Source: The Art & Science of Wellness newsletter. The world’s best-loved musical, The Sound of Music, premieres in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the Istana Budaya from 27 December 2022 until 15 January 2023 with a brand-new international production. This highly acclaimed original production tells the uplifting true story of Maria, the fun-loving governess who changed the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children by re-introducing them to music and culminating the family’s flight across the Austrian mountains as tensions rise prior to the outbreak of World War II. The original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, a Grammy Award for Best Show Album, and was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s biggest success. The 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and remains one of the most popular movies of all time. Team AFT finds this delightful production very apt to lifting the mood of people in Asia Pacific in a post-pandemic climate. As such, our team will be promoting this show as a part of Asia Fitness Today’s efforts to inspire people through the arts in song and dance. A truly international and local production Earlier this year in June, show presenter Base Entertainment and its producer Broadway International and local Malaysian rehearsal partner Dominus Arts Venue went in search for aspiring young talents from all walks of life. Out of the 400 children that attended the auditions, 18 outstanding girls and boys (six children cast in three rosters) from Malaysia were chosen for the opportunity of a lifetime to play the roles of the six younger von Trapp children: Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta and Gretl. In addition to the involvement of local young talent, over 100 Malaysians are involved in the international production by Broadway, working in all areas of lights, stage, coordination and food for the production, the hills are very much alive for the performing arts industry in Malaysia with this production! An all-American cast includes Trevor Martin plays Captain von Trapp, Annie Sherman is Elsa Schraeder, Jill-Christine Wiley is Maria Rainer with Lauren Kidwell as Mother Abbess and Lauren O’Brien as Liesl. The Sound of Music International Tour is directed by three-time Tony Award-winner and Broadway veteran Jack O’Brien, choreographed by Danny Mefford and music supervised by Andy Einhorn. The musical is produced by Broadway International Group, Simone Genatt and Marc Routh, and presented in Malaysia and Singapore by Base Entertainment Asia. Let the hills fill your heart with The Sound of Music! Thanks for reading The Art & Science of Wellness! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.✓ Southeast Asia Tour Malaysian Ticketing Promotions: For ticketing and booking enquiries, visit this link from your desktop or laptop: https://premier.ticketcharge.com.my/shows/show.aspx?sh=TSMUSIC22&fbclid=IwAR2pOyFCLrmalEQDRhPYnb7i-L9aaXNLOiHqrGhfryoM6O9nrTVT7zJ655A *Terms and conditions apply. Note: The Sound of Music is a musical is based on a 1949 fiction novel by von Trapp, titled ‘The Story of the Trapp Family Singers’ and scenes including a chapel, nuns and Nazis do not infer nor claim historical authenticity or accuracy in terms of the names of the places, characters, sequence of events. The presenter, producer, artists and any other persons associated with the musical do not intend to malign, defame, slander, hurt or be disrespectful to any person(s), place, region, country, religion, community or individual(s) or religious sentiment(s), beliefs or feelings of any person(s). Like this? Share The Art & Science of Wellness Share it: AsiaFitnessToday.com The hills are alive with The Sound of Music in Malaysia under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Source: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/the-sound-of-music-malaysia/ Show insurance brokers
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GoInternationalGroup.com and AsiaFitnessToday.com supported award-winning filmmaker/director/actor and newly crowned Best Actress of the Year by the Festival Filem Malaysia awards in December 2022, Tan Chui Mui revealed her third feature film with a film opening gala screening and fitness activation campaign. On Sunday, 4 December 2022, hundreds of people gathered at Dataran DBKL for the weekly KL Car Free Morning. Phang Kuok Sing of Kisetsu Kimonos and Cassandra J. Poyong, National BJJ World Champion showcased Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and movie-goers were invited to snap a selfie of their most creative poses for a chance to win prizes. Winners of the contest announced in this link. Move8 congratulates writer, director and stunt actor Tan Chui Mui for picking up the Festival Filem Malaysia 32 Best Actress award for her role in Barbarian Invasion (Belenggu)! A message from our movement partners: KL Car Free Morning Go Green & Stay Healthy! Kisetsu Kimonos W Fitness SuspendTone By Mr Wai is a program that I’m specifically coaching online and onsite now. For this contest, I am offering the SuspendTone by Mr Wai 1:1 personal training session. Elemental5 Elemental5 was founded by Clarence Chua and Teddy Meng with the hopes of spreading Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) in Malaysia. Based in Taman Paramount, Petaling Jaya, Elemental5 is currently one of the most accredited FMA groups in Malaysia and officially represent internationally recognised organisations such as the Dagooc Arnis System & The Pekiti-Tirsia Tactical Association. Media partners Tags barbarian invasion, Belenggu
Kerry-Ann Augustin, Senior Writer at airasia interviews GIG co-founders, Jasmine Low & Nikki Yeo about their podcasting experience. View the published article on airasia’s website. Kerry-Ann Augustin: You’ve been working on three different podcasts – Asia Fitness Today’s Kurang Manis, Move8 … what triggered the idea behind each of them? Jasmine Low: In February 2019, I had won a second prize from the Motion Picture Association International Script-to-Screen Workshop Malaysia for KURANG MANIS (Sugar, Less), a documentary about six Malaysians who bare all about their hopes and dreams about New Malaysia and what it means to be amongst one in two Malaysians who are obese. The prize was a trip to attend the Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne in March 2020. We attended this and learnt so much about factual content-making, and it also opened our minds about content distribution. Although Kurang Manis was to be a film project, MCO lockdowns in Malaysia and filming restrictions meant that co-producer Nikki and I had to improvise and to launch the documentary as a podcast first. This is an impact project inspired by our own health, spurred on by national health statistics that show Malaysia’s alarming figures of increasing non-communicable diseases and the objective of the project is to entertain while educating Malaysians about nutrition and sedentary lifestyles. So we buckled down, and self-funded and produced the first season of Help! I’m Prediabetic! The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast which rolled out on 9th February 2021. Our first season includes an impressive list of guests; 2020 Australian of the Year, Ophthalmologist and Chairman of Sight for All Foundation, Dr. James Muecke who champions diabetes awareness to prevent loss of sight and also The World Games Greatest Athlete of All Time (squash) Nicol David among other stellar guests which included scientists and physicians. We’re now in the planning stages of season two. In addition to Kurang Manis, we also produce The Move8 Fit for Good Podcast where we interview fitness professionals who use their fitness for good. Here, we speak about exercise, movement therapy and strength building from a physical and mental standpoint. Thank you, airasia and Kerry-Ann! airasia berhad is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline. Since 2018, the group’s businesses have include hotels, holidays, activities, online shopping and a robust travel, lifestyle and e-commerce platform delivered via the airasia super app. Most recently, the group has pivoted to offer integrated logistics including last mile deliveries through Teleport and digital financial service via its money app, BigPay. Listen to Talks with Tony, a new podcast by airasia Co-Founder and CEO Tony Fernandes.
The International Surrealism Now Exhibition will open in 2020 (with exact dates to be announced soon) at the Center of Arts and Spectacle (CAE) in the city of Figueira da Foz in Portugal, and in the ambit of celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 14th edition of the International Surrealism Now exhibition. Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Iran and the Philippines will be represented in the next edition of Surrealism Now, the largest World Surrealism exhibition of the 21st century which gathers artwork from 53 countries. Bien Banez, Philippines, Chuang Chih Hui, Taiwan, Cynthia Tom, China / USA, Gromyko Semper, Philippines, Farhad Jafari, Iran, Iwasaki Nagi, Japan, Lv Shang, China, Radhika Menon, India, Shoji Tanaka, Japan, Shan Zhulan, China, Sio Shisio, Indonesia, Vu Huyen Thuong, Vietnam, Yang Sumin, Taiwan and Jerome Kugan, Malaysia are the artists whose work will be present in the International Surrealism Now. The exhibition is a project created by Santiago Ribeiro, Portuguese surrealist artist, and started in 2010 at the Bissaya Barreto Foundation of Coimbra. In these 10 years, the exhibition has toured various parts of the country from Lisbon to Porto. It was also toured the world via satellite exhibitions in the United States such as Dallas, Los Angeles, The University of Mississippi and New York, also in Europe in Berlin, Paris, and Madrid among others always promoted and organised by Santiago. This exhibition has become the largest exhibition of surrealism of the 21st century in the world, consisting of works of painting, drawing, digital art, sculpture and photography by 126 participating artists from 53 countries – Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, India. This release has been distributed by PRNews.gointernationalgroup.com About Santiago, the mentor, and promoter of the largest exhibition of surrealism in the 21st century in the world, the International Surrealism Now, already has numerous presences around the planet as well as Berlin, Moscow, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Indiana, Denver, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Nantes, Paris, London, Vienna, Beijing, Florence, Madrid, Granada, Barcelona, Lisbon, Belgrade, Monte Negro, Romania, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Minsk, New Delhi, Jihlava (Czech Republic) and Caltagirone in Sicily and many cities in Portugal. The Arts and Entertainment Center (CAE) was opened in 2002. Large cultural structure (2,200 and 800 seat auditoriums – outdoor amphitheater, foyer, breakout rooms, studios, 4 exhibition halls) was thought of as a centrality with European Community funds and its programming tends to go through major national and international shows and this structure is also linked to other programming centres and events, in an anchor logic that disperses without losing continuity. Below are the names of the artists: Achraf Baznani, Morocco / Agim Meta, Albania-Spain / Aissa Mammasse, Algeria / Alessio Serpetti, Italy / Alvaro Mejias, Venezuela / Ana Neamu, Romania / Ana Pilar Morales,Spain / Andrew Baines, Australia / Asier Guerrero Rico (Dio), Spain / Axel Blotevogel, Germany / Brigid Marlin, UK / Bien Banez, Philippines / Can Emed, Turkey / Carlos Sablón, Cuba / Cătălin Precup, Romania / Chuang Chih Hui, Taiwan / Cristian Townsend, Australia / Conor Walton, Ireland / Cynthia Tom, China / USA / Dag Samsund, Denmark / Daila Lupo, Italy / Dan Neamu, Romania / Daniel Chiriac, Romania / Daniel Hanequand,France / Canada / Daniele Gori, Italy / Delphine Cencig, France / Dean Fleming, USA / Domen Lo, Slovenia / Edgar Invoker, Russia / Efrat Cybulkiewicz, Venezuela / Egill Eibsen, Iceland / Erik Heyninck, Belgium / Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, Italy / Fabrizio Riccardi, Italy / Farhad Jafari, Iran / France Garrido, USA / Francisco Urbano, Portugal / Gabriele Esau, Germany / Genesis Cabrera, USA /Graça Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal / Graszka Paulska, Poland / Gromyko Semper, Philippines / Gyuri Lohmuller, Romania / Hector Pineda, Mexico / Hector Toro, Colombia / Henrietta Kozica, Sweden / Hugues Gillet, France / Isabel Meirelles, Portugal / Iwasaki Nagi, Japan / James Skelton, UK / Jay Garfinkle, USA / Jay Paul Vonkoffler, American / Argentine / Jerome Kugan, Malaysia / Jimah St, Nigeria / Joanna Budzyńska-Sycz, Poland / João Duarte, Portugal / Keith Wigdor, USA / Leo Wijnhoven, Netherlands / Leo Plaw, Germany / Liba WS, France / Lubomír Štícha, Republic Czech / Ludgero Rolo, Portugal / Lv Shang, China / Maarten Vet, Netherlands /Maciej Hoffman, Poland / Magi Calhoun, USA / Marnie Pitts, UK / Maria Aristova, Russia / Mario Devcic, Croatia / Martina Hoffman, Germany / Mathias Böhm, Germany / Mehriban Efendi, Azerbaijan / Naiker Roman, Cuba / Spain / Nazareno Stanislau, Brazil / Nikolina Petolas, Croatia / Octavian Florescu, Canada / Ofelia Hutul, Romania /Oleg Korolev, Russia / Olesya Novik, Russia / Olga Spiegel, USA / Otto Rapp, Austria / Paula Rosa, Portugal / Paulo Cunha, Canada / Pavlina Boroshova, Switzerland-Germany / Pedro Diaz Cartes, Chile / Penny Golledge, UK / Peter MC LANE, France / Philippe Pelletier, France / Radhika Menon, India / Richard Shannon, USA / Roch Fautch,USA / Rodica Miller, USA/Ruben Cukier, Argentine / Israeli / Rudolf Boelee, New Zealand / Russbelt Guerra,Peru / Sabina Nore, Austria / Sampo Kaikkonen, Finland / Santiago Ribeiro, Portugal / Sarah Zambiasi,Australia /Serge Sunne,Latvia / Sergey Tyukanov, Russia / Shahla Rosa, USA / Shoji Tanaka, Japan / Shan Zhulan, China / Shia Weltenmenge,Germany / Sio Shisio, Indonesia / Slavko Krunic, Serbia / Sônia Menna Barreto, Brazil / Steve Smith, USA / Stuart Griggs, UK / Svetlana Kislyachenko, Ukraine / Svetlana Ratova, Russia / Tatomir Pitariu, USA / Tersanszki Cornelia, Romania / Tim Roosen, Belgium / Ton Haring, Netherlands / Victor Lages, Portugal / Vu Huyen Thuong, Vietnam / Yamal Din, Morocco / Spain / Yang Sumin, Taiwan / Yuliya Patotskaya, Belarus/ Yuri Tsvetaev, Russia / Zoltan Ducsai, Hungary / Zoran Velimanovic, Serbia. Contacts:Centro de Artes e EspectáculosRua Abade Pedro3080-084 Figueira da FozTel: 233 407 200Fax: 233 407 209E-mail: geral@cae.ptwww.cae.pt Hours:Monday to Thursday: 9 am to 11 pm;Friday: 9 am to midnight;Saturdays; 10 am to midnight;Sundays and holidays: 10h00 to 19h00;Show days: until the end of the show