Rainforest Fringe Festival 2018: A Guide to Festival Opening Weekend

Join the Sarawak Culinary Heritage and Arts Committee on this mouthwatering, culinary adventure, tracing the history and present day iterations of Sarawak’s most delicious, ethnic food in this festive walk featuring all communities. From Malay mee jawa and satay, to Dayak umai and kacang mah, and even Chinese fried chai kueh and orh chien, and spicy Indian curry, you’ll be able to taste the entirety of Sarawak in a single space. What’s more, there’ll be plenty of food produce and craftware on sale to take home so you too can decorate and cook up a Sarawakian storm in your own kitchen, or if you can’t wait, learn how to make local tidbits during the Kino Live Kitchen “Hands Up or Hands On” demo “Snacks Alive!”, as live sape music will be played.

If you laid out your skin flat, it would spread over twenty square feet in area. National Geographic Society Fellow Chris Rainier shows off this photo collection documenting tribal tattoos from around the world, and the beauty of how our skin becomes a canvas for our culture, mapping out the geography and history of our soul and very being. Featuring tattoos from tribes located all around the world, from the lush forests of the Amazon to the frozen tundra of the Arctic, find out how people throughout history and the world have carved their identity into their very body.

See Sarawakian tribal elders in an all new light at this exhibition drawing attention to their adornments unique to each tribe, from tattoos to dress sense, focusing on each tribe’s aesthetic beauty and a call to remember this singular ‘Forgotten Beauty’ in an attempt to save it before it is gone for good.

Come enter the endlessly fascinating world of the famous Carpenter Street as Siew Thiam Lok presents this open gallery along the entire street, highlights the street’s history and future and its multi-ethnic inhabitants. Once known as “Attap Street”, you can see this old name in Mandarin on the red arch welcoming visitors to the street, whose future remains uncertain as the price of rental skyrockets. Feel free to observe the photos and patronise the shopkeepers who hawk some of the most beuatiful antiques, crafts and intricate furniture sold inside every shop.