Chit Chat Chai (Topic: Suicide within our South-Asian community)

Join Mental Act in a safe, informal space to talk about mental health and suicide prevention over a cup of tea ☕️

These sessions are about breaking the silence, sharing experiences, and learning from one another. No expertise needed—just your presence, your voice, and your willingness to listen👂

Explore:
✅Honest, stigma-free conversations
✅Shared stories and lived experiences
✅A supportive, non-judgmental community
✅Space to listen, learn & connect

Together, we can build a culture of understanding and support 💜

🔴 4 Oct 25, Saturday
🔵10:00am - 1:00pm
🗺️ 7 Maxwell Road, MND Building Annexe B #04-05/06, SG(069111)
💵FOC

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Book Launch of The Sound of SCH

First published when mental health was still a taboo subject, The Sound of SCH, went on to win the Singapore Literature Prize and opened doors for dialogue and understanding📖

Now, this pioneering work returns in an updated edition—reminding us that mental health is still deeply relevant.

Join Danielle Lim and Margaret Ong as they reflect on writing, caregiving, and the evolving landscape of support for mental health✨

Explore:
✅ Honest conversation on mental illness & caregiving
✅ A moving story of resilience, stigma & compassion
✅ Space to reflect, listen & care together

🔴 12 Oct 25, Sunday
🔵3:30pm-5pm
🗺️ Casual Poet Library, 123 Bukit Merah Lane 1 #01-110 S(150123)
💵FOC

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Between Lands: Migration as Transformation

Co-presented by The Substation and Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), this exhibition gathers seven Southeast Asian artists whose works navigate the realities of migration, displacement, and belonging🧐

Through storytelling, performance, and audience engagement, they illuminate migration not just as movement across borders, but as transformation of memory, identity and community💖

Explore:
✅Provocative artworks and performances
✅Stories of displacement and resilence
✅Perspectives on identity, culture and belonging
✅A call to awareness and compassion

🔴4 Oct 25 (Exhibition preview, performances, dialogue session and cocktail reception)
5 Oct 25 - 12 Oct 25 (Exhibition)
🔵Depends on session
🗺️ 136 Goethe Lab, Neil Road, Singapore
💵 FOC, with recommended donations
Vernissage: Recommended $30;
Exhibition only: Recommended $10
(Registration for the Vernissage open now)

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Hello everyone! 👋🏼 As we move towards the end of the year, the Open Jio team would like to find out more about the community of subscribers and what you might like to see!

We appreciate if you spend 1-2mins to help us complete the short poll below to help us get to know you a little better! 🔍

Thank you for to those who did the poll, it is very helpful and informative for us! The poll will run till early Nov so take your time to ponder and let us know your thoughts. We will take your votes back to explore how we can incorporate what you’re looking for in 2026 so stay tuned! 👀✨

Talks On Tap

☀️ Can Singapore’s tropical identity influence how Singaporeans live, build and remember?

Join us for a social and engaging evening with Randy Chan (Zarch Collaboratives) for “The Tropical Dispositif” — a dive into how the tropics shape the way we live, build, and remember in Singapore. 🌴🌧️

Come for the ideas, stay for the drinks and conversations! 👾

Talks on Taps is an initiative by Young Urbanists Singapore, where urban-related lectures are repackaged and shared in social settings. 🎵

🔴 16 Oct, Thursday
🔵 7pm
🗺️ Monk’s Brew Club, East Coast Rd
💵 $18 (comes with a drink!)

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AI For All Programme

A brand new AI programme has just been launched. It's 100% online and free of charge! Whether you're a student, job-seeker or working professional, this is your chance to explore real-world applications of AI, at your own pace.

Made possible through the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, this initiative is in collaboration with AVPN and supported by Google.org and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). 🌏

🗺️ Online
💵FOC

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⚙️ For more programme Details:
https://hatch.sg/aiforall

Demystifying Tech

Tech can seem overwhelming, constantly progressing at a dizzying, breakneck speed. 😵‍💫 It doesn’t have to feel like that!

Come join us this October, let's peer beyond the veil of our sleek, highly-optimised tech interfaces and its endless tech noise and hype. We'll slow down, and delve into myriad ways of thinking about tech in our lives. With our subject matter experts, you'll get to explore…
🌐The Internet as a collective, ground-up project through the lens of Wikipedia and hyperlinking
📍The importance of centering local contexts in an age of large AI models
🔎Reframing and reclaiming data as a way to curiously explore deeply human, everyday stories enmeshed in our worlds
📱Investigating data hygiene and privacy on your personal tech devices

🔴 Multiple Dates
🔵 Multiple Timings
🗺️ Online, Programme Zone 2 Harbourfront library
💵 FOC

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