What Happen to Jiffest 2011?

Now is already October, which means, there is so many Film Festival around; Q Film Festival, iNAFFF, OK Video Fest, Europe on Screen and some more. In Jakarta, one of the biggest Film Festival is Jiffest, which is held every year on the Q4. For this year, Jiffest was previously planned to run on 14-24 October 2011. According to the press release on last year's Jiffest, they got a huge donation to save Jiffest 2010 and also 2011. Now, the date is very close, but there still no news on Jiffest. There is no website at all, no further clarification and announcement on its Twitter account. 

Social Media Festival

Are you an active social media user? Let's join in the Social Media Fest at FX, Senayan. This is a gathering and educational event of social media user. The participant comes from community, social&youth movement until personal user. The event itself run from 22-24 September and takes place at FX from the first until the seventh floor. You can find a lot of interesting booth and so many interesting workshops, seminars, talkshow and performance from the city's artists.

Jakarta Moon Cake Festival

Hi Event-hunter,


As I mentioned in the previous post, this month is really full of cultural event, all is very interesting and exciting! About those events, I will share just a glance with you, sorry can't make it on details since I'm working on a tight schedule recently. Soo, here is the first event I'll share:

Jakarta Mooncake  Festival

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 Some of them have been out of date.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.

Monas Kite Festival: Let's Run a Kite!!

It's summer time and the good news is, you can see some kites this weekend! Whoaa... I'm so excited about this. Why is that so? Because kite is something that I don't see for a long time, this is not only ordinary kites  and moreover, I don't have to go far to see them Just go to Monas this Sunday and you'll find A LOT. Yes, Monas will not stand alone this weekend because hundreds of kites will color up Jakarta sky.

Little Tokyo Ennichisai

I think I start this project on a right time, or maybe on a right place. There's so much interesting event recently and I become, "Wo u oo.. I'm craving to go to the events but can't do that T____T Rawrrr.. One kind of events that I like very much on school days is Japan events, the Matsuri. So far, I know there will be 2 Japan events, this Little Tokyo Ennichisai and SENYUUM. I will discuss this first ya..

Little Tokyo Ennichisai mostly consists of Japan themed competition; karaoke, cosplay, etc. You can find not only interesting competition to join, but also entertainment from bands and art performance. When your tummy asks for food, there is plenty of Japanese food sold by sponsors.

One tip for attending this kind of event: bring fan, use sunblock and hats if needed! The heat can be so unbearable.

So, here's the predicted rundown: (all schedule can change at anytime)

Dragon Boat Festival 2011

This festival is a famous and festive celebration of Summer Solstice  in Lunar calendar. In Bahasa, it's called "Festival Peh Tjun" which has the same meaning as the English name. Some people also called it Festival Cisadane.

This festival will takes place in the bank of Cisadane River, Tangerang. It's near the Old Market area. You can reach the area by train, it located about 800meters from the train station.

Full schedule can be seen here:

4-5 June : Dragon Boat Celebration 2542/2011

6 June : Cisadane Festival Cultural Performances

7 June : Traditional and Lenong Betawi Dance Competition

8 June : Liong (Dragon), Barongsai (Lion Dance), Wushu and Traditional Betawi Martial Arts

9 June : Dragon Boat Race & Debus/Wayang Golek

10 June : Marawis & Campursari Music

11 June : Calung Music & Dragon Boat Race

12 June : Kole-Kole Boat Race, Cultural Carnival

There will also be photography competition by KFT,  grandprize : IDR 2.5 mio and 10 prizes @IDR 1mio.

NB: There will be around 45 Lion Dance and 15 Liong that plays in the bank of the river. There wil lalso be floating stage for Gambang Kromong Musical Show and from Nan Feng Music Group.

Another unique competition is a contest to make an egg stand still. It can be found at Vihara Nimmala, Tangerang. Viewers can see attractions of up to 1,000 standing egg there.

Besides the festivals and competitions, you can also find unique food that's available during this festival, Bakcang. 

 This is one of the most wanted event in Indonesia for food lovers and photography hunter.

Source: dr. Sindhiarta Mulya, http://smulya.multiply.com/photos/album/250/

SMESCO UKM Festival 2011

On the 1-5 June 2011, SMESCO will held their 9th UKM Festival. In this event, there will be about 315 Small Medium Enterprise Cooperation (Integrated SME or KUKM in Bahasa) business owner from various places all over Indonesia, fill the space of 250 stands in SMESCO Building. You can find many kinds of products, from fashion items to accessories, furniture and households until F&B. This time, the festival title is “Puncak Kreasi dan Inovasi Produk Koperasi dan UKM”. The purpose of this festival is to strengthen the bond between KUKM's products with the people. There will also be fashion show, seminars and culinary festival.

Further info:

SMESCO UKM
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto Kav.94 Jakarta 12780 – Indonesia
Phone: 62.21 2753 5400 (Hunting), Fax: 62.21 7919 4628
mailto : info@smescoindonesia.com
marketing@smescoindonesia.com
www.smescoindonesia.com

Source: http://festivalindonesia.wordpress.com/