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November
2018
Up Close
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Yeng Pway Ngon 英培安
Singapore Writers Festival 2018 Literary Pioneer
Singapore
Writers Festival 2018
Literary Pioneer
Yeng Pway Ngon
Festival | 2 Nov–31 Dec
10am–10pm | The Arts House
For details, visit
bit.ly/yengpwayngon
Singapore Writers
Festival celebrates Yeng
Pway Ngon –Cultural
Medallion recipient (2003),
three-time Singapore
Literature Prize winner
(2004, 2008, 2012), and
one of Singapore’s most
distinguished Chinese-
language novelists, poet,
playwright and critic.
Having written for over 50
years, Yeng, who is known
for seminal works such
as Unrest and Art Studio,
has made immense and
significant contributions
to the Singapore Chinese
literary scene. His works
are deeply existential
and universal, examining
human concerns and
failings that are timeless
and relatable.
Get your Singapore
Writers Festival Pass
at $25 via
bit.ly/yengpwayngon
Yeng Pway Ngon
Reflections and Revelations
英培安：自省与自觉
Exhibition | 2 Nov–31 Dec | 10am–10pm | Print & Film Gallery | Free
Journey through fictional terrains constructed by Yeng in this exhibition.
Indefatigable in his pursuit of dissecting the human condition, he
has developed a distinct literary style of wry, absurdist humour and
a dualistic perspective that interweaves the personal with the social.
Encompassing notions of contradiction, hope, regret, and desire, Yeng's
timeless stories and characters hold up a candid mirror to society,
revealing the beauty and flaws of our existence.
Crossing Boundaries
The Fictional Worlds of Yeng Pway Ngon
跨越界限：英培安的小说世界
Featuring Dr. Seah Cheng Ta 谢征达
Lecture | 3 Nov, Sat | 7pm–8pm | Living Room | Festival Pass
Get your passes at bit.ly/yengpwayngon
Drawing on Yeng's key works, this lecture will shed light on the Literary
Pioneer’s unique voice and take you on a journey through his literary
oeuvre. Set against a backdrop of the rapidly changing social landscapes
of 1960s–1980s Singapore, his novels explore themes of identity, love,
loss, longing, and gender roles through the shifting perspectives of vastly
different characters.
This session is in Mandarin with some English text translations 讲座以华语进行，附一些英文字幕
An Evening with Yeng Pway Ngon
与英培安的文学晚间
Reading | 6 Nov, Tue | 8pm–10pm | Blue Room | Free
Join us for a casual and intimate evening where Yeng’s closest friends and
associates gather to share their cherished memories of him, as well as
their conversations on literature, philosophy, and life.
Images by Sean Lee
Image courtesy of
Ander McIntyre
The Arts House presents Prolific poet, novelist and memoirist John Burnside
John Burnside returns to The Arts House. While better known and
Discussion | 4 Oct, Thu acclaimed for his award-winning poetry, Burnside
7.30pm–9pm | Living Room will instead discuss his creative non-fiction works.
Free with registration at This session is co-presented with the NAC-NTU Creative Writing Residency
and moderated by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.
johnburnside.peatix.com
Creative Non-fiction It can be argued that all writers produce works based
Workshop with on personal experiences, but what often distinguishes
John Burnside the finest works of creative non-fiction is their
Workshop | 6 Oct, Sat emergence not just from the familiar, but from the
10am–1pm | Council Room strange and the wondrous. In Mahabharata, when
$50 Regular, $30 Concession questioned by Yama at the Enchanted Pool, Yudhisthira,
johnburnsidews.peatix.com says: “Each day death strikes, and we live as though we
This workshop is recommended for were immortal. This is the greatest wonder.”
experienced writers.
Drawing on works by various writers in different
non-fiction genres, this workshop examines the use of
the everyday, and the discovery of the marvellous, in
our explorations of the “greatest wonder” that humans
ever experience: the “Quick now, here, now, always” of
daily life.IMHO:
In My Humble Opinion
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Discussion | 25 Oct, Thu | 7pm–8.30pm
Living Room | Free with registration
via imho-gladwell.peatix.com
Ever read a book and wanted to share your
thoughts on it with others? Join us in this first edition
of the IMHO series moderated by Cheong Suk-Wai,
featuring a discussion on The Tipping Point by
Malcolm Gladwell.
IMHO is a discursive platform that features
modern classic books which have made waves in
the past century by introducing ideas and addressing
issues we face today. Each session examines one
seminal non-fiction work and will be moderated
by Cheong Suk-Wai.
Cita Seni
Dance Through Time –
The Nusantara Story
Talk | 13 Oct, Sat | 1pm–3pm | Play Den | Free with
registration via citaseni-nusantara.peatix.com
This talk by choreographer, arts educator and
researcher Muhammad Noramin (Soultari Amin
Farid) aims to initiate discussions about how dances
have evolved historically as well as the importance of
its contemporaneous practice and relevance within
the Nusantara.
The discourses that will be brought to the fore explore
the dance forms within the Nusantara today, and
acknowledge their syncretic nature as a result of
Image courtesy of maritime cultural exchanges and colonialism; and
National Youth Council
talk about its future and challenges.Writer's Spotlight
Cheong Suk-Wai
The Worst of Times
I am on my knees, in church.
I have been like this, for two hours straight, on the hottest afternoon of the year
I am trying to pray, but a single conversation is crowding out all thought.
“Can it wait two months?” I had asked my doctor five days before, when she told me I had to
go under the knife immediately. “There is still a lot I need to do.”
“You cannot wait two weeks,” she said, pushing a box of Kleenex towards me.
These past five days, I have polished every surface in my flat. Washed the curtains at 3am,
hung them up at 4am and took them down again at 5am. I rearranged the furniture in my
living room three times. I threw away every book I had. I am dying, and all I can think about
is what my friends will make of my bloodstained floor and frayed IKEA curtains.
The illness eating away at me has devoured both sets of my grandparents, several uncles and
aunts – and my father. But they were old, and I am young.
Suddenly, still on my knees, a wisp of wind tickles my ear, then caresses my hanging head. It
is the breeze from my childhood, and in my mind, I see again the smilies and sighs of days
gone by. This breeze, the gentle breath of God, is telling me: “All will be well. You will be well.”
Well.
The Worst of Times. Unpublished manuscript
Cheong will be facilitating the inaugural session of IMHO: In My Humble Opinion on
25 Oct 2018. For more details visit theartshouse.sg
Biography
Cheong Suk-Wai has been a lawyer and journalist for more than 20 years, and a writer of prose, poems and songs for even longer
than that. With 32 national and international writing awards to date, she is the author of four books including The Architecture Of
Atmosphere (2012); the official SG50 book Living The Singapore Story (2015); and In Chambers: 150 Years of Upholding the Rule of Law
(2017), the first book to record the past 150 years of Singapore's Attorney-General Chambers’ history.The Arts House Supports Singapore Trilogy Performance | 12 Oct: 8pm, 13 Oct: 3pm & 8pm, 14 Oct: 2pm | Blue Room & Living Room | $40 Tickets at singaporetrilogy.peatix.com Presented by Singapore-based chamber opera company L’arietta Productions, these chamber operas by Dr. Chen Zhangyi pay homage to our national obsessions – kopi, food and shopping. Paradigm Shift or Contest? Discussion | 13 Oct, Sat | 2pm–4pm | Council Room | Free Email LUSI0004@e.ntu.edu.sg to register Is there a universal aesthetic standard as to what a good poem is? Facilitated by poet Chow Teck Seng, this discussion attempts to engage the audience to rethink questions such as this and more using the perspectives of paradigm shifts and contests. This session is conducted in Mandarin. Green is the colour of my heart Performance | 13 Oct, Sat | 6.30pm & 9pm Play Den | $24 Tickets at greenisthecolourofmyheart.peatix.com Featuring poetry by Marc Nair, music by .gif and video art by Wu Jun Han, this performance considers our relationship with nature against the spectre of a breaking world. Le 66 Performance | 22–24 Nov: 7.30pm, 24 Nov: 3pm | Play Den $40 | Tickets at le66.peatix.com SPOT Pocket Opera Theatre presents Jacques Offenbach’s comedy, Le 66, with a contemporary take. The use of technology and social media update the work to the present day.
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monument and now plays a key role in the country's arts and creative scene. The Arts
House at the Old Parliament, as it is affectionately referred to, promotes and presents
multidisciplinary programmes and festivals within its elegant spaces. It focuses in
particular on the literary arts, celebrating the works of written and spoken word artists
from Singapore and beyond.
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