just back from singapore where i participated in the litup asia pacific 2018 festival that brought cultures from the south asia region together with westerners like myself and merged in lectures and performances the traditional with the cutting edge.

poet and organizer dr. chris mooney-singh and his wife savinder kaur invited me to speak on sansar and showcase where the train is headed in social vr.

i also met sl/sansar friends scott grant and jj jegathesan for the first time in the physical world.

30 hours roundtrip later i am invigorated with possibilities as i saw young folks embrace their traditional dance, their oral traditions, their literature as well as immersive virtual worlds and digital animation.

a few excerpts of longer interviews today for this special show. taped at aliwal arts centre and lasalle college for the arts.

enjoy:

and some more stuff to watch [we don’t have all the videos archived yet but a special drax files documentary is forthcoming]:

• savinder kaur, festival director – the most amazing organizer i met! tireless. fearless!

• chinese teochew opera performers getting ready back stage:

• more backstage from lasalle college performances:

 

• second life and learning chinese with scott grant:

• KristovFur helped us so much with filming and his work as a playwright will be featured in the upcoming doc about the festival.

• the festival was full of traditions but also cutting edge = radheya jegatheva and the film he presented blew me and everyone else away:

• the slam poetry night at blu jazz cafe was awesome. featured musician = cronkite satellite:

• we brought the atlas hoppers to singapore … in a virtual sense … and loki eliot for one liked it!

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