Poetry Festival Singapore 2021
Communities create trust, care, and belonging within society, providing vital support for individuals. As poets, we hope to explore and build on this sense of belonging via our artistic creations, using our poetry to transcend the individual and foster an inclusive space for integration.
Tune into this year's edition of our Poetry Festival, themed around Community!
🔵 30 Jul - 8 Aug
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zCyopO
Organised by Poetry Festival Singapore
#poetry #festival #community
Communities create trust, care, and belonging within society, providing vital support for individuals. As poets, we hope to explore and build on this sense of belonging via our artistic creations, using our poetry to transcend the individual and foster an inclusive space for integration.
Tune into this year's edition of our Poetry Festival, themed around Community!
🔵 30 Jul - 8 Aug
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zCyopO
Organised by Poetry Festival Singapore
#poetry #festival #community
Dancing with Fish in the Midnight Zone
ARTivate, the youth wing of Drama Box, presents to you 'Dancing with Fish in the Midnight Zone'. In this original play screened online, you will be brought along the grieving and healing journey of a mother, a sister and a friend after losing someone dear to suicide. Moreover, there will be a post-show dialogue on Zoom after the show.
🔵30 Jul, Fri and 31 Jul, Sat
🔴8PM
❗CW: suicide, anxiety-inducing situations
💴Tickets cost $10
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zywS8g
Organised by ARTivate (youth wing of Drama Box)
#mentalhealth #theatre
ARTivate, the youth wing of Drama Box, presents to you 'Dancing with Fish in the Midnight Zone'. In this original play screened online, you will be brought along the grieving and healing journey of a mother, a sister and a friend after losing someone dear to suicide. Moreover, there will be a post-show dialogue on Zoom after the show.
🔵30 Jul, Fri and 31 Jul, Sat
🔴8PM
❗CW: suicide, anxiety-inducing situations
💴Tickets cost $10
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zywS8g
Organised by ARTivate (youth wing of Drama Box)
#mentalhealth #theatre
Why does domestic worker abuse keep happening in Singapore and how can we stop it?
Between 2017 and 2020, Singapore has seen an average of 270 cases of physical abuse against domestic workers. Why does this keep happening in Singapore?
Join us on a Facebook live as we discuss some of the legal structures and pervasive attitudes that perpetuate abuse, and what we can do within our capacities as friends, neighbours, and employers to prevent this.
🔵28 Jul, Wed
🔴8-9PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UNrUWs
Organised by MaidForMore
#domesticworkers #workshop
Between 2017 and 2020, Singapore has seen an average of 270 cases of physical abuse against domestic workers. Why does this keep happening in Singapore?
Join us on a Facebook live as we discuss some of the legal structures and pervasive attitudes that perpetuate abuse, and what we can do within our capacities as friends, neighbours, and employers to prevent this.
🔵28 Jul, Wed
🔴8-9PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UNrUWs
Organised by MaidForMore
#domesticworkers #workshop
How can we help each other process what happened together?
In recent weeks, the tragedy at RVHS has impacted all of us. Given that our country is already in a time of collective grief and tensions, the incident may have affected you in ways you could not expect.
We are hoping to offer a small, safe, yet courageous community circle for you to process your thoughts and emotions with others. We can journey through this hard moment in small ways together.
🔵28 Jul, Wed
🔴8.30-10PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iTO3dU
Organised by Common Ground
#mentalhealth #conversations
In recent weeks, the tragedy at RVHS has impacted all of us. Given that our country is already in a time of collective grief and tensions, the incident may have affected you in ways you could not expect.
We are hoping to offer a small, safe, yet courageous community circle for you to process your thoughts and emotions with others. We can journey through this hard moment in small ways together.
🔵28 Jul, Wed
🔴8.30-10PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iTO3dU
Organised by Common Ground
#mentalhealth #conversations
Let's Talk About Grief
Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be hard, and many struggle to start the conversation about grief with others. Moreover, everyone experiences grief differently.
Join us in an interactive dialogue as our speakers reflect on their journey dealing with their parents' demises.
🔵31 Jul, Sat
🔴7-9PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3i1CuSC
Organised by Before Beyond & Groundup Central
#grief #paneldiscussion
Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be hard, and many struggle to start the conversation about grief with others. Moreover, everyone experiences grief differently.
Join us in an interactive dialogue as our speakers reflect on their journey dealing with their parents' demises.
🔵31 Jul, Sat
🔴7-9PM
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3i1CuSC
Organised by Before Beyond & Groundup Central
#grief #paneldiscussion
NDGUP Human Library
At our human library, instead of borrowing a traditional book, borrow a human “book” to have a small group conversation. Ask about their lives and initiatives; find out why they started it and what keeps them going!
🔴 8 Aug, Sun
🔵 2-4pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zX02hy
Organised by National Day Ground-Up Party
#humanlibrary
At our human library, instead of borrowing a traditional book, borrow a human “book” to have a small group conversation. Ask about their lives and initiatives; find out why they started it and what keeps them going!
🔴 8 Aug, Sun
🔵 2-4pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3zX02hy
Organised by National Day Ground-Up Party
#humanlibrary
ROP Majulah Dialogue Series
This two-part dialogue series aims to explore the landscape relating to "cancel/callout culture", "wokeism", "gaslighting" and other emerging trends within Singapore's digital space in relation to social cohesion. Join our distinguished panel of speakers for an insightful and engaging session!
🔴 7 Aug, Sat / 15 Aug, Sun
🔵 230-430pm / 3-5pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3fkKiNu
Organised by Roses of Peace
#paneldiscussion #cancelculture
This two-part dialogue series aims to explore the landscape relating to "cancel/callout culture", "wokeism", "gaslighting" and other emerging trends within Singapore's digital space in relation to social cohesion. Join our distinguished panel of speakers for an insightful and engaging session!
🔴 7 Aug, Sat / 15 Aug, Sun
🔵 230-430pm / 3-5pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3fkKiNu
Organised by Roses of Peace
#paneldiscussion #cancelculture
Brown Bag Sessions: Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever felt like nothing you do is good enough? Avoiding challenges because of nagging self-doubt?
In this session, let's discuss what Imposter Syndrome is, how it comes about, and ways to tackle it. You're not alone in this and we've got a safe space for us to figure it out together!
🔴 12 Aug, Thurs
🔵 8-930pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3icTRjr
Organised by Happiness Initiative
#happiness #conversations
Have you ever felt like nothing you do is good enough? Avoiding challenges because of nagging self-doubt?
In this session, let's discuss what Imposter Syndrome is, how it comes about, and ways to tackle it. You're not alone in this and we've got a safe space for us to figure it out together!
🔴 12 Aug, Thurs
🔵 8-930pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3icTRjr
Organised by Happiness Initiative
#happiness #conversations
Lawful Assembly of Ex-offenders (Aug)
🔥From Victim to Victor: Hear how Ex-offenders turned their lives around successfully
Does second chance exist for people with history of incarceration? How does one deal with addiction? Can one who 'failed' others rebuild their lives? Find out the responses to these questions in this session!
🔴 7 Aug, Sat
🔵 10-1130am
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xdfYdU
Organised by Architects Of Life
#exoffenders #paneldiscussion
🔥From Victim to Victor: Hear how Ex-offenders turned their lives around successfully
Does second chance exist for people with history of incarceration? How does one deal with addiction? Can one who 'failed' others rebuild their lives? Find out the responses to these questions in this session!
🔴 7 Aug, Sat
🔵 10-1130am
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xdfYdU
Organised by Architects Of Life
#exoffenders #paneldiscussion
They Told Us To Move: Gagarine & Dakota - Virtual Discussion
As part of our Cannes Film Festival showcase, we present - GAGARINE! The story follows a boy and his efforts to save his community and housing estate from demolition. Catch the movie this week and participate in a lively discussion on community displacement with Jonathan Poh (Save Dakota), Jeremy Ho (Between Two Homes), Tan Bee Thiam (Tiong Bahru Social Club) and directors of GAGARINE, Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh.
🔴 4 Aug, Wed
🔵 8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3id84Np
Organised by The Projector
#displacement #film #paneldiscussion
As part of our Cannes Film Festival showcase, we present - GAGARINE! The story follows a boy and his efforts to save his community and housing estate from demolition. Catch the movie this week and participate in a lively discussion on community displacement with Jonathan Poh (Save Dakota), Jeremy Ho (Between Two Homes), Tan Bee Thiam (Tiong Bahru Social Club) and directors of GAGARINE, Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh.
🔴 4 Aug, Wed
🔵 8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3id84Np
Organised by The Projector
#displacement #film #paneldiscussion
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National Day Ground-Up Party 2021
Nothing to do this Sunday? Join us for our third National Day Ground-up Party as we explore Singapore's lesser-known social and cultural stories in a fun and experiential way
Our activities include:
- Human Library: chat with human "books" about their experiences in community building, mental health advocacy, and many more!
- Breakout Activities: such as a sharing on Singapore’s hidden natural beauty, local food culture and a virtual treasure hunt
- Fringe Activities: games/chit-chat rooms for you to hang out and make friends
🔵 8 Aug, Sun
🔴 10am-10pm
👉 More info here: https://nationaldayparty.com
Organised by random group of Singaporeans including OpenJio, Praxium, Friendzone, Kanga Creative and A Good Space
Nothing to do this Sunday? Join us for our third National Day Ground-up Party as we explore Singapore's lesser-known social and cultural stories in a fun and experiential way
Our activities include:
- Human Library: chat with human "books" about their experiences in community building, mental health advocacy, and many more!
- Breakout Activities: such as a sharing on Singapore’s hidden natural beauty, local food culture and a virtual treasure hunt
- Fringe Activities: games/chit-chat rooms for you to hang out and make friends
🔵 8 Aug, Sun
🔴 10am-10pm
👉 More info here: https://nationaldayparty.com
Organised by random group of Singaporeans including OpenJio, Praxium, Friendzone, Kanga Creative and A Good Space
Fresh insights in the social space!
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
To Be You: A Singaporean Interactive Fiction Game
It’s a fun interactive fiction game that lets the player experience Singaporean life as someone else – what’s it like to be a Malay-Muslim girl in a predominantly Chinese school? Or a young Sikh guy with dreams of entering the modelling world about to enter NS? What is it like #ToBeYou?
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites71
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
To Be You: A Singaporean Interactive Fiction Game
It’s a fun interactive fiction game that lets the player experience Singaporean life as someone else – what’s it like to be a Malay-Muslim girl in a predominantly Chinese school? Or a young Sikh guy with dreams of entering the modelling world about to enter NS? What is it like #ToBeYou?
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites71
tobeyou.sg
ToBeYou: A Singaporean Interactive Fiction Game
An award-winning game about empathy
Being Community: Stories We Need to Share
Singapore is our home, and now more than ever, she needs us to band together and work towards achieving our ideal community - regardless of race, language, or religion. This is not just a cliché to us!
Join Being Community in a closed-door facilitated Zoom discussion where we hope to have an honest conversation about experiences of racial discrimination, why it exists, and what we can do about it as individuals, and as a society.
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 2-3.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3le2MTq
Organised by Being Community
#race #conversations
Singapore is our home, and now more than ever, she needs us to band together and work towards achieving our ideal community - regardless of race, language, or religion. This is not just a cliché to us!
Join Being Community in a closed-door facilitated Zoom discussion where we hope to have an honest conversation about experiences of racial discrimination, why it exists, and what we can do about it as individuals, and as a society.
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 2-3.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3le2MTq
Organised by Being Community
#race #conversations
Prison Break: A Reading Group on Incarceration in Singapore and Beyond
How do prisons work? Can prisons effectively address social harms? How does the logic of 'carcerality' extend beyond prison compounds into our own lives? Can we imagine a world without prisons?
Join Prison Break to discuss about criminalisation and the modern-day prison system, as well as consider the possibilities of transformative justice and a world without prisons.
🔴 12 Aug, 26 Aug (Thu)
🔵 7pm-9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2VwkIyw
Organised by Transformative Justice Collective
#bookclub #prison
How do prisons work? Can prisons effectively address social harms? How does the logic of 'carcerality' extend beyond prison compounds into our own lives? Can we imagine a world without prisons?
Join Prison Break to discuss about criminalisation and the modern-day prison system, as well as consider the possibilities of transformative justice and a world without prisons.
🔴 12 Aug, 26 Aug (Thu)
🔵 7pm-9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2VwkIyw
Organised by Transformative Justice Collective
#bookclub #prison
Just Ask Me Anything and Everything on Disability | Disability JAM!
Join SG Enable at their Disability JAM! session to learn more about disability and hear from their Inclusion Champions (who are persons with disabilities) as they share with you their lived experiences.
This is also the best opportunity for you to ask anything and everything on disability that you’ve always wanted to ask!
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 1pm - 3pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3yEiWti
Organised by National Library Board and SG Enable
#disability #conversations
Join SG Enable at their Disability JAM! session to learn more about disability and hear from their Inclusion Champions (who are persons with disabilities) as they share with you their lived experiences.
This is also the best opportunity for you to ask anything and everything on disability that you’ve always wanted to ask!
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 1pm - 3pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3yEiWti
Organised by National Library Board and SG Enable
#disability #conversations
Earth Emotions Book Club #4 Eutierria
Eutierria is the positive feeling of peace and connectedness with the earth and its life forces.
Join Speak For Climate’s “Earth Emotions” book club as we reflect on eutierria by discussing sections from “Love Letter to the Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh and “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. There will also be a poetry writing segment facilitated by the Nature Writing initiative to express our feelings of eutierria.
🔴 12 Aug, Thu
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Aq2ehH
Organised by Speak For Climate and Nature Writing Initiative
#nature #bookclub #poetry
Eutierria is the positive feeling of peace and connectedness with the earth and its life forces.
Join Speak For Climate’s “Earth Emotions” book club as we reflect on eutierria by discussing sections from “Love Letter to the Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh and “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. There will also be a poetry writing segment facilitated by the Nature Writing initiative to express our feelings of eutierria.
🔴 12 Aug, Thu
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Aq2ehH
Organised by Speak For Climate and Nature Writing Initiative
#nature #bookclub #poetry
Our City, Beyond Limits
Join TEDxYouth@Singapore this Saturday for a full TEDx talk experience and understand the roles that we play when it comes to caring for our environment! Expect to hear from Charlotte Mei (Nutritionist and Presenter), Priyanka Shahra (Social Entrepreneur), Firdaus Sani (Storyteller, Indigenous Culture Advocate).
Get ready for an afternoon of ideas worth spreading, to feel connected and inspired by the provocative ideas from our speakers and ideathon finalists.
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 3pm - 5pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Aqd7jM
Organised by TEDxYouth@Singapore
#talks #youth #sustainability
Join TEDxYouth@Singapore this Saturday for a full TEDx talk experience and understand the roles that we play when it comes to caring for our environment! Expect to hear from Charlotte Mei (Nutritionist and Presenter), Priyanka Shahra (Social Entrepreneur), Firdaus Sani (Storyteller, Indigenous Culture Advocate).
Get ready for an afternoon of ideas worth spreading, to feel connected and inspired by the provocative ideas from our speakers and ideathon finalists.
🔴 14 Aug, Sat
🔵 3pm - 5pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Aqd7jM
Organised by TEDxYouth@Singapore
#talks #youth #sustainability
Fresh insights in the social space!
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
For old folks, leaving Tanglin Halt is like losing a kampung family. Can it be replaced?
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites73
📰 THIS WEEK'S FEATURE:
For old folks, leaving Tanglin Halt is like losing a kampung family. Can it be replaced?
👉 Click here: http://bit.ly/OJBites73
CNA
For old folks, leaving Tanglin Halt is like losing a kampung family. Can it be replaced?
SINGAPORE: At 93, Madam Wong Ying has lived more than half her life in Tanglin Halt. Her three-room flat on the third floor may be starting to show its age in the stains on the walls, but it is full of her life’s memories – dark wooden furniture, accumulated…
Virtual Death Cafe
What would you like to know about passing away?
Join us for a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. This event acts as a discussion group, rather than a grief support or counselling session.
🔴 19 Aug, Thurs
🔵 8-930pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UpqscL
Organised by Viriya Family Services
#death #grief
What would you like to know about passing away?
Join us for a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. This event acts as a discussion group, rather than a grief support or counselling session.
🔴 19 Aug, Thurs
🔵 8-930pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2UpqscL
Organised by Viriya Family Services
#death #grief
Dakota Crescent: People, Place, Memories
In this online seminar, Koh Hui Ling, Dr Ng Kok Hoe & Wong Koi Tet will discuss their work responding to Dakota Crescent. Get the chance to view the site-specific theatrical production “IgnorLAND of its Loss”!
🔴 20 Aug, Fri
🔵 4-6pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3slTEOp
Organised by NUS Dept of Chinese Studies & Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture
#displacement #theatre
In this online seminar, Koh Hui Ling, Dr Ng Kok Hoe & Wong Koi Tet will discuss their work responding to Dakota Crescent. Get the chance to view the site-specific theatrical production “IgnorLAND of its Loss”!
🔴 20 Aug, Fri
🔵 4-6pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3slTEOp
Organised by NUS Dept of Chinese Studies & Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture
#displacement #theatre