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mouse deer. The mouse deerwas cornered at the edge of theriver. With nowhere to go itsuddenly turned around,became fierce, and chased afterthe dogs! In this transformation,a timid mouse deer, turningaround on the edge of beingdestroyed, Parameswara sawthe sign he needed for the placeto start his kingdom. It sohappened he was sitting undera Melaka tree. So this is howMelaka got its name. This is setas the theme for MAPFest –‘Turning Around’, a metaphorfor spiritual transformationthrough the creative drive.'

This festival remains free andaccessible for all. ContinuingMelaka's rich history as a centrefor meetings and exchangebetween cultures, it will createopportunities for artists and artlovers to share in each others'work and perspectives.

We hope you enjoy the festival!Keep in touch with us atwww.melakafestival.com

Selamat Datang

Over the next three days, youwill see artists from Malaysia,Australia, across Asia andEurope responding toMelaka's sites and the festivaltheme of 'transformation' inperformance, visual arts, filmand participatory projects

MAPFest is developing a strongreputation for bringing leadingMalaysian, Australian andinternational artists together inperformances and exhibitionsthroughout Melaka's stunningheritage precinct, including themajestic ruins of St Paul'sChurch. Festival events are freeto all, and attract thousands ofspectators.

The festival theme draws directlyfrom Melakan history andtradition. On his inspiration,Tony Yap says: 'Looking to starta new kingdom, Parameswarawas resting with his entourageon the side of a river when theirdogs began chasing a small

MAPPINGExciting, experimental andunexpected, the popularstreet performances -MAPPING Melaka – returnagain!

Walk from site to sitearound St Paul's Hill anddance and music, solo andgroup pieces.

See pages 12 & 13 for fullschedule with performersand sites.

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Eulogy for the LivingEulogy for the Living is a large-scaleperformance, a spectacular and soulfulfinale to the festival, directed by TonyYap, danced by festival artists, and withlive music, and stunning projections.Eulogy for the Living is a kind ofdevotional work for making our way inthe world, an internal journey into thememory of body and soul. Here artistsand audience transform and reconnect adeeper part of ourselves, within thefleeting transience of contemporary life.We the living both preserve the past andallow things to pass – we eulogiseourselves in each moment. Life goeson... (Sun 20 Nov 8pm @ Site 1, StPaul’s Church)

Sound & video images: Mathew GingoldInstallation: Pia InterlandiDirection/choreography: Tony YapChoreographic assistant: Brendan O’Connor

Performers: Collaborating performing artistsfrom MAP Fest.

> Kuih Muih by Suhaili MichelineQuirky, playful and risky on movements, basedon the taste, colour and texture of Malaysiandelicacies.. also based on children'sexcitement, reaction and addiction to the firstbite of a 'kuih' and the next and the next...

> The Chisel of Mataora by SoufianeKarimGo deep into tha Maori Myth of MATAORA whobring the Tattoo“TA MOKO” in the living Worldfrom the other world...spirits and unlivingnatural strenght.

> The Dionysus Molecule #1 by TonyYap & Brendan O’ConnorWithout Contraries is no progression. Thepresence of contrary elements is an impetus forunleashing imagination to exploit inherentpossibilities.

Detail synopses of the program andArtists biographies can be found at thefestival website. Go to “Artists’ atwww.melakafestival.com

> Xiang Yin Kao Gu – The ClassicAccent by Chong Keat Aun & Hao Yen An environmental piece, inspired by the MelakaGranny’s Classic Accent and CerberaManghas.“Maritime Silk Road, Sultan, Heroes,Beauties, Fires, God and Ghost, emerging andsinking, appearing and disappearing…The landwill be desolate, lives come and go, why mymelancholy?”

> Elements by Tina Evans Elements is a unique exploration of our ownlifecycle and our connection to nature throughthe four elements of Air, Water, Fire & Earth.Through dance, projected visuals andsoundscape this visual, aural and physicallysensual feast is a reminder that we areintrinsically connected to our environment.

> Thought/Action: The Straits of Timeby Frank van de Ven & Peter SnowIn The Straits of Time we propose to look at howexperiences of temporality and displacementinterconnect with intensities of place and ofbelonging.

Cerita Pendek 1 (Short Works) Cerita Pendik brings dance, music andperformance works from artists fromaround the world together in a uniqueprogram of short works over twonights at the majestic St Paul'sChurch. Stay for as many or as few asyou like! (Fri 18 Nov 8pm @ Site 1St Paul’s Church)

Program 1> Xiang Yin Kao Gu

– The Classic Accent (20 min)

> Elements (5 min)

> Thought/Action: The Straits of Time (30 min)

> Kuih Muih (7 min)

> The Chisel of Mataora (20 min)

> The Dionysus Molecule #1 (15 min)

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> The Journey by Gerald VeltreA man dances his way through a world ofchaos, possibilities and obligations. This can not last forever...

don’t talk about the journeysay no more of the path one must take (Rumi)

> Mountain, Water and Flowers by KieaKuan NamFrom the scene, you may see strangevisions, which is the incredible life. Becauseof the unknown, because of theinexplicable, therefore, there is a speechlessbeauty. Choreographed by Lee Swee Keong

> Padi Complaining by AgungGunawanPadi Complaining is a reflection on theconnection between the cycles of human andmother nature as symbolised in the ritualsignificance of Rice. It is also a kind of lament -for when processes of industrialisation impingeon spiritual life and when we become moreconcerned with political mechanisms than thecultivation of the soul.

> Mémoires Futures – FutureMemories by Mic GuillaumesAt 62, I have the desire to build my future.Identity is a big part of culture. Outside, culture iswhat covers the inner being, existentially.Dancing is just away from his culture, extrude itsculture, extimate reveal his deep work for hisidentity to come.

Detail synopses of the program and Artistsbiographies can be found at the festival website.Go to “Artists’ at www.melakafestival.com

Cerita Pendek 2(Short Works) Cerita Pendik brings dance, music andperformance works from artists from aroundthe world together in a unique program ofshort works over two nights at the stunning StPaul's Church. Stay for as many or as few asyou like! (Sat 19 Nov 8pm @ Site 1, StPaul’s Church)

Program 2

> Forestories (30 min)

> Mobile Phone Orchestra Ver1.2 (15 min)

> The Journey (20 min)

> Mountain, Water and Flowers (10 min)

> Padi Complaining (20 min)

> Mémoires Futures-Future Memories (20min)

> Forestories by Sam Burke &Domenico De Clario ... home (his story) ... aspettaci (their story)... love (everyone’s story) ... only a

weathercast warning (her story) ...

> Mobile Phone Orchestra Ver 1.2 by NgChor GuanExploring through sound and music to enable usas individuals and collectively to still progresswhile protecting the environment. Thedevelopment of Melaka sees the disappearance onthe sound and songs of nature. Playing a role inthe Mobile Phone Orchestra evokes allparticipants on the importance of how every singleindividual could contribute in protecting andpreserving the nature.

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chain-like through spaces overtime, they fuse folk culture,personal history, the colloquialand the artist’s immersion infriendships and an ongoingjoke. .

Trevor Flinn: The ThrobbingGristle Experience -installation (Heeren St HeritageCenter)Housed in a small semi-transparent white tent madefrom bed-sheets, the artist’sremake of Brion Gysin’s low-tech ‘Dream Machine’ offersthe grand possibility of a shiftin perception andconsciousness. Downstairs,the cowboy-clad artist offersbrewed coffee, chili beans andconversation – contemporaryshaman meets Broke BackMountain.

forward through discoveringnew ways of doing. Theparadox of this overload is itsdifficulty yet opportunity forgrowth.

These artist tap into thisparadox and filter it intotheir work, channeling aprivate dilemma into aninsightful voice for all.

Azliza Ayob: For OurDaughters - installation (TunTan Cheng Lok Centre)Using discarded mineral waterbottles, Azliza Ayobmeticulously crafts radiant redflowers, transforming theunwanted into the precious asa gesture of possibility andfemale sensitivity. Fields ofthese Bunga Telur-like flowerspay tribute to theimmeasurable worth of thefemale – to the wives, mothers,sisters…and to the daughters.

Liew Kwei Fei: Survivors- painting installation (Tun TanCheng Lok Centre)The work of painter Liew KwaiFei is a perpetual work inprogress, with each paintingsuggesting the next. Filteringthe every-day and linking

Visual Arts- Sifting the Debris –memory, resilience andrenewal

We are pleased this year tobe able to present artistsfrom Malaysia, Singaporeand Australia, workingacross painting,photography, installationand video. In again workingwith the National Universityof Singapore and BadanWarisan Malaysia, we havetwo key venues – the TunTan Cheng Lock Centre forAsian Architectural andUrban Heritage and No.8Heeren Street HeritageCentre.

This visual arts platformallows this diverse groupingof artists to presentcollectively, giving space forthe individual’s voice andalso the emergence ofshared concerns.

At this point in time, morethan ever, we are privatelyand collectively confrontedwith an overload, be itenvironmental, bodily,financial or cultural.Increasingly we are tested inour ability to absorb, re-orientate and ultimately go

history of this Heeren Streetsite and the most private oftrauma, embedded in bothmemory and body …It is amovie, I know. It is not real, Iknow. It is Death

Cheo Chai-Hiang / Cecily C.Cheo – installation (Tun TanCheng Lok Centre)Artists-in-residence at Tun TanCheng Lok Centre, Cheo Chai-Hiang and Cecily Cheo, sharetheir recent near-missexperiences of domesticarchitectural collapse, as wellas their current research inprogress – inquiry into thevisual phenomenon ofdisappearing cultural heritagein Melaka.

Anthony Pelchen: Stay orGo – video (Tun Tan ChengLok Centre)Filmed during the drought in2010 on the vast, empty LakeHindmarsh in SE Australia,Stay or Go references this newofficial bush-fire warningmantra as a metaphor forbigger questions of occupyingbody and land. Theculmination of a decade of landand body dysfunction, the artistplays out the vulnerability,disorientation and near-lunacyof existence.

Minstrel Kuik: The Weaver –installation (Tun Tan ChengLok Centre)This austere installation drawsheavily on the Maternity Home

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Program Two:

AmalDrama, 101 mins, India

Director: Richie MehtaProducer: Steven Bray, David Miller

Autorickshaw driver Amal is content withthe small, but vital, role he serves - drivingcustomers around New Delhi as quicklyand safely as possible. But his sense ofduty is tested by an eccentric, agingbillionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility,bequeaths him his entire estate beforepassing away. With only one month todiscover and claim the inheritance, Amal'sstruggles with duty and wealth arethreatened by all those around him - froma young injured beggar girl and a lovelystore merchant, to the danger of the oldman's upper-caste friends and siblings, allseeking to claim their share of the riches.

Saturday 19 November 10am> Zheng He Tea House

3 Jalan Kampong Kuli, Melaka

Film FestivalCurated by Amadeo Marquez-Perez

Program one:

A collection of unique stories form theaward winning Youth DocumentaryProject (YDP) that seeks to engageyoung adults in positive modes of self-expression and creative investigationthrough the creation of shortdocumentaries.

This colection is a 45 min programshowcasing a collection of films thatdeal with skating obsession to meetingMaria, a deaf teaching that wants tohelp young people communicate.

> Our Refugee Journey 3:505:13

> The firfighters on mentoneConcrete Jungle 5:00

> SPORT 5:07> The Heidelberg School 4:35 > PRIMO 3:52 > My Name is Maria 5:13

Friday 18 November 1pm> Zheng He Tea House

3 Jalan Kampong Kuli, Melaka

Dance Workshop & Forum/Discussion>> Forum/discussion/Q&AA panel of festival artists will discuss therelationship between traditional andcontemporary practices as revealed throughthe festival program.

Sun 20 Nov@ Tun Tan Cheng LokCentre 11am

>> Dance Workshop Body Weather: From Touch &Manipulation to Performance & Dance

Frank van de Ven (Netherlands)

Body Weather is a comprehensive trainingand performance practice that investigatesthe intersections of bodies and theirenvironments.  Bodies are not conceived asfixed and separate entities but are - just likethe weather - constantly changing.

In this short workshop we will focus onsome aspects of touch. Touch has alwaysbeen a key element in the survey of thedancing body. Touch makes us aware of theworld inside and outside of us. To touch isto be touched. We will explore touch andsome possible ways it can lead to dance.

Friday 18 Nov @ Site 1, St Pauls hill10am

Bands>> Endah N RhesaEndah N Rhesa is a musical duo comprisingacoustic guitar, bass and vocal. The musical

nuance that Endah N Rhesa tries to bringout is folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, andballads.

Endah Widiastuti and Rhesa Adityaramastarted to play together in 2004.

Part of MAPPING Program @ Site 1

>> Second Band A second Band will be announced. Pleasecheck website

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10 am – 7 pm VISUAL ART Exhibition all visual artists10 am Dance Workshop Site 1 Frank Van De Van 1pm FILM Shorts 6 pm OPEN CEREMONY Site 1 8 – 9.30 pm Cerita Pendek – Short Works Site 1

> Xiang Yin Kao Gu Chong Keat Aun & Hao Yen (20 min)

> Elements Tina Evans (5 min)

> Thought/Action: The Straits of Time Frank van de Ven & Peter Snow (30 min)

> Kuih Miuh Suhaili Micheline (7 min)

> The Chisel of Mataora Soufiane Karim (20 min)

> The Dionysus Molecule #1 Tony Yap & Brendan O’Connor (15 min)

SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBERwhen what where who

10 am – 7 pm VISUAL ART Exhibition all visual artists10 am - 12pm FILM Feature – Aman

8 – 9.30 pm Cerita Pendek – Short Works Site 1 > Forestories Sam Burke & Domenico De Clario (30 min)

> Mobile Phone Orchestra Ver 1.2 Ng Chor Guan (15 min)

> The Journey Gerald Veltre (20 min)

> Mountain, Water and Flowers Kiea Kuan Nam (10 min)

> Padi Complaining Agung Gunawan (15 min)

> Mémoires Futures - Future Memories Mic Guillaumes (20 min)

SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBERwhen what where who

10 am – 7 pm VISUAL ART Exhibition all visual artists11 pm FORUM

8 – 9.30 pm Eulogy for the Living Site 1 all artists9.30 – 11pm CLOSING NIGHT PARTY Site 1 all welcome

MAPPING Program Site1 Site2 Site3 Site4 Site5 Site6 Site72 pm Guan KuanNam Gretel T Brendan O Soufiane K

2.30 pm Yoka J Tina E Agung G

3 pm Endah/Rhesa Belinda B Gerald V Suhaili M

3.30 pm Keat Aun KuanNam K Dae Gun

4 pm Guan Brendan O Soufiane K Yoka J

4.30 pm Tina E Suhaili M Agung G Gerald V

5 pm BAND 2 K Dae Gun Belinda B Keat Aun

Lists of Artists on page 14. Program may change, please check website for the latest update.

MAPPING Program Site1 Site2 Site3 Site4 Site5 Site6 Site72 pm Frank V V K Dae Gun Soufiane K Mic G

2.30 pm Domenico DC KuanNam Peter S

3 pm Endah/Rhesa Belinda B Yoka J BAND 2

3.30 pm Gretel T, K Dae Gun, Agung G, Peter S

4 pm Tina E, Gerald V, Soufiane K, Domenico DC

4.30 pm Belinda B, Brendan O, Keat Aun, Guan , Kuan Nam5 pm Mic G, Tony Y, Frank V V, Yoka J, Suhaili M

Lists of Artists on page 14. Program may change, please check website for the latest update.

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Minstrel Kuik (Malaysia)

Ng Chor Guan (Malaysia)

Peter Snow (Australia)

Pia Interlandi (Australia)

Sam Burke (Australia)

Soufiane Karim (New Caledonia)

Suhaili Micheline (Malaysia)

Tina Evans (Australia)

Trevor Flinn (Australia)

Tony Yap (Malaysia/Australia)

Zaffa (Kasmir)

Yoka Jones (Australia)

Detail synopses of the program andArtists biographies can be found at thefestival website. Go to “Artists’ atwww.melakafest ival .com

Invitation to contribute

MAP Festival would like to acknowledge the generouscontribution of the participating artists and thankthem for their extraordinary creative work and support inachieving the artistic vision of the festival which aims topromote the spirit of art and understanding acrosscultures.

We thank our current sponsors and supporters: theAustralia-Malaysia Institute, the Australia Council forthe Arts, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Malaysian Tourism,National University of Singapore, Badan Warisan Malaysia,Australian High Commission, the French Embassy, AllianceFrançaise, Zheng He Tea House and Cari Cari Magazine, fortheir generous support in creating this uniquecontemporary art festival in heart of Melaka.

The MAP Festival Team, E-Plus Entertainment and TYC,are seeking further support, both financial and inkind fromgovernment, cultural bodies, artists and the wider industryin order to sustain and realise the growth of thisinnovative, inspirational and accessible festival whichprovides a unique platform for independent artists andstrong creative links to this region of the world.

To find out how you can become involved and supportMAP Fest, please contact:

Suen Kar Neeknsuen@eplus.com.my

We have been inspired, we hope you will too!

Festival Producer : Andrew ChingFestival Manager : Suen Kar NeeCreative Director : Tony YapFestival Collaborator : Kath Papas Visual arts curator : Anthony PelchenFilm Fest curator : Amadeo Marquez-PerezPhotograpger : Damian VincenziProduction and marketing : E-Plus Entertainment

www.melakafestival.com

Festival ArtistsAzliza Ayob (Malaysia)

Agung Gunawan (Indonesia)

Amadeo Marquez-Perez (Australia)

Anthony Pelchen (Australia)

Belinda Bailey (Australia)

Brendan O’Connor (Ireland)

Cecily C. Cheo (Australia)

Cheo Chai-Hiang (Singapore)

Chong Keat Aun (Malaysia)

Domenico De Clario (Italy)

Damian Vincenzi (Australia)

Endah & Rhesa (Indonesia)

Frank van de Ven (Neathelands)

Gretel Taylor (Australia)

Hoa Yen (Malaysia)

Kiea Kuan Nam (Malaysia)

Kim Dae Gun (S Korea)

Kwaifei Liew (Malaysia)

Matt Gingold (Australia)

Mic Guillaumes (France)

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Acknowledgements

MAPFEST IS AN E-PLUS ENTERTAINMENTPRODUCTIONS INITIATIVE.

Melaka Arts and Performance Festival gratefully acknowledges all its supporters: E-Plus Entertainment, Australia-MalaysiaInstitute, Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur, National University of Singapore, Badan Warisan Malaysia.Tony Yap Company is incubated by Multicultural Arts Victoria and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.

THANK YOUMelaka Arts & Performance Festival has been made possible by the combined efforts of many individuals and organisations. We warmly thank Professor Wong Yunn Chii and all staff at Tun Tan Cheng Lok Centre and National University of Singapore;Elizabeth Cardosa and all members at Badan Warisan Malaysia and No. 8 Heeren Street; Jill Morgan and Multicultural ArtsVictoria for ongoing support and assistance to MAPFEST and Tony Yap Company; all Festival artists for their significant in-kindcontributions.

MAP Fest also thank the community of Melaka, especially Pas Siew Yong of Zheng He Tea House and Shintaro from CariCari Magazine with their countless help and ideas.

Supporters include:> Zheng He Tea House, 3 Jln Kg Kuli, Melaka +60 167 640 588> Albert Toh, JFS Bicycle Shop, 55-57 Jln Parameswara, Melaka, +60 123 904 898

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