Singapore Happenings » Poetry and Prose http://www.singaporehappenings.com Singapore Happenings Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:15:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Experience Singapore Literature: How to Write a Memoir http://www.singaporehappenings.com/2009/10/23/experience-singapore-literaturehow-to-write-a-memoir/ http://www.singaporehappenings.com/2009/10/23/experience-singapore-literaturehow-to-write-a-memoir/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:11:52 +0000 nlm http://singaporehappenings.com/?p=922 Saturday, 28 November 2009

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1

National Library Building

100 Victoria Street

 

What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a manual on how to face and fight adversity in his book “Even When She Forgot My Name”.

 

The Author

A Melbourne University-trained psychologist, Wong Chai Kee has run his own management consultancy firm for 22 years. He loves writing, and has written numerous articles on psychology and on Christianity. A voracious reader, especially of memoirs and history, he has an insatiable urge to buy books.

 

Due to limited places for each session, please register! Registration can be made via http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg at ‘Experience Singapore Literature’.

 

Organised By: National Library Singapore

 

Visit http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg for more programmes and exhibitions.

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4.30 pm – 6.00 pm

Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1

National Library Building

100 Victoria Street

 

Roses are read, violets are…violated? If you’re tongue-tied and writer-blocked when it comes to writing verses, join us at the Poetry Clinic!

 

Let the Poetry Clinic doctor, Felix Cheong, give your writing a reality check. Bring along your poem for a one-on-one consultation with this award-winning writer who has published three collections and has performed his work at numerous international writers’ festivals. His latest collection “Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems” was recently launched on 31 October at the Singapore Writers Festival.

 

In this session, Felix will ‘diagnose’ your poem – what works and what doesn’t. He’ll even prescribe ‘bitter medicine’ and techniques you can try.

 

Due to limited spaces, registration is required. To register, please email Athena_AZIZ@nlb.gov.sg with ‘The Poetry Clinic’ in the subject header with the following information by 7 November 2009:

1) Your Personal Details: Name, Contact Number and Email Address

2) How long have you been writing? (It does not matter if it’s your first attempt!)

Successful applications will be notified via email within 3 working days.

 

Organised By: National Library Singapore

 

Visit http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg for more programmes and exhibitions.

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A novel targeting secondary students and set in a Singapore secondary school has been launched. Entitled Mystery of the Battle Box, the novel is about three schoolmates — two of whom are cousins –  teaming up to solve a mystery about hidden treasure in an underground bunker which was built during World War Two.

The teenagers stumble into a secret tunnel beneath the bunker with help from two spirits — a British and an Australian – haunting the bunker since World War Two.

The 290-page work is a first novel by its author Raymond Han — a former banker and a teacher. Find out more HERE!

BOOK DETAILS:

ISBN: 978-981-08-4189-8     Date Published: 5 October 2009

Related Categories: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical

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A man finds himself in the middle of a desert, mysteriously provided with tools that are taken away as soon as they become useful – how will he cope? Two men, one blind, the other lame, find each other in an abandoned landscape in the middle of winter. By helping each other, they just might make life a little more bearable. Given their options, and the tendencies of human nature, will it end in friendship or violence? These and other scenarios are the subject of World-in-Theatre’s Precious Little: Brief Encounters with Beckett.

 

Hailed as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett’s major works, such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame have been performed in theatres all over the world. However, his shorter works, though widely acclaimed, are performed far less frequently. Brief and intense, the plays throw the human condition into sharp relief and create a stripped down theatricality that asks a great deal from its actors.

 

The origin of the title comes from one of the last interviews Beckett gave before his death in 1989.  When asked if he had found any part of his life’s journey worthwhile, he replied, “Precious little.”

 

World-in-Theatre’s Precious Little: Brief Encounters with Beckett, offers Singapore audiences a rare opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of these lesser-known works and to examine the world through the eyes of this Nobel prize -winning writer.

Check out www.world-in-theatre.org for more details about World-in-Theatre.

 

 

Date: May 6 to 9, 2009

Time: 7.30 pm  

Venue: The Arts House Play Den

Price: $25 full price / $19 concessions (excluding ticketing fee)

* Keppel Nights 50% subsidy available for the show on 9 May. For more information visit www.keppelnights.com, call 68379844 or email kn@nac.gov.sg.

Tickets: http://www.theartshouse.com.sg/event_details_2009.php?id=926

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2 pm – 4 pm

Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1

National Library Building

100 Victoria Street

 

 

Join us for a sharing session with leading Australian poet, Chris Wallace-Crabbe as we discuss poetry over afternoon tea with selected readings by the poet.

 

Latest among the poet’s eighteen poetry books are the postmodern epic, The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger), which is now being made into an opera and Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (Carcanet Oxford Poets) published recently in 2008. Read It Again (Salt) is his latest critical volume.

 

Chris Wallace-Crabbe is also Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne. He is a critic of the Visual Arts and produces artists’ books with Melbourne painter, Bruno Leti.

 

This session will be chaired by Professor Edwin Thumboo who is an award-winning Singaporean poet himself. He is an Emeritus Professor from National University of Singapore and is one of the pioneers of English Literature in Singapore.

 

 

To register for this session, please log on to http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg and surf on to “scene”!

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