INAUGERATION SHADOW PUPPET PERFORMANCE
In honor of the inauguration of President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Indonesia’s celebrated shadow theater artist (dalang) Ki Purbo Asmoro gave a special live streaming performance from Indonesia on January 30th, 2021 from 8am-noon EST.
Click Here To view a Voice of America review of the performance.
Sponsored by the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation (AICEF), the performance was a traditional story from the wayang literature that included specially designed puppets representing President Biden and Vice President Harris. Simultaneous English Language Translation by Kitsie Emerson(USA)
Puppet Delivery
AICEF will delivery the Biden and Harris puppets along with documentation of how they were used in performance to President Biden and Vice President Harris.
Click Here To view a Voice of America review of the performance.
Sponsored by the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation (AICEF), the performance was a traditional story from the wayang literature that included specially designed puppets representing President Biden and Vice President Harris. Simultaneous English Language Translation by Kitsie Emerson(USA)
Puppet Delivery
AICEF will delivery the Biden and Harris puppets along with documentation of how they were used in performance to President Biden and Vice President Harris.
Established in 1980, Friends of the Gamelan is led by American Alex Yoffe, who spent several years studying in Solo, Indonesia Their AICEF grant brought Darsono Hadiraharjo and Heni Savitri (Javanese professional musicians based in Connecticut and California) as well as experienced American musician Marc Benamou (Indiana) to amplify their annual Fall concert in 2021 and conduct workshops to improve the group's skills.
http://www.chicagogamelan.org/
http://www.chicagogamelan.org/
AICEF PRIZE FOR CROSS CULTURAL FILMMAKING
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival/Balinale
AICEF sponsored a special event on 8/27 at the 2021 Vermont-based Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival(MNFF) featuring the screening of "Empu: Sugar on the Weavers Chair", a film by first-time Indonesian filmmaker, Harvan Agustriansyah. His film was selected by the Bali International Film Festival (Balinale). American filmmaker Anji Clubb won the MNFF's AICEF Prize for Cross Cultural Filmmaking for her film "Nomad Meets the City" which will be screened at the November 2021 installment of Balinale.
Link to Voice of American (VOA) Coverage:
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival/Balinale
AICEF sponsored a special event on 8/27 at the 2021 Vermont-based Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival(MNFF) featuring the screening of "Empu: Sugar on the Weavers Chair", a film by first-time Indonesian filmmaker, Harvan Agustriansyah. His film was selected by the Bali International Film Festival (Balinale). American filmmaker Anji Clubb won the MNFF's AICEF Prize for Cross Cultural Filmmaking for her film "Nomad Meets the City" which will be screened at the November 2021 installment of Balinale.
Link to Voice of American (VOA) Coverage:
AICEF Prize Winner, Angi Clubb, with the Teddy Award
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BASABALI PERFORMANCE WIKI
The grant from the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation enabled BASAbali to create a new virtual space for performance on its community-developed cultural wiki (BASAbaliWiki.org). This evolving resource encourages the global community interested in Balinese expressive arts to find and upload information about the dynamic world of Balinese performance culture. Dewa Ayu Eka Putri, Secretary, Dance Teacher, and Musician at Çudamani, is the manager of this section as part of Nyoman Clara Listya Dewi’s Community Spaces team.
As more content is added to the performance space, we see more improvements, more opportunities for linking additional information, and more ways to make the materials more useful to more people and to engage the public even more in adding their own content. For example, we will soon add links to related books and scholarly articles.
To date, the performance shelf is divided into sub-subsections for gamelan, modern music, dance, classic art forms, and children’s song. These categories encompass an array of traditional and contemporary Balinese arts. Included are videos, images, and literature with description, when available, in English, Balinese, and Indonesian (please note that the sections for Makassar will be spun off into a separate wiki).
Click Here to Navigate to BASABali
As more content is added to the performance space, we see more improvements, more opportunities for linking additional information, and more ways to make the materials more useful to more people and to engage the public even more in adding their own content. For example, we will soon add links to related books and scholarly articles.
To date, the performance shelf is divided into sub-subsections for gamelan, modern music, dance, classic art forms, and children’s song. These categories encompass an array of traditional and contemporary Balinese arts. Included are videos, images, and literature with description, when available, in English, Balinese, and Indonesian (please note that the sections for Makassar will be spun off into a separate wiki).
Click Here to Navigate to BASABali
Chicago Balinese Gamelan
AICEF's grant supported the group's annual concert on May 14th, 2022
Links to performance videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nCqbaBcoZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21UmpiljOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FagIjrHVgrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axRaflL6fmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO59SBDOLGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKc2EqTPBhI