Goh Choon Ean

Alongside thirty-odd years of conceptualising, capturing, and creating still and moving images, Choon Ean has channelled her efforts into supporting arts and culture in Malaysia. This includes providing audio-visual documentation, programming arts education workshops, building pipe structures, and designing culture-based tabletop games. Her first published board game was Kaki Lima (2019), which features her photographs of George Town’s five-foot ways in the game’s visual design. She currently runs the LUMA studio in Penang and serves as a committee member of Arts-ED, where she enjoys working with the Projek Bansan team to release her next board game themed after local markets.

Charis Loke

Charis tells thoughtful visual stories. She’s drawn comics, maps, games (Kaki Lima) and sketched at protests, civil society workshops, and a glacier. Formerly the Comics Editor and Illustrations Editor at New Naratif, she commissioned and art-directed over 85 artists from Southeast Asia and the diasporas. At Arts-ED Penang, she designed and facilitated heritage education programmes for youth, including ergonomics and waste management explorations at Chowrasta Market. She was an artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan in 2019. Charis now curates community storytelling projects and illustrates speculative fiction novels. She recently completed an MA in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, using drawing and mapping as research methods.

Chen Yoke Pin

Chen Yoke Pin is currently the Senior Manager for Arts-ED, a non-profit organisation (NPO) based in Penang, Malaysia, specialising in innovative community-based arts and culture education. For over 18 years, she has been producing, coordinating and facilitating community-based projects using creative and educational approaches, primarily for young people in different localities such as George Town, Balik Pulau, Seberang Jaya, etc. She works with artists of various disciplines, educationists, and cultural workers to develop programmes grounded in the community. This includes creative arts programme development, training of creative practitioners, public consultancy projects and cultural mapping research. She has been involved in various dimensions of projects relating to local markets, encompassing developing education programmes for young people, engaging market vendors for a better waste management system and cultural mapping to document the unique cultural assets of the market.

Ooi Win Wen

Win Wen conducts social research and works with artists, cultural workers, and school teachers to design and facilitate arts and culture education programmes, including using local markets as learning sites for youth to explore how social identities affect people’s lived experiences through dialogue and tabletop game design. For launching Kaki Lima, she researched and created content for a social media campaign as well as facilitated public play sessions around Penang. She has also conducted independent and collaborative research in Penang and the U.S. on market privatisation, community-based learning, and multi-stakeholder engagement in schools.

Stephanie Kee

Stephanie spends her days connecting the dots – activating communities and creating collaborations. Her experience spans from designing capacity-building programmes for creative practitioners to coordinating community-based programmes. She also freelances as a writer and creative content developer for arts organisations. Currently, she works with a social enterprise devoted to inspiring people and sharing social innovations to live a more sustainable life, where she manages a mentorship programme for Malaysian game developers to create video games with social impact by bringing awareness to issues of social importance.