TEWAS: No Light at the End of the Tunnel

“TEWAS: No Light at the End of the Tunnel” is a visceral theatrical experience that exposes the devastating impact of bullying—from school corridors to workplace hierarchies. Through raw storytelling and explosive physical theatre, the work plunges audiences into a fractured world shaped by violence, silence, complicity, and survival.

After its premiere in Penang and a powerful Kuala Lumpur season, “TEWAS: No Light at the End of the Tunnel” now arrives at the George Town Festival. Its Kuala Lumpur presentation garnered seven nominations at the 2025 BOH Cameronian Arts Awards, culminating in a win for Best Group/Ensemble Performance in the Theatre category.

Unflinching yet deeply human, “TEWAS: No Light at the End of the Tunnel” stands as both a performance and a reckoning, a collective scream from those trapped within systems that fail to protect them.

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TypeChhá @ Jio Ba

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.

Street Fragments: Jalan Gurdwara

Slow down and look closer, the streets here hold many untold stories beneath their surface. “Street Fragments: Jalan Gurdwara” invites audiences to rediscover one of George Town’s familiar streets through the traces of its layered past. Once known as Brick Kiln Road—named after brick kilns whose exact locations have long been forgotten—today’s Jalan Gurdwara takes its name from the century-old Sikh temple that continues to stand as a landmark of the neighbourhood.

Involuntary Writing

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.