May Readings@Seksan

April 2012 Readings@Seksan

Lineup :

Zen Cho

Julian Lees

Iskandar Al-Bakri

Gopalan Sellan

Raja Faisal

Martin Bradley

Author Sue Guiney at CHAI House

Here's news of event I'm organising for author/poet Sue Guiney at CHAI House on April 14th 2012.  All details are on the poster and the map is here.

It’s not supposed to be cold in February, not in Phnom Penh.  Deborah, a 60-year-old American expat, is on her way back to the “Khmer Home for Blessed Children” which she has run for ten years.   A young woman in her twenties is waiting for her.  “Are you Deborah Young?" she asks. "I’m here to help.”

So begins A Clash of Innocents, a story of hidden identities and questioned motives.  Who is this young woman?  Who is Deborah?  Who are any of the displaced Westerners who find themselves raising the leftover children of Cambodia’s violent past?  Against the backdrop of that past and the beginnings of the new Tribunal for justice, a story of displaced souls unfolds.  In Cambodia, innocents are everywhere.  Everyone is innocent, or so they would like to believe – everyone, except the few who, for their own private reasons, take on the guilt of the many. 

Anglo-American author, Sue Guiney, will read from her novel and discuss how its publication led to her founding an on-going Writing Workshop for the street children of Siem Reap. A poet as well, Sue will also read from her latest poetry collection entitled Her Life Collected, in which the three stages of a woman's life are re-envisioned for a modern time.

March 2012 Readings@Seksan

Date: Saturday 31^st March, 2012 3.30-6pm

Place: Seksan Gallery, 67, Jalan Tempinis Satu, Lucky Garden, Bangsar

(Map www.seksan.com)
Lineup :

Tan Twan Eng

Jasmine Low

Dina Zaman

Walski69

Shahminee Selvakannu

Sabah Carrim

Admission free and everyone very welcome. Please pass on the invitation to anyone else you think might be interested.   
(For enquiries contact Sharon 017-2644956, sharonbakar@yahoo.com)

Thanks Shahril Nizam for the beautiful poster!

February 2012 Readings@Seksan

Date: Saturday 25^th February, 2012 3.30-6pm

Place: Seksan Gallery, 67, Jalan Tempinis Satu, Lucky Garden, Bangsar

 (Map www.seksan.com)
Lineup :

Jason Erik Lundberg

Kenneth Smith

Hidaya Amin

Shivani Sivagurunathan

Aphrodite Hunt

Tan Sri Radin Soenarno*

Admission free and everyone very welcome. Please pass on the invitation to anyone else you think might be interested.   
(For enquiries contact Sharon 017-2644956, sharonbakar@yahoo.com)

 (*An extract from his newly published autobiography to be read by his daughter, Anis Ayu)

And Now We Are Seven

A common stereotype of literary gatherings is that they are pretentious affairs: elderly professors in tweed and monocles smoking pipes as they discuss old classics that no one has picked up in a hundred years. ... This, however, was not the case at the celebration of Readings’ seventh anniversary, which took place at the Seksan Gallery in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, earlier this month. There was a lot of laughter, cheer and chatter in the air as a crowd of around 40 people comprising writers and writing enthusiasts alike, all came together for an evening of cake, socialising and literature.

Terence Toh writes about the 7th birthday celebrations for Readings@Seksan. I really appreciate the coverage since we really have something good going with these events.  The next is on February 25th.  More news soon.

 

January Readings@Seksan