And The World Stopped By To Shop

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Look forward to receiving new insights into how the idea of “shopping” and trade and commerce presently co-exist in this vibrant modern Entrepôt – as well as the evolving food scene – and how this has influenced other port cities in the region.

Join our speakers from Melaka and Singapore as we look into the evolution of Malacca from a historical port city to the much-loved bazaar of shopping and food we’ve come to enjoy today! ✨⁣⁣

This is a programme of Prime 53, organised by The Medici Watermark, and curated by Global Cultural Alliance.⁣

Featuring

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Born in France, and married to a Malaccan, trained geographer and historian Serge Jardin calls himself a memory smuggler. For more than 30 years, he has worked as a tour leader, tourist guide, travel agent, and hotelier in Malaysia – all of which have made him fall more in love with Malaysia. Currently, he is living in old Melaka.

With French contribution to Malaysia and Melaka history as his two principal centres of interest, he has penned a few books. The first was “Rêver Malacca”, which was based on the writings of the travellers. Proceeding this, he penned “Malaisie, un certain regard” with Sylvie Gradeler which looked at another angle of arts, crafts, and literature in Malaysia. Moreover, he penned “Malacca Style” with photographer, Tham Ze Hoe.

Aside from the aforementioned, he published (photography by H. Tan and text by J. Bouchaud). In his latest publication, “Diary of a French Missionary”, he expounded on Penang during the Japanese Occupation.

He is currently working on “A Fortuitous Encounter”, “Walks in the French Memory of Malaysia”, and on the translation of the “Account of a VOC Mercenary in Melaka”.

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With four decades of experience across various disciplines in Singapore’s arts and cultural scene and involvement in countless productions for every major art event in the nation, Richard Tan is at present Artistic Director of GenerAsia Limited, a non-profit theatre arts company, dedicated to grooming local talents and promoting Asian works for the younger generation.

Richard is also a creative consultant and show director to Extraordinary People Limited, producing ‘Extraordinary Celebration’ concerts with the theme of inclusivity bringing together special needs children with mainstream students and the supportive community.

In 2004, Richard founded the Peranakan theatre company, The Main Wayang Company, with the aim to revive all things Peranakan. With the goal of passing on the culture and heritage to the next generation, he has been organising cultural festivals, writing new plays, producing new musical works, and curating Peranakan lifestyle fashion and handicraft events.

His Peranakan works in producing and directing original plays and musicals include Desmond Sim’s play, The Chair (2013) for Peoples Association’s PAssion Arts Fest, Siapa Baba? and Malam Newstalgia (2012) with Republic Polytechnic. In 2015, under GenerAsia Limited, was the producer and artistic director of Singapore’s first Peranakan Arts Festival.

In these challenging times, Baba Richard now manages ‘Heritage Corner’, a Peranakan food outlet as a different way of keeping the Peranakan heritage alive.

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At present Chief Executive Officer of Global Cultural Alliance (GCA), a not for profit arts and culture organisation since 2015, Phan Ming Yen has close to 30 years of working experience in the various fields of journalism, arts management, content creation and place management. Phan is also a music historian and his writings have appeared in Cultural Connections, the journal of the Culture Academy of the Ministry of Culture, Communications and Youth and the books Singapore Soundscape: Musical Renaissance of a Global City.