The competition that the Tourism & BSO Sastra Oebah Team participated in on May 15-17, 2024 was called the Indonesian Tourism Competition. The competition was held at Bandung State Polytechnic. For the competition itself, as the title suggests, it is related to tourism. However, there are several general branches of competition, one of which is creative dance. The participants were spread throughout Indonesia, although not all of them participated. At that time, the team of students from the Faculty of Humanities, Gadjah Mada University won 3rd place out of 12 participants. Creative Dance Competition is a talent test that focuses on the creativity of contemporary dance movements including harmonization between wiraga, wirasa, wirama, weitra, accompanied by traditional music and modern Indonesian music. With the theme “Revive The Culture of The Land a Thousand Islands”, this competition aims to create a creative dance where participants can perform extinct traditional Indonesian dance performances with modern vibes.

Sastra Oebah is a semi-autonomous body of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, which is engaged in dance (traditional classical and contemporary creations). In 2023, Sastra Oebah was formed to become the new identity and face of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences. The beginning of the naming of Sastra Oebah itself is because it is in the Faculty of Letters (Faculty of Cultural Sciences) and Oebah means “moving” which is then elaborated as a symbol that BSO Sastra Oebah is a BSO engaged in dance. The establishment of Sastra Oebah was seen by several students who have potential in the field of dance. In this case, Sastra Oebah is able to realize several implied questions related to the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, which is identical to the variety of cultures in it, but does not have an institution/community engaged in this field (traditional classical dance and contemporary creations in particular). The mission of Sastra Oebah itself was formed by not being closed, which means that it is only open to students of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences. However, Sastra Oebah opens as many opportunities as possible for non-faculty students if they have an interest in joining Sastra Oebah. interested in joining as part of Sastra Oebah.

KPG Publisher (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia) together with Palmerah, Yuk!, and Faculty of Cultural Sciences (FIB) Universitas Gadjah Mada have successfully organized a cultural event entitled “Celebrating Indonesian-Chilean Poets’ Poetry: Discussion/Reading/Music Performance”. The event took place at the 7th floor Auditorium of Soegondo Building, Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM, Yogyakarta on Monday, May 27, 2024 from 3 to 5 pm.

The event was held to commemorate the launch of “Para la Vida: Antologi Puisi Indonesia-Chile”, which is the first poetry anthology that combines the works of Indonesian and Chilean poets. The anthology is the result of a residency program conducted by FX Rudy Gunawan and Afnan Malay in Chile in late 2022, supported by the Directorate General of Culture.

In addition to poetry readings from the anthology “Para la Vida”, the event also included a discussion with Rudy Gunawan, Ramayda Akmal, Annecy NM, hosted by Ni Made Purnamasari. Jubing Kristianto also presented music that responds to one of the poems that tells the story of Victor Jara and a composition about Chile. The event was open to the public and free of charge, so anyone interested could attend the event on the day of the event free of charge.

Adil Ka’ Talino, Bacuramin Ka’ Saruga, Basengat Ka’ Jubata, Culture Friends! Cultural Festival UGM Residence was back this year with a variety of appreciation and celebration of the diversity of the archipelago. Cultural Festival 13 comes with the theme “ , ” which was held on Saturday, June 1 until 2, 2024 at 14.00 – 22. Cultural Festival 13 was enlivened by Cultural Festival 13 Collaboration works, Cultural Art performances from Regional Student Organizations, Cultural quizzes for UGM Residence Dormitory Residents, titles of UGM Residence Works, UGMR Club, PMM MBKM, as well as Faculties and Schools, selection of Putra-Putri Culfest from Regional Student Organizations, and Guest Stars performances. This event was open to all UGM students, lecturers, education staff and the general public free of charge. A festive atmosphere was created at Cultural Festival 13 also with the presence of 23 fully participating student organizations, adding color and spirit to each of their actions and performances!

On this valuable occasion, of course, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences did not want to be left behind to introduce its culture. Assisted by members of the Lembaga Eksekutif Mahasiswa  Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada or abbreviated as LEM FIB UGM, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences set up a booth at the Cultural Festival. At the booth, many of the best cultural works of the Faculty students were exhibited such as fabrics, dresses, musical instruments, accessories, poetry, and many more. Interestingly, they also provided games with prizes for the visitors who came to make the booth look not boring and could attract people to visit. The requirement to play the prize game in the form of Spin Wheel was to follow Instagram @fib_ugm and @lemfib_ugm or upload an instastory by tagging the two accounts. Visitors who wanted to take pictures could take photos in front of the beautiful mirror that had been provided. The prizes provided for visitors who won the game were very diverse ranging from drinking water bottles, stickers, stationery, and others. Many visitors felt satisfied and entertained.

Friday, May 31, 2024, Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM held a routine activity of Cheerful Friday, Healthy FIB held in the yard of FIB UGM. The routine activity in the morning was attended by all teaching staff and lecturers of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM with five types of activities available: Line Dance, healthy gymnastics, table tennis and badminton, Fitness/Gym, and healthy walking.

Starting at 07.00 WIB, the academic community with an atmosphere of enthusiasm underwent various types of sports activities available with joy. This activity is not only to improve health and physical fitness, but also to strengthen relationships with the extended family of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM. Exercising together is a commitment to promote physical and mental health and well-being among the academic community.

Leveling is the determination of the equivalence of books for readers with reading levels. Non-textbook is a type of book that aims to provide enrichment of knowledge, insights and skills for textbooks from certain scientific studies. From this limitation, “Nontext Book Leveling” is an important tool that should be known, understood, and applied for writers/authors of nontext books.

The topic was delivered by Wiwien Widyawati Rahayu, lecturer of Javanese Language, Literature, and Culture study program, Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM at the “Technical Guidance on Writing Javanese Children’s Stories” organized by Yogyakarta Language Center (BBY) at Grand Rohan Hotel Yogyakarta on May 18, 2024 at 08.00-16.00 WIB. Bimtek is a series of activities that began with a proposal writing competition which was attended by 375 people / titles. From the assessment of three judges, including Wiwien Widyawati Rahayu, 97 titles were selected. This proposal contains not only the chosen theme, topic, title, and level but also contains a description of the character and his characterization, a synopsis of the story, as well as a draft of the contents of the script per page along with a description of the illustrations that must be included. Why does it have to be this detailed? Because through what is written by the proposer, it will be known that it is suitable for the age level chosen.

With the guidance, it is hoped that the discrepancies found in the 97 selected proposals can be recognized, consulted, and corrected by the authors. The suitability is based on the classification of readers, including early readers (A: 0-7 years), early readers (B1, B2, B3: 6-10 years), intermediate readers (C: 10-13 years), intermediate readers (D: 13-15 years), and advanced readers (E: 16 years and above). Of the five classifications, only three were presented (except for intermediate and advanced readers) in detail because they were adjusted to the provisions set by BBY as a requirement for the competition level.

The participants, who were children’s story writers, came from various districts in Yogyakarta. The diversity of professions, such as formal and non-formal educators, civil servants outside the field of education, students, journalists, retirees, professional writers, housewives, entrepreneurs, and private employees proves that writing activities occur widely in society. This can be used as additional evidence that being a writer is a professional choice that can be pursued and relied upon for all time.

At the end of her presentation, Wiwien said that, “writing non-textbooks is an opportunity for all of us as long as we are able to identify the disparity between the curriculum objectives to be achieved and the availability of textbooks, as well as existing learning practices. This needs to be known, considering that the function of non-textbooks is to complement and strengthen existing textbooks”.

The activities that have been carried out are related to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), namely Quality Education (4) because the participants/writers involved in the technical guidance can improve their writing competencies in accordance with the reader’s level; Decent Work and Economic Growth (8) because with the competencies gained, the technical guidance participants can recognize the opportunity that writing can be used as a profession; Partnership to achieve goals (17) because the relationship between participants with various professions, academics as resource persons, and institutions as stakeholders can take place well because they are aware of their own capacities so that relations of mutual need and complementarity are realized to achieve goals.