Kakiseni.com was established in July 2001, and is the only publication in Malaysia, online and offline, dedicated exclusively to the arts.

With an events database that is updated daily, Kakiseni offers its subscribers one of the most comprehensive sources of information on arts and cultural events held in Malaysia.

The website also carries articles, reviews and profiles that aim to explore issues, challenge the status quo and speak out on contemporary life, filtering and dissecting the things that matter most to Malaysians.

Contributors include such well-known writers as prominent Indonesian writer, Gonewan Mohamad, activist Dr Farish Noor, Kam Raslan, film-maker Amir Muhammad, Shanon Shah, Amir Hafizi, theatre critic Sherry Siebel, art critic Lee Weng Choy and Ruhayat X to name a handful of the over 50 writers who have contributed the articles currently in our archive.

THE SUPERHEROES

Jenny Daneels, Co-founder and Director
Jenny Daneels is French. After spending time in Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Malaysia, she is now seeking adventure in the English countryside. In between the village's many intrigues, Jenny finds time to explore the politics of GM crops, keep her three daughters fed and clothed, while keeping an eye on the online arts magazine she co-founded five years ago.

Kathy Rowland, Co-founder and Managing Editor
Kathy's been involved it the arts for many years, as an administrator, producer, problem maker and sometimes problem solver. She has an MA from NUS and has written on arts and culture with a particular focus on censorship in several regional publications. Since temporarily relocating to Miami in 2007, she mostly spends her day haranguing everyone listed on this page to get back to work, stop slacking, be more productive, sell their soul/body for the website - via email, SMS, IM and Skype.

THE CARTOONS

Juliet Jacobs
Juliet studied mass communications in Perth. Upon her return, she realised that skills developed in Oz were not particularly conducive to saving the world, being that it was confined to the best way to roll thin white paper filled with dried leaves. Nonetheless, she remains unfazed by the demands of keeping the events listings complete and up-to-the-minute. Thereby confirming that her time in Perth was not wasted. Even if she is. Sometimes.

Juliana Choo
Juliana studied law and decided to save the world by editing a lifestyle magazine about KL's happenings. She then moved into the not-for-profit world, working for an organisation that dealt with disaster relief. In her capacity as the resident busybody of Kakiseni, her skills in disaster management have come in handy on more than one occasion.

Viji Nair
Viji studied Psychology. In Dublin. All of which makes her particularly well equipped to save the world through working with artists and managing the cartoons running around in Kakiseni's office. She spends an inordinate amount of time talking about the latest book she's read and her cat in Port Dickson. She is known to put the fear of God in contractors and directors alike.

Alvin Tan
Alvin is from Malacca and therefore destined for greatness. For 10 years, he was a very successful sound designer with Scat Productions, being much sought after for concerts and theatre productions. In 1999, he started his own web-design company, Inscribe Webmedia. Alvin also gave Kakiseni its content management system and events search engine. He has done it such that even the computer-illiterate team of Kakiseni can manage the website by themselves. Through Kakiseni, Alvin hopes to save not just the world, but the universe.

* Kakiseni’s new look, logo and icons were designed by Oyun Md Salleh and Petrina Roach.