Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Bali’s Living Arts presentation series

Bali’s Living Arts is a series of live online presentations dedicated to GSJ’s global community of artists, and focusing on the experiences of Balinese arts practitioners.

Suggested sliding-scale donations benefit artists in GSJ’s extended family in Indonesia and around the world, and will be used to distribute care packages to the families of GSJ’s 54 former master artists-in-residence, many of whom continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The presentations will be hosted live on zoom. More info here.

Dates:

August 5
Conversations with Women Musicians in Bali (Part 1)
Sonja Downing (author of Gamelan Girls), interviews composers Ni Putu Hartini (daughter of Bapak I Wayan Suweca, GSJ founding teacher) and Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti (director of Sanggar S’mara Murti). Bilingual Bahasa Indonesia/English with live subtitling.

August 12
Conversations with Women Musicians in Bali (Part 2): Sonja Downing (author of Gamelan Girls) interviews Dewa Ayu Eka Putri (artist-anthropologist, Gamelan Çudamani instructor)

August 19
Composing Between Baleganjur and Math-Metal
Presented by Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena (artist-scholar, faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

August 26
Life and Work as a Balinese Artist in California
Presented by I Made Moja (Bay Area-based Balinese visual artist, shadow designer, and dancer)