Modero & Company

🌸 Spring Concert: Gamelan Gita Santi & Modero 🌸 Sore penuh budaya bersama Gapura! Nikmati musik Gamelan dan tari tradisional Indonesia yang memukau. ✨ Artists: I Nyoman Suadin, Detty Kastubi Aziz, Sinta Penyami Storms & Tom Whitman. 🗓 Sabtu, 16 Mei 2026 | 15:00 (3 PM) 📍 Lokasi: Southeast Asian Market at FDR Park ☔ Jika Hujan: Pindah ke PAX (2300 S 18th St) Program ini didukung oleh @williampennfoundation -————————————————————— Join Gapura for an afternoon of traditional Indonesian music and dance! ✨ Artists: I Nyoman Suadin, Detty Kastubi Aziz, Sinta Penyami Storms & Tom Whitman.. 🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 3 PM 📍 Location: @seamarket_fdrpark ☔ Rain Location: PAX (2300 S 18th St) Partially funded by the William Penn Foundation. *** Thank you Community Partners @panasianphila @fleisherart Vendor Association @fo_fdrpark

Are you coming to the wedding? Head to @gapuraphilly to get your tickets! We will be showcasing Sunda (West Java) and Pamona (Central Sulawesi) Culture! There will be traditional ceremony, Indonesian yummies, performances, amazing costumes and a dance party!!! See you there?

PHILLY! Join us May 17th at 5 PM at Fleisher Art Memorial for our FAKE INDONESIAN WEDDING 🇮🇩💍 We’ll have traditional ceremonies, fun dance parties, and mouth watering indo eats! We encourage you to dress up and wear your own cultural attire too! This event is also a fundraiser for our youth cultural exchange program. Come party with a purpose 💃 Tickets are $27.50! Comment and we can send you the link to purchase or head to our IG bio! #philly #whattodo #indonesianwedding #crashourwedding #fyp

We have an exciting lineup of performers for #FromOurHands2026 💫 Catch Indonesian dance group @moderocompany and taiko ensemble @casualfifth this Sunday alongside some of our favorite local Asian-owned businesses! 🪩 2PM: Modero & Co. 🥁 3PM: Casual Fifth Don't forget to RSVP via eventbrite! A headcount is helpful for our vendors to make sure they prep enough food. 😋 📅 Sunday, May 3 ⏰ 12-4PM 📍 @fleisherart parking lot

Tomorrow, Sunday April 26th 5:30pm before the Peni Candra Rini accompanied by Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw performance join us in the front room (2321 Emerald Street, 2 blocks from the York/Dauphin MFL/L1 station) of The Perch for WarKop presented in collaboration with Gapura. Enjoy poetry & spoken word by Katherine Antarisko, Universe Tika & KevBastard, live Gamelan Angklung with Tom Whitman & Gamelan Gita Santi, an Indonesian Kebaya & & textile teach-in with Detty Kastubi Aziz plus songs and introductions by Roy Jong Hoon & Sinta Penyami Storms! Indonesian snacks, coffee & tea will also be available, benefitting the Pemuda youth group. WarKop (warung kopi) is a modest establishment that primarily serves coffee and a variety of beverages or light snacks. Warkops are an integral part of Indonesian culture, serving as places where people from all walks of life gather, socialize, and relax. Pre concert WarKop is free to the public. Tickets and info for the Peni Candra Reni show at the link in bio. See you there!

@claire_rhymes_with_glare did a great job at her school's talent show performing Bajidor Kahot from West Java. We are proud of you, Claire! #muridtari #bajidor

Performing on Sunday April 26th 7:30PM at The Perch located at 2008 E. Arizona Street (2 1/2 blocks from York/Dauphin MFL/L1 station) the Philadelphia debut of Peny Candra Rini accompanied by Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw. Tickets and more info link in bio "Peni Candra Rini is the daughter of a master puppeteer from East Java Indonesia, and one of few female contemporary composers, songwriters, poets, and vocalists who performs Candra Rini has collaborated with various gamelan groups from all over the world, and has performed at major festivals including Mascot SIPA Solo International Performing Arts 2016, TEDx Ubud 2019, Big Ears Festival 2019, Mapping Melbourne 2018 Multicultural Art Festival, International Gamelan Festival 2018 Surakarta, Indonesian Tong-Festival Festival 2018 in The Hague, Holland Festival 2017, WOMADelaide festival 2014 in Adelaide, Spoleto Dei Duo Mondi Festival 2013, and Lincoln Center White Light Festival 2011. Her recorded albums include Ayom (2019), Timur (2018), Agni (2017), Mahabharata - Kurusetra War (2016), Daughter of the Ocean (2016), Bhumi(2015), Sekar (2012), and Bramara (2010). In 2012, Candra Rini completed an artist residency at the California Art Institute with funding from the Asian Cultural Council. During that time, she appeared as a guest artist at eight American universities and participated in master classes with vocal master Meredith Monk. In addition to this extensive work as a performer, Candra Rini is also a lecturer in the Karawitan Department, an Aga Khan Laureate, and a former Fulbright Scholar. In 2021, she earned a doctorate in Musical Arts from the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Surakarta". - Kronos Quartet 50 for the future composer bio. See you there!

Another excerpt from the Peni Candra Rini with Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw performance at the Asia Society in NYC a couple of years ago, Do not miss their Philly debut this Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm at The Perch located at 2008 E. Arizona Street (2 1/2 blocks from the York/Dauphin MFL/L1 station). Renowned Indonesian composer and performer Peni Candra Rini—described by David Harrington of Kronos Quartet as “one of the world’s greatest singers”— makes her Philly debut at The Perch. Rini is a master of several traditional forms and is regarded as one of Indonesia’s most daring young composers, one of only a handful of female composers in Indonesia. In Rini's words, her work "mixes a wide range of materials, including traditional Javanese gamelan singing, Balinese chant, stringband music of the 1960s, and intercultural improvisations, bringing them all together through my contemporary compositional approach". She will be supported by Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw, accompanied by a screening of Setan Jawa (2017 Garin Nugroho), a silent movie that evokes Javanese mythology through the genre of contemporary horror as inspired by the perennial silent film classic, Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Tickets and info link in bio. Join us before the concert from 5:30-7:30pm in the front room for WarKop. Presented by Gapura, get cozy with intimate performances and Indonesian snacks courtesy of the talented Pemuda (youth group). See you there!

Setan Jawa - Garin Nugroho, (Indonesia, 2017) Silent film with live score created by Peni Candra Rini accompanied by Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw this Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm at The Perch located at 2008 E. Arizona Street (2 1/2 blocks from the York/Dauphin MFL/L1 station). Nugroho’s Setan Jawa evokes Javanese mythology through the genre of contemporary horror as inspired by the perennial silent film classic, Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The film explores Indonesia’s pre-orthodox Islamic stories of the seven deals man makes with the devil in order to gain wealth and the live score dramatically underpins the mysticism and sensuality of Nugroho’s tale of love and sacrifice. Tickets and info at the link in bio. Join us from 5:30-7:30pm in the front room of The Perch for WarKop. Presented by Gapura, get cozy with intimate performances and Indonesian snacks courtesy of the talented Pemuda youth group. If you have any other Sunday plans cancel them now - this is it! This event supported by a sponsorship grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District

Performing on Sunday April 26th 7:30PM at The Perch located at 2008 E. Arizona St (2 1/2 blocks from the York/Dauphin MFL/L1 stop) we are proud to present Peni Candra Rini accompanied by Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw! Peni Candra Rini is a renowned Javanese singer, educator, and composer fusing Javanese sufi poetry with contemporary composition for Indonesian and Western instruments. The Kronos Quartet has described her as “one of the world’s greatest singers.” She is a master of several traditional forms (primarily gamelan) and is regarded as one of Indonesia’s most daring young composers, one of only a handful of female composers in the country. Shahzad Ismaily is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer, engineer and founder of Figure 8 Recording. Born to Pakistani immigrant parents, he grew up in a wholly bicultural household. Exploring improvisation, tonal shifts and rhythmic movement, the Grammy nominated artist (Love In Exile, Best Alternative Jazz Album) often referred to as the “Musician’s favorite Musician” has worked with a number of avant-garde musicians and composers. Andy McGraw is Professor and Chair of Music at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is the author of Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Experimental Music (Oxford 2013) and Music as Ethics (Oxford 2023). This performance will be accompanied with a screening of Setan Jawa (2017 Garin Nugroho). Tickets and info at the link in bio. Before the performance join us from 5:30-7:30pm in the front room for WarKop. Presented by Gapura, get cozy with intimate performances and Indonesian snacks courtesy of the talented Pemuda (youth group). See you there! This event supported by a sponsorship grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District

SEA Market is BACK. Tomorrow on Saturday April 4th, we open the gates for another season at FDR Park. For Opening Day start your morning with blessing from Chùa Pháp Bảo & Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple monks, then join us for a Market Parade to welcome our vendors back. Afterwards, @phillykpac & @moderocompany take the stage for cultural dance performances while @dj__holo keeps the music going. And throughout the day, @laos_inthehouse , @asianamericansunited , and @wearejuntos will be on site so you can know your rights while you eat your weight in papaya salad. Special thanks Cheney University volunteers and to @newboldcafe , @melissakhmerbbqllc & @phillysweetsandtreats for feeding them. 70+ vendors. One community. Four decades in the making. We’ll see you there. 📍 FDR Park, Broad Street Side | 10AM – 6PM

Randa Nabia Summer Class 2026! Perform at The Island Country Festival ! Join us!