Opened in December 2025, the Lin Xiang Xiong Art Gallery is a landmark cultural destination in Penang and the world’s first art gallery built over the sea. The Gallery houses more than 400 paintings by Professor Lin Xiang Xiong, spanning over six decades of artistic creation. The collection reflects the artist’s lifelong advocacy of “Art for Peace,” featuring works that address themes of anti-war, anti-poverty, and environmental protection. Through compelling visual narratives, the artworks encourage reflection on humanity’s shared challenges and inspire a more liveable, sustainable, and harmonious world. Visitors can also explore paintings in the distinctive Nanyang painting style, capturing the charm of fishing villages, kampong life, and the rich cultural heritage of Southeast Asia. The Gallery also serves as a platform for cultural exchange through forums, exhibitions, and educational programmes that foster dialogue on art, society, and human values. Combining a unique waterfront setting with a remarkable collection of artworks, the Gallery offers visitors a meaningful cultural experience in Penang. [Ticket Prices] MyKad: RM28 (Weekday)丨RM32 (Weekend) Standard: RM36 (Weekday)丨RM40 (Weekend) Senior/OKU/Kids (5-12 Years Old) Enjoy 50% OFF on All Tickets Types Children Below 4 Years Old FOC

More than just a treasure hunt, George Town Cultural Hunt transforms the city into a real-life adventure game where participants explore, discover, and unlock hidden experiences through their mobile phones. Guided by clues and interactive challenges, teams will navigate through the streets of George Town, uncover secret locations, complete missions, and reveal stories hidden within the city’s vibrant culture and heritage. As participants progress through the hunt, they will encounter local businesses, traditional trades, cultural landmarks, and unique community experiences that bring the city to life. Each checkpoint presents a new challenge, requiring teamwork, creativity, observation, and problem-solving to advance to the next stage of the adventure. Blending digital exploration with real-world discovery, the programme turns George Town City into an immersive playground filled with surprises around every corner. Whether you’re racing against the clock, solving puzzles, or uncovering hidden gems, every mission unlocks a new part of the journey! Grab your phone, gather your team, and get ready to EXPLORE, SOLVE, and UNLOCK a side of George Town that few ever get to experience!!

A lettering workshop that borrows the idea of chú-chhá (煮炒 / stir-fry): taking everyday local ingredients and dishes, and transforming them into expressive letterforms. Participants will explore lettering by drawing inspiration from local dishes, ingredients, taste, textures, shapes, and colours, firing up their creativity to design letters with a distinct local flavour. A joint collaboration between huruf × 31A Dept. Store. SUITABLE FOR Beginners and anyone who’s interested in typography or lettering design. Fee: RM68* (inclusive of materials) Pax: Small group session (limited spots) * Enjoy a sharing plate of chhá-pūi (fried rice) and a cup of kek hwa as refreshment.

An open jam for artists, makers, and anyone who enjoys creating together. Bring something to work on, enjoy the music, and make in good company. A crossover with The Makers Market at Hin Bus Depot. RM10 participation fee required.

In conjunction with George Town Festival, Mano Plus Penang presents a thoughtful pop-up display in collaboration with notime towaste and .bungkus. As a curated Select Store, Mano Plus continues to champion local brands, makers, and creative voices that reflect the best of what Malaysia has to offer; selections that are thoughtful, purposeful, and rooted in contemporary culture. With this pop up, explore how soft plastic and textile waste can be transformed into meaningful think pieces as they take many forms that can inhabit our daily lives. notime towaste is not just a design lab, but a living atelier shaped by consciousness, restraint, and intention; a design philosophy exploring how we might live with greater awareness and less excess. Having launched .bungkus as a creative means to work with a commonly discarded material, plastic bags. View the latest collection of bags, accessories and furniture that hope to become drivers for habitual change. Concurrently, peer into the lab’s exploration of textile wastes; another disregarded waste material that deserves a serious introspection of how we value, produce and ultimately discard.

Solo exhibition by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec Involuntary Writing by Amsterdam-based artist Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is presented at Blank Canvas that brings together site-specific murals and a triptych consisting of a digital scan, a black and white photograph, and a rubber stamp imprint. The project highlights unintentional ink stains that occur while writing by hand. The artist turns attention to these unintended marks, treating them as visual forms in their own right, which are magnified and reworked within the exhibition space. He foregrounds their idiosyncratic, irregular shapes as visual elements that are neither illustrations, symbolic representations, nor abstractions, but incomprehensible forms that, nevertheless, radiate familiarity. Rather than trying to define or interpret them, the project leans into this ambiguity by adopting a non-interpretative gaze – one that is more akin to “listening to shapes”, allowing their presence to be felt rather than explained.