UPCOMING EVENT A LIFE IN ART Preserving Art and Culture NEW YEAR S EVE CELEBRATION 31 DECEMBER 2015 Celebrate your New Year s eve with preserving the art and culture! ARMA Museum & Resort together with Yayasan Polosseni creates an unique New Year s eve celebration to you.. We are doing fundraising and auction to support Maestro Seni Tari (Dance) and Tabuh (Music) in Ubud and to support both Yayasan ARMA and Polosseni in preserving art and culture in Bali. It will be a good chance for you to get involve and support and it could be one of your New Year resolutions in 2016. Let s spread the good Karma around
Get ready for BaliSpirit Festival: March 29 April 3, 2016 Are you looking for an unforgettable experience? The BaliSpirit Festival is back! The daytime lineup is already online and we are excited for the amazing yoga, dance and seminar presenters who will be joining us for our 9th annual event. You can purchase Early Bird passes with a special ARMA discount of $50 here or go straight to booking an accommodation + pass package here. We look forward to seeing you at the festival! MEET THE STAFF I Kadek Aryasa Pak Arya (whose named around ARMA) graduated from P4B hospitality school in Denpasar majoring in F&B Service began his carrier as Bartender in Kokokan (former name of ARMA International & Thai Cuisine) in 1992. 23 years! He feels blessed and happy working in ARMA. He gets more than just end of month payment but experiential learning and working experiences in different fields in ARMA and it s more prestige compare others thing. His carrier growing as ARMA grows, he become F&B Supervisor at Kokokan in 1995 and continued as Kafe ARMA supervisor in 1997. In 2000 for only six months he got chance to handle Front Office department afterwards Kafe ARMA needs his expertise as manager, he in charge for ten years managing that site and currently in charge in Sales Department. Suksma for your dedication in ARMA pak Arya
RECENT HAPPENINGS AT ARMA Saraswati Day BASAbali Wiki (a collaboration between BASAbali.org, Udayana University, and the Balinese Governor s Language Board, Badan Bahasa), Banjar Bali USA, the ARMA Museum, and the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, D.C. are successfully conducted the international festival to honor Saraswati Day (the Balinese day of wisdom, knowledge, and culture) in celebration of Bali s unique language and Indonesia s rich linguistic diversity. Over than 200 audience from Ubud and outside of Ubud packed the ARMA Open Stage last month, various show was perform start with Dolanan/ traditional games played by Kindergarten students from Ubud, Balinese dance by disable dancer fro Yayasan Bakti Senang Hati, Balinese poem reading, poetry competition and many more.and the most interesting point this program was streaming in different countries such as: Bali/ Indonesia, Washington DC/ US, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands and many more.
Photography Exhibition " METAMORPHOSIA" and Launch Performance of The Magic of Jegog Very interesting exhibition conducted by Karin Sukarya who originally came form German and married with Deniek Sukarya the founder of The Magic of Jegog. Metamorphosia is a fine art photography exhibition that sparkles with myriad of fanciful shapes and shocking colors. Metamorphosia that tickles your phantasy and leads you into the mystery of a parallel world that conjures your mind to see unlimited forms: faces, butterflies, gnomes, sorcerers Different crowed of people, artist, art lover, media, and government of Jembrana regency attended the opening exhibition. It was a great and casual opening. And it continued with opening of The Magig of Jegog by Sanggar Sukarya at ARMA Open stage. The most spectacular music and dance performance of the unique Jegog bamboo orchestra from Jembrana, West Bali. Pak Deniek Sukarya, the founder of Sukarya Foundation, consistently promotes Jegog among local and international performances and also creator of The Magic of Jegog. He has created a new era of Jegog including melody, tempo and style incorporating current trends but still based on the original roots. This will continue perform regularly every Saturday from 7 to 8 pm, please contact sales@armabali.com for reservation.
1st Annual Bali World Music Festival 2015 Music is the voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age or race or gender or nationality, beyond religious or political differences, straight to the heart, body, and soul of all people. We agreed with those statements! It was amazing and fabulous idea by Dwiki Dharmawan and A. A. Anom Wijaya Darsana co-founder BWMF to conduct this festival. We do hope to host this event yearly in ARMA!
AROUND ARMA ARMA OPEN STAGE ARMA has a spacious open stage in front of a massive traditional Balinese gate. Almost nightly, visitors can see carefully chosen dances accompanied by a gamelan orchestra. ARMA open stage often use to host international festival such as: Bali Spirit, Ubud Village Jazz Festival, Bali World Music and many more. Our open stage is able to accommodate over than 500 people with exquisite Balinese garden surrounds. Should you looking for space to host your event, please feel free to contact sales@armabali.com