Glimpses: Art, Class, Food, People
Okay, it’s been a while since we posted any photos. Between talking about our personal experiences, to classes, to food forays, here’s another photo blog.
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- I was so excited to discover this little pocket of Frenchiness in Indonesia. Might be coming back here for some practice sometime.
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- Watching a collection of short films on different sexual relationships and genders in Jakarta.
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- A photo with the crew in the house of one of the artists in the Kotak Hitam Forum, where Elizabeth will be working and helping make documentary films that push the boundaries in terms of conservative political, cultural, environmental issues. (Photo credits: Kotak Hitam Forum).
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- Learning about one of the films. (Photo credits: Kotak Hitam Forum).
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- Sharing impressions and ideas on the films. (Photo credits: Kotak Hitam Forum).
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- First night everybody meets! The George Mason University students who are also here on a different program and working with Leslie Dwyer and taking institute classes with us; the Indonesian participants who’ll be partnering with us; and the administrators and teachers who’ll be with us throughout the summer. It was a great start to a productive next two weeks.
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- First class with Leslie and our Indonesian counterparts. They are: Tiwi, Tere, Brito, Jessica, Laksmi, and Raisa. They’re all bright, intelligent, interesting – we’re all excited to be working with them.
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- Our Institute classes on Indonesian politics, history, Islamic influences and history, LGBT rights, dance and art, and many more. (Photo credits: Naila Enka).
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- (Photo credits: Naila Enka).
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- One restless day, Amanda, Elizabeth, and I went to Malioboro street to look at Batik art at its best, where the gallery owner was disappointed that we were unfazed and not tempted by the ‘student discount prices’.
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- Happy birthday, Elizabeth! Our great teachers threw her an awesome party in the morning, then another one at lunchtime that Amanda, the Indonesian participants, and I planned ourselves.
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- The gang, minus Jacob, Brito, and Colin (from left to right): Jessica, Tiwi, Tere, Naila, Elizabeth, Jacob, Amanda, Me, and Laksmi,
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- Birthday girl’s cake.
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- We went for karaoke with our darling teacher, Mas Ade, where we had a blast singing Indonesian songs (or Mas Ade and his friend Mas Fendi did), contemporary to classic music, and everything in between.
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- A visit to the organic farm, which is explained in more detail in Alex’s blog.
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- Cylinders for their solid waste (a.k.a. Luke Skywalker’s farm buildings in “A New Hope” according to Alex).
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- Various animals mixed with the different types of plants.
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- A gorgeous, hill-side house that Mas Is, the owner of the organic farm, is building for his son.
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- Explaining about a bamboo house – very sturdy and environmentally-friendly. We had a very inspiring talk on applying the same principles on our own lives.
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- Being welcomed into his house.
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- The entrance to his house.
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- A political event on our way to Parangtritis beach after the organic farm.
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- Parangtritis beach.
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- “Being a bule in Indonesia makes you a celebrity.” – Amanda Beardall
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- The view during our cross-cultural sharing with our Indonesian partners.
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- Bram’s talk on violence in the name of Islam, where he described how he had publicly orchestrated a ‘curse’, to which the extremists Muslim groups responded by preventing him from completing the ‘curse’.
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- A city tour on the art round Jogja with Mas Samuel Indratma. He began with a project on creating colorful paintings of the senses and other drawings, mostly by young disabled kids.
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- Riding a tri-motor car.
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- A project on the highways of Jogja by local artists on different depictions of Indonesian/Javanese life and art (i.e. wayang, etc.) that are usually critiques.
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- Visiting a puppet maker (wayang).
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- Our awesome Indonesian partners, Tiwi and Raisa.
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- Getting ready to visit the ‘gay club’/ drag show.
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- A little cuteness from Rose and Sari.
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- The interesting ‘Heterosexual-Queer Cabaret’.
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- One of my favorites: Shakira.
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- Definitely great: She flips over in the final moments of a Rihanna song.
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- The finale, and afterwards, the dancers lined up outside to take photos with the spectators. All in all, a good show.
