Monday, March 9, 2015

QUILL CITYMALL SPONSORED THE 3rd IKAL MAYANG FESTCON WHICH WAS LAUNCHED BY MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DATO SRI ROHANI ABDUL KARIM

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IKAL MAYANG FESTCON 2015:
A GATHERING OF 50 ROLE MODELS & 500 YOUTHS

Ikal Mayang FestCon 2015, an event that brought together more than 50 role models model and 500 youths was officially launched by the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development - Dato' Sri Rohani Abdul Karim in Quill City Mall, Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2015.

IKAL MAYANG which begins as an initiative in conjunction with the International Women's Day in 2013, is now expanding into a storytelling movement that includes the community.
                                                                                                                                 
Through this "Role Model" programme, Ikal Mayang FestCon 2015 gathers as many as 50 role models together with 500 youths from the urban poor community (PPR) as well as students from the public and private universities. 

It aims to provide support and inspiring conversations in order to guide them to achieve their own dreams. 

Among the participants of this programme includes artists, celebrities, prominent entreprenuers such as Hans Issac, Mano Maniam, Azura Zainal, Nadia Aqilah, Nam Ron, Niki Cheong, Juwita Suwito, Deborah Henry, Vince Chong, Sasha Saidin dan many more. 

This session aims to open up opportunities for the youth so that their stories will be heard by someone who is already successful or well-known in their respective fields. Storytelling is one of the tools of empowerment that affect one’s standpoint.

In addition to that, other on-going programmes include #SAMASAMABercerita where the public can meet up with their favouritie celebrities like Adibah Noor, Vanidah Imran, Elaine Daly, Ida Nerina many more to hear them telling stories.  

Ikal Mayang FestCon 2015 also features 18 short films this year, and with the theme “SIMILARITIES", it gathers female and male directors to raise women's share of voice in the mainstream media. And they are:


Lisa Surihani | Pete Abdullah | Adibah Noor | Afdlin Shauki | Kavita Sidhu | Vince Chong | Wak Doyok | Davina Goh | Carmen Soo | Siri Thana (THAILAND) | Kang Zetty Anis | Soosan Hoh | Elza Irdalynna | Tan Chui Mui | Khairy Jamaluddin | Michael Cooke (AMERIKA) | Rachael Malai Ali (Brunei) | Lee Yve Vonn

Ikal Mayang FestCon 2015 is proudly supported by Quill City Mall, Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC), The Chicken Rice Shop, SuriaFM - in addition to corporate and individual sponsors. Ikal Mayang programmes are also supported by the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.

ABOUT IKAL MAYANG
Inspired by the Malay saying, ‘rambut sama hitam, hati lain-lain’, Ikal Mayang refers to the long black wavy hair which is also the jewel crown for every female. 

On a bigger perspective, it is a storytelling movement that wants to highlight the importance of storytelling and to be heard while improving women’s share of voice, particularly in the mainstream media. 

By using simple and popular culture such as short films - the Ikal Mayang programmes uses short films as a tool to create conversations and discussions about issue faced by society and highlight the unique stories which can also related to every human being.

In 2013, under the theme “Telling Women Stories”, Ikal Mayang introduces female directors like Susan Lankester, Dira Abu Zahar, Nanu Baharudin, Elaine Daly, Carmen Soo, Sofia Jane, Vanidah Imran, Fauziah Nawi, Shamaine Othman, Aida Fitri Buyong, Sharifah Amani, Mislina Mustaffa, Junad M Nor, Melissa Saila and Ida Nerina who have directed 15 short films (duration of 12 minutes each).

In 2014 with ‘Unspoken Truths’, Ikal Mayang introduces the 2 minutes format and features 2 new director from a public submission and they are Nora Nabila and Elza Irdalynna together with 8 invited directors such as Ineza Roussille, Eja, Deborah Henry, Sharyn Shufiyan, Melissa Indot, Leia Surin Aljoffery, Soefira Jaafar and Junad M Nor. 

An anthology of 6 countries have gathered the South East Asia’s best female directors such as Datin Paduka Shuhaimi Baba (Malaysia), Nia Dinata (Indonesia), Shireen Seno (Filipina), A. D. Chan (Singapura), Niramon Ross (Thailand) dan Siti Kamaluddin (Brunei).

ABOUT WOMEN:girls
WOMEN:girls is a not-for-profit organisation that does empowerment programmes for women and girls through role-modelling. 

It is founded in 2011 as an initiative under Kakiseni where WOMEN:100 was launched to showcase 100 hours of performing arts (which includes music, theatre, workshops etc) in celebration of the centennial anniversary of International Women's Day. 

Its first on-ground campaign, Inspire Now won the Campaign of the Year award at the Malaysia PR Awards in early 2012. Officially registered as a not-for-profit organisation in 2013 under the registration name Pertubuhan Pembangunan Kendiri Wanita & Gadis (PPM-001-10-21072013), 

WOMEN:girls launched Ikal Mayang, a storytelling movement to increase the share of women's voice and Power Lunch Series, a networking luncheon for female leaders to advance other women to the top of the corporate chain. 

Its inaugural Power Lunch Series was selected as one of the satellite events for the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Summit hosted in Kuala Lumpur in October 2013. WOMEN:girls also successfully organised the highly commended TEDxKLwomen talks in 2012 and 2013, with the third in the pipeline for May 2015.

 DATO KEE HUA CHEE HOLDS HIS GOODY BAG CONTAINING KOTEX TAMPONS OF WHICH HE HAS NO USE
 BOTH PLAN TO GIVE TO MEMBERS OF MENSTRUATING FEMALE SPECIES
 LOW NGAI YUEN, PRESIDENT OF KAKISENI, IDA NERINA THE FABULOUS ACTRESS AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF IKAL MAYANG 2015 AND LIM SU CHING
 LOW NGAI YUEN, IDA NERINA AND LIM SU CHING
 DATO KEE HUA CHEE JOINS THE GIRLS
 DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND HIS ANGELS
 IKAL MAYANG MEANS LONG, WAVY, BLACK HAIR' IN MALAY BUT IDA NERINA'S TRESSES ARE BROWNISH BLONDE! AND SHE IS IKAL MAYANG'S CREATIVE DIRECTOR!
 NICE BUT CANNOT BE MISTAKEN FOR IKAL MAYANG! BUT IDA NERINA TOLD ME SHE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE CREATIVE! THERE!
 STUFFING GOODY BAGS

 RARE TO SEE OUR MINISTER OF YOUTH AND SPORTS IN THIS POSITION AS HE IS USUALLY UPRIGHT
 IS KAVITA'S BOOBS ABOUT TO OBEY LAW OF GRAVITY?
 HMMMM
 MELISSA WONG, MANAGER OF QUILL CITY MALL AND MR MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL 2013 JAMES NG YIN TENG
 MELISSA WONG AND TOP MODEL JAMES NG
 CURTAINS UP!








 THE MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DATO SRI ROHANI ABDUL KARIM ARRIVES TO RAPTUROUS WELCOME
 MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DATO SRI ROHANI ABDUL KARIM AND LOW NGAI YUEN, PRESIDENT OF KAKISENI AND IKAL MAYANG 2015

 DATO KEE HUA CHEE JOINS MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DATO SRI ROHANI ABDUL KARIM AND LOW NGAI YUEN

 LONG LINE OF PAPER DOLLS


 THE MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORE COMFY AND PRACTICAL PANTS
 LOW NGAI YUEN EXPLAINING TO MINISTER








 THE MINISTER CHATS WITH IDA NERINA







 WONG KAH LIN, CEO OF THE CHICKEN RICE SHOP WHICH SERVES THE BEST HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE IN OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE AND SINGER JUWITA 
 WONG KAH LIN AND JUWITA
 MINISTER CHATS WITH YOUNGSTERS




















 OFTEN, WOMEN ARE NOT SEEN OR HEARD!
 THEIR VOICES CAN BE SILENCED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!
 OOPS DID I SAY SOMETHING WRONG? AGAIN?
 OH WELL, YOU GET THE DRIFT








 MINISTER OF WOMEN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DATO SRI ROHANI ABDUL KARIM AND MELISSA WONG, QUILL CITY CENTRE MANAGER



 LOW NGAI YUEN SPEAKS EXCELLENT MALAY! I VERY DE IMPRESSED


 ALL GIRLS EXCEPT ONE!


 THE MINISTER IS AN INSPIRING SPEAKER AND VERY ANIMATED AND SINCERE, SAYING SHE NEEDS NGOS AND BODIES LIKE KAKISENI TO HELP HER MINISTRY










 ALL GIRLS EXCEPT ONE!
 SPOT HIM?
 A THORN AMONG ROSES
 HERE IS A ROSE

 THE ROLE MODELS!






 GROUP PHOTO OF MINISTER AND ROLE MODELS!








 ONE FOR THE ALBUM!
 FEMALE POWER!
 YAYY!




 MUM AND DAUGHTER POWER!
 GAIK WONG AND WONG KAH LIN RUN THE CHICKEN RICE SHOP RESTAURANTS WHICH NOW HAS 75 BRANCHES ACROSS MALAYSIA!
 DATO KEE HUA CHEE LOOKING VERY ONG!
 JAMES NG JOINS IN

 JAMES NG, GAIK WONG AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE IN CINEMA TO WATCH THE MOVIE CONSISTING OF 2-MINUTE SHORT FILM SNIPPETS


 JAMES NG YIN TENG, KAVITA SIDHU AND GAIK WONG
 DATO KEE HUA CHEE JOINS IN



 IKAL MAYANG 2015!

















1 comment:

MagneticMoney said...

Brilliant write up. Thank You

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