Antara Detik: Allowing The Community to Recognise Itself

IN A CITY calibrated for productivity and consumption, moments of pause feel increasingly rare. Yet, it is often in these unstructured in-between spaces that community quietly takes shape. Antara Detik, held on the eve-ning of 21 September, was one such moment—not quite an event to be consumed, but a space to inhabit.

Conceived as part of the Hin Between Festival, whose theme this year was “Time”, Antara Detik trans-lates loosely as “between moments”. Hosted at Baie Café, the gathering brought together poetry, music, conversations and surprise, but more importantly, it offered something harder to programme: presence—informal, porous and shaped as much by the people in the room as by the programme itself.
“We came up with the name ‘Antara Detik’ because the programme is punctuated by moments of surprise,” Aq’illa Latif, who co-conceptualised the title with Fatin, owner of Baie, explains.