MAIN EVENT
DAY 1
18
SEP
7:00-10:00pm
ITINERARY
7:00-7:10pm
7:10-7:15pm
7:15-7:30pm
7:30-8:00pm
8:00-8:15pm
8:15-8:45pm
8:45-9:15pm
9:15-9:30pm
Kahoot Quiz
9:30-9:50pm
10:00pm
End
Opening Remarks
Sape & Song Performance by Salomon Gau & Lian Balan (Kenyah)
Teaching and Learning Session by Miss Tracy & Miss Mary
Welcoming Speech
Lucky Draw
Talk on Why Do We Need to Promote and Revitalize Our Indigenous Language by Dr Jeannet Stephen
Welcoming Parap Performance
by Adrian Jo Milang & his Elders (Kayan)
Talk on Opportunities in Arts Education and Indigenous Language by Ms.Juvita Tatan Wan
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Story Telling: Journey in Promoting Indigenous Language (Kayan) by Miss Stephanie Lunai
9:50-10:00pm
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Meet
Adrian Jo Milang
Mr Adrian Jo Milang is a Kayan from Tubau, Sarawak. He is one of the most celebrated and youngest Parap and Takna' practitioner. Parap and Takna' - an ancient Kayan oral art form.
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Parap is the traditional art of an impromptu poetic song. It is sung by a leader called the "Tukang Parap" and backed by a chorus.
Takna' is the delivery of epic songs about Kayan heroes, in a similar manner which sometimes can last for days.
Community Manager of The Tuyang Initiative
Meet
Jeannet Stephen
Head of Language and Linguistics Cluster, BorIIS UMS
Dr Jeannet Stephen is of Kadazan-Dusun ethnicity. Her frustration of understanding but unable to speak in her native language has led her to the journey of learning and advocating for the indigenous languages in Malaysia.
She is a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. She holds a B.Ed. TESL (Hons.) from UKM, an MA in Applied Linguistics & Bilingualism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and her PhD in Language Teaching and Learning from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Currently she heads the Language & Linguistics Cluster at the Borneo Research Institute for Indigenous Studies (BorIIS), Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Among the goals of the Institute is to raise awareness on the importance of Indigenous Languages and cultures as priceless assets of Borneo's Indigenous communities.
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Salomon Gau is a traditional dancer, sampe' and jatung utang maker and player, and traditional Kelembit (shield in Kenyah) designer. He comes from the Kenyah community in Long Ikang, Baram, Sarawak. He is still learning new things every day, including learning to sing Kenyah traditional songs such as belian badi and kentau with the community in Kampung Long Moh.
Lian Balan, 75, comes from the Kenyah community in Long Moh, Baram, Sarawak. He first learnt to play the sape when he was only 10 years old. He also handcrafts Kelembits and the Sape instrument, which can be found on thetuyang.com.
Salomon Gau
Lian Balan
Traditional Kenyah Dancer and Musician
Sape’ Player and Oral Tradition Practitioner
Meet
Juvita Tatan Wan
Juvita is of Kenyah ethnicity from Long San, Baram (Sarawak, Borneo).
Juvita is the Co-founder & Business Lead of The Tuyang Initiatives, a community-led, social business working for Borneo indigenous cultural practitioners. The company's focus is on generating meaningful livelihood for Borneo indigenous communities through the creative & cultural sectors.
Co-founder & Business Lead of The Tuyang Initiative
Mary is a 21-year-old student from UNIMAS currently taking her degree in Cognitive Science. She is an Iban but her mother is born in Bau, Sarawak. Although she is not a native Bidayuh speaker, she has been communicating in Bidayuh since she was little with her maternal family. She is fluent in speaking Bidayuh and also excellent at listening. This beautiful language has several different dialects and the one that Mary mainly speaks is the Singai Dialect from the Bidayuh Bau language.
Mary Tasha Umang
An Iban fluent in Bidayuh Language
Tracy Nor Anak Empak is from Sarikei, Sarawak. Currently, she is a second year student under Animal Resource Science and Management programme in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS. Bahasa Iban is her first language at home and it is one of the indigenous languages in Malaysia. She took Bahasa Iban as one of her subject since primary school. She realised that, many activities and programme had been done to ensure the indigenous languages in Malaysia is well known. During secondary school time, she and her friend had join a programme organised by Association For The Educational Development of Iban Language (AEDIL) to make an essay in Bahasa Iban.
Tracy Nor Anak Empak
An Iban Studying at UNIMAS
Stephanie is an active online seller and social media user who shares daily use of Bahasa kayan on Facebook as well as several other languages such as Bidayuh, Melanau, Kadazandusun. She finds that a lot of her friends and family can’t speak their own native languages. Using her role of a social media user, she takes this opportunity to share with the public with the basic words of these native languages. She was able to gain many positive feedbacks doing this.