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
Possibility Conversations: How can we talk about Racism?
This month's conversation hopes to address and explore the following areas:
❓What frameworks can we utilise to guide conversations?
❓What guidelines should we have for safe discussion spaces?
❓How can we talk about racism in an open and accessible manner?
Speakers Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib, Shamil Zainuddin & Nazhath Faheema, will be sharing their own frameworks and approaches to create bolder safe spaces.
🔴 25 Aug, Wed
🔵 8-10pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xQUROQ
Organised by A Good Space, serve.sg, socialcollab.sg
#race #conversations
This month's conversation hopes to address and explore the following areas:
❓What frameworks can we utilise to guide conversations?
❓What guidelines should we have for safe discussion spaces?
❓How can we talk about racism in an open and accessible manner?
Speakers Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib, Shamil Zainuddin & Nazhath Faheema, will be sharing their own frameworks and approaches to create bolder safe spaces.
🔴 25 Aug, Wed
🔵 8-10pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xQUROQ
Organised by A Good Space, serve.sg, socialcollab.sg
#race #conversations
The Singapore Dream?
The migrant worker issue isn’t as contemporary as we think. Authors Pallavi Gopinath Aney & Wesley Leon Aroozoo discuss how history comments on current issues of migration and what the Singapore Dream means to the community.
🔴 28 Aug, Sat
🔵 7-8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3g8OrVe
Organised by Epigram Books
#migrantworkers #literature
The migrant worker issue isn’t as contemporary as we think. Authors Pallavi Gopinath Aney & Wesley Leon Aroozoo discuss how history comments on current issues of migration and what the Singapore Dream means to the community.
🔴 28 Aug, Sat
🔵 7-8pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3g8OrVe
Organised by Epigram Books
#migrantworkers #literature
Is It EZ Being a Gen Z?
Hello everyone 👋 Hope you are all doing fine!
Join us in this mental health awareness conversation to share about the struggles Gen Z youths face in Singapore. Pick up tips on how to address them and the resources available to use!
🔴 27 Aug, Fri
🔵 7pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iPCsxy
Organised by Silver Ribbon (Singapore)
#mentalhealth
Hello everyone 👋 Hope you are all doing fine!
Join us in this mental health awareness conversation to share about the struggles Gen Z youths face in Singapore. Pick up tips on how to address them and the resources available to use!
🔴 27 Aug, Fri
🔵 7pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3iPCsxy
Organised by Silver Ribbon (Singapore)
#mentalhealth
What to do when the world is on Red Alert
The new UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on climate change is out. It’s grim.
We know this can be discouraging, infuriating, even overwhelming. Join GreenCheck on Wednesday for an informal community conversation as we work through the report conclusions, our feelings, and some possible next steps.
🔴 25 Aug, Wed
🔵 9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3sEvGha
Organised by GreenCheck
#environment #conversations
The new UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on climate change is out. It’s grim.
We know this can be discouraging, infuriating, even overwhelming. Join GreenCheck on Wednesday for an informal community conversation as we work through the report conclusions, our feelings, and some possible next steps.
🔴 25 Aug, Wed
🔵 9pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3sEvGha
Organised by GreenCheck
#environment #conversations
The Birthday Fellowship
Whether you are a thinker, do-er, dreamer or all of the above, The Birthday Fellowship is your chance to build a better self and a "better Singapore" with first-hand guidance from a group of individuals with deep expertise, passion and professional backgrounds spanning the public, private and people sectors.
The Birthday Fellowship welcomes applicants above the age of 20 regardless of background or experiences.
❗Applications close on 9 Sep 12pm
👉 Apply here: https://bit.ly/3moBrig
Organised by The Birthday Collective
#singapore #fellowship
Whether you are a thinker, do-er, dreamer or all of the above, The Birthday Fellowship is your chance to build a better self and a "better Singapore" with first-hand guidance from a group of individuals with deep expertise, passion and professional backgrounds spanning the public, private and people sectors.
The Birthday Fellowship welcomes applicants above the age of 20 regardless of background or experiences.
❗Applications close on 9 Sep 12pm
👉 Apply here: https://bit.ly/3moBrig
Organised by The Birthday Collective
#singapore #fellowship
Creating Narratives For Change Festival
Stories help us make sense of the things that are happening to us, for us and around us. The complexities of the social issues in Singapore today demand a new urgency and finesse in how we talk about the work being done to transform our communities.
Through a mix of panel discussions, workshops and community conversations, the September festival will be a hub for budding community builders and change-making storytellers to take the next step in making waves for the causes they care about.
🔴 3 to 25 September (every Friday and Saturday)
👉 For more information: https://bit.ly/3szH1zi
Organised by Common Ground
#storytelling #communitybuilding #festival
Stories help us make sense of the things that are happening to us, for us and around us. The complexities of the social issues in Singapore today demand a new urgency and finesse in how we talk about the work being done to transform our communities.
Through a mix of panel discussions, workshops and community conversations, the September festival will be a hub for budding community builders and change-making storytellers to take the next step in making waves for the causes they care about.
🔴 3 to 25 September (every Friday and Saturday)
👉 For more information: https://bit.ly/3szH1zi
Organised by Common Ground
#storytelling #communitybuilding #festival