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Sing Lit: Read Our World
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๐ to join Cheyenne Phillips on a tour around the streets of Jalan Besar! ๐ฑ Learn about its history and culture, take in the old municipal buildings, check out the fun street art and be inspired to create a creative response to this vibrant neighbourhood. ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐๏ธ
Tickets for ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ & ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ข๐ณ are $25 and $15 for students. Head to writeandwalk.peatix.com or click through below to get your tickets before it's too late! ๐โโ๏ธโจ
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
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On 12 August at 7:30pm, Sing Lit Station is proud to host an intimate evening of readings featuring at our headquarters at Dickinson Road. Join poets Jo Morris Dixon, Laura Jane Lee, Mary Jean Chan and Theophilus Kwek, in a recital of their most recent collections of poetry. Covering concerns ranging from the refugee and migrant crisis to the turmoil of queer adolescence, their poetry is guaranteed to surprise, astound and illuminate the world in ways weโve yet to consider ourselves. ๐
Admission is free, although donations are encouraged. Seats will be made available for up to 25 pax. Book sales and signings will also take place after the event. RSVP now and don't miss out! ๐ค
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
StoryFest Singapore is back with โ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ดโ! ๐โโ๏ธ Be part of a global livestream storytelling exchange as they invite audiences to experience the in-person and invisible connections that bind us through the power of telling and listening to stories. ๐
In its decentralized format, StoryFest 2022 welcomes audiences to participate in listening to stories told across many months, spanning time zones, and presented through different mediums. This year the Festival will showcase the talents of Verena Tay, Stephanie Dogfoot, Hafiz Rashid, Melizarani Selva, Daryl Qilin Yam and Wesley Leon Aroozoo. ๐คฉ
StoryFest 2022 is presented by The Storytelling Centre Ltd Singapore and will take place at The Arts House at The Old Parliament from 19-21 August at 7:30-9:30pm with tickets priced at $20 each. Find out more and where to buy your tickets by clicking through below, or at the Peatix link here: storythreads.peatix.com/ ๐๏ธ
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
Plants are vital to human existence for they provide the oxygen that we breathe. Plants, too, can be a source of sustenance for writers, providing content and inspiration to the texts that we write. ๐ป๐๏ธ
If you wish to break your writerโs block or exercise your creativity, this creative writing workshop is ideal for you. Over three hours, you will be guided by Verena Tay through a contemplation on plants, their constituent parts and actions to help you generate new text. Whether you are a poet or prose writer, this workshop caters to writers of all genres and experience levels, and is guaranteed to make you approach writing with a fresh perspective. ๐ชด
Click through below to find out more about how you can attend this workshop, or click here to get your tickets: proliferatewithverena.peatix.com/ โจ
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
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Tickets for ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ & ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ข๐ณ are $25 and $15 for students. Head to writeandwalk.peatix.com or click through below to find out more and get your tickets before it's too late! โจ
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
Great books are like great dishes. Once youโve finished it, you crave more! ๐ฅบ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ by Bolu Babalola is no different. With rave reviews from all over the globe, and the July pick for Reeseโs Book Club, youโd be hard pressed to find someone in the book world who has ๐ง๐จ๐ญ heard of this title! ๐ฏ๐ถ๏ธ And if youโre one step ahead and have read it, may we recommend this local dish of East meets West? ๐ฉโ๐ณ ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ by Imran Hashim takes a hilarious look at the sparks that fly when worlds collide, and passions ignite. โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Get your copy ASAP from Epigram Books! #singlit #readlocal #southeastasian #sgbookstagram #bookrecommendation #readtheworld #readdiversebooks #ownvoicesbooks #whatareyoureadingsg #readingnationsg #romanticnovels #friendstoloversromance #enemiestoloversbooks William Morrow
Sing Lit: Read Our World
Hiding in plain sight, the realm of the everyday holds languages, colloquialisms, and idioms with the potentiality and immanent schematic orientations towards subversion against and circumvention around the constraints of representational, logocentric, or โproperโ language. ๐ญ
Co-hosted by Bras Basah Open: School of Theory & Philosophy, (๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช)๐ฃ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ด๐ข - ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ will be an evening in which explorations into how the Malay language has in it embedded and coded ways of critique while maintaining a veneer of social and political valence, legibility and acceptability.
Taking place on Wednesday, 10 August at the Sing Lit Station headquarters from 7:30-9pm, this engaging evening will feature readings by Sean Francis, Faris Joraimi, as well as a dramatised reading of selected parts of Salleh ben Jonedโs ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ (2011) by Sha Sharif and Al Hafiz Sanusi. ๐
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
In this workshop held by Wesley Leon Aroozoo and presented by the Singapore Book Council, Wesley will demystify the intimidating journey of writing a historical fiction novel. ๐ฒ
Let him introduce you to an easy-to-follow step by step guide on how to develop your story idea and research into a novel. โ๏ธ Participants can look forward to learning both important research and creative process skills needed in developing their first historical fiction novel. ๐ค๐ญ
This introductory workshop is recommended for not only enthusiasts who are keen to learn how to write historical fiction using stories from Singapore, but for anyone who is keen to find out more about the process an author takes to write one! ๐คฉ
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Taking place on Saturday, 13 August from 9:30am to 12:30pm at the Singapore Book Council at Goodman Arts Centre, tickets are $60 per person, or $48 per person when purchased in a pair. Click here to learn more and nab yourself a ticket (or two!): www.eventbrite.sg/e/demystify-the-process-of-writing-your-first-historical-fiction-novel-tickets-378955324577
Demystify the Process of Writing your First Historical Fiction Novel
Be introduced to the craft of spinning fiction from facts and learn how to develop a historical fiction novel!
Sing Lit: Read Our World
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On 12 August at 7:30pm, Sing Lit Station is proud to host an intimate evening of readings featuring at our headquarters at Dickinson Road. Join poets Jo Morris Dixon, Laura Jane Lee, Mary Jean Chan and Theophilus Kwek, in a recital of their most recent collections of poetry. Covering concerns ranging from the refugee and migrant crisis to the turmoil of queer adolescence, their poetry is guaranteed to surprise, astound and illuminate the world in ways weโve yet to consider ourselves. ๐
Admission is free, although donations are encouraged. Seats will be made available for up to 25 pax. Book sales and signings will also take place after the event. RSVP now and don't miss out! ๐๐จ
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Sing Lit: Read Our World
๐๐จ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ is part of a migrant worker creative writing workshop series held on the 4th Sunday of the month, presented by Migrant Writers of Singapore and supported by Sing Lit Station. In this workshop, poet and comedian Stephanie Dogfoot explores how to write poems that can make people laugh while also daring ourselves to be more vulnerable and honest in our writing. ๐
Migrant workers who are interested to join the workshop may WhatsApp Janelyn at (+65) 8423 3274 to register a slot for the workshops. Slots will be given on a first come, first served basis. ๐ฒ
Click through below to learn more and book your spot! โฌ๏ธ
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