Month: April 2016

Consulate General of Indonesia Gamelan Announcement

The Indonesian Consul General, Sri Wiludjeng, attended both the final performance at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver and the opening of the wayang exhibit at the SFU Museum of Ethnology and Anthropology in Burnaby.

Opening remarks by the Indonesian Consul General, Sri Wiludjeng, complimented SFU on their support of Indonesian culture and education. A short speech at the Museum concert on April 1, 2016 was by the President of SFU Andrew Petter and at the April 16th concert Martin Gotfrit, Dean of Undergraduate Studies opened the Vancouver show.

The Indonesian Consulate in Vancouver website has a story about their involvement with these events.

2016 Final SFU Student Gamelan Performance

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Final Concert of the Simon Fraser University Javanese Gamelan Class – Representatives of the Indonesian and Malaysian Consulates with Professor Sutrisno Hartana and Martin Gotfrit, Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

The April 11th, 2016 final concert and wayang performance was well attended with both the Malaysian and Indonesian Consul Generals in attendance. Martin Gotfrit, Dean of Undergraduate Studies introduced the ensemble and spoke about the 30 year history of the gamelan at SFU.

 

 

Gamelan and Wayang at Burnaby SFU Museum

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Photo courtesy of the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia

Left Back group: Isaac, Benomi, Stefan, Richard, Linda. Right Back Row: Chris B., Ben, Erica, Kyle. Centre to Right. Xiaoran, Professor Sutrisno Hartana, Indonesian Consul General, Sri Wiludjeng, Guest singer Anis Astuti, Joyce, Kelly, Nicola. Left Front group: Chris H., Roy, Bryn. Centre group: Davis, Tess, Dan. Right Front: Brent.

Thank you to all the students who performed on April 1, 2016 at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 8888 University Dr, Burnaby.

SFU FPA 243 Rehearsal Movie

The Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts first year students rehearsing for their public performances. The Javanese gamelan instrument set was a gift to SFU after the Indonesian government brought the set of instruments to be used in the Indonesian Pavilion during the cultural performances at Expo’86.

2016 is the 30th anniversary of the gamelan being part of the SFU educational music program. The class is open to students from many areas of study and some of these students did not practice any musical instrument before beginning to play Javanese style gamelan in January of 2016.

These first year students have not participated in gamelan playing before this class. They all worked very hard to reach a performance level in April. Congratulations to all the students.