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Malaysian Heritage and History Club

Malaysian Heritage and History Club ( MHHC ) is a Facebook group created by Bert Tan on the 13th of October 2012. The Club aims to provide an objective, truthful and balanced account of Malaysian History. Promote inter-ethnic relations and forge greater national unity. The Club as of 21st May 2017 has 16487 members. Topics discussed in the group are mostly Malaysian history, heritage and culture. The group is often used as source of information by several local dailies and individuals. On Facebook platform English is the preferred language in the Club to benefit its international audience and enable a wider scope for exchange of ideas. Bahasa Malaysia and other languages are acceptable. Where translations are not provided, other members of the group will offer translations, particularly when important topics are being discussed or when requested. Composer Saidah Rastam in her book Rosalie and Other Love Songs, acknowledged the Club - " The Malaysian Heritage and History Club has irreverent but erudite members ". The Club organises many activities outside its Facebook platform, it started Heritage Talks in Malacca since March 2013 and Heritage Talk KL Series in September 2013. Speakers are sourced from the Club members itself according to their own field of expertise. Events are conducted in free spirit and voluntarism among active contributing members for MHHC events are Razak Bahrom, Retnaguru Sandrakasan , Dennis Ong , Pepper Lim  and contributing creative ideas from Saidah Rastam , Melissa Chan and Mahen Bala. Most of the Talks can been viewed on the Clubs dedicated Youtube Channel

Club's Logo

"The boat represents the journey of sharing and learning, discussions and debates sometimes stormy sometimes calm. Color red is bold and brave - speaking out the mind , Yellow represents knowledge , blue green sea is the challenges  . Unity is represented by the multilingual  text"

Heritage Talk In March 2013, the Club organised their first monthly heritage talk in Melaka. Speakers were sourced from the Club members according to their expertise.

Heritage Taks in Malacca was held in Riverine Coffeehouse in Lorong Hang Jebat Melaka from March 2013 to January 2015, when the Riverine Coffeehouse closed for business. Daily Fix Cafe located at Jonker Street ( Jalan Hang Jebat ) offered their premise for the Talks in March and April 2015. The last talk in Melaka was on Shellabear was held at Shellabear Hall a former boarding house for Methodist Girls School in Tranquerah, Malacca.

List of talks date, speaker and venues in Melaka

March 18th 2013 - Sambot Taon Baru, The Peranakan Style - Cedric Tan ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

April 13th 2013 - Secret Tunnels of Malacca, Fact or Fiction - Dennis De Witt ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

May 11th 2013 - Water Colours of Old Malacca - Victor Chin ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

June 10th 2013 - Peranakan Musical Culture in Malacca, A Photographic Journey - Margaret Sarkissian ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

July 22nd 2013 - 1933 Malacca, Not so Sleepy Hollow - Prof Dr Jerry Dennerline ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

August 26th 2013 - Bukit China - Josephine Chua ( Riverine Coffeehouse ) September 16th 2013 - Malacca Chetty - Nadarajan Raja ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

October 26th 2013 - History of Malaysian Diplomacy - Dato Ahmad Mokhtar Selat ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

November 14th 2013 - Memories of a Malaccan, A Pictorial Collection of the 1920s to 1950s - Audrey Lim Swee Peck ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

December 17th 2013 - Natal Nostalgia - Colin Goh ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

January 21st 2014 - The Malay House - Rosli Haji Nor ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

February 18th 2014 - Symbolism in Peranakan Rites and Rituals - Lee Yuen Thien ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

March 19th 2014 - Bukit Brown - Lai Chee Kien ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

April 23rd 2014 - An Early Miner in Malaya, Jack Fenner - Insun Song Mustapha Fenner ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

May 27th 2014 - Story of Graphic Design in Malaysia - Ezrena Hussain ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

June 30th 2014 - Tok Panjang - Debbie Teoh ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

July 13th 2014 - Wang Kang - Prof Dr Jerry Dennerline ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

August 28th 2014 - Life and Music of Alfonso Soliano - Rachel Guerzo ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

September 21st 2014 - Sacred Sireh Traditions and Symbolism in the Malay World - Khir Johari ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

October 16th 2014 - Understanding Our Asian Cities - Johannes Widodo ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

November 13th 2014 - Negara Ku and Other Love Songs - Saidah Rastam ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

December 10th 2014 - Orang Kawen Chitty Melaka Style - Jennifer Rathabai ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

January 18th 2015 - Story of a Trishawman - Firdaus Muttalib  ( Riverine Coffeehouse )

March 18th 2015 - AR Wallace, His Natural History Explorations in Melaka and Sarawak - Lim Tze Tshen (The Daily Fix)

April 27th 2015 - Tun Dr Ismail, In My Eyes and What He Means To Us Today - Tariq Ismail (The Daily Fix)

May 18th 2015 - Reading change among Orang Asli in the Belum-Temengor by Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil (The Daily Fix)

November 28th 2015 - Tiger of Malaya / Marai no Tora (マライの虎）a 1943 propaganda film shot in Japanese occupied Malaya - Eriko Motoyama (The Daily Fix)

December 13th 2015 - The Caste Away - A Commentary on the Indian Caste System in Malaysia by Retnaguru Sandrakasan ( Nadarajan Raja's Residence Gajah Berang )

January 14th 2016 - Dutch Capture of Malakka - Dennis De Witt ( Architecture Museum, Melaka )

May 28th 2016 - Shellabear - Reverend David TC Loo ( Shellabear Hall, Melaka )

Heritage Talk KL Series

As members grew bigger, there were demands for talks to be held in Kuala Lumpur. Ben Toh of D7 Sentul offered to be host for KL talks. On September 2015 onwards all talks in KL was held at Badan Warisan, Kuala Lumpur.

List of Heritage Talk KL Series

September 28th, 2013 - Historical Malacca , Where it all began - Dennis De Witt (D7 Sentul)

October 26th, 2013 - Datuk Gong - Mahen Bala (D7 Sentul)

November 30th, 2013 - Shipwreck Treasures of South East Asia - Ben Rongen (D7 Sentul)

February 22nd, 2014 - Identity Formation of Eurasians in Netherland and Malaysia - Pim Tern Hoorn (D7 Sentul)

March 29th - 2014 - The Artist and Malaysian Architectural Heritage - Victor Chin (D7 Sentul)

November 9th, 2014 - Islamic Architecture and Influences on Colonial Buildings in Malaysia - Zain Abdullah (D7 Sentul)

December 7th, 2014 - The Life and Times of Alfonso Soliano - Isabella Soliano (D7 Sentul)

April 12th, 2015 - A Peculiar Encounter - A Frenchman in Malacca - Serge Jardin (D7 Sentul)

May 31st, 2015 - Orang Kawen - Chitty Melaka Style - Jennifer Rathabai (D7 Sentul)

June 28th, 2015 - A.R. Wallace, his travels & explorations in the forests of Melaka & Sarawak by Lim Tze Tshen (D7 Sentul)

February 20th, 2016 - Betulkah Hang Tuah Wujud - Prof Ahmat Adam (Badan Warisan , KL)

March 12th, 2016 - The Hero Idea in Malaysian Society - Prof Shaharuddin Maaruf (Badan Warisan , KL)

May 14th, 2016 - An Afternoon with Dr Lim Boo Liat hosted by Mahen Bala (Badan Warisan , KL)

October 30th, 2016 - An afternoon with Earl of Cranbrook and Charon Mokhzani (Badan Warisan , KL)

April 29th, 2017 - Tales from the world’s only cave tin-mining community of Kaki Bukit, Perlis, Malaysia by SC Shekar (Badan Warisan , KL)

May 6th, 2017 Branyo ! Sharing of more than 500 years of culture history and heritage of Portugues Melaka by Sara Frederica Sta Maria (Badan Warisan, KL)

MHHC Big Events

September 5th/6th, 2015 - People's Merdeka Exhibition - (Badan Warisan , KL)

October 17th, 2015 - Save Pekan Ampang - Heritage Talk and Photo Walk - Razak Bahrom and Sarah Amer - Ampang Community Hall

April 2nd, 2016 MHHC Wild Wildlife with Tenok and Friends - (Badan Warisan , KL)

September 3rd, 2016 - People's Youth Exhibition - (Badan Warisan , KL)

November 19th, 2016 - MHHC's Roots of Malacca - NUS School of Architecture at Tun Tan Cheng Lock Center , Melaka

November 26th ,2016 - Roots Kuala Lumpur - (Badan Warisan, KL)

March 18th, 2017 - MHHC Wild Wildlife with Kanchil and Friends - (Badan Warisan , KL)

 MHHC Heritage Makan and Walks

April 3rd 2014 - An Evening With Horace Santa Maria moderated by Audrey Lim Swee Peck (Riverine Coffeehouse)

June 22nd 2014 - Heritage Walk - Bukit China with Josephine Chua

September 16th 2014 - Walk Through New/Old Malacca - A collaboration with Melissa Chan of Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum Melaka

January 11th 2015 - Heritage Makan - Nasi Kerabu with Zain Pilah

February 8th 2015 - Heritage Walk KL by Abdul Mutalib Ali ,

May 31st 2015 Heritage Walk - Portuguese Settlement - Martin Theseira

November 27th - 29th 2015 - New Old Malacca Exhibition - A collaboration with Melissa Chan of Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum Melaka

August 6, 2016 - MHHC Heritage Makan Peranakan Chitty Melaka Cuisine - A collaboration with Melissa Chan of Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum Melaka

Other Initiatives

In 2015 a collaboration with Martin Theseira and Melissa Chan of Baba Nyonya Museum Melaka revived the old Malacca Chinese New Year practices, The Serani Ting Ting was revived and reintroduced during the New Old Malacca Exhibition. Serani Ting Ting is a group of buskers consists of 3 Portuguese boys went busking door to door around Malacca town during the eve of Chinese New year, the revival of the Serani Ting Ting received wide media coverage and the actual busking was conducted during 2016 Chinese New Year.

The first publication from the Club was launched during People's Merdeka Exhibiton in Spetember 2015 - the book/zine " Messing with Melaka " was launched, the idea was mooted by Saidah Rastam. The publication consists of Malacca's historical facts and places to eat and visit in 24 hours.

A dedicated book review blog Hooked on Books  was created by Eriko Motoyama  on September  20th, 2015. Members are free to submit their reviews which will be published in the blog.