K-Lovers?? Hallyu.Wave.Gathering

Looking for a Korea Event in Jakarta? Well, it's not easy, but you're reading on the right spot. There will be an event called Hallyu Wave Gathering on the October 16th at Korean Cultural Center. The event is mostly aimed at TVXQ (Tohoshinki) fans as a fans gathering event. However, you can also found acoustic band performance, beatbox, Korean traditional dance, cover dance competition, bazaar, games, doorprize and many more.

Short Film Screenwriting Workshop

Do you want to enhance your writing scope? Interested in the idea behind movie making? Edward Gunawan, a scriptwriter and also a filmmaker will help you to explore  scriptwriting process and enhance your ideas in this artsy field. You'll have writing exercises in this workshop which will be held at Bentara Budaya Jakarta. Besides, you'll also watch several short movies and a chit chat on basic screenwriting. Check your schedule on Saturday, September 17th from 10.00-13.00. This workshop is open for students only and you can attend it without any fee.

Save Tidung - GMT2

Have you ever go to Tidung Island? What do you think of it? A clean and beautiful island with romantic love bridge?

You have only seen the surface! Behind all the beauties, lies the other side of tourism: trash, poverty and of course, environmental damage.

Gabung Mulung Tidung (GMT)/ Join to Clean Tidung is a movement which gather people, together clean Tidung from trash, give books donation for the local children, mangrove cultivation and cube cultivation.

The first activity will be done together with local government, tourists, native children and islander. This is very important for Tidung since it is a tourism destination which got trash from Jakarta's river and tourists ALL THE TIME. The second activity is carried out to encourage native children's education for the islander's better future. The third activity is a fun and care event held out to give us knowledge and introduction to environment care. Thousands of mangrove seeds has been prepared for this event. Last, the term cube cultivation may sounds new to your ear. Don't worry, new things are sexy. Did you ever notice that every time you go snorkel to the middle of the sea, the ships have to release their anchor to the sea. It hurts the corals. Here, cube stones can be used as the replacement of anchor. From what I read in Naked Traveller, in Republic of Palau, a country in the middle of nowhere, eh.. in the middle of Micronesia actually :P the boats are forbid to use anchor. In Indonesia, one of the biggest host for corals in the world, there is no awarenesss of that. It's a pity, but this is something we should work out.

Through this movement, it's hoped that Tidung will stay clean and stand as a favourite tourism destination.

Beside environment care activities, this event offer a wide range of fun and exciting activities you can do. Starting from snorkeling with tiny and colourfull fish, jump from the legendary Love Bridge, and take your narsistic pictures. Moreover, you can get a chance to appear on national media; Trans TV, Metro TV, ANTV, Kompas.com, Detik.com, GenFM and many moree.. They are there to get pictures too!

Fun Rafting: Open for Beginner to Expert

Do you want to feel the true nature of water directly? Do you like challenge?

Then this activity is a good way to answer both question above. Rafting is an outdoor activity which use raft to experience body of a river. Here, rafting is classified as extreme sport since it can be dangerous, depends on the degree of water roughness.

This event will be held on Cicatih River at Sukabumi by SWANARAPALA, nature lover organization from BINUS University. Cicatih River provides around 13km rafting adventure and 20 challenging cascades. Start from easy cascade, curvy cascade, to the one that needs high team work to pass. The difficulty level of this river is from I-IV, depends on the cascade. But this river is still save even for the beginner.

Ah, additional information for you, in this adventure, each raft will be accompanied by a skillful skipper. Any possibilities have been prepared well. There is a rescue team ready to help you in case you fall down to the river. There is also insurance prepared for this activity.

Jember Fashion Carnival X

After nine years building success, Jember city will once again takes world's eyes on them through Jember Fashion Carnival X. This year, the overall theme is "Eyes on Triumph". Mark July 24th on your calendar because this will be an international spotlight event. It will get media coverage from hundreds of national and international media. Besides, thousands of spectators will crowded the runway for as long as 3.6 km in Jember. There will be total around 600 participants, divided into 10 defiles, from the first JFC until the ninth. The defiles performing will be:

Let's watch Elizabeth Taylor!

For July, Bentara Budaya Jakarta continues its monthly screening with theme "Elizabeth Taylor movies". So, of course we can see some of her golden movies at BBJ. Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful actress in Hollywood at her age. Her beauty and fame was legendary and she has had title as "Husband grabbers". In fact, she has been married and divorced for 8 times. Her acting is not so prominent, yet she has been awarded with 2 Oscar as the Best Actress. Besides all the excellencies, the world knows her well for her care in AIDS. She founded American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) which becomes the biggest donator for AIDS Research in the world.

Liz Taylor parent is American, but she was born in London on February 17th 1932. She was recognized when she is 7 years old by a family relative. Universal Pictures was astonished to see her and she got a contract for a movie, continued with a contract with MGM. On 1944, she got her first debut as the main actress through National Velvet. This movie was a big success and brought her name into international recognition. 

She was died on the March 23rd 2011. In order to remember Liz Taylor and her journey, BBJ will present six of her movies. 

 

Indonesia has Cassava War!

Have you ever watched tomato war on foreign TV channel? It seems exciting and crazy. I can imagine what I will be in the middle of a war like that. Fox sauced tomato. Hehehe..

Btw, Indonesia has that kind of event too. But in here, they don't use tomato, since tomato price is rising everyday. Instead, they use cassava. In Indonesia, cassava is called "Ketela". The cassava war is part of a series of event called "Festiv-All Tela Indonesia 2011". 

Festival Wayang Indonesia 2011

Hi Event hunter.. After a week hiatus, Fox comes back to the event hunting activities. Actually I have so much to share with you. Some of them have been out of date. But (I think) they're really interesting so I will still share them here for your information of such events. 

I'll start with the poster below.