Korean Cultural Week 2011

Nah, I'll continue with a Korea cultural event, which will be held from 28 September-3 October at Gandaria City. It is called "Korean Cultural Week". This event is purrfect since they offer both modern and traditional culture of Korea.

The event consists of: 

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.

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. 

 

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 Some of them have been out of date.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.

Book Party!

Halo0~ blog back to life again. Now I wanna greet you book lovers about book party starting from tomorrow. Maybe some of you have heard about this event. It will start from July 2-10 at Istora Senayan Jakarta, open from 09.00-21.00. There will be more than 200 publishers gather there, major and minor publishers. There will also be non-book stands, such as AvTech  and many more.
 
The event itself consists of many small events, for example fun bike, seminar, workshop, book launching, etc etc. For details of events, you can see it on the table below:
 

Event: Aku Cinta Indonesia - I Love Indonesia

Are you a true Indonesia traveler?  If yes, continue your reading!

There is an event called "Aku Cinta Indonesia". It's a contest and the prize is: going travelling to Indonesia's exotic destinations for FREE! All in, you just have to spare your time, prepare your body and open yourself to the nature. You'll visit unexplored places in Indonesia, from Sabang to Merauke. Last year, the winners have the chance to visit Banda Island, Bromo Mount, Kei Island, Papua and many others. The winners also have the chance to get IDR 100,000,000! This contest is held by Detik.com and it's an annual event.

The beautiful landscape of Banda Island with Banda Volcano as the background

How can I join?

Underground Secret Dining, Invitation for All !

Asyik is Beyond Duit!! To Have Fun is Beyond Money!!

What is Underground Secret Dining? This is a worldwide movementby passionate people in gastronomy. It's already run in NY, San Fransisco, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Sao Paulo and rio de Janeiro. Beside Hongkong, Jakarta is the only USD movement in Asia. In Indonesia, it's established by Lisa Virgiano under the name Azanaya.

Azanaya comes from Sanscrete means to have passion for food. They gather people who is passionate with food to try some variety of food which they possibly can't find by themselves. The event is held secretly, with mysterious invitation to certain people, containing the date and area for the event without exact information about the place and food. The place ranged from a ghetto complex, apartment basement, art galleries, local house, public park, or even a floating deck to watch the sunset near the bay area. They choose the venue that brings uniqueness to the whole theme. They'll surely not serve common dishes. What makes it so special is they will NOT tell you the venue and menu in advance.

Why they make it so? Simply because they want to give people an alternative dining experience, but only for people who are really craving for it.

In order to celebrate their second anniversary, USD would like to invite you to their celebration humbly, because they believe that To Have Fun is Beyond Money!! All of you are invited to come on Sunday morning June 26th to Gelora Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Kuningan, South Jakarta.  The event is FREE of charge. You will find food of:

1. Bali Singaraja

2. Tapanuli

3. Ternate

4. Solo

5. Oma Anna HomeMade Jam

6. Rumah Asap : HomeMade Sausages

7. First Love Cake

The price ranged from IDR 2,500 to IDR 50,000.

There are plenty of ATM machine, but make sure you bring enough cash. They'll provide you with mineral water (limited) but it'll be better if you bring your own drink.

 

Suggestion :

BYOC.BYOD. Bring Your Own Coffee. Bring Your Own Drinks.

The event will start on 9am - while stocks last.

So, come and give your appetite a unique gastronomy experience!

Source: Azanaya Second Anniv 

BBJ Movie Screening: Nia Dinata

Bentara Budaya Jakarta is now come back with their monthly movie screening. This time the movie screened are those directed by Nia Dinata. From 24-25 June, they will screen 4 of her movies, one of them, "Perempuan Punya Cerita"  is a collection of short movies from Nia Dinata and three other directors. The other movies are "Ca Bau Kan", "Arisan!" and "Berbagi Suami".

The screening schedule : (NB: it is FREE and open for public)

Friday, June 24th 2011:

17.00: Ca Bau Kan

19.00: Movie Discussion with Nia Dinata

20.00: Arisan!

Saturday, June 25th 2011:

17.00: Berbagi Suami

19.00: Perempuan Punya Cerita

More about Nia Dinata and her movies:

Workshop&Recruitment: Astra

Fellows, for you who recently looking for a job or future job , Astra will held a workshop from tomorrow to Saturday in BINUS. It's free and open for all BINUSian (both active students and the alumnae) and you can be directly processed into recruitment to work in Astra. In the workshop, they will discuss about preparation and problems in Business Process, Competitor, Marketing Analysis and so on. You'll meet the CEO of Astra, got certificate, Lunch+Snack, also door prize and souvenir.

The event lasts since June 9th to June 11th, from 8.00-13.00 everyday at the same room.

You should register yourself first before join this event.

For more information, you can contact:

BINUS Career

Anggrek Campus #2 R.210

+62 21 5345830 ext.1107-1109

www.binuscareer.com

Movie Screening with Movies Explorer Club

Movie Explorer Club is a film based community that cover all movie lovers, movie goers and movie makers. Now they invite you, together watch "Lukisan Keabadian" movie at Rumah Komunitas 3F. This movie is about love story between a painter and a mute girl, till death do them part. Due to the mute character, this movie offers not much dialogue, you can understand the movie through the scenes.

After the screening, you can also attend a discussion with this movie Director Rozi MF, titled: Making Film is Easy.

These event will be held at June 8th 2011, starting from 18.00-done.

Location: Rumah Komunitas 3F

Jl. Panglima Polim V/20, South Jakarta

(Near All Fresh / 711 / in front of Ayam Bakar Ganthari)

CP: Bayu (0817-12815)

HTM: FREE

Source: Nobar

More about Movie Explorer Club: @MoviesExplorer

Nulis Buku Club Chapter 5

Nulis Buku Club, a book writer club is a non-formal club where every writer and writer wanna-be can join and share things in literature world. In every event, nulisbuku.com will invite a senior writer to share his/her experience, discuss about idea and creativity which might be useful for other writers. You can also bring your book to be sell there.

• This event located in EMAX Plaza Semanggi, 15.00-17.00

• MC: Teddy Andika (@teddyandika) and Rinto Navis (@Rinto_114)

• Book Launch: #Icare Writing Competition Books. (There will also be winner announcement of this book competition. Grandprize:  iPad  16GB)

• Free F&B

• If you want to make your writing discussed, please send you writing example  to nulisbuku.com, subject: "#NBC5 Bedah Kata". 
• Make sure you review it in your blog, coz they have special gift for the most exciting review!

For registration it's free, just click here and then click "I'm attending" 

Hv fun!     

Source: http://nulisbuku.com/

SSB Talkshow: Communicating across Cultures: Writing & Editing in English

Yakk...June gonna be a heaven for those who likes to increase their knowledge through seminars and talkshow. On the 4th June, 10.00-13.00, Sampoerna School of Business will held a Talkshow at @america. The title is "Communicating across Cultures: Writing & Editing in English". The speaker is Christian Razukas from The Jakarta Post. This talkshow is Free & Certificate is provided. Reservation until 3 June 2011 at 12.00 PM

For RSVP please send email to:
eka.budiartha@ssb.ac.id or
anddy.steven@ssb.ac.id

with the following details:
1. Full Name (Will be printed on your certificate)
2.email address / Twitter / Facebook
3.Phone number
4.Address
5. Place & Date of Birth
6. Current Activity
7.Institution/School/University

Further information you can send us e-mail or you can contact:
082110570963 (Mr. Eka Budiartha) - NO SMS
Sampoerna School of Business
Building A, Mulia Business Park
Jl. Letjen. MT. haryono Kav. 58-60 Jakarta 12780
www.ssb.ac.id

Note:
We will not reply any sms/text.
We will send you an email to confirm your RSVP
Dress code: Formal, Semi Formal, Casual

Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189135031136672

I will also come to this event. I always eager to improve my skill in English. Besides, I never go to @america and want to see the place badly. See you there!! 

CosmoTalk

Source: Debora