Arts & Culture
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Solidarity – Through the Eyes of Artists
One of Southeast Asia’s most prestigious annual art awards, the 10th UOB Painting of the Year, named Sabri Idrus’s artwork…
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Now Everyone Can Sketch From Home
By Mei Kuan Urban Sketchers Ipoh, a self-funded and non-profit NGO, has adapted to the pandemic by introducing sketch-from-home sessions…
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Meru Valley’s Patchwork Society Raises RM17,000 for Disabled Children
Meru Valley’s Patchwork Society raised more than RM17,000 to support the care of disabled children at its 13th annual charity…
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Stroke Survivor Finds His Artistic Stroke
By Mei Kuan Ipoh Echo recently caught up with Ipoh-born Lian Kim Keong who taught himself to paint at age…
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Breast Cancer Survivor Weaves Her Magic in Handicraft
By Mei Kuan Having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, Ally Li Yen’s hobby of making handicrafts began to…
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Ipoh Music Symposium 2020—Preserving Perak Music Treasures
The state government will be allocating RM50,000 for upgrading works of archives for collection of art materials in Perak. According…
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Instil Love for Literary Arts at a Young Age
In conjunction with Malaysia Day celebration, the September session of Sharpened Word (SW) hosted an evening at 22 Hale Street…
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Creativity Under Constraint: Ipoh Boy Debuts Two Consecutive Albums
By Mei Kuan Keeping creativity flowing during the global pandemic, 20-year-old Keith Tan Jian Li recently debuted two consecutive albums…
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Virtual Choir as a Malaysia Day Tribute
To celebrate Malaysia Day, We the Rakyat, an artistic social movement cum non-profit international organisation based in Melbourne, directed a…
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Art Exhibition “Down the Memory Lanes” Kicks Off
By Mei Kuan Running on the theme “Down the Memory Lanes”, photography, wood carvings and paintings by Philippe Durant, Marcus…
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