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Special Report
The Bali Heritage Trust
Fast tracking
Carmen Roberts, award winning journalist and producer of BBC flagship travel program fast:track
Hip Hop Nomad
Exclusive excerpt from Morganics upcoming book,
Memoirs of a Hip Hop Nomad.
Tribal India
Randhir Khare walks with the spirits in the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu in South India.
Poetry
Terry McDonagh, Irish poet and dramatist,
has contributed two poems to support Live Encounters.
On the Fringe
Agustian Supriatna – Creating beauty from debris.
HIV/AIDS
Ari Murti, a Muslim scholar, woman activist, author of Outcast, True Stories, from sex trade to HIV/AIDS, speaks about her book
and work with prostitutes and orphans in Bali.
Interview
Cassandra, a Bencong (girly boy), her life and work.
NGO
Robin Lim, the legendary midwife of Ubud and Aceh, Indonesia.
Literary Review
Elaine Farmer reviews the book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Perspective
A young woman’s narration of a bloody reality witnessed
during her stay the West Bank in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Two Worlds
Robin Marchesi reflects on New Delhi and Bali.
City State
X’ Ho, a Singapore musician/author/experimental film maker, reveals the ‘real’ of Singapore.
Canine Cuisine
Hair of the Dog – a chapter from the bestselling book –
Wild, Wild East, recipes and stories from Vietnamby Bobby Chinn
– reprinted exclusively for the readers of Live Encounters. Thank you Bobby!
Music
Navicula, Bali’s popular ethical grunge band,
speaks to Lakota Moira.
The Late Writers & Readers Festival
Importance of being Oscar Wilde.
The Irish playwright meets Mark Ulyseas in Bali.
Live Encounter
With The Guru of the Art of Shaking ,
Ida Pandita Mpu Parama Daksa Nata Ratu Bagus.
Author: markulyseas
Mark Ulyseas has served time in advertising as copywriter and creative director selling people things they didn’t need, a ghost writer for some years, columnist of a newspaper, a freelance journalist and photographer. In 2009 he created Live Encounters Magazine, in Bali, Indonesia. It is a not for profit (adfree) free online magazine featuring leading academics, writers, poets, activists of all hues etc. from around the world. March 2016 saw the launch of its sister publication Live Encounters Poetry, which was relaunched as Live Encounters Poetry & Writing in March 2017. The third monthly publication, LE Children Poetry & Writing, was released in January 2019. The fourth monthly publication, Live Encounters Books, was released in August 2020. Mark believes that knowledge is power and empowerment. Therefore, it must be free and shared freely to empower all. His is author of three books – RAINY: My Friend & Philosopher, Seductive Avatars of Maya: Anthology of Dystopian Lives, and, In Gethsemane: Transcripts of a Journey.