November 15, 2024 -Friday

Wednesday 26/09/2018

Members of the media are invited to the launch of Dato' Dr. M. SHANmughalingam's latest book, 'Marriage & Mutton Curry', happening at 3.30pm on Thursday, 4 October 2018 in Black Box, MAP@Publika hosted by none other than The Cooler Lumpur Festival. In this regard, His Royal Highness Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah has graciously consented to officially launch the book and will be in attendance with Her Royal Highness Tuanku Zara Salim.

Published by Epigram, this book paints, with gentle wit and humour, the concerns and intrigues of one community in Malaysia. Satirical yet deeply empathetic, these fifteen stories explore what happens when we hold on to - and choose to leave behind - our traditions and identities in a changing world. A kimono-clad Tamil woman greets Japanese soldiers at the door while her Anglophile husband cowers in his Jaguar. An American diplomat's urgent enquires about the Malaysian treasury's facilities are hilariously misunderstood. A daring civil servant proposes to a Ceylonese lady in his hometown mere minutes after meeting her, breaking a thousand years of marriage protocol.

Full event details below:

Day/Date : Thursday 4 October 2018

Time: 3:30 - 6:30pm (Media registration begins at 3:30pm)

Venue: Black Box, MAP@Publika, 1, Jalan Dutamas 1, Solaris Dutamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur

Dress Code: Smart Casual / Batik

Programme

4.00 pm : Arrival of HRH Sultan Nazrin Shah and HRH Tuanku Zara Salim

4.15 pm : Umapagan Ampikaipakan in conversation with M. SHANmughalingam

4.40 pm : Reading of book excerpts

5.00 pm : Royal Speech by His Royal Highness Nazrin Shah & launch of book

5.30 pm : Refreshments

6:00 pm : Departure of HRH Sultan Nazrin Shah and HRH Tuanku Zara Salim

: Book signing

To confirm your attendance, kindly RSVP to me at joekwan@madhat.asia / 012 257 9763 or my colleague Vanesa at vanesa@madhat.asia / 016 342 5957 by 5:00pm on Monday, 1 October 2018.



About The Cooler Lumpur Festival

The Cooler Lumpur Festival is a multidisciplinary festival curated by PopDigital. The Kuala Lumpur-centric festival adopts specific themes each year with the aim to expand the city’s cultural horizons, build stronger communities and cultivate the creativity and imagination of people.

In 2013, The Cooler Lumpur Festival debuted under the simple theme of #WORD which set out to explore the written and spoken word.

The annual festival’s sophomore edition was themed #FAST – rooted in the notion that the driving-force behind successfully fast-forwarding development was through sharing, engaging and experimenting in new ideas.

2014’s #FAST was attended by over 5,000 attendees and featured contributions from artists, musicians, writers and thinkers including Man As an Literary Prize winner Miguel Syjuco, The Man Booker-nominated writer Adam Foulds and Damian Barr who was named Writer of the Year at the 2013 Stonewall Awards.

2015’s festival theme DANGEROUS IDEAS celebrated ideas as the driving force behind every decision we make, the root of all human progress, the power and means to overcome difficulty and the impetus to take action against injustice. DANGEROUS IDEAS featured panels and lectures by Lindy West, Ian Doescher and Tun Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

Its fourth installment in 2016 titled RE: INDEPENDENCE drove healthy discourse amongst communities, on everything from independence in nation building, right down to independence in our everyday lives. Amongst the concepts explored was the paradox of technology – it automates so many daily tasks for humans free their minds for other things, but most urban dwellers are also slaves to these mobile devices.

The fifth year's edition in 2017 titled NOTES FROM THE FUTURE looked to the social, political, technological and cultural ideas that have become representative of these times and tell the story of our collective futures.

You are cordially invited to send your reporter and photographer/cameraman to cover the event.

Source: Mad Hat PR PLT

FOR INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA ENQUIRIES, KINDLY CONTACT
Name : Joe Kwan
Tel : 012 257 9763
Email : joekwan@madhat.asia

Name : Vanesa Paxton
Tel : 016 342 5957
Email : vanesa@madhat.asia

-BERNAMA