Art and Culture Festival (MATSWAPATI)

Art and culture festival

(matswapati)

                It has been very long time I didn’t posting something here. I got a lot of work and assignments, so I can’t post often anymore. Okay, let me tell you about the festival that I just involved in it.

                That day was 27^th September 2014, two days after the anniversary of Bandung City. In order to celebrate the anniversary of Bandung City, my school held a festival of art and culture titled Matswapati. Matswapati is the king of all the wayang. Wayang is a puppet of the native culture of Indonesia.

                About Matswapati, there were so many amazing performers and most of the performers who showed the genuine cultural of West Java Province. There are Komunitas Hong who showed traditional games which popular in West Java on ancient times, Wayang Golek Giriharja who showed a story with his Wayang and they succeed to entertain the audience, Orkestra Semi Dangdut ITB who sang dangdut songs with distinctive traits and made us laughter, there are Calung show, Benjang show, Reog show, Pencak Silat, Debus, Sambasunda Junior, Indonesian Bamboo Community, and Saung Angklung Udjo.

                Beside of that performers, there were some performers from my school also helped enliven this festival such as MK (Classical Music), KV (Vocal Group), LSS (Sundanese Art Community), KPA (Angklung Performance), and TsT (Tiloe’s Theater).

                Now I will explain about TsT. Have you ever watched a theatrical performance? How do you feel? TsT is an extension of Tiloe’s Theater (Read: Tiloe=3). TsT is one of the most preferred extracuriccular in my school because TsT always shows a slick and entertaining story. So we were always waiting for the next performance of TsT.

Tiloe's Theater's performance entertained us.

 

 

 

                In Matswapati, TST performed by bringing the story of Kabayan and Nyi Iteung (original story of West Java). Kabayan would go to the city looking for jobs and left Iteung, his sweetheart in the village. Kabayan turned into a people who lived in big city because of the influence and brought him to cheat on Iteung. Then when Iteung saw him with another woman, Iteung felt betrayed and left Kabayan, but with all his resources and efforts, Kabayan apologized to iteung and he felt very sorry to have left iteung then they got back together. The story sounds serious but when played by TsT looks so funny and attractive.

Try to holding the archery

Matswapati top event is in the afternoon when the main guest star appeared to entertain the visitors such as Barsena and Glenn Fredly. Barsena is a new musician as a winner of NEZ ACADEMY last year. While Glenn Fredly is a famous musician who has many years of work in Music Indonesia.

Glenn Fredly in Matswapati

Matswapati’s visitors at the festival is not only SMAN 3 Bandung residents but also visitors from outside the school generally. This event held in Bali Court at Bali street number 8 Bandung. The event started at 7 am until 8 pm opened with a parade contest around the city and was opened by the mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil.

The Major of Bandung simbolically opened Matswapati

               This festival is considered successful because for approximately 7 years, my school doesn’t hold a big event like this. Therefore this festival was in waiting. In addition, each class must have a booth at the festival and each class is required to decorating as attractive as possible and the the most fun of pra event Matswapati is to decorate our own booth.
             Overall, Matswapati was very pleasant and gave me a lot of lessons and I am happy to wait for an event like this wil be held again.