A round up of images and quote-ables from the last day of Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, all photos ©Rio Helmi lead photo above: The …

photographer / tweeter Suki Zoe’s take on day 2 at the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival  #uwrf19 (lead photo: Yottam Ottolenghi) Yottam Ottolenghi: “Cooking …

It’s possible you saw our post from a couple of days ago and you want to know more about the speakers, or maybe this line …

Recently South Africa’s Nobel Peace Laureate  Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in Ubud on a stopover. Ubud Now and Then’s Rio Helmi had breakfast with him. …

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 …

Rio Helmi interviews Diana Darling, who talks about Ubud’s past (“You could feel the invisible world on your skin, and it was quite ordinary”), present, …

It’s coming up on two years since Ubud-based American midwife Robin Lim became CNN Hero of the Year. Rio Helmi talks to Robin at her …

  by Catriona Mitchell Barbara Turner-Vesselago PhD visits Ubud once a year to run an intensive writing workshop, based on a method she’s developed over …

    by Rio Helmi     A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Australian filmmaker John Darling’s widow, Sara, asking me …

    Text and photos by Rio Helmi     Born in Padang Tegal in 1980, Kadek Purnami says her clearest recollections from her Ubud …