Wrap up the end of the year with ShadowLight, and join us for our final Artist Talk for 2020! Director Larry Reed and his teacher I Nyoman Sumandhi will be discussing artistic process, educating western audiences on Wayang and gamelan, and over 40 years worth of collaboration.

Don’t miss out on these rich oral histories and insights on Tuesday, December 29th at 5:00PM PST / 8:00PM EST / Wednesday, December 30th at 1:00 AM UK / 8:00 AM Jakarta

Attend the live event at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89127461432#success

I Nyoman Sumandhi is a scholar and Dalang from Tunjuk, Tabanan, Bali-Indonesia who has taught and performed Wayang around the world. Pak Sumandhi is grandson of the renowned I Made Durya, and son of I Nyoman Rajeg, and had continued the familiy tradition as a practicing dalang.

In his career, he has pioneered teaching Wayang to non-Balinese people and encouraging women in Bali to practice as shadow masters. Pak Sumandhi was a founding teacher of the performing arts school, Kokar, selected to study ethnomusicology at UCLA by the JD Rockefeller Third Foundation and has taught in the US, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, and France. With his student Michael Tenzer, he was instrumental in helping to found the Berkeley CA group, Gamelan Sekar Jaya.

Larry Reed, founder of ShadowLight Productions and Fritz de Boer were his first foreign students. Larry went on to study with his father Pak Rajeg, becoming the first Westerner to learn Balinese Wayang.