Accompanied by their parents, infants and toddlers from 6 months to 3 ½ years, will build their vocabulary, explore their creativity and enhance their awareness of the world around them through puppets, songs, stories, speech and drama, as well as art and craft.

To help bring the journey of discovery even more alive, each five-day programme includes a visit to either the Singapore Zoo, Sentosa Beach or National Library.

PlayNest (6 to 18 months)

Off to the Zoo! – Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)

English            9.00 am-10.30 am, 11.00 am-12.30 pm, 1.00 pm-2.30 pm, 3.00 pm-4.30 pm

Mandarin            9.00 am-10.30 am, 11.00 am-12.30 pm

Venue: Evans Road

Beach Babies – Week 2 (7 – 11 June)

English            9.00 am-10.30 am, 11.00 am-12.30 pm, 1.00 pm-2.30 pm, 3.00 pm-4.30 pm

Mandarin            9.00 am-10.30 am, 11.00 am-12.30 pm

Venue: Evans Road

Journey with Books – Week 3 (14 – 18 June)

English            9.00 am-10.30 am, 11.00 am-12.30 pm, 1.00 pm-2.30 pm, 3.00 pm-4.30 pm

Venue: Evans Road

Cost: S$285.00+GST per week (one and a half hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

PlayClub (1 ½ to 3 ½ years)

Animated Animal Adventure – Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)

English and Mandarin                        9.00 am – 11.00 am, 11.30 am – 1.30 pm

Venue: Forum / Evans Road / East Coast Parkway

Sunny Seaside Splash – Week 2 (7 – 11 June)

English and Mandarin                        9.00 am – 11.00 am, 11.30 am – 1.30 pm

Venue: Forum / Evans Road / East Coast Parkway

Books Big Bang - Week 3 (14 – 18 June)

English and Mandarin             9.00 am – 11.00 am, 11.30 am – 1.30 pm

Venue: Forum / Evans Road (English only)

Cost: S$330.00+GST per week (two hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

For registration and more information, contact Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning at 6733 4322 (Forum), 6737 5348 (Evans Road) or 6346 6130 (East Coast Parkway).

Forum #04-00 Forum, 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884

Evans Road #01-08, 26 Evans Road, Singapore 252867

East Coast Parkway Block C #02-01/02, 902 East Coast Parkway, Singapore 449874

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”!