Tangerang to hold arts festival

Tangerang to hold arts festival

TANGERANG: Tangerang municipality administration will hold its
first-ever, three-day arts festival to commemorate its 11th
anniversary, which falls on Feb. 28.

"The festival will be staged from Feb. 25 to Feb. 28 and will
feature various arts and cultural performances," said Asep Ferry
Bastian, a member of the organizing committee, on Wednesday.

The festival will include a book exhibition, monologue
contest, theater parade, poetry-reading contest, painting and
sculpture contest, talk show and traditional arts, including
lenong (Betawi drama) and Betawi musical performances of tanjidor
and gambang kromong.

"Tangerang has tended to be known only as an industrial town
or a town with a prison and leprosy. Actually we are rich in
culture," he said, adding that the festival would be held
annually.

Tangerang Mayor Wahidin Halim will officially open the
festival, which will commence with communal prayers. -- JP