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Five Arts Centre turns 40 in 2024 - help fund Five Arts' future!

More info here: https://www.fiveartscentre.org/donate

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Support Our Studio & Activities in the Heart of KL

Central to Five Arts Centre’s ethos for 4 decades is creating space - for new stories, forms, and questions; for emerging and established arts and cultural workers; for new imaginations and representations of a fast-changing Malaysia.

Since 2022, Five Arts Centre has been based in the GMBB creative community mall in downtown KL. Besides being a space where we create groundbreaking new projects and organise thought-provoking events, our new studio has quickly earned a reputation for supporting indie performing artists and filmmakers, community arts practitioners, refugee theatre groups, migrant communities, and advocacy groups - often for free, or at highly subsidised rates.

Ahead of our 40th anniversary in 2024, we are looking to raise RM160,000 and appeal to you to contribute, support and donate to to help us cover the following:

Upgrading technical equipment in our studio space: lighting system, sound system, computers.
Our annual office and studio rental at GMBB.
Operational costs.

This 2-month crowdfunding campaign will run from 12 September to 12 November 2023.

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Sharifah Aleysha is an accomplished writer, producer and actor - working across theatre, film and television.

As she says, Leysha has been connected with Five Arts Centre since before she was born. Her mother, actress and journalist Fatimah Abu Bakar, performed in our seminal 1985 production of Kee Thuan Chye's play '1984: Here & Now', directed by Krishen Jit. Leysha's father, Syed Zainal Rashid Al-Yahya, photographed some of the collective's earliest productions.

Leysha's own association with Five Arts Centre began in 2013 when she worked as an intern with the collective, on projects initiated by June Tan, Mark Teh and Marion D'Cruz. In 2014, she was a performer in Marion's project '2 Minute Solos: Art Meets Politics'. A couple of year later, she was the writer for 'TIGA' (2016), our platform for young performing arts practitioners, For this, Leysha wrote 3 short plays - based on 3 everyday objects - which were presented in KL and Penang. She continues to be a close friend and regular presence at Five Arts events.