Anjali at Gadis Of The Galaxy (Festival Perempuan 2018)

After discovering a mysterious orb in the form of empowerment, women, non-binary, and transgender artists from Earth are now the main target of a misogyny. Being hunted across the galaxy, we were all lumped together with a group of misfits that learned how to get along in becoming "Gadis of the Galaxy" with the help of Empower Malaysia and If Walls Could Talk.
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JEE WEN MOK trustingly leans on poetry as a helm to navigate through this elusive gift of life, and hopes their writing do a better job at portraying who one is than a self-written bio.
ANJALI likes telling stories. She has told stories through paintings, films, poetry and theatre.
AFI NOOR's poems have graced Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and London. Other than her first collection, Ten Poems (2013), her poems are also featured in Kisah Journal by PUSAKA, Asian Centre Anthology of Malaysian Poetry in English and Rambutan Literary. In 2016, she was part of King's College London's King's Players and performed the spoken word/physical theatre show called The Surge at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is currently part of Speakcityasia as the organiser of the monthly poetry workshop series, Spill the Ink Poetry Lab.
PAVITHRAH SAMBU is a poet who embodies her glorified melancholia overdosed on bru coffee & thosai poddi. Here to write from a place of love.
SHEENA BAHARUDIN is a cikgu, published performance poet and mother of two kucing. She is the author of Rhymes for Mending Hearts and All the Bodies We've Embraced. She currently hosts Season 2 of Speak Easy on BFM.
TINGTONGKETZ started as a full line up Transpersons band but evolve later to include other Queer members. Their music Its just their expression of where they come from; Malaysia, and using simplest instruments basic 3 piece band, gutar/vocal, bass and a drum. Current line up is Gemma: Bass, Yon: Drum and Shika: Guitar/vocal.
Hosted by: Nana
NANA's original poems and short stories have been published both on international (USA and Indonesia) and local platforms. They often write and perform in Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, and English. With an avid interest in education through poetry and arts, Nana has also been teaching in Malaysia and even Brunei. They also have self-published zines of their own writing and artwork, and that of others. Nana was one of the directors for Ridhwan Saidi's Teater Modular and has received very positive reviews for their writing and performance for The Human Exhibit: Mentalhealth.
Open Mic-ers:
Aya Adil Elbaz
Sara Yee
Farah Aiman
Nuha Nasheed
Rachel Ooi