UPCOMING EVENTS UBUD VILLAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Ubud Village Jazz Festival 2016 will be held on Friday-Saturday, 12 th 13 th August 2016 at ARMA Open Stage Ubud. The Jazz Festival with worldwide musician will perform special on that day. Make your calendar and make sure you will be in Ubud in August for this world music event. 01
20 TH ARMA ANNIVERSARY Proud to present our 20 th ARMA Anniversary on 9 th June, 2016. We celebrate with intern management and staff activity. Team building activity with traditional games and ceremony with all family of ARMA. Happy Anniversary ARMA. 02
MEET THE STAFF AT ARMA NI KETUT WIDIANI Ibu Ketut was born on April 30, 1969 and live in Br. Tarukan Desa Mas, Ubud. She has 2 children. She graduated from SMK N 4 Denpasar in major culinary art. After graduated from senior high school she start to work in Taman Harum Cottage which is located in her hometown Desa Mas for around 4 years. Ibu Ketut joined ARMA Museum & Resort as a cook in 1993 in Kokokan Restaurant (now ARMA Thai and International Cuisine) when the restaurant is just open. She work at ARMA for almost 23 years. She feel happy and comfortable working at ARMA because of the friendship and the environment in ARMA just like home and family for her. Please visit ARMA Thai and International Cuisine and you ll get chance to meet her personally and tasting her delicious food. We feel honored and blessed to have dedicated team like Ibu Ketut at ARMA. Matur suksma Ibu Ketut! 03
RECENT HAPPENINGS AT ARMA CULTURE EXPERIENCE IN ARMA We are so proud to have primary 5th grade student of Cikal School Jakarta in ARMA. They experience Balinese culture workshops. They show high curiosity during the egg painting and batik activity. FUN.HAPPY.and Learning cultural activities to preserves local cultures among young generation is a MUST! 04
PRANIC HEALING A Healing workshop with lunch at the middle of terrace paddy at our ARMA Thai and International Cuisine. Pranic Healing is one of healing metode with harness positive energy from the nature with hand or crystal media. Relax, quiet, the voice of water and green ambience is one of positive energy to support the healing process. The atmosphere of nature is a perfect place to do healing. 10 participants joined for this small workshop. And everyone really enjoy every session of Pranic Healing workshop. 05
AROUND ARMA BUAH MAJA ARMA Museum is surrounded by the tranquility and magnificient garden. One of the most interesting plantation in the garden is Maja Fruit. Maja fruit is a historic fruit, related to the forming of the biggest Kingdom in Indonesia, Majapahit. It is said that Maja fruit was found when Raden Wijaya was permitted to cut open Tarik forest. One of the army found Maja tree when he looked for something to eat. When he ate that fruit, the taste was bitter (pahit). And most of that forest area was surrounded by the Mojo trees. And then that place named Majapahit, which means the bitter Maja. The round and green Maja becomes an eye catching for the visitors in ARMA Museum. And its history makes that fruit more interesting. 06
PERFORMANCE IN ARMA KECAK RINA DANCE In the 1930s, two Western residents, painter Walter Spies and author Katharine Mershon felt that the cak chorus of the ritual Sanghyang trance dance, taken out of its ritual context and with added storyline would be a hit among their friends and other visitors. Working with Limbak and his troupe in the village of Bedulu, they incorporated baris movements into the role of the cak leader. Eventually the story of the Ramayana was added, although it wasn t until the 1960s that elaborate costumes were used. The Kecak Dance, as it is now called, involves a chorus of at least 80 men. They sit in concentric circles around an oil lamp and begin to chant the sound they make is cak.cak.cak. Up to seven different rhythmical combinations of the chants are interwoven, creating a tapestry of vocal sounds as the musical accompaniment to the dance. A narrator sings the tale of the Ramayana as the dance drama progresses. The kecak dance is often called monkey dance because at the end of the play the men become the monkey army. The cak sound also resembles the chattering of monkeys. This choreography is a development from the kecak described above. While there are many similarities with the more traditional Kecak, there are also some major innovations. It was created in 1974 by the renowned Javanese dancer and choreographer Sardono W. Kusomo. It is rarely performed, except at specially commissioned performances. 07