KM ITB Sharing Session: Upgrading Art and Culture Understanding

Oleh Vinskatania Agung A

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September 19, 2015

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - A good understanding towards art and culture, considered as an important thing by the ministry of art and culture, ITB Student Cabinet (KM ITB). Therefore, deputy of strategy and content as the part of the ministry of art and culture KM ITB, held the first sharing session on Friday (09/18/2015), at West GKU Amphitheater ITB. Brought "Understanding Art and Culture in Daily Life" as the theme, the first session caught not only ITB students' attention from various study program, but also students from Padjadjaran University (Unpad) and Widyatama University Bandung.

The yellow helium lamps arranged around the stage and some bamboo decorations behind the speaker's chair appeared as a treat that immediately attracted participants. With Batik-wrapped outfit and Sundanese headband, the committee gave the participant a pretest to get to know their level of understanding toward art and culture before being exposed to the sharing session. Started around 7 p.m., the event opened with a performance from ITB tambourines unit and continued with the presentation on art and culture by Dr. Yan Yan Sunarya, M.Sn, one of the eccentric lecturers from Craft Study Program ITB.

On his explanation, Yan Yan stated that culture is a good tradition that carried out continuousl. Real life examples to the case presented expressively by Yan Yan invited gales of laughter from the participants. Despite his casual style in delivering the materials, he had successfully hit the core of the issue. Yan Yan pitied the phenomenon of cultural colonization that occurred among Indonesian nowadays. In his opinion, culture did not have to be high in aesthetic, but had to own ethical values. To the participants Yan Yan told some things young generation had to possess: connectivity, local cultures, creativity, and collaboration.

As the person in charge and chief deputy of strategy and content, Candra Adiwiguna (Electrical Power Engineering in 2012) hoped that participants would be able to understand the differences between art and culture and the objective of the culture itself, so they could handle and preserve the culture. For the upcoming plan, the ministry of art and culture KM ITB would conduct the second sharing session and invite various communities as speakers to discuss problems of the culture in Indonesia.