POST Collaborator: Tamimi
For Valentine’s Day in the US, you’ll find kids at grammar schools across the country making cards for their classmates and filling them with candy and handwritten notes. Across the ocean here at POST, you’ll have the opportunity to get your hands dirty too for the Valentine weekend. Tamimi is here all the way from Yogya to showcase their handmade goodies and allow you the chance to make your own screenprinted shirt or bag. Come meet them on the 14th and 15th from 3 to 8PM. Screenprinting will be each day from 5-6PM. (Hmm I should have written this in Indonesian :D)
Beritahu kami sedikit tentang diri dan/atau Tamimi
Tamimi, dijalankan oleh Aping (suami) dan Nadiyah (Istri), nama tamimi sendiri adalah nama anak-anak kami, yang artinya sempurna keadaannya. 5 tahun yang lalu kami memutuskan mengembangkan Label Tamimi, kreasi menggunakan teknik sablon selain kaos. Bidang sablon (kaos) sudah lama kami lakukan. Untukdesain menggunakan gambar-gambar tangan Aping dan Nadiyah, beberapa gambar dari Anak pertama kami , Rasyiq. Tema gambar tidak ada yang khusus, saat ini lagi dominan binatang.
Apa yang anda berencana untuk melakukan di POST?
Promosi produk serta proses kreatif Tamimi dan berbagi kesenangan dalam menyablon. Untuk sablon bareng akan ada 2 desain, yang bisa diaplikasikan di kaos atau tote (yang tertarik bisa bawa sendiri kaos atau totenya)
Mengapa anda ingin mengadakan acara tersebut?
Tamimi sudah 5 tahun, pengapresiasi kami tidak hanya Jogja, tapi banyak juga dari Jakarta. Kami belum pernah bertemu langsung (ikut bazar atau event di Jakarta), jadi ingin “say hai” dan berinteraksi langsung yang kadang memang kami lakukan untuk menyemangati proses kreatif kami.
Memilih lokasi Pasar Santa, karena kami penggemar Pasar Tradisional dan Nadiyah besar di Jakarta, melihat di sosial media tentang Pasar Santa sekarang jadi pengen bikin acara di sana.
Bagaimana orang2 bisa berhubungan dengan Tamimi?
Via sosial media (instagram.com/tamimi_nad; twitter.com/tamimi3), email, sms/WA kalau di Yogya bisa janjian main ke rumah sekaligus workshop.
POST Collaborator: Kooswardini Wulandari and “Bersendiri”
This coming weekend POST will feature an exhibition about traveling. Not just any traveling though, but traveling by yourself. How is traveling solo different than with a friend or with a group? Do you find it intimidating, or liberating…or both? Come to see and share stories.
Tell us a bit about yourself:
I had this crazy resolution that I wanted to set my foot in 5 continents before I turned 30. I worked so hard to achieve it and finally completed that resolution last year. Along the journey I started to realize that I’d done most of the traveling alone. Probably because it was a very personal goal that I wanted to achieve.
What are you planning to do at POST?
Basically a gathering to celebrate people with strong passion towards solo traveling. And an open house to anyone who would want to know more about solo traveling.
Why are you organizing the event?
Knowing how happy I was when I completed my resolution. I realized how solo traveling has given me so many life lessons and happiness. I started to recognize that solo traveling is not that common in Indonesia, and would love to get in touch with the few people who love it as well. Even more, I would like to share the stories of these solo travelers to wider audiences.. So that more of our friends would try at least once to do solo traveling :)
How can people get in touch with you?
Bersendiri@gmail.com, Bersendiri.com, or @bersendiri (instagram)
Thanks! See everyone this weekend
Hello, 2015
2015 is still three days away, but we are excited to welcome it with open arms. 2014 has been an extraordinary year for us, it saw our ideas take shape and turn into POST, and we’ve been taking stock of ideas and collaborations we’d like to pursue further in the new year.
In the mean time, we’d like to close the year by sharing some of our favorite media coverage and blog posts on POST. Enjoy!
Media articles: thank you for listening to our ideas and stories
Rappler: our very first coverage, a few days before POST officially rolled up its doors.
The Honeycombers: the interview took place during our first pop up bookshop!
BBC: we were covered along with other shops on the upper floor, but this is also one of our favorites because the reporter also talked to tenants from the other floors - the original traders of Pasar Santa.
Business Lounge: the writer of this article was a regular face in Pasar Santa, we saw him on many weekends chatting with vendors and visitors in the market and only found out that he wanted to write about the market a few weeks after we first met him. This slow approach to understanding Pasar Santa is why this article is on our list, we certainly appreciate the effort!
Blog posts: thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with POST and Pasar Santa
Andreas Rossi: about the early days of Pasar Santa and POST.
Indohoy: the Indohoy duo are part of The Laos Gang, our first collaborator, and they wrote about the Travel Sale they organized at POST.
Adie Riyanto: Adie is one of the participants in our first #menulisdipasar event, a narrative non fiction writing class with Windy Ariestanty.
Ve Handojo: not only he’s our neighbor at ABCD Coffee, Ve also joined our 4-Hour Writing Challenge.
November at POST
Pasar Santa started November with a bang. We decided that Halloween was too much fun to be kept only for 31 October, so we came up with our own Halloween themed party to celebrate the revival of Pasar Santa! This was how we dressed up for our pop up bookshop, Santa Satu Suro style.
We took advantage of the quiet morning after the Santa Satu Suro celebration to host the first ever #menulisdipasar, a series of events where people are invited to share about writing and actually started writing. Windy Ariestanty, author and one of the initiators of The Writing Table, put the 12 participants to work right away by asking us to go around the market for 10 minutes and return with a story. Only afterwards she shared more about writing narrative non-fiction, but all the better, for there is no other way to write better than to start writing! If you’re curious, here is an account from one of the participants, Adie Riyanto.
POST turned into a gallery the weekend after, when eleven women artists joined forces for an exhibition called “Celoteh”. All of them are graduates of Institut Kesenian Jakarta, one of Indonesia’s most prominent art schools, and have kept in touch over the years. One of them is our very own neighbor in Pasar Santa, Nabila of the Kiosup stall.
The weekend after was a combo of firsts for POST: our collaborator Hendy Adhitya brought a live blues music performance to kick off his Beatles-inspired comic exhibition, 3 Savile Row, and then continued the weekend with a 24 Hour Comic Drawing Marathon. Three people took on the challenge to draw 100 panels of comic in 24 hours and even brought their sleeping bags to Pasar Santa. They really are madly creative!
We have decided to host only one local commercial brand per month, and the November slot went to Fairden, a new start-up that aims to produce quality basics at fair prices. Say hi to them on Tumblr, they’re here as fairden.
Bracodemag, a new blog on feminism, art, culture, and urban life, brought bras, stories, and the Wonderbra band to celebrate their soft launch on a weekend in November. They asked visitors to pick one among the many bras exhibited and write stories of characters behind the bra on post-it notes, as well as for feedback for their new blog. That’s how you start a blog with a bang!
And finally, just as how the month started with togetherness among the tenants of Pasar Santa, November ended on the same note. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a full spread cooked by the family of Bear and Coffee. Looking back at November, we really are thankful for being an anak pasar!