BFM, 12 July 2023
Most Malaysians would recognise the bustling and unique atmosphere of a local wet market. What happens when this experience is incorporated into a board game? We explore this, with the creators of a local board game, Bansan (Hokkien for "wet market"), and hear about the process of capturing this experience in gameplay
Read MoreThe Star; Metro News - June 2022
CHILDREN living at the River Road People’s Housing Project (PPR) in Penang unleashed their creative side through an arts showcase called Gempak 100.
Their exciting “Wayang Bayang” and “Tari Gempak” performances that told stories about their lives at the flats received a positive response from the audience, who comprised family members, neighbourhood folk as well as outsiders. The children aged eight to 15 also put up a photography exhibition featuring interesting snapshots of surrounding areas.
Read MoreBASKL; Lensa Seni - March 2022
Arts-ED, through its community-based arts and culture education programme, seeks to provide a platform for the youth in the PPR community in Penang through broad expressions of the arts.
Art is for everyone. But not everyone is born socially equal. Despite the fluidity and ubiquity of the arts, some social classes have limited or non-existent access to it, and this includes the B40 (bottom 40%) income group in Malaysia.
Read MorePenang Monthly - June 2021
PENANG-BASED ARTS-ED works at finding creative ways to connect culturally diverse young Malaysians. Besides making sure that the young learn art techniques, it seeks to have them understand themselves and society as well. This is done through participation in community-based art and heritage programmes curated through the years to reflect the tangible and intangible changes in Penang's physical environs.
Read MorePenang Art District - February 2020
A resilient non-profit organisation of 20 years, Arts-ED continues to fuse the arts, culture, and education with its unique multidisciplinary approach to its programmes.
‘The arts have the role to intervene, to highlight or to make life different,’ says Chen Yoke Pin, Arts-ED‘s Senior Manager, while reflecting on the organisation’s work on community-based arts and culture education.
Read MoreAPCEIU News - August 2019
An advanced training workshop to build capacity of Korean educators on developing and implementing GCED teaching methods was held in Malaysia. Co-organized by APCEIU and Arts-ED, the workshop hosted twenty primary and secondary school teachers from July 30 to August 3 in Penang. With ‘GCED through Place-Based Learning (PBL) Approach’ as the main theme of the workshop, participants explored the utility of PBL as a tool to implement GCED.
Read MorePenang Monthly - July 2019
In order for the learning to have a prolonged impact, it cannot be just about getting the grade. “The thing with culture is, you can’t just talk about it and not do it,” says Foo Wei Meng, programme manager at Arts-ED. “It’s a way of living. You can’t just tell the kids, ‘Learn how uncle does this.’ They’ll only do it for fun one time – there’s no sustainability. This is the reality of kids nowadays – they’re learning it to get it over and done with.”
Read MorePenang Monthly - March 2019
Over the years and outside the classroom, several local organisations have come up with creative ways to make learning fun for youths. In Penang, Arts-ED, a non-profit organisation that innovates community-based arts and culture education; and George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI), the state agency for heritage that protects and promotes George Town’s architectural and cultural inheritance; work together to organise the Cultural Heritage Education Programme (CHEP)…
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