KUCHING: Early-bird priced tickets for the 21st Rainforest World Music Festival are now up for sale. The tickets are priced at RM110 for a one-day pass and RM290.20 for a three-day pass while for children aged between seven and 12, the price is at RM57 and RM110.
The early-bird family package is at RM228 for two adult passes and two child passes. Limited tickets are available only up to April 30 or while stock lasts after which adult passes will be sold at RM131.20 for one day and RM343.20 for three days, with child passes at RM67.60 and RM152.60 respectively till the Festival begins on July 13. The family package will be priced at RM270.40.
Tickets and updates will be available online or from the ticketing agents listed at www.rwmf.net.
The Festival will be held at the Sarawak Cultural Village and The Damai Central at the foot of Mount Santubong, roughly 35km north of Kuching on July 13 to 15. The three-day festival is the largest event of its kind in Malaysia, bringing cultural artistes from the island of Borneo and beyond, with performers from every corner of the globe.
Door opens at 10am with activities starting at 11am with health and wellness programmes that incorporate activities such as meditation, yoga and tai chi, as well as more modern activities like Zumba and Bodyjam as well as various talks and sessions on physical and mental and physiological well-being. A wide range of topics will also be presented at the Cultural Snippets Session.
The afternoon is filled with performances at the Theatre Stage and Dewan Lagenda as well as interactive workshops with ethno-musical themes spread over five venues where music and musical instruments are presented by the performers themselves, while at night three stages the known Jungle and Tree stages as well as the new Big Tent Stage are filled with diverse concert performances.
Throughout the day, there will also be ‘parades’ and surprise popups and drum circles in the evenings. Fringe events take place throughout the Festival like the Rainforest World Craft Bazaar and the Food and Village Mart, where one can purchase the local arts, crafts and cuisine of Borneo.
As a part of the greening initiative, the Festival now requires all festival vendors to use biodegradable tableware and also implement a waste management programme, with recycling and food waste bins throughout the festival site to collect and later process the waste into organic animal feed, topsoil and biodiesel.
This year, a DJ session will be introduced to end each night presentation, and will be held at the Escobar in Damai Central. The event is supported by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia, Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Sarawak and endorsed by Tourism Malaysia.
