• Selling Last and Love in Bali
• What to Do-Kuta and Seminyak
• The Hidden Life of South Bali
• The Struggle to Save Bali's Turtles
• Jimbaran-The Bukit
• What to Do-Impossible Surf at The Bukit
• Fair Trade in Bali
• Ubud
• A Dance for Every Day
• Balinese Painters
• Ubud-What to do
• A Word of Dance
• East Bali in a Nutshell
• The Hidden life of East Bali
• Klungkung
• Where to Stay-Padang Bay
• Where to Stay Candidasa
• First and Third World in Tenganan
• Amlapura-Tirtagangga
• Tirtagangga and Around
• Amed Beach
• Planning Your Trip: The Best of Bali
• South Bali in a Nutshell

 

Ubud – What to Do

The Pondok Anak-Anak Children's Lib­rary is open three afternoons a week. The Sanggar Pondok Pekak boasts an open dance studio and a perf­ormance stage with gamelan gong and joged instruments. Check the programme for children's legong, genggong and frog dance performances, gamelan , poetry reading, lectures, and workshops. Multicultural programmes for children include Balinese dance, gamelan , a multi-language singing hour, story time and English classes. Adults can learn Indonesian, practice a cappella singing, and discover the arts of Bali through classes in dance, music, painting, and carving.

Threads of Life – the Indonesian Textile Arts Centre

Join this great 2-hour class to find out about the breadth ­and depth of textile traditions across Indonesia (Tuesday, 10:30am , Rp50,000/person). Another 2-hour - lecture examines the history and traditional uses of textile in Indonesia (Thursdays, 10am , Rp70,000), unravelling the influence of the spice trade on indigenous peoples ­throughout the archipelago. The class include­s an exploration of the use of natural dyes in the ikat, or tiedye process, used to produce the finest textiles of Indonesia . Full-day workshops offer hands-on experience of the subtle art of drawn batik and ikat.

Seeing is Drawing at Pranoto's Gallery

Ever wanted to learn drawing? Then register at Pranoto's ­Gallery where budding artists can sweat, charcoal pencil ­in hand, in front of a nude model. Since the human body is the most challenging of all subjects, these dr­awing sessions are the best way to train the hand, eye, and mind. Besides, as explained by your hosts Kerry Pedergrast and Pranoto Raji, “life drawing will teach you to disengage the conceptual left brain that brings judgement, letting the perceptual right brain free to replicate shapes, textures, and colours - learning, at last, to see what is there and ­not what is in our minds. “Local artists appreciate the ­gallery sea a place to exchange techniques and support.

the lush vegetation gluttonous birds prey bring many questions forests around Ubud

amidst trees surrounding Pita Maha association modern Balinese paintings workshops offer hands