Our post introducing Instant Cafe Theatre’s House of Art & Ideas (CHAI) proved quite popular. ARTERI was at the offical opening a few Saturdays ago, 15 Aug 2009. We were particularly honored to be graced by the presence of YB Deputy Minister of Space and Tourism who planted a tree in CHAI’s garden. Now CHAI is government approved. Alhamdulillah!

Enjoy some scenes from the opening.

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The exhibition HOME is open to the public 17 Aug – 16 Sept 2009.

CHAI House
6 Jalan 6/3, Section 6, 46000 Petaling Jaya.
Monday – Friday, 11am – 5pm

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In addition to being very important, YB Deputy Minister of Space and Tourism is also very good at tree planting ceremonies.

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Rini Fazan, lecturer at Unisel, Nor Azian A. Hasan, a graphic designer and artist Roslisham Ismail looking at Shooshie Sulaiman’s television set from the 70s.

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Playwright Ridzwan Othman and his beautiful wife Sueann Tilaka with Ahmad Fuad Osman’s Homesick photography series in the background. Ridzwan will be staging his play Benny’s Uncle in September.

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Grand dames Seonaidh Chai, Sheila Joseph and Prema Nadkarni.

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Tan Zhihao (who writes ARTERI’s popular Decoding Serdang series), Joyce Teh and Chew Zhi-Ni: students of graphic design at One Academy.

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Karen Tan, Ruzi Mohammed and Vinod Ganesan.

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Actor, singer and dancer Sean Ghazi with arts and culture website Kakiseni co-founder Kathy Rowland. Plus a younger, shyer arts lover.

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L-R: Kareena Tan, Kam Raslan, J. Anu, Jo Kukathas, Eddin Khoo and Naa Murad.

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Renee McIntosh of Australian theatre company Happy Dagger Theatre (currently artist in residence at CHAI) and The Star journalist Andrew Sia.

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Azim Ariff trying to scare Kat Khaled and Suryani Senja Alias in front of a Justin Lim painting.

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British Council’s programme and partnership manager Joanne Low and arts officer Patriana Patrick.

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Hayati Mokhtar and Puteri Gunung Ledang director Saw Teong Hin in front of Hayati’s projected video Penawar.

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In addition to being very important and very good at tree planting ceremonies, YB is also quite the stand-up comedian.

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Former Malaysian Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan and lawyer Animah Kosai.

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Kam Raslan, Sukania and Shanthini Venugopal; Zahim Albakri and Saw Teong Hin.

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Reza Rosli with his work installed in the bathroom! The suspended tanks had fighting fishes in them. Can you spot the reflection of Cathy Chin? (Btw, she is not part of the artwork)

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Balqis Osman, Ryan Lee Bhaskaran, Feez Bakhtiar and Cheryl Tan.

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Two-thirds of Team ARTERI with VWFA manager Snow Ng (who can’t believe she got the last bottle of beer) and VWFA’s regional projects manager Liza Ho.

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The Nut Graph editor Jacqueline Ann Surin, founding member of Five Arts Centre Marion D’Cruz and Ryan Lee Bhaskaran.

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As the night got darker, the lights got brighter…