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Portrait of Phoon Yew Tien. Drawn with Photoshop CS2.
Did this last year, it is the portrait of our local classical music composer. He was appointed by the Singapore government to re-arrange the national anthem in 2000 and was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 1996.
“iremember goes to Toa Payoh” is the first of a series of outreach initiatives to the heartlands island-wide. At this carnival we will be premiering two local short films by Singapore film-makers Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin. They were commissioned as part of the Singapore Memory Singapore’s efforts to showcase memories via [...]
With the DVD of TIONG BAHRU soon to be available at all branches of the NLB, on the new TIONG BAHRU site you can read the first of 4 specially commissioned pieces for the booklet that accompany the DVD, exploring the ideas of memory, voice, place and identity. In TERRA INCOGNITA, poet Alvin Pang explores [...]
TIONG BAHRU, the short film shot in the famous hawker centre and starring a cast of 150 volunteers from the area, is coming out on DVD soon and the filmmakers have 10 copies to give away exclusively to Yesterday.sg readers! Filmed last year by leading UK-based Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, the film [...]
31st December 2010. Drawn by Xin Li. Looking back at 2008-2009. Throughout my time in National Service, these sketchbooks had accompanied all this while be it outfield, or in parades. Today, on the last day of 2010, I hope to share some of the sketches I have done for the past 1 and half year [...]
Orang Asli is a Malay term meaning ‘original people’, and is used in Malaysia to refer to the indigenous tribes or aborigines, some of whom have been inhabiting the peninsula for almost 50,000 years! Traditionally, the orang asli identified themselves as inhabitants of particular locations – and did you know that Singapore was the native [...]
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