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Murni
Biography of female body
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"You
do not fulfill our education requirement. Without a high school
diploma, we cannot exhibit your work! " This was the answer given
to Murni when she applied for an exhibition of her painting at one
of
Ubud's best galleries. The second gallery was more frank: "Your
work
doesn't fall into a category that our "ladies" customers
would appreciate." Since those refusals, however, Murni has held
several exhibitions abroad, and for her last show in jakarta and Bali
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Wayang
Wong Tejakula
Sacred Art of Migrants
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highly spiritual dance drama, wayang wong Tejakula, has its roots
in a migrant community. Alpha Savitri explores this history, and the
mystical tales that surround it. Kintamani is 98 kilometers from Denpasar.
But so beautiful is the landscape you traverse on traveling there,
the kilometers pass quickly by - especially once one enters the cool,
refreshing ambience of the highland Gunung Batur areaIt is the silhouette
of this mountain which. |
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Balinese
Surfer
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Bump
into Gde Narmada and he's sure to be surfing, on his way to
see how the waves are or taking his young son down to kuta beach to
teach him a few things about surfing and always with a look of contentment
or delight on his face, his enthusiasm for surfing obvious an infectious.
But Gde Narmada's love of surfing can seem strange, since he was born
the son of a poor farmer in Tianyar, north Bali, about as far away
from rideable waves as you can get in Bali. It was until 1969, at
the age of four-teen, that Narmada first came to Kuta. |
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