Mekaseh pengunjung KLAB


Faisal dan Selaknya


aku menerima kunjungan geng Borders, Shirley & Bobbie


Pelancaran buku Selak, Chin Tong, Chin Huat,Syed Syahir,Haris, Faisal & Med


Terima kasih Belot sang penyelamat


Meriahnya


Sharon di gerai Malaysian Bookcrossers

Berakhir sudah KLAB 2008. Hati puas melihat sambutan yang diberikan. Esok aku akan duk berbincang ngan co-organizer KLAB merangkap jurucakap, Amir Muhammad tentang projek seterusnya. Badan & mental masih capek, namun kerja2 harus berjalan terus.

Hari kedua kunjungan sedikit kurang dari hari pertama, namun jualan di beberapa gerai lebih tinggi dari hari sebelum. Aku di Gerakbudaya & SIRD berjaya menjual hampir 70 judul buku di mana buku Isham, Keganasan, Penipuan & Internet menduduki carta pertama dengan 33 buah buku terjual, diikuti oleh dua buku terbaru allahyarham Rustam A. Sani, Social Roots of Malaya Left, 24 naskhah & Failed Nation, 22 naskhah, Tipping Point terbitan The Edge dengan 14 naskhah dan Where Monsoons Meet, 7 naskhah. Jumlah punya jumlah, lebih 4k juga jualan kami.

Agak mengejutkan apabila semua karya Pramoedya hampir habis dijual dan judul2 dari Indonesia mendapat sambutan yang tidak kurang hebat. Aku juga menyimpulkan bahawa ramai dari pembeli2 di gerai aku kali ini tidak pernah mendengar nama Gerakbudaya & SIRD dan ramai dari mereka bertanya lokasi pejabat atau kedai pada sangkaan mereka. Apa yang pasti selepas ini terdapat peningkatan jumlah mereka yang mengenali kami dan inilah juga tujuan sampingan KLAB diadakan untuk berinteraksi secare terus dengan pembeli dan bakal2 pembeli.

Apapun terima kasih kepada Amir & Dina di atas kerjasama berpasukan yang baik serta Uzair yang membantu dan Chet Chin yang mengendalikan sudut buku percuma dengan jayanya. Terima kasih juga kepada rakan2 yang hadir, Aran, Jibam, abang aku, Eugene, Jen, Shirley, Bobbie, Shazreeda dan ramai lagi. Jumpa lagi di edisi yang akan datang.

Klik di sini untuk gambar2 KLAB

KLAB 2008, hari pertama yang meriah


Faisal, akhirnya selesai tugas ko


crowd bahagian bawah, padat


Bubu the clown, femes mamat ni


CIJ World Press Freedom Day, just next door


Buku percuma menjadi tumpuan


KDN, tengok ni


Kakiseni pun bagi buku free


Tengok sikitnya coverage untuk oposisi





Gig band2 Cina, betul2 meriah Annexe hari ni

Hari pertama KLAB 2008 yang berlangsung di Annexe CM meriah dengan kehadiran ramai manusia. Sedikit kelam kabut pada awalnya kerana Diba tidak boleh hadir untuk menjaga gerai pada saat2 akhir dan nasib baik Uzair & Belot menjadi penyelamat. Terima kasih bro!

Selain itu acara2 berjalan lancar dan gerai2 lain nampaknya turut mengalami arus kedatangan pelanggan yang meningkat. Harap2 diorang dapat balik modal.

Aku juga ada menjual t-shirt gambar Ahmad Boestmann, Rashid Maidin, Asalkan Bukan Umno & Pakatan Rakyat di gerai Faisal di Art for Grabs di tingkat atas.

Apapun esok hari terakhir dan kepada yang belum datang lagi, sila hadir beramai2 bersama kawan2, awek2, sedara mara, musuh politik dsb.

Jumpa di sana!

Kredit gambar pada Dina Zaman, aku tak sempat langsung nak amik gambar.

KLAB minggu ini




Setelah bertungkus lumus sebulan kebelakangan, akhirnya KLAB akan membuka pintu untuk para pembaca dan bukan pembaca esok, sabtu 3 Mei sehingga ahad, 4 Mei di Annexe, CM mulai pukul 12 tengahari ke 6 petang.

20 gerai akan dibuka + 4 buku yang akan dilancarkan + 1 forum tentang book banning. Itu tak termasuk acara2 pada World Press Freedom Day anjuran CIJ yang diadakan di sebelah saja, gerai2 di Art for Grabs kt tingkat atas dan 2 gig pada sabtu & ahad. Memang meriah giler minggu ni.

Selain di CM, Maskara oleh Sindiket Soljah juga akan diadakan pada sabtu malam di Rumah Pena.

Jom datang jangan tak datang, jangan balik kampung minggu ni kalau xde hal2 penting. Kunjungan ke Annexe lebih utama dan mengatasi segalanya.

KLAB di Facebook
Selak Book Launch di Facebook
Wacana on book banning di Facebook
Kakiscript Book Launch di Facebook
Art For Grabs di Facebook
Da Huang Web Store Launch + Audition For Grabs @ The Annexe
FARISH NOOR on "The Lost Tribes of Malaysia"
Dong Tai Du Festival

KLAB 2008! The Book Fair with An Edge!

KLAB – the Kuala Lumpur Alternative Book Festival – hits KL on 3 to 4 May 2008. This is a book fair with a twist and kick, and you don’t want to miss it. Spicing it up are four book launches, guaranteed to turn you into a literary anarchist!

Kuala Lumpur, April 29, 2008 – On 3 to 4 May 2008, a new book festival will be launched in Kuala Lumpur, at The Annexe, Central Market. Touting itself as an alternative to commercial book festivals and warehouse sales, KLAB 2008 promises the discerning reader a different read altogether. Literary fiction, politics, religion – written by local writers and published by over 20 local publishers who are passionate about books, writing and the causes they champion, such Silverfish Books, Z Publishing, Suara-Suara, Gerak Budaya, SIRD, to name a few. If you want to know what makes Malaysia Malaysia, head over to the stalls and talk to publishers and writers like Daphne Lee, Raman Krishnan and Raja Ahmad. They’ll tell you!

There will be book launches and forums to make the weekend a hit among book-lovers. The event programme is as below:

Saturday

1.30pm -3.00pm

Launch: "SELAK: A Journey Towards Clean and Fair Elections" - a BERSIH coffee-table book
Welcome speech by Faisal Mustaffa (secretariat of BERSIH and co-ordinator for SELAK)
Speech by Haris Ibrahim and book launch
Bersih after Election's : What's next? by Liew Chin Tong (Member of BERSIH Steering Committee & Bukit Bendera Member of Parliament)
Reading of poem; Seruan Rakyat BERSIH by Rozan Azen Mat Rasip

4pm - 6pm

Wacana on Book Banning: Readers Want Answers
Presenters :
V. Gayathry (Centre for Independent Journalism)
Astora Jabat (bekas ketua pengarang Al-Islam dan bekas kolumnis soal jawab agama di Utusan Malaysia)
Norhayati Kaprawi (Sisters In Islam)
Representative from Home Ministry (to be confirmed)

Each presenter is given 15 minutes and we hope their input will spark a lively discussion from the floor. Input can be either in Bahasa Malaysia or English.

Sunday

2pm – 3pm

Joint book launch: Kakiscript & Aweks KL

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad will launch Kakiseni’s Kakiscript. A brief bio of Nik Nazmi:

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, 26, was elected as Seri Setia State Assemblyman in Selangor on 8 March 2008. Following the election he was appointed as Political Secretary to the Menteri Besar of Selangor, Tan Sri Dato’ Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.

Nik Nazmi is an active member of the People’s Justice Party (Keadilan), and was Private Secretary to Keadilan De-Facto Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from 2006 up to the 2008 general election. Nik Nazmi is also currently Keadilan National Youth Exco member and Keadilan Kelana Jaya Division Vice Chief. He also heads the Research and Publication Bureau for the National Elections Committee.

His essays have been published by Malaysiakini, Asia Times Online, the Edge, the Sun, Tamadun, Suara Keadilan and Harakah. Nik Nazmi has also appeared on the BBC World Service and Channel News Asia to give his views on current affairs. In 2001, he founded SuaraAnum.com as a web magazine for young Malaysians. He has also spoken at various events including those organised by Majlis Shura Muslimun, Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia (PKPIM), the Bar Council, Youth for Change, Nanyang Siang Pau, the British Council and Institut Kajian Dasar.

4pm – 6pm

Religion Under siege book launch
4.00pm : Arrival of guest
4.10pm : Opening ceremony by MC
4.15pm : Opening speech :Vicknesan (Malaysiakini)
4.20pm : Launching of Religion Under Siege?
4.30om : Book sharing by Nathaniel Tan
4.40pm : Q & A session
4.50pm : autograph session
5.00pm : End

At the Book Giveaway, anyone with too many books at home can leave them at the Annexe, and those who want more books, may grab them for free! Caveat: each ‘buyer’ can take home only three books. Hey, they’re free, what’s the fuss?

KLAB is also a part of The Annexe's Art For Grabs, the bazaar for art under RM100! Also going on is World Freedom Press Day workshops and rock gigs on both days.

ART FOR GRABS is back with more than you can grab! We now fill up two whole galleries plus the loft plus both studios.

The Annexe's "talk of the town" art bazaar is for

1. Art lovers who always wish they could bring something beautiful home from a gallery but have never found anything that fits their salary

2. Artists who just want to get their art to their masses

3. Collectors who want to survey young and upcoming artists before they get famous and expensive!

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Featuring 40 stalls by artists known and not-yet-known selling:

Paintings
Drawings
Photos
T-shirts
Accessories
Hand-sewn dolls
Mini Sculptures
Music
Movies
+ Artistic Services (hmm!)

You can also join

Workshops on Tap-Dancing + Modern Jazz Dance

or

Chill Out with Cute Cupcakes + Coffee in the Loft,

while you watch the masses haggle below you...

Eh, no need to haggle lah please...

EVERYTHING UNDER RM100!

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

In conjunction with:

1. WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY (by Centre for Independent Journalism) + workshops on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information

2. DONT TAI DU (Chinese Indie Music Revival) on Saturday

3. Tribute to ROCK KANGKANG on Sunday

For more details and interviews with the writers and publishers please contact:

Amir Muhammad – kancah2001@yahoo.com;
Zulhabri Supian – zulhabri@gmail.com;
Dina Zaman – dinazaman@gmail.com;

List of participants

1 Gerakbudaya
2 SIRD
3 Matahari
4 Tokobuku/Amnesty International
5 Silverfish
6 Kinibooks
7 Sindiket Soljah
8 Holograms
9 ZI Publishing
10 Kakiseni
11 Sisters in Islam
12 Monsoons
13 Project Connect
14 MSRI
15 Malaysian Bookcrossers
16 IKD (Institut Kajian dasar/Middle eastern graduates centre)
17 Kechara
18 Suara-Suara
19 Aliran
20 APD Singapore