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Deep Cut: The Art of Being Present

Living in a world mired by chaos, how can we cultivate greater peace and awareness in our personal attempt to contribute positively to the world?

Come and join poets Ow Yeong Wait Kit and Muzakkir Samat, as they discuss how poetry can offer insights about our interconnectedness with the world and nature.

🔴17 Aug, Sat
🔵4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
⚪️Littered with Books, 20 Duxton Road S(089486)

👉Sign up here: http://bit.ly/2MKvTwm

About Deep Cut
Deep Cut is a year-long series exploring both unconventional intersections in literature and the little-known sides to authors.

#poetry #mindfulness
Migrant Worker Poetry Competition: 2019 Finals

The Migrant Worker Poetry Competition is back!

Come down to support the finals of the migrant worker poetry competition which seeks to celebrate & showcase the literary talents of migrant workers in Singapore! With a keynote address by Kamal Al-Solaylee.

🔴 10 Nov, Sun
🔵 4-6pm
⚪️ The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre, Wild Rice @ Funan Mall, 107 North Bridge Rd, #04-08 S179105

👉 For more info: http://bit.ly/2Ndoc1F

Organized by Global Migrant Festival in collaboration with Singapore Writers Festival 2019

#poetry #migrantworkers
Spoke & Bird Presents: Photos, Voices, Verses

Spoke & Bird Poetry presents a special poetry-photography collaboration and fundraiser for sex workers advocacy group Project X! This February, come and hear brand new works by four incredible poets, Deborah Emmanuel, Melizarani T. Selva, Shivram Gopinath & William Beale, that respond to photographs by four sex workers.

All proceeds from ticket sales will go to Project X

🔴 5 Feb, Wed
🔵 7.30pm - 10pm
⚪️ The Merry Lion Comedy Cafe And Bar, #03-00 Circular Road, #8b, S049364

💰 Tickets are
$15 (regular)
$10 (students)
$20 (walk-in purchase)

👉 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/30BfLCu

#poetry #projectx

Organized by Project X
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
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
S4F Eco-Poetry Night

Eco
-Poetry concerns poetry surrounding themes of ecologies, our environments, and our human systems in relation to them.

Participate in S4F Eco-Poetry Night which features various local poets performing their poems. They will also participate in a panel discussion which surrounds environmental literature in Singapore, and its role in climate activism / intersectional environmentalism.

🔴 27 Feb, Sun
🔵 8pm - 10pm

👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3I2t1oy

Organised by Students 4 Fossil Free Future (S4F)
#poetry #enviroment #paneldiscussion
SWF 2022: Migrant Writers of Singapore Slam Poetry Festival: If We Could Dream

In this slam poetry event, migrant and Singaporean poets respond to this year’s festival theme, “If”. In this convergence of voices, what new poetic possibilities will emerge?

🔴 20 Nov, Sun
🔵 4-5pm
⚪️ Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum 1 Empress Pl, S179555

👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3UC6UuV

Organised by Singapore Writers Festival
#migrantworkers #poetry #festival