First Field Trip To Publika!

4/6/2016 ; Saturday ; 

Today, our class had a field trip to the Art for Grabs festival in Publika. Due to some personal reasons, my friends and I did not follow UTAR bus to Publika and we went there ourselves later than our other classmates.  

 The event place was swarmed by people as we reached there. There were many booths related to art, craft, designs, and books. Some arts and crafts were really nice but I did not purchase them all as the prices of some of them were quite high. 

                                                

                                     

                                     

Fortunately, my friends and I saw notebooks which we, as a university students, need, were being sold at a booth named "Unique Art 'n' Craft" at a very affordable price. The notebook was quite thick and it was only for RM5. Therefore my friends and I purchased all the notebooks that they had in the booth (they only had the last 6 unit in stock). 

Notebook to raise awareness of animal freedom

From left to right: Bernd Pickert, R. Nadeswaran, Sharaad Kuttan

At 2.30pm, my friends and I registered ourselves to a talk entitled "It Isn't a Crime: Re-imagining Investigative Journalism". The panelist of the talk was Bernd Pickert and R. Nadeswaran and the moderator was Sharaad Kuttan. They shared their opinion and experience as a journalist when writing a story. They said that a journalist has to try their best to find out all the facts and also to know what the readers want to read. To be honest I could not really understand some parts of this talk as the content was something very new and unfamiliar to me and I find it quite hard to get what they said.

From left to right: Harith Iskander, Lau Chak Onn, Ezra Zaid.

At 4pm, we continued to attend another talk entitled "Funning the News". The panelists of this talk was Harith Iskander and Lau Chak Onn and the moderator was Ezra Zaid. It is about making the news interesting. In the talk, they discussed about the credibility of the news when humor is added in the content of the news. Chak Onn stated that humor does not affect the credibility of the news and sometimes interesting news does not need humor to be interesting. Besides, they also discussed how to joke about a news. Honestly, I really enjoyed listening to this talk and I think it was very interesting as compared to the previous talk that I attended. 

Same design as my friends' but with black string

After the talk, one of my friends and I decided to follow UTAR bus to go back to UTAR at 6pm. Before we left, we bought bracelets of the same design but different colour strings for ourselves as our "friendship matching items". 

In my opinion, all the booth at the Art for Grabs festival in Publika were really attractive but one of the booth that really caught my attention was the booth set up by Fahmi Reza. To be honest I did not know who he was until he got caught by the police that day. His booth is one of my favourite because I think that he is very brave to stand up and "voice out" for most of the Malaysians through his art works as an artist. I did not purchase anything from him but he did really earned my respect as a Malaysian. Hmm that's the end of our first field trip! I hope we will have more field trip like this as we can gain more extra knowledge! Hehe.

A selfie before we left! *missing Anne & Sze Jia*