So(u)l Sessions with Anthea Ong
So(u)l Sessions aims to generate deeper human conversations to learn more about yourself while linking social issues to the common love for humanity and life.
Engage in an immersive and experiential conversation with A Good Space’s founding curator, Anthea Ong, author of 50 Shades of Love. Get up close and personal with her and issues beyond the book. This session challenges you to look deeper within and use what you have learnt moving forward.
🔴2 Aug, Fri
🔵7pm - 9.30pm
⚪️The Giving Place, A Good Space (NVPC), #04-88 The Central, S059817
👉Sign up here http://bit.ly/2LHYIKy
A Good Space is where changemakers flourish as a community to imagine and create experiences that expand perspectives across diverse social issues through innovative activities.
#literature
So(u)l Sessions aims to generate deeper human conversations to learn more about yourself while linking social issues to the common love for humanity and life.
Engage in an immersive and experiential conversation with A Good Space’s founding curator, Anthea Ong, author of 50 Shades of Love. Get up close and personal with her and issues beyond the book. This session challenges you to look deeper within and use what you have learnt moving forward.
🔴2 Aug, Fri
🔵7pm - 9.30pm
⚪️The Giving Place, A Good Space (NVPC), #04-88 The Central, S059817
👉Sign up here http://bit.ly/2LHYIKy
A Good Space is where changemakers flourish as a community to imagine and create experiences that expand perspectives across diverse social issues through innovative activities.
#literature
Could This Be Home, Truly?
At 22, Liyana found herself pregnant, with no one to turn to & nowhere to stay. Hear her story as she and her co-author, Manisha, discuss what “home” truly means to them. Moderated by Kirsten Han, author of Rational Conversations: The Silhouette of Oppression.
🔴12 Oct, Sat
🔵2 – 3pm
⚪️Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store, Takashimaya S.C. lvl 4
👉Sign up here http://bit.ly/334oPjo
Organised by Epigram Books
#homelessness #literature #conversations
At 22, Liyana found herself pregnant, with no one to turn to & nowhere to stay. Hear her story as she and her co-author, Manisha, discuss what “home” truly means to them. Moderated by Kirsten Han, author of Rational Conversations: The Silhouette of Oppression.
🔴12 Oct, Sat
🔵2 – 3pm
⚪️Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store, Takashimaya S.C. lvl 4
👉Sign up here http://bit.ly/334oPjo
Organised by Epigram Books
#homelessness #literature #conversations
Writing for Change
Dr Yeo Wei Wei, a writer and educator, will be facilitating a workshop using creative writing as a form of self-communing and engagement with the world.
🔴 2 Nov, Sat
🔵 10.30am - 12.30pm
⚪️ NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Block 43 Malan Road Singapore, 109443
💰 $12
👉 Sign up here http://bit.ly/2WeYVXG
Organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
#literature #creativewriting #workshop
Dr Yeo Wei Wei, a writer and educator, will be facilitating a workshop using creative writing as a form of self-communing and engagement with the world.
🔴 2 Nov, Sat
🔵 10.30am - 12.30pm
⚪️ NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Block 43 Malan Road Singapore, 109443
💰 $12
👉 Sign up here http://bit.ly/2WeYVXG
Organised by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
#literature #creativewriting #workshop
Not Just Fiction: Writing the Climate Crisis
What happens when a poet, activist and researcher collide?
Don’t know where to start? Join this conversation to interrogate the role of literature in the climate crisis. Ask the hows and whys we must write about the environment! Featuring Esther Vincent (The Tiger Moth Review), Komal Lad (SG Climate Rally) & Melissa Low (NUS Energy Studies Institute).
💰
General: $12 (inclusive $6 drink)
Student: $6 (no drink)
🔴 28 Mar, Sat
🔵 3-5pm
⚪️ THE MOON, 37 Mosque Street, S059515
👉 Sign up here https://bit.ly/2Wwfvoh
👉 Email jennifer@ethosbooks.com.sg by 12PM, 27Mar to purchase student ticket
#climatechange #literature #conversation
What happens when a poet, activist and researcher collide?
Don’t know where to start? Join this conversation to interrogate the role of literature in the climate crisis. Ask the hows and whys we must write about the environment! Featuring Esther Vincent (The Tiger Moth Review), Komal Lad (SG Climate Rally) & Melissa Low (NUS Energy Studies Institute).
💰
General: $12 (inclusive $6 drink)
Student: $6 (no drink)
🔴 28 Mar, Sat
🔵 3-5pm
⚪️ THE MOON, 37 Mosque Street, S059515
👉 Sign up here https://bit.ly/2Wwfvoh
👉 Email jennifer@ethosbooks.com.sg by 12PM, 27Mar to purchase student ticket
#climatechange #literature #conversation
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
Night at the Library 2021
Night at the Library is back in its 4th year to facilitate difficult conversations in life and imagination as the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing writers who explore supernatural in literature and as cultural phenomenon, to professionals who encounter mortality in the fields of funeral planning and end of life care, Night at the Library will confront the uncertainties of reality and horrors that keep us awake at night.
🔴 29 Oct – 7 Nov
🔵 Various timings
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3nlxslj
Organised by National Library Board
#endoflife #literature
Night at the Library is back in its 4th year to facilitate difficult conversations in life and imagination as the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing writers who explore supernatural in literature and as cultural phenomenon, to professionals who encounter mortality in the fields of funeral planning and end of life care, Night at the Library will confront the uncertainties of reality and horrors that keep us awake at night.
🔴 29 Oct – 7 Nov
🔵 Various timings
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3nlxslj
Organised by National Library Board
#endoflife #literature
Portside Review (Singapore Launch)
Join us in the launch of the 6th issue of Portside Review - a Singapore edition featuring prose, poetry, translations and conversations as we take on race, class, identity and politics, with every tide bringing different shapes, shells and treasures.
From fable-like metaphors, to sound pieces made up of real-life news articles, to a satirical play on porn site headlines; we're sure there'll be something in this issue that surprises you. A fitting promise from the land of opposites – Singapore.
🔴 6 Jul, Wed
🔵 7-8.30pm
🗺 Crane @ Heron Space, 46 Kim Yam Rd, #01-06 S(239351)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3nyqBoX
Organised by Portside Review
#literature #conversations
Join us in the launch of the 6th issue of Portside Review - a Singapore edition featuring prose, poetry, translations and conversations as we take on race, class, identity and politics, with every tide bringing different shapes, shells and treasures.
From fable-like metaphors, to sound pieces made up of real-life news articles, to a satirical play on porn site headlines; we're sure there'll be something in this issue that surprises you. A fitting promise from the land of opposites – Singapore.
🔴 6 Jul, Wed
🔵 7-8.30pm
🗺 Crane @ Heron Space, 46 Kim Yam Rd, #01-06 S(239351)
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3nyqBoX
Organised by Portside Review
#literature #conversations
EBFP Forum: Can you afford to dream?
Are dreams worth pursuing? With the "great resignation" and an oversaturated attention economy, most of us find ourselves straddling more than one role or job. How many of us can afford to dream?
Hear from our EBFP winner and finalists who hail from different backgrounds and professions about how they (and the diverse protagonists of their stories) chart pathways to best manage dreams and the shifting demands of reality.
🔴 25 Aug, Thu
🔵 7-9pm
⚪️ Crane @ Robertson Quay, 46 Kim Yam Road, #01-06, S239351
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3JSiY7n
Organised by Epigram Books
#socialissue #literature #paneldiscussion
Are dreams worth pursuing? With the "great resignation" and an oversaturated attention economy, most of us find ourselves straddling more than one role or job. How many of us can afford to dream?
Hear from our EBFP winner and finalists who hail from different backgrounds and professions about how they (and the diverse protagonists of their stories) chart pathways to best manage dreams and the shifting demands of reality.
🔴 25 Aug, Thu
🔵 7-9pm
⚪️ Crane @ Robertson Quay, 46 Kim Yam Road, #01-06, S239351
👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3JSiY7n
Organised by Epigram Books
#socialissue #literature #paneldiscussion