Urbanscapes 2008

"Urbanscapes is organised by KLue and is the first and only all-day “user-generated” creative arts festival. Urbanscapes aims to bring together communities and participants from the fields of music, arts, lifestyle, film under a single banner to showcase the best of the local scene."

I hadn't had so much fun in such a long time prior to Urbanscapes. It was f**king brilliant! Plus the company was great!
As one of my colleagues rightly said, it's just the type of event I truly enjoy attending. Live music of all genres, theatre, improv theatre, art, crafts, food, etc...

We did some shopping and I found a studded Rolling Stones t shirt!! Just what I have been looking for! RM40.00... no brainer.. buy!!! I cant remember the exact details of the whole day, but the I do remember going to watch the improv theatre and somehow I got dragged in by Amelia and Sophie!
I was really lost.. didn't know what the heck I was supposed to be doing!!! I just went with the flow and had my fingers crossed hoping I didn't look like a complete retard! Unfortunately I'm not all that arty.. haha.. but it was fun.

Later we went into the main building and there was this huge chicken rice box man figure..
quite impressive really..
There were art installations in the lobby of the main building... very interesting indeed...
Later we went to the Acoustic Live House and watched Mia Palencia perform..
she's really entertaining. Very interesting lyrics.. always keeping us in stitches. She's got a really good voice too.


We later progressed to the main theatre where snippets of Air Con by Shanon Shah was previewed. Very disturbing play. I watched it a couple of weeks later. 3 hours long!! no joke.. very heavy stuff. Very eerie at parts and very moving story. Very real in parts too... too real... some scenes I was very very disturbed watching.. almost in tears even..

On our way out, we stopped at the entrance of the main building. A group of percussionists were doing their thing. It was fantastic! The booming rhythms.. they take over your body and it becomes one with the beat. You cant help but stand there and dance... everyone just danced around the performers and then I realized that one of them was Sham from Mix FM!
So I coudlnt help but feel like a gropie and took a pic with him.

We got food cause we were starved by then. The hot dogs were ggggoooooooodddd...
then it was off to the main live stage where local rock bands were playing.. and later to the makeshift outdoor dance floor.. absolutely fantastic dancing outdoors.

All in all, the company was briiliant, the food was good, the Acts were very excellent (well.. mostly.. haha) and I'd definitely go back again next year!