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.” …

Diana Darling attends a press conference for the upcoming cremation at Puri Ubud. On Friday afternoon, Puri Ubud convened a press conference about the upcoming …

  by Richard Horstman   In Bali over the past 80 years, the aesthetic language of local art has generally been confined to paintings on …

Compiled by Catriona Mitchell       “As a child, I was heavily poisoned” – John Doust, Australia (on being funny)     “If you …

       Compiled by Catriona Mitchell, Christine Colton & Mila Shwaiko           “The more I write, the less I know …

Compiled by Catriona Mitchell “There must be a time we are judged as individuals, not as women exercising power”- Anne Summers, Australia “Indonesia isn’t the …

Compiled by Jan Russell, Christine Colton and Catriona Mitchell MALAYSIA – Bernice Chauly: Malaysian writer, poet, teacher and curator of the George Town Literary Festival …

  by Richard Horstman     The influence of mass tourism and cultural traditions has been instrumental in restricting the development of contemporary art in …

    by Mike Howie     In a word, this three hour session at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2013 was ‘superb’ – …

by Michael Vatikiotis It’s been ten years since a group of writers gathered rather improbably on the side of an Ubud hillside to speak about …