OzAsia Festival is Australia’s annual premier international arts festival that features the finest theater, dance, music, film, talks and visual arts that Asia has to offer.
As part of CENDANA’s strategic partnership with South Australia, CENDANA signed a MoU with the Adelaide Festival Trust Centre to enhance cultural exchange with the intent of internalising Malaysian artists and professionalising local talent.
Part of this programme includes providing opportunities to a Malaysian administration to be on OzAsia Festival grounds to learn and be part of the team that drives this platform (for many Australian premiere seasons by contemporary artists from Asia and also hosts major international conferences and events that bring together leading arts and cultural representatives to strengthen Australia-Asia arts engagement).
Festival manager and arts administrator Koe Gaik Cheng was selected among 15 applications for an internship opportunity at this year’s OzAsia Festival that will take place from 7th July until 19 August.
“There is no word to describe the excitement I had when I received the news that I was selected for the internship with OzAsia Festival. Coming from an administrative background, I would like to learn more about programming process in a festival and implement them in Little Door Festival that I’m working on. Thanks to CENDANA and OzAsia Festival for giving me this opportunity. Hopefully there will be more support towards the arts and cultural industry in future.”
Highly recommended by Festival Director, Joe Sidek, Koe Gaik Cheng is always willing to share her expertise and help others. Let us together wish her the very best in absorbing and consuming everything that she can learn from her internship at OzAsia and bring back that knowledge while making Malaysia proud.
We wish Gaik Cheng all the best and look forward to her knowledge sharing when she returns!