1st week (June 14th -
June 20th)
2nd week (June 21th
- June 27th)
3rd week
(June 28th -July 4th)
4th week
(July 5th - July 11th)
From 14th of June until 11th of July
1998 the following exhibitions will be held at the Art Center area:
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handicraft exhibition
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Visual arts exhibition
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traditional architecture exhibition
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Tourism Photography exhibition
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Senior artists Photography exhibition
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Culinary exhibition
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International Books exhibition
 Sunday,
June 14th
2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Opening Ceremony
Opening parade of the 20th Bali Arts
Festival.
Place: From Puputan Badung Square
to Art Centre Denpasar.
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Performance of Ramayana dance drama,
entitled Ayodya Kanda by SMK 3 (Secondary School of Dance and Music) of
Sukawati Gianyar. The dramatic art known as sendratari began to become
popular in Bali around 1960s. But the colossal sendratari, a large scale
performance involving hundreds of dancers only dates back to the first
Bali Arts Festival in 1979. Taking place at the Ardha Candra stage of the
Art Centre, sendratari [performances at the festival generally attract
the audience of over 4000.
Place: Ardha Candra stage
Monday,
June 15th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Performance of Gamelan Semar Pegulingan
(Music of the royal court) of Saih Pitu
Place: Wantilan stage
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Balinese traditional games
Place: all around the Art Centre
area
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m
Performance of wayang wong dance
drama by Bilok Sidan group of Petang. Wayang Wong (human performers). The
story is told Balinese language.
Place: Wantilan stage
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Performance of Arja Basur dance drama.
Arja is a Balinese theatrical form
combining dance, singing, indigenous story and comedy. The characters speak
Middle Javanese as well as high Balinese both in the dialogue and
in quoting poetry. What they say is then translated into low Balinese by
the clowns.
Place: Tetaring stage
Tuesday,
June 16th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Ngelawang Barong Kadingkling performance.
An archaic form of Wayang Wong with exorcistic functions. Barong means
the Balinese protector-dragon. From the village of madangan Kelod in Gianyar.
Place: Art Centre area
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Men's Gong Kebyar Festival: Bangli
Regency group versus Denpasar group. A gong kebyar (music performance)
festival has been one of The Bali Arts Festival main attractions.
Place: Ardha Candra
Thursday,
June 17th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Dance and music performances from
Regency of Bangli
Place: Wantilan
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Balinese traditional games from the
Regency of Bangli
Place: all around Art Centre area
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Dance drama Sunda Upasunda
Place: Tetaring stage
Thursday,
June 18th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Handicraftmaking competition
Place: underneath Ksirarnawa
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Performance of gamelan Slonding by
SMK 3 (Secondary School of Dance and Music of Sukawati Gianyar.
Gamelan Slonding is a sacred gamelan
of iron keys, found in many eastern Bali Aga. (Original Balinese) village.
Place: Tetaring stage
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Performance of Drama Gong by winners
of the Bali Drama Gong Festival 1998
Place: Ardha Candra
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Dance and Music performance by Sanggar
Bajra Sandhi Denpasar
Place: Ksirarnawa
Friday,
June 19th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
The Lelonggoran dance and music performance
Place: Wantilan
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Balinese traditional games
Place: all around Art Centre area
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
The performance of Parwa shadow puppet
Place: Wantilan
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Social Dance Jogerd Bumbung.
Joged Bumbung is a social dance in
which a solo female dancer, accompanied by bumbung orchestra, selects men
from the crowd of onlookers and dance with them in provocative way.
Place: Tetaring stage
Saturday,
June 20th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
The performance of Bamboo Gamelan
of Udayana University
Place: Wantilan stage
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
The performance of Cetik Gumi dance drama
by Kelungkung Regency Place:
Ardha Candra 
Sunday,
June 21st
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Balinese flower arrangement competition
Place: under Ksirarnawa
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Janger and Dag (classical and pop)
by the Regency of Badung vs Denpasar. Janger is a modern type of dance
involving a dozen or so young men and women who sing sometimes as
a single chorus, sometimes as two separate chorus.
Place: Tetaring stage
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Clasical and contemporary Gamelan
performance by STSI, SMK 3 and other well known Balinese artists
Place: Natya Mandala STSI Denpasar
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Leather puppet (shadow puppetry)
show with the theme Calonarang by winners of The Bali's leathery puppet
competition 1997
Place: wantilan stage
Monday,
June 22nd
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Dance and Gamelan orchestra of Denpasar
Place: Wantilan
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Traditional Games of Denpasar
Place: all around Art Centre Denpasar
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Performance of barong Landung with
theme: Melampahan
Place: Tetaring stage
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
balinese Classical dance drama with
the Calonarang ( A Balinese ale of sorcery and possession)
Place: Ardha Candra
Tuesday,
June 23rd
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Ngewlawang Barong Bangkal and arong
Macan with lelampahan, presented by Regency of Badung
Place: all around the Art Centre
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Gong Kebyar Festival, featuring Buleleng
Regency versus Klungkung Regency
Place: Ardha Candra
Wednesday,
June 24th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Dance and Genggong orchestra presented
by Sekar sari Art Group from Banjar Munduk Lumbang - in the village ofd
Angsri
Place: Tetaring Stage
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Traditional Games of Tabanan
Place: all around Art Centre
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Youth dance Drama Arja with theme
Pakang Raras
Place: Wantilan
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Calonarang dance drama with Tektekan
Orchestra from the Panarukan village
Place: Tetaring stage
Thursday,
June 25th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Handicraft making competition
Place: Ksirarnawa 1st floor
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
The performance of Taman Penasar,
accompanied by KKB, from radio Republic of Indonesia Station of Denpasar
Place: Wantilan
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Dance and Gambelan performance: Galak
Tika by MIT group of Boston , USA
Place: Ksirarnawa
Friday,
June 26th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Seminar and discussion of Art and
Culture
Place: Ksirarnawa
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Janger and Dag (Pop Festival). Tabanan
Regency versus Klungkung Regency
Place: Wantilan
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Men's Gong Kebyar Festival featuring
badung Regency versus Tabanan Regency. Gamelan Gong Kebyar is a large
group of instruments that plays highly ornamented musicwith complex rhythmic
patterns. The style was created in the early part of this century
Place: Ardha Candra
Saturday,
June 27th
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
Nyastra Bali (the study of traditional
balinese manuscripts) Competition. Nyastra is a tradition that has played
an important role in the passing of Balinese cultural traditions from one
generation to the next
Place: Art Centre Area
10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
dance and Tabuh performanced
by sanggar Prabata of Karangasem
Place: Wantilan
8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Siwa Tatwa or Basur, Dance drama performance
by the Regency of Gianyar Place:
Ardha Candra
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