✨PGS Collage #1✨

Ever wonder how does Post-Growth connects with issues of ecology, labour, inequality, finance and development?🤔

This workshop will start by summarising and synthesising the growthist system, including how it works, why it accelerates, and what impacts it creates🔎

Despite the entrenchment of the growthist system, not all hope is lost. They will flip the cards to reveal the post-growth alternatives that we need, which have been right here all along🤝

📅 23 Sept 2026, Wednesday
🕑 7pm - 9.30pm (Registration starts at 6.45pm. Have dinner before or bring your dinner along!)
📍The Arts & Civil Space (Near Bendemeer MRT)
💵 FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/pgscollage1

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Cafe Conversation: Never enough or have we had enough?

With Singapore's quick move to integrate AI into our lives, this event ask of us to pause and ask ourselves:Where are we heading? What does this mean for us as people and as a society? How might we shape a future anchored in human and planetary wellbeing?🤔

Join them to hear from a variety of panlists about their experiences with AI across different settings, its impact on our lives and the questions we urgently need to address🥺

There will also be facilitated table discussions.

📅 3 Oct 2026, Saturday
🕑 4pm - 6.30pm
📍 Bricolage Cafe
💵$10 (or donation of your choice). Fee includes a non-alcholic drink

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/weALLsgcafeconvo

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Wild Space: Gliders After Dark

Curious about the Sunda Colugo and other fascinating creatures that come out after dark? Join them to discover the exciting landscape right here in Singapore!🤩

Here in Singapore, the Sunda Colugo makes well-forested nature reserves and nature parks, like Bukit Batok Nature Park, home. By day, they quietly cling to tree trunks, their grey or brown mottled fur helping them disappear against the bark. But when night falls, it’s time to emerge! With their large eyes, these shy creatures navigate the darkness in search of a midnight meal of leaves, flowers and fruits🌱

📅 25 Sept 2026, Friday
🕑 7.30pm-9pm
📍Bukit Batok Nature Park
💵$38

👉🏼 Sign up: https://www.wildspace.sg

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Let's Get Comfortable Human LIbrary

The Human Library, titled “Let’s Get Comfortable”, aims to reframe mental health conversations not as brave or difficult acts, but as human, everyday exchanges🙌🏻

Through warmth, choice and shared stories, this Human Library invites the public to sit in with an open mind and learn more from the speakers' lived experiences💭


📅 26 Sept 2026, Saturday
🕑 11.30am-12.30pm
📍Bukit Batok Library, Ripples Circle, Level 2
💵FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/humanlibrary26sept

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MINDS Film Festival 2026

Across two weekends and four locations, see the world through the eyes of Persons with Intellectual Disability🎬

Since its inception in 2016, the MINDS Film Festival has become a platform for stories that celebrate the lives, dreams, and everyday triumphs of Persons with Intellectual Disability✨

This year, two films are featured. An American road-movie drama and a Chinese-language sports drama 🎭Two different stories with one common thread: Persons with Intellectual Disability at the centre of their own narratives, pursuing their dreams✒️

📅 19 Sept 26-29 Sept 26
🕑 Timing dependent on individual event
📍 SAFRA Choa Chu Kang, Tze Chi Humanistic Youth Centre, Safra Punggol, Our Tampines Hub
💵FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/mindsfilmfestival2026

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🌱 SG Eco Loop Public Showcase

What could Singapore’s waste problem look like if we designed our way out of it?

Singapore generated around 1.7 million tonnes of plastic and food waste in 2025, with only about 10% recycled. 130+ students across 40 teams have spent six weeks turning ideas into working prototypes that tackle waste and recycling in Singapore. ♻️

Come see what they’ve built:
🪰 Black soldier flies turning food scraps into value
🔄 Upcycled materials transformed into everyday products
🗺️ Tools mapping where waste really goes
📣 Campaigns designed to make better sorting habits stick
🤖 Tech using AI, augmented reality and more

The teams will also compete for Biggest Impact and Best Innovation, and you’ll get a chance to vote for your favourite project!

📅 2 October 2026, Friday
📍 Temasek Shophouse
🎟️ Free entry, Open to all ages
👉🏼 RSVP: SG Eco Loop Public Showcase⁠

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🌊 Can Nature-Based Climate Solutions Support Conservation of Coastal Ecosystems?

How can we tackle climate change while protecting the coastal ecosystems that support biodiversity?

Join the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory (SJINML) for a live research seminar with Dr Zeng Yiwen, exploring when nature-based climate solutions can meaningfully contribute to conservation. The session draws on research spanning mangroves, carbon markets and coastal ecosystems, while examining what it takes to translate their potential into real-world impact. 🌱

📅 25 September 2026, Friday
🕥 10:30–11:30am
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free
👉🏼 Register: tinyurl.com/NBSforCoastalEcosystems⁠

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🐋 Meet Bloop: Exploring Mental Health, Together

This World Mental Health Day, Montfort Care is bringing Bloop, the Wellness Whale, across five locations to create spaces for us to explore mental health from different perspectives and better understand diverse lived experiences. 💙

Come by to:
🐋 Meet Bloop the Wellness Whale in person
🎁 Discover the limited-edition Bloop Blind Box
🌳 Contribute to a collaborative Community Tree artwork
🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Connect with community partners and discover mental health resources available to you and your community

📍 5 locations across Singapore
📅 Throughtout October 2026
🎟️ Free admission

Come join Bloop this October to take a moment to learn, connect and grow our understanding of mental health together. 🌱

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🎨 TEDxSingaporePlay: Art & Community

What happens when art becomes a way for communities to find each other?

At TEDxSingaporePlay, the Fireside Chat: Art and Community brings together Steve Lawler, Artist & Creative Director of EYEYAH!, and Lin Shiyun, Founder of 3Pumpkins & Head of Tak Takut Kids Club, to explore how art can bring people together, create connection and shape the communities we belong to. 🎨

But there’s more to play than just the conversation! Designed with youth in mind, and open to everyone young at heart, the afternoon brings together music, hands-on activities and play zones created by community groups, including:

🧱 LEGO Play by TEDxSingapore Youth
🖼️ Pixel Perspectives by GEN
🧵 Textile Weaving by senisini
🔮 Potluck Oracle by SQUAT! collective
🎶 Interactive music & play with Zee, Music Therapist & Founder of Latido Therapy

📅 26 September 2026, Saturday
🕒 3–5:30pm
📍 Esplanade Recital Studio
🎟️ $18, buy tickets here

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📢📢 Homelessness Learning Forum 2026

How is the whole-of-community approach so important and effective for supporting homeless persons and those at risk of homelessness?🏡

Organised by New Hope Community Services alongside other agencies, come SEE, HEAR and SHARE this year about Community Based Solutioning🙌🏻

📅 21 Oct 2026, Wednesday
🕑 Sign up for Main Forum (2-5pm) only, with lunch provided from 12pm. (Discovery Sessions 10am-12pm have been fully registered)
📍SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
💵 FOC

👉🏼 Sign up by 7 Oct: http://tiny.cc/homelessnessforum2026

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🍉 Wasl وَصْل: Many Histories, Connected in Solidarity

What if Palestine is closer to Southeast Asia than we think? Not geographically, but through arms, labour, law and a history of solidarity reaching back to Bandung🗺️

Different histories. Connected struggles. What do they ask of us today?🧐

This 10 October, Echoes of Gaza brings together three voices to trace the connections between Palestine, Southeast Asia and the histories shaping solidarity today.

🎙️ Dr Maung Zarni connects Rohingya and Palestinian experiences, examining how systems of exclusion are built and sustained.

🎙️ Saul J. Takahashi draws on years with the UN in Occupied Palestine to ask what documentation can achieve when accountability remains elusive.

🎙️ Dr Walid Jumblatt Abdullah brings the conversation home, asking what these histories mean for us in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

📅 10 Oct 2026, Saturday
🕑 8pm-10pm
📍 Google Meet
💵FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/EchoesofGaza10oct

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25 Hours: Time & Stories That Matter. A Playback Theatre Experience

What would you do with one more hour in your day? ⏳

"25 Hours" is an exploration of individual stories around the idea of maximising their day for the sake of productivity⌛.

Optimisation of time might be a blinding, endless goal that we all need to re-examine. Through their show, they aim to shed light on the burnout that is so often experienced in Singapore and give some respite to those who need it🔥

Her Playback Theatre is a Playback Theatre group that is made up of women from diverse backgrounds. They want to provide a safe and non-judgmental space to playback stories, and encourage conversations through stories to promote dialogue on social issues.

📅 17 Oct/24 Oct, Saturday
🕑 7.30pm-9.30pm
📍Grandstand @ Nest Block, Enabling Village, 20 Lengkok Bahru, Enabling Village, S(159053)
Singapore
💵$17(General Public)-$25 (Caregivers and PWD)

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/25hours

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Brave New Words, Not Without Us

What does a genuinely accessible and inclusive future look like, and what can words, stories and collective action do to help us get there?🤝

Brave New Words and Not Without Us bring together essays, stories and critical perspectives that ask us to rethink disability across Philippines and Singapore.

In this conversation, editors Angeli Lacson (Brave New Words), Victor Zhuang (Not Without Us) share the stories behind and in these two books: why they were made, whose voices they wanted to bring together, and what they hope the books might make possible📖

They will explore how disability studies and disability justice can open up new ways of understanding exclusion and inequality, including experiences that are often left outside of conversations due to prevailing politics💖

📅 5 Oct 2026, Monday
🕑 7.30pm-8.30pm
📍Book Bar
💵FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/BraveNewWordsNotWithoutUs

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La Kopi Liibrary at ELDEX Asia 2026☕️

ELDEX Asia is Singapore’s leading platform dedicated to ageing well through community, connection, and action.✨

In this Human Library section, they invite you to have a conversation, ask questions and hear stories first hand from a care partner or caregiver💖

📅 2-4 Oct 2026, Friday & Saturday
🕑11am & 2pm
📍Suntec Hall 406- Mind Forward Commons
💵 FOC

👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/lakopilibrary

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