Make and take a brick home from the Tukang Festival in PJ


Cheng will be introducing her new experimental public sculpture project at the Tukang Festival this weekend at The Spine in Petaling Jaya. Photo: The Star/Daryl Goh

Award-winning artist Cheng Yen Pheng invites you to get your hands dirty and join her in handcrafting bricks, which you can also take home. Syiborisyd and Aruznadi are ready to introduce the art of making natural dyes from food scraps in their workshop. Meanwhile, the Parti Design Awangan duo will demonstrate how traditional wooden Malay architecture can be updated for contemporary times.

These artists and craftspeople are part of the Tukang Festival, which returns for its second edition at The Spine in Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya this weekend.

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