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How a Young Malaysian Woman Started a Public Reading Movement
38 mins·18:00, 26 Mar 2025
How a Young Malaysian Woman Started a Public Reading Movement
38 mins
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18:00, 26 Mar 2025
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Guest: Victoria Navina, Curator, Kuala Lumpur Reads, Sadho Ram, Curator, Kuala Lumpur Reads
What started off as a young woman’s desire to read in a public park soon blossomed into Kuala Lumpur Reads, a movement that brings hundreds of people together every weekend through the simple act of reading. Participants gather every Saturday from 8.30am to 10.30am at the Perdana Botanical Garden to read together, in silence, before having a quick chat and taking some photographs at the end. The movement has since sparked various chapters all around the Klang Valley – from PJ all the way to Cyberjaya.
In this episode, we’re joined by Victoria Navina who started the movement and Sadho Ram who’s a curator at KL Reads to talk about their journey, reading as a (quiet) communal experience, and romance – because Navina and Sadho who met at KL Reads are now married!
Image Credit: Shutterstock
Presenter: Dashran Yohan
Producer: Dashran Yohan
public readingweekend readingreading in a parkliteracy in malaysiakl readskuala lumpurperdana botanical gardens
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