BookJio March 2021: Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene
Join us for our 9th book club meetup conducted by our member Hilda (@kitashinsuke) as we explore the book - Eating Chili Crab in the Anthropocene!
Sessions are facilitated around themes, so feel free to attend even if you haven’t read the book! 🙌
🔴 13 Mar, Sat
🔵 1.30-3.30pm
⚪️ Ground-Up Initiative, 91 Lorong Chencharu Singapore 769201
🔴 17 Mar, Wed
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/bookjio09
Organised by OpenJio
#bookclub
Join us for our 9th book club meetup conducted by our member Hilda (@kitashinsuke) as we explore the book - Eating Chili Crab in the Anthropocene!
Sessions are facilitated around themes, so feel free to attend even if you haven’t read the book! 🙌
🔴 13 Mar, Sat
🔵 1.30-3.30pm
⚪️ Ground-Up Initiative, 91 Lorong Chencharu Singapore 769201
🔴 17 Mar, Wed
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/bookjio09
Organised by OpenJio
#bookclub
Nature Contained | The Nature Club
Join us in this book club discussion of Nature Contained by Timothy Banard, which invites us to unpack and reimagine our relationship with nature and our shared past.
For this special edition of the Nature Club, look forward to a closing tour on NLB's exhibition that explores Singapore's relations with the environment throughout history.
🔵 27 Apr, Tues
🔴7-8.30pm
⚪Central Public Library (online option also available)
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3dv6bZV
Organised by the Nature Club
#bookclub #environment
Join us in this book club discussion of Nature Contained by Timothy Banard, which invites us to unpack and reimagine our relationship with nature and our shared past.
For this special edition of the Nature Club, look forward to a closing tour on NLB's exhibition that explores Singapore's relations with the environment throughout history.
🔵 27 Apr, Tues
🔴7-8.30pm
⚪Central Public Library (online option also available)
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3dv6bZV
Organised by the Nature Club
#bookclub #environment
BookJio May 2021 I Will Survive
Join us for our 10th book club meetup conducted by our member Hilda (@kitashinsuke) as we explore the book - I Will Survive.
Sessions are facilitated around themes, so feel free to attend even if you haven’t read the book! 🙌
🔴 15 May, Sat
🔵 3-4.30pm
🔴 19 May, Wed
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/bookjio10
Organised by BookJio
#bookclub #lgbtq
Join us for our 10th book club meetup conducted by our member Hilda (@kitashinsuke) as we explore the book - I Will Survive.
Sessions are facilitated around themes, so feel free to attend even if you haven’t read the book! 🙌
🔴 15 May, Sat
🔵 3-4.30pm
🔴 19 May, Wed
🔵 8-9.30pm
👉Sign up here: https://bit.ly/bookjio10
Organised by BookJio
#bookclub #lgbtq
Poetry Moves
How does space and place factor into what we make of all that’s been happening?
Join us in our book club discussion of Poetry Moves, an anthology of poems that urge us to rethink our immediate environment, ground ourselves in nature, and express solidarity with important causes.
🔵 25 May, Tues
🔴 7-8.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2SjdCez
Organised by The Nature Club
#environment #bookclub
How does space and place factor into what we make of all that’s been happening?
Join us in our book club discussion of Poetry Moves, an anthology of poems that urge us to rethink our immediate environment, ground ourselves in nature, and express solidarity with important causes.
🔵 25 May, Tues
🔴 7-8.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2SjdCez
Organised by The Nature Club
#environment #bookclub
Nature Club x OpenJio: Call and Response 2
Who gets to move and why? Where are we when we think of "home"?
In Call & Response 2, we hold space with our emotions, energies & nuances that arise from our interconnectedness across causes, borders & roots. In partnership with OpenJIo, this book club discusses prose and poems virtually. Feel free to come with a curious mind and share your thoughts!
🔴 27 Jul, Tue
🔵 7-8.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2ThZzGY
Organised by Nature Club and OpenJio
#migration #bookclub #bookjio
Who gets to move and why? Where are we when we think of "home"?
In Call & Response 2, we hold space with our emotions, energies & nuances that arise from our interconnectedness across causes, borders & roots. In partnership with OpenJIo, this book club discusses prose and poems virtually. Feel free to come with a curious mind and share your thoughts!
🔴 27 Jul, Tue
🔵 7-8.30pm
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2ThZzGY
Organised by Nature Club and OpenJio
#migration #bookclub #bookjio
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
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
Beyond Survival
Beyond Survival is a book club session on Transformative Justice, reimagining our notions of conflict, harm & violence. How can we dream and live in communities and movements that dismantle oppressive structures but build on trust, love & solidarity for survival?
🔴 31 Aug, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
👉 Sign up by messaging @ihavebutterflies
Organised by The Nature Club
#transformativejustice #bookclub
Beyond Survival is a book club session on Transformative Justice, reimagining our notions of conflict, harm & violence. How can we dream and live in communities and movements that dismantle oppressive structures but build on trust, love & solidarity for survival?
🔴 31 Aug, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
👉 Sign up by messaging @ihavebutterflies
Organised by The Nature Club
#transformativejustice #bookclub
Making Kin | The Nature Club
'Making Kin' is a collection of personal essays from an ecofeminist lens reflecting on our ways of living and dying here in Singapore. What stories do we tell of nature, of our community, and of our collective selves?
In this book discussion, we will discuss the following:
- The Spell of the Forest
- There Will Be Salvation Yet
- Care is Revolutionary
- Brief excerpts from Donna Haraway's 'Staying with the Trouble'
Please be prepared to actively participate in discussions. You can read the book ahead in advance, or just come with a curious mind!
🔴 25 Jan, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
⚪️ National Library Building (Imagination & Possibility Room) 100 Victoria Street S188064
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3HOLkgx
Organised by Nature Club
#bookclub #community #nature
'Making Kin' is a collection of personal essays from an ecofeminist lens reflecting on our ways of living and dying here in Singapore. What stories do we tell of nature, of our community, and of our collective selves?
In this book discussion, we will discuss the following:
- The Spell of the Forest
- There Will Be Salvation Yet
- Care is Revolutionary
- Brief excerpts from Donna Haraway's 'Staying with the Trouble'
Please be prepared to actively participate in discussions. You can read the book ahead in advance, or just come with a curious mind!
🔴 25 Jan, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
⚪️ National Library Building (Imagination & Possibility Room) 100 Victoria Street S188064
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3HOLkgx
Organised by Nature Club
#bookclub #community #nature
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world―and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what do we make of the ruins we have made?
Participate in this session as we imagine the possibilities with us, unpacking stories not of progress or ruin, but of collaborative survival - a commitment to living and dying in company with the critters around us.
🔴 29 Mar, Tue
🔵 5pm - 8.30pm
🗺 Guided Exhibition Tour - Singapore Art Museum, Tanjong Pagar DistrictPark
Book Club - L5 Possibility Room, Central Public Library
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/37Nya6V
Organised by The Nature Club
#capitalism #bookclub
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world―and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what do we make of the ruins we have made?
Participate in this session as we imagine the possibilities with us, unpacking stories not of progress or ruin, but of collaborative survival - a commitment to living and dying in company with the critters around us.
🔴 29 Mar, Tue
🔵 5pm - 8.30pm
🗺 Guided Exhibition Tour - Singapore Art Museum, Tanjong Pagar DistrictPark
Book Club - L5 Possibility Room, Central Public Library
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/37Nya6V
Organised by The Nature Club
#capitalism #bookclub
Book Lovers Club
As Singapore continues to progress in leaps and bounds in economic and technological advancement, are we also keeping pace as a gracious society; How can we do more in nurturing a culture where those with disabilities are treated with dignity and kindness?
In this event hear from Dr. William Wan (Secretary General, Singapore Kindness Movement) and Cassandra Chiu (Author of A Place for Us) as they explore how Singapore this timely and essential topic.
🔴 23 Apr, Sat
🔵 2-5pm
⚪ Central Public Library, Programme Zone, 100 Victoria Street S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3LSswiv
Organised by National Library Board
#inclusion #disability #bookclub
As Singapore continues to progress in leaps and bounds in economic and technological advancement, are we also keeping pace as a gracious society; How can we do more in nurturing a culture where those with disabilities are treated with dignity and kindness?
In this event hear from Dr. William Wan (Secretary General, Singapore Kindness Movement) and Cassandra Chiu (Author of A Place for Us) as they explore how Singapore this timely and essential topic.
🔴 23 Apr, Sat
🔵 2-5pm
⚪ Central Public Library, Programme Zone, 100 Victoria Street S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3LSswiv
Organised by National Library Board
#inclusion #disability #bookclub
Her Body and Other Parties
What does it mean to occupy our bodies, our spaces, our places? In this book club, discuss The Resident by Carmen Maria Machado as she writes how the forest becomes a site of trauma, mystery, and confrontation all at once. Come process this tale with us by actively participate in these book discussions. You may read the book ahead of the session, or come with an open & curious mind!
🔴 31 May, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
⚪ National Library - Imagination, 100 Victoria Street, S188064
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Gd5z7P
Organised by The Nature Book Club
#bookclub
What does it mean to occupy our bodies, our spaces, our places? In this book club, discuss The Resident by Carmen Maria Machado as she writes how the forest becomes a site of trauma, mystery, and confrontation all at once. Come process this tale with us by actively participate in these book discussions. You may read the book ahead of the session, or come with an open & curious mind!
🔴 31 May, Tues
🔵 7-830pm
⚪ National Library - Imagination, 100 Victoria Street, S188064
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Gd5z7P
Organised by The Nature Book Club
#bookclub
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters | The Nature Book Club
What do we make of the future? The Wind's Twelve Quarters chronologically marks the writing journey of sci-fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin, and reflects on our relations to the far-out space and the land on which we stand.
We invite you to join us for this session as we mull over our understandings of the future, and how this relates to nature, gender and the dynamics of power.
🔴 26 Jul, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
⚪️ National Library - Imagination Room, 100 Victoria Street S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3yXdt3a
Organised by Nature Club
#nature #bookclub
What do we make of the future? The Wind's Twelve Quarters chronologically marks the writing journey of sci-fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin, and reflects on our relations to the far-out space and the land on which we stand.
We invite you to join us for this session as we mull over our understandings of the future, and how this relates to nature, gender and the dynamics of power.
🔴 26 Jul, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
⚪️ National Library - Imagination Room, 100 Victoria Street S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3yXdt3a
Organised by Nature Club
#nature #bookclub
Less is More | The Nature Book Club
Although the world has finally awakened to the reality of the climate crisis and ecological collapse, we continue to see proposed solutions that perpetuate the existing system of pro-growth capitalism. Instead of changing structural causes, the solutions revolve around utilizing technological innovations to spur more economic green growth. But what if these solutions (defined as green capitalism) do not work nor deliver as promised?
We invite you to join us for this session as we discuss the criticisms of green capitalism and explore the possibilities of a post-capitalist future from the degrowth
🔴 29 Nov, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
⚪️ National Library Building, Imagination Room 100 Victoria Street Singapore, 188064
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3VhDX8e
Organised by Nature Club
#environment #bookclub
Although the world has finally awakened to the reality of the climate crisis and ecological collapse, we continue to see proposed solutions that perpetuate the existing system of pro-growth capitalism. Instead of changing structural causes, the solutions revolve around utilizing technological innovations to spur more economic green growth. But what if these solutions (defined as green capitalism) do not work nor deliver as promised?
We invite you to join us for this session as we discuss the criticisms of green capitalism and explore the possibilities of a post-capitalist future from the degrowth
🔴 29 Nov, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
⚪️ National Library Building, Imagination Room 100 Victoria Street Singapore, 188064
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3VhDX8e
Organised by Nature Club
#environment #bookclub
Happily, Ever After? | The Nature Book Club
The sheer scale and urgency of the climate crisis can seem overwhelming. In the midst of our long and gruelling fight against climate change, many of us feel strong eco-emotions such as grief, paralysis and anger, and these emotions can affect our mental health and ability to take part in climate action.
Join us for a discussion on the relationship between emotions and environmentalism, and be prepared to share your own experiences with eco-emotions too!
🔴 31 Jan, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
🗺 L5 Imagination Room, 100 Victoria St, National Library, S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3iHzL3P
Organised by Nature Club
#bookclub #environment #mentalhealth
The sheer scale and urgency of the climate crisis can seem overwhelming. In the midst of our long and gruelling fight against climate change, many of us feel strong eco-emotions such as grief, paralysis and anger, and these emotions can affect our mental health and ability to take part in climate action.
Join us for a discussion on the relationship between emotions and environmentalism, and be prepared to share your own experiences with eco-emotions too!
🔴 31 Jan, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
🗺 L5 Imagination Room, 100 Victoria St, National Library, S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3iHzL3P
Organised by Nature Club
#bookclub #environment #mentalhealth
Not Without Us | The Nature Book Club
While disability and environmental activism may seem separate in their concerns, these movements, like threads, like yarn, are closely interwoven with each other.
Join us for a discussion on disability and ecology, and be prepared to share from your own experiences too!
🔴 28 Feb, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
🗺 L5 Imagination Room, 100 Victoria St, National Library, S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3I6BSXM
Organised by Nature Club
#disability #ecology #bookclub
While disability and environmental activism may seem separate in their concerns, these movements, like threads, like yarn, are closely interwoven with each other.
Join us for a discussion on disability and ecology, and be prepared to share from your own experiences too!
🔴 28 Feb, Tue
🔵 7pm - 8.30pm
🗺 L5 Imagination Room, 100 Victoria St, National Library, S(188064)
👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3I6BSXM
Organised by Nature Club
#disability #ecology #bookclub