Borneo Arts Festival is a annual event in Malaysia’s Tourism Calendar that organized by Labuan Corporation of Tourism, Culture and Arts Department.
Where is Borneo and what is Arts Festival?
Borneo is located in Southeast Asia included the districts of Brunei, Kalimantan of Indonesia, Sabah Malaysia, Sarawak Malaysia and Labuan Malaysia.
Arts Festival are the exotic culture with its rich and colorful performing arts traditions and contemporary performances. Many performances of visual arts, ethnic music, recitals, traditional ethnic music including mukun (traditional percussions performances), fusion concerts with gambus, traditions ethnic costumes fashion shows and many more.
The Event
3 days 3 nights Borneo Arts Festival Event was held at Financial Park Labuan’s 3 storey space with 8 different stages/areas with all different functions.
The event from 28 till 30 September 2018.
The Program
Regarding the events, they split into 3 sections which are ground, first and second floor. Here I will share three different floors with different events and exhibits.
At ground floor, there are 2 different performance stages with different events. One is at the 2 stage and open area with displaying of Malaysia’s handcrafts, exhibit of local made souvenirs as well as selling local products at each every booths. Beside that, they also have wide variety of foods and drinks bazaar at the open space area. Here I share some pictures during the event happened.
Mukun Competition at Stage 1
Zumba exercises at the indoor open area
Kids coloring contest at Stage 2
Traditional Fashion Show at Stage 1
Exhibit and selling local made products at the indoor open area
Handcrafted Exhibition at the indoor open area
Outdoor Bazaar
The event held for 3 days and 3 nights at the location and at the same time they rent spaces for foods and beverages outlets at the outdoor space area. There are many choices of foods and drinks. From charcoal bbq chicken wings to local foods, homemade syrups to can drinks. Sorry no alcoholic drinks. Just name any of your favorite local foods and definitely is available to find.
While at the other area of Bazaar, they even have things to buy like clothes, plush toys and many more.
At First Floor, there are a huge space of displaying and exhibit The Visual and Art. They have artists that portraits and caricature, face painting, temporary tattoo and many more.
At Second Floor is the main stage or auditorium which can fit more than 2000 people, This is the area where they held their huge group of competitions like gambus, traditional dance, and also the last day of closing ceremony.
Gambus Competition
Best Gambus Player from Brunei carry away a Gambus worth more than 3,000 Malaysia Ringgit and for the best team performance’s prize is 5,000 Malaysia Ringgit
Creative Traditional Dance Competition - there are 28 group of participants from all over Borneo joined the competition and there will be only one winner.
Creative Fashion & Cosplay Costume Competitions
Who Am I?
I’m Nick Chu from Malaysia with my username as @nickychu. I started with #Steemit since January 2018. I love to travel and take photos especially good food to share with others and engage with people around the world.
I own a music store located at Labuan Island in Malaysia. previously named as Victoria that is located between north and west coast of Borneo.
Interested in Steemit?
Steemit is free for everyone. Get your account HERE and let’s blog together!
Need more details?
Contact me at Discord = NickyChu#8777
Hey good info , go im profil 😃😊
Thanks @czarnyofficial
Posted using Partiko iOS
Thanks for using eSteem!
Your post has been voted as a part of eSteem encouragement program. Keep up the good work! Install Android, iOS Mobile app or Windows, Mac, Linux Surfer app, if you haven't already!
Learn more: https://esteem.app
Join our discord: https://discord.gg/8eHupPq
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by NickyChu from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows. Please find us at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP.
Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.
You got voted by @curationkiwi thanks to NickyChu! This bot is managed by Kiwibot and run by Rishi556, you can check both of them out there. To receive maximum rewards, you must be a member of KiwiBot. To receive free upvotes for yourself (even if you are not a member) you can join the KiwiBot Discord linked here and use the command !upvote (post name) in #curationkiwi.
This post has received a 3.13 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @curationkiwi.
You’ve been upvoted by TeamMalaysia community. Do checkout other posts made by other TeamMalaysia authors at http://steemit.com/created/teammalaysia
To support the growth of TeamMalaysia Follow our upvotes by using steemauto.com and follow trail of @myach
Vote TeamMalaysia witness bitrocker2020 using this link vote for witness
You've received an upvote from SteemXP Community
SteemXP Curation Guild is dedicated to the growing Southeast Asia steemit communities. To support and promotes new and promising authors, original and good content from Southeast Asian Nations Member Nation. Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Laos, Brunei.
Check out our Website, Join our community on Discord and support our mission by following our curation guild.
Vote SteemXP Witness @bitrocker2020 using this link