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Talk on “Tropical Art Deco, A Neglected Architectural Canon”

Date:  14 March 2020 (Saturday) Time: 2.00pm to 3.00pm Venue: Penang Heritage Trust Office, 26 Church Street  Fees: RM10(members)/ RM 20(non-members) RSVP: info@pht.org.my or call +604-2642631 PHT Talks return with a new topic on “Tropical Art Deco, A Neglected Architectural Canon” by Alex J. Koenig. A visit to New York in the seventies triggered Alex’s

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Site Visit to Bukit Mertajam

Date: 11 January 2020 (Sunday) Time: 3.00pm to 7.00pm Venue: Penang Heritage Trust Office, 26 Church Street  Fees: RM70(members)/ RM 100(non-members) RSVP: info@pht.org.my or call +604-2642631 Registration Deadline: 09 January 2020 (Thursday) PHT’s first site visit in 2020 will be to Bukit Mertajam town, a small township whereby old businesses and heritage is threatened by modern

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Tang Yuan Workshop

Date: 15 December 2019 (Sunday) Time: 2.00pm to 6.00pm Venue: Penang Heritage Trust Office, 26 Church Street  Fees: RM20(members)/ RM 30(non-members) RSVP: info@pht.org.my or call +604-2642631 Why do the Chinese eat tang yuans, or glutinous rice balls, during the winter solstice? Why is the winter solstice so important, even though it doesn’t snow in Malaysia? Come

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Talk on “Urban Civil Society in British Malaya, 1900-1940: How Middle-Class Asians Learned to Cope with Colonial Rule”

Date: 20 October 2019 (Sunday) Time: 1.30pm to 3.00pm Venue: Penang Heritage Trust Office, 26 Church Street  Fees: RM10(members)/ RM 20(non-members) RSVP: info@pht.org.my or call +604-2642631 The upcoming PHT Talks will feature Lynn Hollen Lees, Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book ‘Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941.

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