Open Jio Opens Up 2: SG2051
After one year, Open Jio Opens Up (OJOU) is finally back and better than ever!
Join us in a two-part event, where we will together envision a better SG2051 through various means, including an exhilarating escape room and an inspiring volunteer panel.
Not only will you have lots of fun trying your hand (and brain) at the different activities, you'll meet and connect with lots of like-minded people, too!
🔵 19 Jun, Sat
🔴 2-6 PM
⚪ You can sign up for either the first part (2-4.40PM) or the second part (5-6PM) of the event, or both (2-6 PM).
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/OJOUSignUp
Organised by OpenJio
#ojou
After one year, Open Jio Opens Up (OJOU) is finally back and better than ever!
Join us in a two-part event, where we will together envision a better SG2051 through various means, including an exhilarating escape room and an inspiring volunteer panel.
Not only will you have lots of fun trying your hand (and brain) at the different activities, you'll meet and connect with lots of like-minded people, too!
🔵 19 Jun, Sat
🔴 2-6 PM
⚪ You can sign up for either the first part (2-4.40PM) or the second part (5-6PM) of the event, or both (2-6 PM).
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/OJOUSignUp
Organised by OpenJio
#ojou
Happy Pride Month!!🌈💓
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
17 LGBTQIA+ Creatives And The New Voices And Perspectives They Bring by Margaux Levy
“ My hope for the queer community in Singapore is in the little things. To be able to hold my partner’s hand in public without looking around every two seconds...To feel like I belong here too.”
The key to Empathy is to listen. Who else better to listen to than people who are IN the community?🦻🏻
Here is a quick list of perspectives from LGBTQIA+ Creatives.
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites68
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
17 LGBTQIA+ Creatives And The New Voices And Perspectives They Bring by Margaux Levy
“ My hope for the queer community in Singapore is in the little things. To be able to hold my partner’s hand in public without looking around every two seconds...To feel like I belong here too.”
The key to Empathy is to listen. Who else better to listen to than people who are IN the community?🦻🏻
Here is a quick list of perspectives from LGBTQIA+ Creatives.
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites68
Female Singapore - The Progressive Women's Fashion & Beauty Magazine
17 LGBTQIA+ Creatives And The New Voices And Perspectives They Bring
We get to know 17 rising Singapore creatives from the LGBTQIA+ community here and how they bring new voices and perspectives to the scene.
The Years of Forgetting: A Book Reading & Panel Discussion
Join Sofia Abdullah as she reads from her memoir on sexual abuse as a child. Following that, the panel discussion will explore how to learn to prevent child sexual abuse and support a loved one on their healing journey!
🔴 17 Jun, Thurs
🔵 9-10pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2U2C5Ws
Organised by YAKIN (Youth, Adult survivors & Kin In Need)
#sexualabuse #book #paneldiscussion
Join Sofia Abdullah as she reads from her memoir on sexual abuse as a child. Following that, the panel discussion will explore how to learn to prevent child sexual abuse and support a loved one on their healing journey!
🔴 17 Jun, Thurs
🔵 9-10pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2U2C5Ws
Organised by YAKIN (Youth, Adult survivors & Kin In Need)
#sexualabuse #book #paneldiscussion
Choose Your Own Adventure: Aphasia Edition
In this special virtual event, you decide on your fate by choosing which 'path' to go! These scenarios simulate daily situations experienced by persons with aphasia (PWA). By choosing your own adventure, learn and experience how it feels to survive a day in the life of a PWA.
👉 Register by 18 Jun, Fri 2359
🔴 19 Jun, Sat
🔵 3-430pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iyyiu3
Organised by Aphasia SG
#disability
In this special virtual event, you decide on your fate by choosing which 'path' to go! These scenarios simulate daily situations experienced by persons with aphasia (PWA). By choosing your own adventure, learn and experience how it feels to survive a day in the life of a PWA.
👉 Register by 18 Jun, Fri 2359
🔴 19 Jun, Sat
🔵 3-430pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iyyiu3
Organised by Aphasia SG
#disability
Hawkerthon 2021
An online hackathon to help elderly hawkers, designed to challenge youth like yourselves to come up with innovative solutions! Immerse yourself in this 6-day hackathon with sponsored workshops that helps you to discover a solution from scratch✨
👉 Join solo or in groups up to 3
👉 Sign up closing on 20 Jun, 5pm
🔴 21-26 Jun, Mon-Sat
🔵 various timings
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3cBFvWJ
Organised by Praxium and Unseen City
#hawkers #hackathon
An online hackathon to help elderly hawkers, designed to challenge youth like yourselves to come up with innovative solutions! Immerse yourself in this 6-day hackathon with sponsored workshops that helps you to discover a solution from scratch✨
👉 Join solo or in groups up to 3
👉 Sign up closing on 20 Jun, 5pm
🔴 21-26 Jun, Mon-Sat
🔵 various timings
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3cBFvWJ
Organised by Praxium and Unseen City
#hawkers #hackathon
Refugee Awareness Week 2021
This year, RAW 2021 features individuals with lived experiences as refugees and displaced persons, presenting their stories for you to listen and learn from. This Sat’s panel discussion explores the ways in which women refugees navigate challenging circumstances to purposefully lead, support and build communities.
🔴 19 Jun, Sat
🔵 230-4pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3cDHiu5
Organised by Advocates For Refugees - SG
#refugee #festival
This year, RAW 2021 features individuals with lived experiences as refugees and displaced persons, presenting their stories for you to listen and learn from. This Sat’s panel discussion explores the ways in which women refugees navigate challenging circumstances to purposefully lead, support and build communities.
🔴 19 Jun, Sat
🔵 230-4pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3cDHiu5
Organised by Advocates For Refugees - SG
#refugee #festival
REGARDING RACISM – a virtual roundtable by AcademiaSG
Can racial intolerance be dismissed as extreme outliers or do they represent wider rifts?
This roundtable gathers scholars of anthropology, sociology, politics & literature for a multidisciplinary conversation about how concerned citizens might think about race and respond to racism.
🔴 16 Jun, Wed
🔵 8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3geQojm
Organised by academia.sg
#race #conversations
Can racial intolerance be dismissed as extreme outliers or do they represent wider rifts?
This roundtable gathers scholars of anthropology, sociology, politics & literature for a multidisciplinary conversation about how concerned citizens might think about race and respond to racism.
🔴 16 Jun, Wed
🔵 8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3geQojm
Organised by academia.sg
#race #conversations
Open Jio Opens Up 2: SG2051
⚠️ In case you missed it, OJOU is still open for sign ups! So don't say boJIO 🤗 ⚠️
Join us in a 2-part event, where we envision a better SG2051 together through various activities, including an exhilarating escape room and an inspiring volunteer panel.
Not only will you have lots of fun trying your hand (and brain) at the different activities, you'll meet and connect with lots of like-minded people too!
🔵 19 Jun, Sat
🔴 2-6 PM
⚪ Sign up for either 1 or both!
Envisioning SG2051: 2-4.40PM
Volunteer Panel: 5-6PM
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/OJOUSignUp
Organised by OpenJio
#ojou
⚠️ In case you missed it, OJOU is still open for sign ups! So don't say boJIO 🤗 ⚠️
Join us in a 2-part event, where we envision a better SG2051 together through various activities, including an exhilarating escape room and an inspiring volunteer panel.
Not only will you have lots of fun trying your hand (and brain) at the different activities, you'll meet and connect with lots of like-minded people too!
🔵 19 Jun, Sat
🔴 2-6 PM
⚪ Sign up for either 1 or both!
Envisioning SG2051: 2-4.40PM
Volunteer Panel: 5-6PM
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/OJOUSignUp
Organised by OpenJio
#ojou
Social Impact Film Club
Love watching films? Passionate about social causes?
Join us at the Social Impact Film Club, where you'll be able to explore and discover the impact of social documentary films. You'll gain free access to not just our online and onsite screening events, but also our suite of educational content with experts, from workshops to dialogues!
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UoD17J
Organised by Air Amber
#socialimpact #film
Love watching films? Passionate about social causes?
Join us at the Social Impact Film Club, where you'll be able to explore and discover the impact of social documentary films. You'll gain free access to not just our online and onsite screening events, but also our suite of educational content with experts, from workshops to dialogues!
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UoD17J
Organised by Air Amber
#socialimpact #film
Possibility Conversations (June 2021): Youth Civic Engagement
How can we encourage wider youth civic participation across socioeconomic classes?
What has been the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth civic engagement?
And finally, how do we get a movement going in this age of social media?
Join us in June's session of Possibility Conversations to explore all these questions and more!
🔵30 Jun, Wed
🔴8.30-10.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/35GijT6
Organised by A Good Space, serve.sg & socialcollab.sg
#youth #activecitizenry #conversations
How can we encourage wider youth civic participation across socioeconomic classes?
What has been the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth civic engagement?
And finally, how do we get a movement going in this age of social media?
Join us in June's session of Possibility Conversations to explore all these questions and more!
🔵30 Jun, Wed
🔴8.30-10.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/35GijT6
Organised by A Good Space, serve.sg & socialcollab.sg
#youth #activecitizenry #conversations
How does your culture or religion respond to death?
How does your culture or religion respond to death? Before Beyond is crowdsourcing accounts on perceptions and traditions in relation to death.
These accounts will be put together in a series of articles to improve intercultural and inter-religious awareness between all generations.
🔵Collection ending 30 Jun, Wed
👉Send in your account here: https://bit.ly/3gIJlQ3
Organised by Before Beyond
#death #interfaith
How does your culture or religion respond to death? Before Beyond is crowdsourcing accounts on perceptions and traditions in relation to death.
These accounts will be put together in a series of articles to improve intercultural and inter-religious awareness between all generations.
🔵Collection ending 30 Jun, Wed
👉Send in your account here: https://bit.ly/3gIJlQ3
Organised by Before Beyond
#death #interfaith
Planting The Seeds of Our Future: Trends in Urban and Community Farming
The pandemic has shown us how food supply may be disrupted, re-emphasising the importance of growing food locally. How relevant is this concept in land-scarce Singapore? What are some trends and future technologies emerging in this space?
Have these questions and more answered at our panel discussion, where we will explore urban and community farming through the lens of architecture, science and technology!
🔵27 Jun, Sun
🔴2-3.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3wJUAx7
Organised by Green SG & Taman Jurong CCC Green@Heart
#environment #urbanfarming #paneldiscussion
The pandemic has shown us how food supply may be disrupted, re-emphasising the importance of growing food locally. How relevant is this concept in land-scarce Singapore? What are some trends and future technologies emerging in this space?
Have these questions and more answered at our panel discussion, where we will explore urban and community farming through the lens of architecture, science and technology!
🔵27 Jun, Sun
🔴2-3.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3wJUAx7
Organised by Green SG & Taman Jurong CCC Green@Heart
#environment #urbanfarming #paneldiscussion
Candid Confessions 3
How do we show empathy to others, no matter how alien they may seem to us?
Join us in our dialogue, themed "Empathy in a Crisis", as we discuss empathy in relation to issues that have been brought to the forefront during the pandemic.
🔵26 Jun, Sat
🔴2-4.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2Unsqdh
Organised by TRC Youth Wing
#empathy #conversations
How do we show empathy to others, no matter how alien they may seem to us?
Join us in our dialogue, themed "Empathy in a Crisis", as we discuss empathy in relation to issues that have been brought to the forefront during the pandemic.
🔵26 Jun, Sat
🔴2-4.30PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2Unsqdh
Organised by TRC Youth Wing
#empathy #conversations
Fresh insights in the social space!
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
Commentary: Can education fix inequality in Singapore? If not, what can? by Linda Lim and Pang Eng Fong
Covid-19 has sparked renewed discussions on the opportunity gaps faced by those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and has raised issues concerning social mobility.
Access aims to examine the perceptions of social mobility among members of the public, identify sentiments on the ground and assist us in identifying additional areas of support for disadvantaged students. The findings will also help to design an upcoming social mobility campaign with more details to be announced soon.
👉 Click here for the survey: http://bit.ly/OJBites69
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
Commentary: Can education fix inequality in Singapore? If not, what can? by Linda Lim and Pang Eng Fong
Covid-19 has sparked renewed discussions on the opportunity gaps faced by those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and has raised issues concerning social mobility.
Access aims to examine the perceptions of social mobility among members of the public, identify sentiments on the ground and assist us in identifying additional areas of support for disadvantaged students. The findings will also help to design an upcoming social mobility campaign with more details to be announced soon.
👉 Click here for the survey: http://bit.ly/OJBites69
Ayahku, Dr G
This is the story of one daughter's journey to save her 60 year-old father from the death penalty in Malaysia after he is arrested for using medical cannabis to treat his chronic illnesses. The film screening follows a critical discussion on the 'war on drugs' in MY & SG, the effect of drug laws on families & communities, and the developments around drug liberalisation.
💰Tickets (proceeds will go to families of death row persons in MY & SG)
$10-$50
🔴 3 July, Sat
🔵 7-9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2SvuHCu
Organised by Transformative Justice Collective, Freedom Film Festival, FreedomFilmFest SG
#film #deathpenalty #drugs
This is the story of one daughter's journey to save her 60 year-old father from the death penalty in Malaysia after he is arrested for using medical cannabis to treat his chronic illnesses. The film screening follows a critical discussion on the 'war on drugs' in MY & SG, the effect of drug laws on families & communities, and the developments around drug liberalisation.
💰Tickets (proceeds will go to families of death row persons in MY & SG)
$10-$50
🔴 3 July, Sat
🔵 7-9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2SvuHCu
Organised by Transformative Justice Collective, Freedom Film Festival, FreedomFilmFest SG
#film #deathpenalty #drugs
IMAN (IMPROF Mentorship and Networking) Programme
The 2nd run of IMAN Programme invites all youths regardless of their race and religion a unique opportunity to explore a particular career field. Those with interests in advancing their careers, knowledge base or professional affiliations in related fields may apply too!
🔴 Leadership & self-development workshops are conducted over 6 months with at least 4 contact sessions
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/35XAofG
Organised by IMPROF
#mentorship #youth #career
The 2nd run of IMAN Programme invites all youths regardless of their race and religion a unique opportunity to explore a particular career field. Those with interests in advancing their careers, knowledge base or professional affiliations in related fields may apply too!
🔴 Leadership & self-development workshops are conducted over 6 months with at least 4 contact sessions
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/35XAofG
Organised by IMPROF
#mentorship #youth #career
Unsilent Library: A Human Library Experience
Have a question you've always wanted to ask a deaf person? Join us in this human library experience and hear from 4 special "books" from all walks of life!
The "books" will cover 📚:
- Appropriate terms to use, common misconceptions and tips on connecting with the deaf
- Jobs & opportunities for the deaf
- Hearing loss advocacy
- Experience as a sign language instructor
🔴 4 July, Sun
🔵 3-6pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3x5oNXN
Organised by NTU Welfare Services Club for the Deaf Community x Camp Outreach
#humanlibrary #deaf
Have a question you've always wanted to ask a deaf person? Join us in this human library experience and hear from 4 special "books" from all walks of life!
The "books" will cover 📚:
- Appropriate terms to use, common misconceptions and tips on connecting with the deaf
- Jobs & opportunities for the deaf
- Hearing loss advocacy
- Experience as a sign language instructor
🔴 4 July, Sun
🔵 3-6pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3x5oNXN
Organised by NTU Welfare Services Club for the Deaf Community x Camp Outreach
#humanlibrary #deaf
TEDxYouth@Singapore Ideathon
This year, an Ideathon preludes our TEDx talk event centred on Sustainability. Ideate on solutions and fresh ideas that contribute to a sustainable future! There will be mentorship support and ample opportunities to share with like-minded peers. Stand a chance to present your ideas on the TEDxYouth@Singapore stage!
📌Youths aged 17-35
📌Form a group of 3 - 4 members
📌Submit by 4 July, Sun 2359
🔴 17-18 July, Sat-Sun
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3x1jqIZ
Organised by TEDxYouth@Singapore
#TED #Ideathon #sustainability
This year, an Ideathon preludes our TEDx talk event centred on Sustainability. Ideate on solutions and fresh ideas that contribute to a sustainable future! There will be mentorship support and ample opportunities to share with like-minded peers. Stand a chance to present your ideas on the TEDxYouth@Singapore stage!
📌Youths aged 17-35
📌Form a group of 3 - 4 members
📌Submit by 4 July, Sun 2359
🔴 17-18 July, Sat-Sun
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3x1jqIZ
Organised by TEDxYouth@Singapore
#TED #Ideathon #sustainability
S01EP03: Developing the Next Generation of Futurists
Youths have been at the forefront of creative ideas and innovation for the future. This special webinar is a great opportunity for a young person looking for a way into Futures Thinking, or a leader who wants their organisations' youths to have Futures Thinking in their toolbox. Book your date with us!
🔴 30 Jun, Wed
🔵 5.15pm - 6.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/36b1ujH
Organised by LKY School Executive Education Singapore Futures
#youth #FuturesThinking #Futures
Youths have been at the forefront of creative ideas and innovation for the future. This special webinar is a great opportunity for a young person looking for a way into Futures Thinking, or a leader who wants their organisations' youths to have Futures Thinking in their toolbox. Book your date with us!
🔴 30 Jun, Wed
🔵 5.15pm - 6.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/36b1ujH
Organised by LKY School Executive Education Singapore Futures
#youth #FuturesThinking #Futures
Common Space Series 5: Income Inequality
What determines an individual’s social standing? Who benefits the most from meritocracy? Are people born into poverty, or do they fall into it?
Discuss these questions and more with us at Illuminate SG’s fifth edition of Common Space, where we will delve deeper into the realities of socioeconomic inequality in Singapore.
🔵 10 Jul, Sat
🔴 1-5PM
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/36dFTXQ
Organised by IlluminateSG
#inequality #conversations
What determines an individual’s social standing? Who benefits the most from meritocracy? Are people born into poverty, or do they fall into it?
Discuss these questions and more with us at Illuminate SG’s fifth edition of Common Space, where we will delve deeper into the realities of socioeconomic inequality in Singapore.
🔵 10 Jul, Sat
🔴 1-5PM
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/36dFTXQ
Organised by IlluminateSG
#inequality #conversations