Mentor Access Project (MAP)

An 18-month mentorship programme organised by the National Arts Council (NAC) to ensure the sustained development of young and emerging writers by providing them with mentorship opportunities and ongoing critical feedback.

The programme invites applications from emerging writers who wish to undergo tutorshipfrom an established writer / playwright. Selected applicants will enjoy opportunities to participate in dialogue sessions, workshops or public readings held over the course of the mentorship, at the end of which, any original work produced may be published.

Charting new MAP
Singapore Literature Prize winner, Yong Shu Hoong, and founder of firstfruits publications, Enoch Ng, will also be present to share their plans and answer questions regarding MAP as newly appointed MAP coordinators. Aspiring writers interested in enrolling for 2007/2008 MAP intake are strongly encouraged to attend this event. Also, get the chance to listen to readings by past MAP participants as they share their original writings.

Helping Children Write Their Own Simple Books (by Dr. George Jacobs)

7 July 2007 (Sat), 9am to 12.30pm
Toa Payoh Community Library

Enhance your children’s reading and writing skills, build their knowledge of the world, increase their love for books and other reading materials and strengthen your bonds with them with this fun-filled family-friendly workshop.

Dr George Jacobs, a Language Specialist at RELC for eight years is currently working freelance with MOE Singapore, NIE and other international institutions. George is also the co-author of Read Aloud Asia, published by Times, as well as many other books for teachers and students.

Singapore Book Club

20 July 2007, 7pm
Earshot @ The Arts House

This month, winners of the Singapore Literature Prize 2006 - Cyril Wong and Yong Shu Hoong will share with us their collection of thought provoking and inspiring poetry.

Cyril Wong, author of Unmarked Treasure will share about turning something private into something universal in poetry, as well as the possibilities of extended verse narratives.

From First World to Third: Reading selected poems from his three collections, Yong Shu Hoong reflects on how he first got published and charts his transitions from his first book, Isaac, through to the latest, Frottage.

Read to Lead

Read to Lead is a series of book discussion sessions organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore and the National Library Board. Join us as we plump the insights of motivational speakers and noted business leaders to surface useful business precepts and readily applicable strategies for a competitive market space.

Saturday, 28 Jul, 5- 6.30 pm, Programme Zone, Jurong Regional Library

In conjunction with Read! Singapore 2007, Read to Lead is proud to host a special sharing session focusing on Paul Coelho's inspiration bestseller The Alchemist. Join us as we ruminate on the obstacles one must surmount and the sacrifices one has to make in order to achieve success.

Saturday, 18 Aug, 4 - 5.30 pm, Programme Zone, Jurong Regional Library

This session, we will be discussing the writings of one of Singapore’s most successful entrepreneurs. Sim Wong Hoo's Chaotic Thoughts from the Old Millennium (Call No.: SING 338.761006092 SIM), penned over a mere two months, is a collection of the ideas, musings, reflections, even grouses that Sim felt in the process of building his own business. It contains the famous "No U-Turn Syndrome (NUTS)" essay.

Braintales: A creative experience for Stale Brains!

7th August 2007, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane

Is YOUR Brain at War with Itself? Do you wish to do something about it? The Book Council invites you to an evening of interactive fun! If you wish to start writing, and not be written off, come! The focus is on YOU the Audience!

REMEMBER! Beauty lies in the Brain of the Beholder.

Effective Merchandise Management in the Book Business (by Ashley Bala)

26 – 28 Sept 2007 (Wed – Fri), 9am to 1pm
The Blue Room, The Arts House

This workshop focuses on effective merchandise management practices in the book business. Participants will learn how well and how fast they can turn merchandise into profit. The workshop leader, Mr. Ashley Bala, SNP’s former Executive VP (Retail Planning) and COO of myepb.com, having spent over 25 years in the book industry, has acquired in-depth understanding of retailing from a shop-floor perspective and a good grasp of the competitive business of book retailing.

Observations of a Casual Listener

• a video installation by Francois Antoine Saverias
• 22 June - 6 July 2007
  Launch: 22 June 8:00pm
• Pitch Black
  63 Haji Lane
  Singapore 189256
  http://www.pitchblack.com.sg/
• Downloads

A first in Singapore - the only boutique screening room, art gallery and café featuring High Definition Blu-Ray Projection and 6.1 Cinematic Surround Sound. Situated in the eclectic Haji Lane, PITCH BLACK is a 2-storey converted shop-house with a cafe on the ground level and a twenty sofa-seated screening room at the second level.

First to be equipped with the latest Blu-Ray technology in Singapore, Pitch Black aims to deliver the highest quality for your viewing pleasure in a space where you feel most comfortable. Pitch Black is also committed to developing the local arts scene by serving as a complementary arts venue and platform for creative individuals. We strive to serve as a space providing quality local programming and as an avenue for creative interaction and engagement.

Species of Polaroids and Other Pieces

• Opening: 6 July (Friday), 7.30pm, BooksActually
  Exhibition continues til 31 July 2007

Different species of Polaroids (notorious for creating instant milky memories) have evolved through the years. BooksActually has fashioned a Polaroid exhibition with a Linnaean taxonomic twist: where, classification and hierarchies within the genus of the Polaroid family (in varieties of film formats and camera models) are showcased.  Photo-essays created by selected photographers - expanding on their own thesis of a chosen subject - will be photographed using the cult Polaroid medium.

BooksActually
125A Telok Ayer Street
Singapore 068594
tel: 6221 1170
11am-9pm, closed on Sunday

The Substation Random Room
45 Armenian Street
tel: 6337 7535
12-7pm

Hibernated Works Re-engineered +33%

• 19 July - 5 August 2007
  Open daily 11am – 8pm
• The Substation Gallery
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
• 6337 7535

In this 15th solo exhibition by Singapore artist Tang Mun Kit, the artist revisits and reworks the works and concepts derived from his 1997 artist residency at The Substation and the subsequent solo show then,  entitled Hibernated Works: Objects, Sculptures, Assets aka Materials vs Materialism. That exhibition conceptualised the use of found objects, the experimental and improvisational attitude and work methods employed, and the research and documentation recording processes as the three basic elements of Tang’s artmaking. In the new exhibition, the artist will also endeavour to achieve 133% more in terms of inspiration, effort and creative input to the artworks, and correspondingly, an increase of 33% in the pricing of the artworks.

NOW

• Presented by Victoria Dunn
• 16-30th August, 11am-7pm
• The Substation Gallery
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
• 6337 7535
• Free admission

We constantly reflect upon our daily experiences and in so doing cannot help but interconnect images from disparate parts of our memory. This interconnection is the process of imagination.

The artworks in the NOW exhibition are the products of the synthesis of experience and imaging imagination. In this sense the work addresses issues that arise in connection with artistic practice and the embodied subject.

NOW is an exhibition of work produced with the concept that the creation of artwork is a complex process that involves both innate and reflective opportunities.

Gone Shopping Charity Auction and Charity Premiere

• 28 June-24 July 2007
• GV VivoCity
• From 28 June, get tickets from ebay
  Gatecrash

From 28 June, log on to ebay/charity to bid for one-of-a-kind dresses and accessories worn by actress Kim Ng and the cast from Wee Li Lin’s debut feature film, “Gone Shopping”! What’s more, meet the cast and crew from the film at the Charity Premiere on 24 July at GV VivoCity and join in the festivities for a good cause!

All proceeds go to support The Substation’s Moving Images film programme dedicated to supporting local and independent film in Singapore since 1997.

First Take

• 2 July 2007, 8pm (at first Monday of the month)
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535
• Free admission

See Singapore’s future talents and their works at our monthly programme every first Monday of the month.  Submissions are open all year-round for filmmakers. Go to our website to find out how!

Invisible City (World Premiere)

• 21 July 2007, 8pm
  
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535
• Free admission with registration movingimages@substation.org or 6337 7535
• Invisible City

Tan Pin Pin documents the thoughts of the old guard as they reminisce about their youth. But she arrives too late.  Too much is forgotten. For others fear still keeps them silent. What she eventually manages to cull are fragments. Pieced together, they draw an outline of a city that could have existed. Invisible City is an attempt at a documentary about Singapore’s past. The result however is an essay about the fear of forgetting, the fear of being forgotten and the need to leave a mark behind.

Tan Pin Pin is a Singapore based director. Her credits include Singapore GaGa, which had a sold out 7 week theatrical run in Singapore.  Her short film Moving House won the Student Academy Award. Another work 80kmh measures how long it takes to drive across Singapore (38 min).

Other screenings on 19 July at University Culture Centre Theatre, NUS, and 20 July at 72-13.

Project Chiaroscuro

• The Substation Sessions
  Co-presented with Little Red Shop
• 12-13 July: 8pm
  14 July: 3pm & 8pm
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535
• $10/$15 (through Gatecrash)

Six fresh actors. Six books. Three mentor-directors. Put them together to create six new dramatic monologues. Project Chiaroscuro 2007 is a new incarnation of a theatre experiment first presented in 2006 as Chiaroscuro: The Monologue Sessions. Come and see new dramatic works by fresh voices in local theatre: Libby Gott, Sol Iglesias, Sharda Harrison,  Mayura Baweja, Molizah Mohd Mohter and Muhammad Najib Bin Soima. Mentored by Samantha Scott-Blackhall, Michael Corbidge and Noor Effendy Ibrahim.

Transportation

• Presented by AGNI KOOTTHU (THEATRE OF FIRE)
• 18 & 19 August 2007, 8 pm
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535
• $20
  From The Substation Box-office

TRANSPORTATION explores the pain of the exilic journey – penal transportation - migration, experience of enslavement, forced removal for labour, oppression and exploitation, focusing on this as both an individual and as a collective experience. The play captures the displacement and suffering, cultural denigration and crisis of identity that ensues from all forms of estrangement in the colonial period in the penal convict settlements.  It reconstructs the experiences of convicts transported overseas to prisons and penal settlements in South and Southeast Asia during the nineteenth century to the penal settlements established by the British, from the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, in Southeast Asia and the Indian   Ocean.

The Mismatched Girl

• 24th & 25 August 2007, 8pm
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535
• $12 & $10 (concession)
  From Gatecrash
  http://www.gatecrash.com.sg/

A whimsical play about a little girl who has the penchant of wearing mismatched slippers wherever she goes. And her sole pleasure in life is to watch the lights of the HDB flats in the night as they shine the brightest in the country. One day, an old man accidentally joins her in her mischievous pleasure. This shared pleasure of gazing at the bright lights unknowingly forges a special friendship between the both of them in one of the unlikeliest places. Written by Yang Ming and directed by Gemia Foo.

Contemporary Art and Grand Narrative

• 21 & 22 July 2007, 2:30pm
• National Museum of Singapore
  93 Stamford Road
  Singapore 178897
  http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/

The National Museum of Singapore and The Substation  with support from the International Association of Art Critics, Singapore Section
present:
Contemporary Art and Grand Narrative
Lectures by Laleen Jayamanne and Lu Jie with commentary by Jane DeBevoise, Joan Kee and Ho Tzu Nyen

Lu Jie, founder and director of the renowned Long March Project, will present a lecture on this major contemporary cultural undertaking that has involved numerous artists, writers, curators and activists retracing the famous route of Mao’s Red Army. And in her lecture University of Sydney theorist Laleen Jayamanne will discuss “germinal life”: film and civilisational discourse in the museum.

Forum: A Career in the Local Film Industry

• 26 July 2007, 8pm
• The Substation Theatre
  45 Armenian Street
  Singapore 179936
  http://www.substation.org/
• 6337 7535

Co-presented with NUS Centre For The Arts’ student filmmaking group, nuSTUDIOS, join a discussion with the audience and several industry practitioners relating on viability of film as a career in Singapore. This is also a first-hand exploration of the various niche roles available in the local film scene.

The Singapore Art Show Unconference

• 25 August, 8pm at SMU
  4 October, 8pm at The Substation

For many conference participants, the best part is the informal time when people meet and network. However, most conferences are dominated by formal presentations, and the space for networking is left to tea breaks and meal times. The SAS Unconference reverses this hierarchy: using the format of speed-dating, conference participants “present” themselves and their opinions to audiences on a one-to-one basis, in eight minute sessions. The topics: “my favourite Singapore artist”, and “Singapore art: the good, the bad & the ugly”.

Reel Revolution Powwow & Immersion

• 14 July 2007, 2–5.30pm, 6-7.30pm
• Free admission with registration
• Visit reel revolution

A screening and forum of the ten short-listed video essays from the Reel Revolution mentorship programme. Vote for your favourite! After that, come and join the teams and mentors who took part in Reel Revolution and network with them at this wrap party!

4th Singapore Short Cuts

• A programme of the National Museum Cinémathèque
• 11, 18, 25 August & 1 September 2007
• National Museum Gallery
• Free, limited seats
• Submission form from NMS, deadline is 15 June 2007

Into its 4th season this year,  Singapore Short Cuts is an annual showcase of outstanding short films by local filmmakers. The program features a diverse selection of Singapore short films from documentaries to animation and experimental work with post-screening discussions with the filmmakers. Some of the filmmakers whose films have been featured in Singapore Short Cuts include Victric Thng, Eva Tang, Boo Junfeng,  Wee Li Lin, Tan Pin Pin and Eric Khoo.

The 4th Singapore Short Cuts is co-organized by National Museum of Singapore and The Substation.

2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow

• 25 - 28 July, 8 pm
• DBS Arts Centre - Home of the SRT
• Tickets from Gatecrash
• Comedy Festival Road Show Line-up

After two rollicking years of the Roadshow, we know that Singaporeans really like a laugh-out-loud good time, so here’s the third edition bringing you the best of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, one of the world’s top comedy events. Don’t miss it this time!