51st Merdeka @ LPSM
Little Penang Street Market
August 2008
Merdeka Magic
What better way to celebrate our nation’s birth than by bringing joy to its children
Little Penang Street Market will celebrate Merdeka Day with a series of programs especially for children. These include special drama programs on movement and rhyme, and sessions with magicians, clowns and jugglers.
Date of Market : Sunday 31st August
Place : Upper Penang Road
Time: from 10.00am to 6.00pm
Programs for Children :
Whole day Painting and working with Collage by Shamsul Bahri
12.15 – 2.15 The Balloon Clown wanders around the Market
12.30 – 1.30 Jeffrey the clown entertains around the Market
2.00 – 2.30 The Amazing Antics of Master Seng the Plastic Man
2.30 – 3.00 Penang Players presents: Movement in drama by Joelle St Arnoult. Children will have FUN while developing their physical and emotional expression as they participate in a variety of movements accompanied by sounds of music.
3.00 – 3.30 Rhyme-Time! By Lucille Dass. Children will have FUN participating in a variety of expressions that will develop their skills in the “sound of English” as they learn to rhyme and keep time!
Other Programs :
Book Reading LOVERS AND STRANGERS REVISITED - by Robert Raymer
Robert Raymer, who teaches creative writing at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, will read one of his stories and talk about how you can turn your ideas into short stories, using examples from Lovers and Strangers Revisited whereby he turned his ideas into a collection of 17 Malaysian short stories that have now been published 63 times in 9 countries, taught at four Malaysian universities, and in SPM literature (”Neighbours”).
In the title story, a selfish writer gets more than he bargained for when former lovers haunt him in more ways than one. In another story, a man’s loneliness turns into obsession when he shares a taxi ride with a Malay woman. A Clark Gable lookalike is a barrister wannabe with a shocking secret and gossipy neighbours reveal more about themselves than the man who commits suicide. Elsewhere, expats cross the border to Had Yai to experience a good bargain in the Thai flesh trade before going home to their wives in America.
In this republished edition of Lovers and Strangers Revisited, Robert’s snapshots of scenes from various walks of life provide an insider-outsider view on love, family and culture, and urges a second look at ourselves in the mirror of self-awareness.
At the Space :
Our Entertainment
11.30 The Dance Factory presenting an assortment of contemporary dance
12.00 Our very own Princess of Pop, Regina
12.30 The G Spot Resident Jazz Band - music from among the best of
Penang’s jazz musicians
1.00 The magic of Jeffrey the Magician
1.15 The G Spot Resident Jazz Band
1.30 Rozz and the Frequency
2.00 The amazing antics of Plastic Man, Master Seng
2.30 The Penang Players workshop: Drama Activities for Children
3.30 Wishing Treez - two brothers with great talent
4.00 Miliz - a young band already making waves
70 Art and and Crafts stalls, Heritage Food Stalls
On-site Demonstrations on making paper aeroplanes, Wayang Kulit, and Grass Hoppers made of Coconut Leaves
More Information on our other guests, performers and arts and crafts persons can be found on our website. Please contact :
Feei at 016 488 3632, Ambi at 012 482 8619 or check out our website at: www.littlepenang.com.my