Monday, 1st January 2007: The Ricecooker & Bau Bau Café - Ground Breaking Party
@
Central Market

The Ricecooker & Bau Bau Café are having a join-party as a groundbreaking
ceremony for
their shops at the Terrace, 1st Floor, The Annexe, Central Market, KL.

Details and map below. Flyers on the way!

THE GONDRONG RETURNS!
LOCK UP YOUR BELIAS! IT'S THE KUTUS HOMECOMING!
Monday, 1st January 2007
FREE FOR EVERYONE
starts at 8.30 PM
First Floor Terrace, The Annexe, Central Market, Kuala Lumpur
Bring your own merrymaking utensils!

Everyone is invited to come and join the fun. There will be a free film
screening by the
KWKL gang (Kaki Wayang Kaki Lima) inside The Ricecooker featuring some shorts,
indie
and documentaries. On the terrace, we will have a small stage for acoustic and
theatrical
performances. The Bau Bau Café will be presenting their menu for testing! All
food and
drinks free as long as it lasted lah!

People taking part:

Azmyl Yunor, Sherry, M. Jayzuan, Fathulistiwa, Sei Hon, Rahmat Haron, Aiman
Civil
Disorder, The FNBKL Group, Jalan Kempas Troupe, part of the Tugu Circle
Percussion
Group, Sumbang and more to be confirmed.

Films to be shown:

The Idiots, Kalsom, The Corporation, The Road to Guantanamo, John Pilger's New
Rulers of
The World, Don Lett's Punk - Attitude, Urgh! A Music War! and more TBA.

WHY?

Central Market has always been the home for the local underground music and
alternative
or subculturally-inclined creative people ever since the mid-80s. It was where
all the
bands, writers, editors, DIY record label people, independent music promoters,
street
artists, buskers, painters, etc. came together everyday to meet, hang-out, plan
their
projects, and more. It was a potently creative scene which had given birth to
many
currently well-known artists, musicians, writers and more.

However, the closing of the Hameed Restaurant (situated inside the Central
Market) earlier
this year signified the final nail in the coffin for the arts and music scene in
KL. With no
central place to meet, the Kuala Lumpur offbeat, non-commercial creative people
are
generally scattered all around the city, with a large number of them opting to
just stay at
home and watch the idiot box instead! This sudden vegetation of the creative
minds of our
pemuda-pemudi harapan bangsa is very alarming and unhealthy indeed.

With that in mind, two entities have been hard at work trying to resurrect the
old Central
Market lepak-lepak camaraderie and creative culture. The scene needs a place to
sit, meet
and be hard at work again, and so The Ricecooker Shop and Bau Bau Café with the
help of
the good people involved with the new Central Market management; are coming
together
to provide the space needed for all the activities to mushroom and prosper just
like the
golden years that was from the late-80s and mid-90s.

WHO?

Bau Bau Café

Bau Bau Café; is a food and drinks outlet run by a collective of young persons,
some of
them involved in the Food Not Bombs KL. The aim is to celebrate youth culture
and
alternative urban living. Bau Bau is going to be the ultimate café resistance –
port Anak
Muda - a meeting place where the lepak culture is transformed into an art form.
The café
is offering the ultimate experience of Masakan Melayu - a fusion of very
traditional Malay
food mélange with the minimalist and hungry urban youth lifestyle.

The Ricecooker

The Ricecooker or The Ricecooker Shop is an outlet for any sort of creative
products
produced outside of the normal mainstream channels. It's a shop celebrating and
promoting the oft-sidelined independent and do-it-yourself culture; especially
products
from the Southeast Asian region.

It will carry music, films, art, fanzines, books, writings, merchandising and
more made by
artists, musicians, writers, poets et al who believe in the spirit of punk rock
and DIY;
keeping it sharp and real without any involvement from the corporations and
profit-centric
entities out there. The Ricecooker will also offer design services, web
consultancy,
publishing and printing.

WHERE?

Both Bau Bau Café and The Ricecooker are situated on the big and open first
floor Terrace
at Central Market's Annexe (the building immediately at the back of the main
Central
Market).

For the past few months, the Central Market Annexe is being gradually renovated
into an
arts and performing centre featuring several different spaces and rooms for
exhibitions,
theatre, film shows, concerts, workshops and other creative ventures. The
building will
soon be hosting four floors of the arts and music day in and day out!

Bau Bau Café; and The Ricecooker are a part of this fine effort by the new
Central Market
management and labDNA to bring the arts, its people and creations back its
original
home, back to Central Market!

Special thanks to Nani Kahar, Peter Kiernan and CM's supremo Mr. Bernard Bong
for
making all of this possible!

Remember people! It's about the arts! Arts for the people! Arts for everyone!

PLEASE ALL COME AND CELEBRATE THE HOMECOMING!

for more details:

http://ricecooker.kerbau.com
ricecooking[at]gmail.com


NOTE: Those who wanna take part in the performances, do contact us! We have a
stage
with four mikes and a PA.