HIN BETWEEN FESTIVAL 2025

Saturday & Sunday

13 & 14 September 2025

8:30pm - 9.30pm

Deck, Hin Bus Depot

*Ticketed event.

Restaged for its 10th Anniversary Edition, Plastic City is a reimagined, borderless shadow theatre performance that marks a decade of environmental storytelling. Crafted entirely from upcycled trash and light, it offers no answers but sparks urgent questions through powerful visuals, sound, and movement. Audiences are invited to experience the show from multiple vantage points, including backstage where shadows and stories come to life, as it confronts the planet’s growing waste crisis and humanity’s role in its unraveling.

Created by Plasticity Theatre Troupe, a collective of Malaysian artists founded in 2015 in Penang, Plastic City reflects the group’s commitment to using art as a medium for ecological advocacy. With a unique approach to contemporary shadow play, Plasticity Theatre Troupe transforms discarded materials into powerful, poetic performances that reimagine waste as both message and medium.

Saturday & Sunday

13, 14, 20 & 21 September 2025

11:00am - 12:00pm

Nui Kopi, Hin Bus Depot

*Ticketed event.

HERE IN___. is a reflection on home, regrowth, and the journeys over time that have brought father and son right where they need to be - here.

Based in Singapore, Mark brings artists together and helps them tell their stories. PJ born and Penang-based, John loves to write and works with wood. Repurposing fallen and used timber while bringing people together, making homes with both wood and words. John is near the end of a career, Mark is building one. Both on journeys that have led them here.

Over a series of letters, what can a son learn about his father and the home he has built? What can a father learn from his son growing up away from him? What questions remain unasked, and what stories will kin finally share?

Monday

15 September 2025

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Deck, Hin Bus Depot

*Ticketed event.

Threads of Time is a three-part embodied workshop that invites participants on a poetic and philosophical journey through the past, present, and future. Blending somatic practice with temporal exploration, this transformative experience offers a unique opportunity to connect with all aspects of your self across time in one unforgettable event.

Time is not linear. It spirals, weaves, and flows through our bodies like an ancient river. Join facilitator Ian Goh for an embodied journey through past, present, and future where every cell holds memory and every breath seeds possibility. Together, we’ll remember what our bones have always known; our connection with all of life.

In a world that demands endless speed, we invite you to practice the radical act of slowing down. Through movement and stillness, we’ll explore what it means to witness each other’s humanity in times of crisis and possibility.

Tuesday

16 September 2025

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Deck, Hin Bus Depot

*Free event. Registration required.

“Becoming A Malaysian Like Me” is an inquisition into our collective rooted-yet-progressive national spirit through the screening of Malaysian Like Me, a documentary series that offers an intimate view into the lives of everyday Malaysians as they find ways to uphold their independence in adversity.

The screening will be joined by Malaysian Like Me writer-director, Cech Adrea, and moderated by Haziqah Azemi (Producer, Kapsul Studio) in the spirit of celebrating Malaysia Day at Hin Between Festival 2025.

The event duration is 2 hours including screening and discussion, and will feature 5 episodes from Malaysia Like Me documentary series, featuring Caleb (UNHCR Refugee from Myanmar), Hishamuddin Rais (political and social activist), Connie Khong (Event Specialist), Cikgu Rahayu (Buku Jalanan Chow Kit), and Ayam Fared (writer, actor).