Penang Monthly - June 2021
PENANG-BASED ARTS-ED works at finding creative ways to connect culturally diverse young Malaysians. Besides making sure that the young learn art techniques, it seeks to have them understand themselves and society as well. This is done through participation in community-based art and heritage programmes curated through the years to reflect the tangible and intangible changes in Penang's physical environs.
Read MorePenang Art District - February 2020
A resilient non-profit organisation of 20 years, Arts-ED continues to fuse the arts, culture, and education with its unique multidisciplinary approach to its programmes.
‘The arts have the role to intervene, to highlight or to make life different,’ says Chen Yoke Pin, Arts-ED‘s Senior Manager, while reflecting on the organisation’s work on community-based arts and culture education.
Read MoreAPCEIU News - August 2019
An advanced training workshop to build capacity of Korean educators on developing and implementing GCED teaching methods was held in Malaysia. Co-organized by APCEIU and Arts-ED, the workshop hosted twenty primary and secondary school teachers from July 30 to August 3 in Penang. With ‘GCED through Place-Based Learning (PBL) Approach’ as the main theme of the workshop, participants explored the utility of PBL as a tool to implement GCED.
Read MorePenang Monthly - July 2019
In order for the learning to have a prolonged impact, it cannot be just about getting the grade. “The thing with culture is, you can’t just talk about it and not do it,” says Foo Wei Meng, programme manager at Arts-ED. “It’s a way of living. You can’t just tell the kids, ‘Learn how uncle does this.’ They’ll only do it for fun one time – there’s no sustainability. This is the reality of kids nowadays – they’re learning it to get it over and done with.”
Read MorePenang Monthly - March 2019
Over the years and outside the classroom, several local organisations have come up with creative ways to make learning fun for youths. In Penang, Arts-ED, a non-profit organisation that innovates community-based arts and culture education; and George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI), the state agency for heritage that protects and promotes George Town’s architectural and cultural inheritance; work together to organise the Cultural Heritage Education Programme (CHEP)…
Read Moreichcap.org - Nov 2018
ICHCAP’s Associate Expert B.B.P. Hosmillo interviewed Charis Loke, a teacher and artist from Malaysia, after the 2018 NGO Conference in Hue, Vietnam. Loke is an artist programmer and junior trainer at Arts-ED Penang, where she designs and implements community-based arts and culture education for the youth. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Loke about integrating ICH into non-formal education in Penang, Malaysia.
Read MoreThe Star - Oct 2017
Students of two secondary schools spent a thrilling morning in Penang's Little India enclave learning about turmeric, a versatile and widely used spice. Aimed at letting youngsters experience cultural diversity through food, the workshop is one of the Cultural Heritage Education Programmes (CHEP) jointly organised by George Town World Heritage Incorporated and Arts-ED.
Read MoreBFM podcast - June 2016
Arts-ED is a Penang-based, non-profit organization which empower youth in the community through programmes and curriculums in the arts. Last year, Arts-ED won the UNESCO Wen Hui Award for Educational Excellence and Cultural Expression. Here to tell us more about Arts-ED is programme manager Chen Yoke Pin and Arts-Ed alumnus Khoo Teng Shin, who is currently a final year student in medicine and surgery at Universiti Malaya.
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