ADDRESS : NO. 53 GAT JALAN PRANGIN

Celebrating of Penang`s communities, known `Chingay’. It has been claimed that Chingay processions, teams balancing and tossing large flags, as well as lion and dragon dances originated in Penang, Malaysia. This piece, celebrating Chingay is a light hearted, confident and glorious celebration of the multiracial nature of Penang, both in terms of the figures used and the nature of Chingay itself.

Among the figures on these five-foot way pillars who leads the procession with a Chingay flag balanced on his head. Behind him a rather anxious Chinese father balances on a high unicycle followed by his more confident son. The sequence is complete by an embarrassed man, caught in the realisation that doing a handstand is not advisable while wearing a sarong, and a stilt walker who lags behind the main procession, while arranging a date with his beloved, at an open window.