born Prequel" in neon colours of blue, red, and green.

Date: 17 April 2022 - 17:14

"Resonansi" - Newtoy x Muarasuara

UK’s Newtoy and Indonesia’s Muarasuara revelled in the joys of sound-making in Resonansi, their first-ever international collaboration.

Tags: Independent music

Image Description: A picture of digital sculpture with white backlight on the right side of the picture, and a table of data on the left side of the picture.

Date: 06 January 2022 - 11:51

"Megalith Teleport International" - Robbie Thomson x Alicia Matthews x WAFT Lab

Megalith Teleport International is a collaboration between artists based in two archipelagos sharing a rich heritage of megalithic sites, which were central to ancient spiritual practices.

Image Description: Four dancers from Nalitari are wearing all black clothings, sitting on blue chairs while dancing.

Date: 16 December 2021 - 11:24

"Inclusive Dance Workshop and Film Production" - Nalitari x We Are Epic

Inclusive dance leader, Charlotte Tomlison (UK) delivered an inclusive dance workshop for Nalitari supported by two dancers from We Are Epic. Find out more about the project!

Image Description: A photo of Tamarra smiling, in a solo arts performance on a beach while being wrapped by a huge rainbow flag.

Date: 07 December 2021 - 10:41

"Trans Performance Exchange: From My Land to Yours" - Emma Frankland x Tamarra

Emma Frankland and Tamarra are interviewed by Madeleine Allardice and Dylan Frankland to share about their project, Trans Performance Exchange.

Date: 27 October 2021 - 13:39

"Silence / Hening" - Makassar International Writers Festival x Literature Across Frontier

SILENCE | HENING is a storytelling program empowering people from Deaf communities in both countries and developing skills of emerging Deaf writers/artists.

A picture of character piggy banks from small to medium size, shaped like Doraemon and Hello Kitty.

Date: 06 October 2021 - 19:34

Character Piggy Bank As Bright Light on the Morning Horizon for People with Disabilities Banyumas Regency

Apri Suhartanto is the name of a young man from Purwokerto City, Banyumas Regency -- a disabled crafter as well as a mobilizer for his community through the craft of piggy banks.

A photo of Faisal Rusdi wearing a black shirt sitting in the middle of two paintings.

Date: 06 October 2021 - 16:56

Faisal Rusdi: Going Against the Stigma of Cerebral Palsy Disability by Mouth Painting

He is painter, but not just a regular painter. Aal – what his closest people call Faisal – is painter with a disability. He has a cerebral palsy condition.

A half-body picture of Rama Aditia Adikara, smiling at the camera while showing a book titled "Cukup Gue Aja".

Date: 06 October 2021 - 16:24

It's Not About Who, It's About Their Creation

Rama Aditia Adikara is a fiction and fantasy writer who started his career writing novels. He is a disabled person with total blindness, who have written and published a number of books.