Pusaka's Senandung Kota fest introduces traditional arts to young masses in KL

Tok Puteri Muhd Noor bin Arifin, fondly known as Pok Jue, opened the Main Puteri performance in Paris in June with a Buka Panggung (Consecration of the Stage) and a commemoration of teachers and ancestors. The same Main Puteri performance will be staged at The Godown in KL tonight. Photo: Ahmad Fikry Mohd Anwar/Pusaka

The Panggung Pusaka: Senandung Kota festival at The Godown arts centre in Kuala Lumpur, which opened yesterday evening, welcomed a young and curious crowd to a series of community programmes featuring traditional artists and culture keepers.

The festival, which runs through the weekend, is Kuala Lumpur-based cultural outfit Pusaka’s biggest event for the year in Malaysia after its music festival appearance at the renowned Festival de l'Imaginaire in Paris in June, where it introduced a Main Puteri performance (a healing ritual from Kelantan) to an enthusiastic French audience.