Malam Sayu Berpuisi: #MakManaBapak

Malam Sayu is a performance art project by klpac which aims to stimulate and nurture warmth from the rawest performances in the coldest of nights. One of three series, Malam Sayu Berpuisi is an experimental poetry space that strips away the chains of microphones, papers, books, and phones. As a result, poets are forced to explore their voices and space, as well as making use of the live soundscape.

In celebration of our 1st anniversary this 20th March 2019, we are featuring founding members and close friends to the theme of #MakManaBapak- of which we will explore family, bonds, and what it means to be the children of your parents.

JAD HIDHIR
Jad Hidhir is an Accounting & Finance graduate who found love for the arts when he joined T4YP and later on graduated through “Still Taming” (Jul 2016). As it was a successful show, it was restaged later in 2016 as a double bill with “S’kolah”. With more demands, “Still Taming” toured to Singapore (Oct 2017) and Russia (Dec 2017). He has also performed for Joe Hasham OAM’s take on Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (2017), Arief Hamizan’s Allah! (2017), Omar Ali’s Dato’ Seri (2018), and Tung Jit Yang’s The New Play Project (2018). Other than theatre performances, Jad has acted in films and series such as Riptide (2018), Red Comm’s Gol & Gincu 2 (2018), Tonton’s I, Remember (2018), Astro Ria’s Alamatnya Cinta (2018).

LILY JAMALUDIN
Lily Jamaludin is a writer and poet. Her work has been published in The Grinnell Review, Geometry Literary, plain china, and Straits Eclectic. She graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, volunteered for the DC-based poetry organisation Split This Rock, and was a student of the KL Writer’s Workshop. She previously helped run KL’s monthly poetry open mic, If Walls Could Talk, and was featured as an emerging writer at the 2018 George Town Literary Festival.

VESHALINI NAIDU
Veshalini Naidu is an illustrator, spoken word poet, actor, co-founder of Coal Island Theatre in Port Dickson and Resident Designer with Theatresauce. Notable performances include the Actors Studio Seni Rakyat's sold out productions "Still Taming & S'kolah"(2016), "LIFE SDN BHD: People”(2017), theatrethreesixty's "Malaysia Throws Herself A Birthday Party”(2017), Theatresauce’s "4.48 PSYCHOSIS" (2018) and "The Bee" (2018) and "P.op pARTy" at Urbanscapes 2018; and represented Malaysia at the Asian Youth Theatre Festival in Singapore and St. Petersburg, Russia. She was also a writer for the critically acclaimed sketch comedy "IndicineLive! V" (2018) and made her directorial debut with Skin & Flowers: In Tender at the Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival 2018.

GLASS
Typically a four-piece post-rock outfit and a glass full of beer, GLASS this time around will only feature Adrian Lim and Coebar Abel with a glass half full… or empty. Still beer though.