A happy hour held on the Bridges terrace, with a focus on learning about different wines and spirits. Bridges has the most extensive wine range in Ubud, and this is an opportunity to learn from experts. Each Friday has a different theme (grape variety or region, or wine producer). With canapes and live music. See here for more information.
Bali’s premiere Latin band have got the grooves. Get your dancing shoes on ladies, it’s time to salsa!
Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset is proud to continue their tradition of FUNraisers, teaming with Betel Nut once again to present this wildly talented jazz fusion trio. Based in Oakland, California, they are rooted in the American styles of Jazz, Funk, R&B and Pop, and influenced by Timba, Tango, Gamelan, Highlife, Soukous, Afro-pop, North Indian Classical music and more.
Jazz Café presents a night of hip and up-beat Swing Jazz Music you can really dance to. The dress theme will be the ‘Roaring 20’s’ and ‘That Swing Thing’ band will play re-worked and modernized versions of the Sassy and Sexy Swing Jazz classics that have been re-mixed in today’s Electro Swing Jazz revolution. Free bottle of bubbly for the best dressed guy & gal.
Young, happening and highly rated by music aficionados. Don’t miss this!!
Balinese singer/songwriter Yaniq writes original songs. There are tunes to make your feet dance, ballads to pluck your heart strings and songs that you can instantly hum along to. His lyrics are mostly in English but also in Bahasa Indonesia and Balinesel. Acoustic rock edged with reggae & blues, sprinkled with tropical spices and sung in three languages.
Ditch those Monday Night Blues with Bali’s own Blues Brothers and the very talented Imelda Joplin. A Rock & Rollin’ stroll down memory lane!
A Soulful blend of Rock and Pop to get you in the mood. Requests welcome from their extensive repertoire of songs.
Ravi Shankar is India’s most widely recognized musician. This amazing documentary merges archival footage spanning his entire life, with new footage of him speaking about himself. Director: Mark Kidel. Stars: Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Uday Shankar 2001 90m.
Exceptional music drawn from African, Indonesian and Middle Eastern influences, with Anello Capuano, Italian multi instrumentalist and friends.
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TEDxUBud 2014: The Line Up (1)
TEDxUbud returns to Bali on Saturday, September 6th, 2014. The fourth edition will feature another amazing lineup of Indonesian and international entrepreneurs, designers, storytellers, and performers sharing their ideas with a curated audience of 300 at Fivelements. TEDxUbud and Ubud Now and Then will be showcasing the 2014 speakers over Read more…
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The Perambulator’s Guide #4: Ubud, Street by Street
Perambulator Mila Shwaiko’s latest adventure fossicking around in all those places you come to Ubud to see – not a “convenience” store in sight! Welcome to a totally biased hour-by-hour ramble through Ubud’s streets. This fourth edition is all about Jalan Suweta and Jalan Kajeng Read more…
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One Big Day for Ubud (& Indonesia) , One Short Moment for Democracy
Today, Wednesday the 9th of July was just another day of rafting, shopping and culture ogling for most tourists in Ubud, but in a parallel world for all Indonesians here it was a momentous day. by Rio Helmi. Long before expats had started sipping their cappucinos, trusted banjar members Read more…
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Budaya Tembok: The New Ubud?
by Graeme MacRae When I arrived in Ubud a few weeks ago, after a gap of three years, I thought I was prepared for the changes but I was taken by surprise. The first thing I was told was that all the new shops and restaurants were owned by foreigners, Read more…
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PORTRAIT OF LIFE – AN EXHIBITION FROM THE PAST
by Rio Helmi First of all, if you haven’t been to see this exhibition at the “Rumah Topeng dan Wayang Setiadharma” in Tengkulak near Mas, hurry. It’s over on the 26th of this month. Yes, I apologize profusely, it opened nearly a month ago and I Read more…
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Wawancara: Ketut Sudiani tentang Bali Emerging Writers Festival
Ni Ketut Sudiani adalah seorang penulis dan wartawan muda yang sempat bertindak sebagai moderator di panel BEWF 2014. Rio Helmi mewawancarainya tentang penulis muda Bali, tentang BEWF, dan gap antara generasi. RH: Sebagai seorang moderator BEWF tahun ini dan sebagai orang yang sudah punya pendidikan jurnalistik, apa kesan Anda secara Read more…
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DOUBLE-BARRELED ROYAL WEDDING IN UBUD This month the build up to the big double-barreled royal wedding in the main palace of Ubud finally came to a head with colorful pageantry to spare. The first-born son of Tjokorda Gde Putera A.A. Sukawati, who in pre-Republic days would have been king of Ubud, Read more…
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DANIEL ZIV: SO WHY UBUD?
Rio Helmi talked to award-winning film maker Daniel Ziv about his new home. Ubud? Isn’t it a long way from home? Aren’t you a city boy? Did you decide to be one with the cosmos? I think the concept of ‘home’ for anyone living somehow Read more…
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Locavore: European Cuisine, Grown Locally
by Catriona Mitchell “The food we’re going to do is, in my eyes, pretty creative and different from what anyone else is doing in Ubud.” – Eelke Plasmeijer A new restaurant is opening on Jalan Dewi Sita tomorrow (Tuesday 29th October), and it’s bound to make a splash. Locavore takes Read more…
