Traditional Arts Ketoprak

Ketoprak is one of the various traditional art and culture and it also ketoprak assets is one of the tour which is very valuable, because ketoprak than as a means of entertainment for the community is also an attraction for the foreign tourists who come to Yogyakarta and Java to the island in general.

Ketoprak is a traditional art performance art or art boards that came from Java. In a staging ketoprak usually depict an event, story or legend that is packed and be directly above the stage played by a few people or artists. Staging or performance ketoprak usually accompanied by songs, and accompanied by a gamelan orchestra.

Theme of the story in an ketoprak is very diverse and manifold. Usually taken from the story or the history of Javanese legend. Many stories are taken from abroad.

Various traditional art and culture of Java is a tourism asset that is valuable, so we need to keep and develop one of them is a traditional art ketoprak, not to disappear and be swallowed by the lost time.

Tradistional Art "Wayang"

Wayang (puppet) not just performance art as it is a wayang (puppet) expression values of the community that formed the identity of a cultural community, particularly Java. Wayang (puppet) in a certain limitation for the Java community is the second religion.

Wayang (puppet) art has charm and the value of a fixed current. However, it does not mean that the wayang (puppet) can play a role in the present time. Therefore, it should be thought how to make a wayang (puppet) people still watch.

wayang (puppet) actually provide strategic thinking about the wisdom in providing a local solution of problems faced by the world at this time and the future

Wayang International Conference (KWI) with the theme Traditional Yogyakarta Wayang As held in the Cultural Identity Grha Permana Sabha on 15-18 July 2009 and had been experiencing a series of 15 long-time director since 2007 wayang (puppet).

Mask The Message

We are pleased to announce the continuation of this work programme! However, every idea has its day and new projects sometimes also help people to access current as well as old work. So, without going on and on about the changes, the concept of EPHEMERAL ARTS will be continued but new "interfaces" will be added!

The first of these interfaces is MASKS. We will be developing a new festival of Masks. People use a mask to acquire a new identity or to hide one! Sometimes, the only "mask" that a person has is their face! How many times have you failed to read someone's face?