Making Mamak: An Open Dialogue with Klang River Festival

The session would share the vision, programs, and future goals of Klang River Festival by the organising team. The public would be invited to join and provide feedback of Klang River Festival to gather collective knowledge from the public in a participatory format. 

The Making Mamak methodology was developed with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) under the Emerging Curatorial Residency programme by ERTI Partner, Clarissa Lim. A blueprint was completed alongside talks in Montreal, Canada and in COEX, in Penang. 

ERTI Research Collective (ERTI) is a research collective building knowledge of the creative economy. Armed with our own arts and cultural practice spanning performing arts, architecture, design and curatorial practice, we intertwine our grounded practice through research driven methodologies. The partners include Ali Alasri, experience in cultural sector growth from his roles at MyCreative Ventures and Think City. He is part of arts policy groups such as ReformARTsi and Arts First Association (AFA). He has previously participated in KRF with his collective, Sans Collective. Clarissa Lim, a cultural worker and PhD candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, conducting research arts collectives in Malaysia's urban environments. Arief completes the team with over ten years of experience in the arts, legal sector, and policy reform. He is the Head of Research at The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism and founder of Panas Panas theatre.