Touring Malaysia performing arts, 24 Festive Drums to international folklore and dance festival in France from 7th July to 22nd August 2017.

Orang Orang Drum Theatre and JB drum Team are invited to tour our performances to the following festivals organized by CIOFF (International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts) at Confolens, France.

• 7th -8th July, Festival de la Menitré
• 9th – 14th July Festival d'Alençon
• 15th -16th July Festival de Pont Labbé
• 17th – 23rd July Festival du Puy en Velay
• 23rd – 30th July Festival de Montignac
• 31st July – 6th August Festival de Port sur Saone
• 9th – 15th August Festival de Confolens
• 16th – 22nd August Festival de Plozevet.

Do you know? 

24 Festive Drum had been declared as Malaysia Intangible cultural heritage since 2009, this is a remarkable journey for Malaysian Chinese, at the same time establish the role of this unique performing arts in the multicultural country. 

Goal: Through performing arts and culture to create international exchange, understanding and peace

Through partcipating in the international festival, we are able to bring our folklore performances to the wotld, this is an important journey not only to proof the value of our culture, but also to witness the beauty of the difference between each and every culture. We would like to bring 24 Festive Drum to this stage, not only to let the world understand our culture, but also let all the team members see the world. We hope that after 6 months of hardwork, these group of youngster will continue to develop Malaysia performing arts with a wider vision. 

Training at the beach at Port Dickson

The beggining: A leadership camp for 24 Festive Drum, bring the 'classic' performance alive. 

In 2016, we hope to train the drummers to become a better performers by understanding the whole process of an art creation (backstage, front of house, production, leardership, etc.), so we have organised three camps and gather drum team leaders from about 8 school teams. At the end of the camp, we have sucessfully bring 4 important drum performances (including the works from 2008 to the most recent one) to the renown professional theatre in Kuala Lumpur which is klpac. ' The Memories' is one of these pieces. By gathering all these "classic' pieces in a drumming concert, we want to let the drummers understand better what they are doing. 

 Then, with a very grateful heart, ' the memories' had received the invitation to showcase the performance at France for about 6 weeks. This news has let our mission continue to a bigger one, from a drum camp to a theatre production, and now we are going to the international stage. 

The Memories