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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:49 |
Cheerful, convenient and peaceful ambience was emanated at Taman Budaya Art Center, Denpasar where the Bali Arts Festival is organized for a month long. On Sunday 14 June 2009 there was an attractive show presented at the area of Art Center namely Ngelawang or Gallivanting Show.
In general, the gallivanting show is performed in relation to the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan festivity serving as the triumph portrayal of virtue against evil. Balinese people perform the gallivanting show for a month by carrying the sesuhunan or sanctified effigy throughout the village, either in the form of barong, rangda, barong kedengkling or other effigy in compliant with local tradition. This gallivanting show denotes a sacred activity meaning to chase away the evil spirits and reject any kinds of diseases disturbing human life, including invisibly chase away the people having evil intention to annoy the security of Bali by bomb explosion.
In the past, before television reached the rural life, the gallivanting show became a medium of entertainment for the people that most of them are farmers. The performance taking place for some 10-15 minutes at doorstep of inhabitants was believed to give sacredness vibration so that they could be avoided from disaster or diseases. As soon as the show was over, people would offer oblation or canang sari to the sanctified effigy as an expression of gratitude.
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Monday, 29 June 2009 14:12 |
 Bali Government Tourism Office in 2009 will develop some villages in Bali into integrated tourism village by applying the concept from, by and for local community. One of the villages under development for the purpose, having passed through a workshop involving academician circle, is Bayung Gede village in Bangli Regency.
Division Head of Research and Development, Bali Government Tourism Office, Ketut Naria said in years to come such tourism villages would be integrated and managed through the principle from, by and for the community. "In other words, the tourism village concept should include agrotourism, and ecotourism managed by the community and the profit obtained is intended for the community. Actually, this is the concept of community-based tourism. However, its real implementation in the field is unclear yet to me,” Naria told Bali Travel News at his office not long ago. He also added that the principle of from, by and for the community in fact did not work. "Even, most benefits and profits were taken out. The concept of tourism village should also provide accommodation and other convenient and appropriate facilities because tourists spend their night at the village," he said.
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Friday, 26 June 2009 13:45 |
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Bali Arts Festival (BAF) remains to become a prestigious event for artists at home and overseas. Its evidence, it is recorded 180 performances and involving 14 thousands of artists in the XXXI BAF organized from 13 June through 11 July 2009. Especially for the opening parade of this BAF involved 3,500 artists and among them, some were from overseas.
The XXXI BAF featuring the theme Mulat Sarira (Introspection) engaged six associate countries such as the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, India, Japan and Thailand. Even, Japan presented up to four art troupes. In the meantime, domestic participants from outside Bali consists of nine provinces namely Greater Jakarta, East Java, West Sumatra, East Lampung, Bangka Belitung, Yogyakarta, Central Lombok, Manggarai and West Kalimantan.
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