While contention remains over whether the work is street art or vandalism, drawings and messages have been springing up on walls all over the country since the return to civilian rule in 2011. Two anonymous graffiti artists in the city of Yangon say
Tag : Artists
Farms on the stage
Sunday, July 1 2012
An original project : going from farm to farm, showing professional performances, concerts, exhibitions, artistic workshops... and taste local food. 'Farms on the stage' is on national Tour every day during the summer. 2012.07.01 Farms on the stage.
VIDEOS and PICTURES
Monday, June 25 2012
2012.Zarganar Photo Album : in Burma and abroad Photo Album, 2012.06.06 With Free Z Campaigners in London (video). 2012.03.04 Zarganar at Amnesty International 50th (in New York) Zarganar at Amnesty International 50th 2012.02.21 Free Funeral
Death of veteran journalist Ludu Sein Win
Monday, June 18 2012
Man of letters, committed intellectual and prolific journalist, Sein Win worked tirelessly for the betterment of his fellow citizens. Neither the 13 years he spent in prison nor the partial paralysis he suffered as a result of a heart attack
အစည္းအ႐ံုးအသစ္ကေန ရလဒ္ေကာင္းေတြ ေပၚထြက္ဖို႔ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ေလာကသားေတြ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾက
Saturday, March 31 2012
႐ုပ္ရွင္နဲ႔ ဗီဒီယိုေလာကအတြက္ မွတ္ တမ္းတင္ထားရမယ့္ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္တဲ့ ႐ုပ္ရွင္အစည္းအ႐ံုးျပန္လည္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း ေရးအတြက္ ေလာကသားေတြ အားလံုး တက္ညီလက္ညီနဲ႔ မဲေပးေရြး ခ်ယ္ၾကရာမွာ ရလဒ္ေတြအသီးသီးနဲ႔ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီးကို မတ္လ ၂၃
Free election... in the Film industry
Saturday, March 31 2012
A Planned restructure of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation took an important step forward last week, with the election through secret ballot of members to represent different segments of the industry. More than 1900 members voted in the
Burmese pop : between censorship and piracy
Saturday, March 31 2012
A Burmese pop singer, who grew up idolising far away megastars, describes decades of political isolation as like being “locked up in a cold, dark cave… some people around the world even didn’t notice we exist.” The country’s pop is dominated by
Standing ovation for Zarganar in New York
Monday, March 5 2012
Burmese comedian Zarganar received a standing ovation on Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York when he joined a star-studded line-up in a fundraiser for Amnesty International. Known for his scything jokes about Burma's military generals,
Moustache Brothers hope to enlighten the poor
Thursday, March 1 2012
After years of lampooning the junta, Burma’s Moustache Brothers aren’t ready to stop poking fun at the regime yet, despite dramatic changes that mean laughter is no longer such a risky business. With nothing more than their sharp wit, the
Gros succès pour le film (interdit) The Lady en Birmanie
Sunday, February 26 2012
Le film a beau être interdit par le régime, « The Lady » de Luc Besson est un vrai carton en Birmanie. La faute, ou plutôt grâce, au marché noir. Des milliers de copies pirates de ce film sur la vie de l’opposante Aung San Suu Kyi, interprétée par la
Une résidence royale pour l'armée birmane
Friday, February 24 2012
Sortie du livre "Nay Pyi Taw une résidence royale pour l'armée birmane" La capitale birmane est un lieu si étrange qu'elle justifiait d'être décryptée dans le menu détail pour mieux comprendre les évolutions d'un pays désormais très
Un rappeur bientôt député?
Saturday, February 18 2012
Le chanteur de hip-hop Zayar Thaw se présente aux élections législatives partielles du 1er avril sous les couleurs de la Ligue nationale pour la démocratie, le parti d'Aung San Suu Kyi. Une façon, pour cet opposant qui a déjà goûté à la prison, de
Kachin artists for Kachin refugees
Monday, February 13 2012
Well-known Kachin artists will perform at a concert in Rangoon on Feb. 25 to raise funds for fellow Kachin displaced by an ongoing conflict in northern Burma, according to event organizers. “When Kachin singers in Rangoon discussed about how they
The Yangoon Photo Festival
Sunday, February 12 2012
On Jan 28, the best short photo films produced by the new generation were shown to the public. It is also an opportunity to train Myanmar photo-journalists and artists to multimedia storytelling. The jury presided by Aung San Suu Kyi awarded the top
Literary events censored : lower-level officials do not obey ?
Saturday, February 11 2012
During the past month, township chiefs in Magway Region have not allowed seven planned literary events to be held, according to writers who tried to speak in the area. The writers had planned to talk about rebuilding the country, changing the mindset
မန္တေလးြမို့တွင် အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်က ကာတွန်းြပပွဲ ြပုလုပ်
Thursday, January 19 2012
မန္တေလးတိုင်း အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်က ြကီးမှူးကျင်းပတဲ့ ကာတွန်းြပပွဲတရပ်ကို အခုလ ၂၀ ရက်ကေန၂၁ ရက်အထိ ခင်းကျင်းြပသသွားမှာ ြဖစ်ပါတယ်။ ြပပွဲမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သူ ကာတွန်းဆရာြကီး ဦးဘဂျမ်းရဲ့ ကာတွန်းလက်ရာေတွ အပါအဝင် ြပည်တွင်းက
ရန်ကုန်ြမို့မှာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရသွားတဲ့ ခဏတာ
Saturday, January 14 2012
ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ်က ရန်ကုန်မှာ နိုင်ငံြခားသား ဧည့်သည်ေတွေရာ ြမန်မာနိုင်ငံသားေတွပါ အံ့ြသသွားေစေလာက်တဲ့ အြဖစ်အပျက် တခု ြဖစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒါကေတာ့ လွတ်လပ်ြခင်းအနုပညာ ဆိုတဲ့ ရုပ်ရှင်ပွဲေတာ်ကို ြပည်လမ်းေတာ်၀င်စင်တာမှာ ေအာင်ေအာင်ြမင်ြမင် ကျင်းပနုိင်ခဲ့ြခင်း
Je veux voir la démocratie de mon vivant
Thursday, January 12 2012
L’artiste Ayeko est un des plus célèbres artistes contemporains birmans. Avec une trentaine de ses amis artistes, il a fondé le Mouvement "New Zero" afin d’offrir au public birman des stages gratuits et ouverts à tous sans discrimination :
Burma’s Pop Music girl band : creators, censors...and parents
Monday, January 9 2012
With their sensual choreography and provocative outfits, the five members of Myanmar’s first girl band are pushing the limits of artistic acceptability in this socially conservative country. But when their parents call, asking why they are still not
Art of Freedom film festival. 54 films. 7,000 voters crowned “Cut this Scene”
Friday, January 6 2012
More than 7,000 voters crowned the film Cut this Scene at the Art of Freedom film festival in Rangoon on Wednesday night. 54 films were shortlisted by judges from a total of 188 entrants. Prizes were presented by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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