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LATEST EVENTS
Fri, 23 Aug to Sat, 7 Sep 2024
7pm – 11pm I National Library Building and National Archives Building
RE:PLAY AT SG
Immerse yourself in Singapore’s rich history with All Things Singapore (AT SG)! As night falls, visit the National Library and National Archives of Singapore to relive and reimagine our vibrant heritage. Enjoy art installations and exciting programmes that showcase the role of the arts, entertainment and games in shaping our communities’ creative expression and social interaction. Celebrate Singapore’s stories and experience the magic of childhood, play and creativity while creating unforgettable memories.
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Thu, 19 Sep 2024
7pm – 8pm I NAS Oldham Theatre
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Archives Invites: Tim Bunnell |100-Year Connection: Johor-Singapore Causeway
The Johor-Singapore Causeway can be examined through a variety of perspectives. As the Causeway celebrates its centenary year, Professor Tim Bunnell (NUS) distils some of the ways Social Sciences and Humanities scholars have studied the linkway. Professor Bunnell will draw on work that was included in a two-day academic workshop held at the NUS Asia Research Institute (ARI) in May 2024, which he co-organised with Francis Hutchinson (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute) and Shaun Lin (NUS College). That body of work delves into a wide range of archival and other resources used to study the Causeway.
About the Speaker
Tim Bunnell is a Professor at the Department of Geography and Director of the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. The primary focus of his research is urbanisation in Southeast Asia, examining the historical and ongoing transformation of cities in the region. This includes a longstanding interest in the urban development of both Malaysia and Singapore and their inter-urban connections with other parts of the world. He is the author of From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives (Wiley, 2016), and is also currently part of a Singapore MOE-funded collaborative research project comparing urban future imaginaries of Nusantara (the new capital of Indonesia), Putrajaya and Singapore. Prof Bunnell’s academic engagement with the Causeway, initially in the form of an article published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Hutchinson, Lin and Bunnell, 2023), has also been collaborative.
About Archives Invites
Community histories unfold in this series that traces Singapore’s social past with help from the archives.
Sat, 21 Sep 2024
2pm – 3pm I NAS Oldham Theatre
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LOLA 2024: Bringing Archives to the Community! Reminiscence & Dementia Care
About this event
Since 2019, the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) has partnered several agencies who care for and care about the well-being of Seniors, including persons with dementia. Through its rich archival collection and oral history expertise, NAS embarked on making its resources available to the community through several reminiscence activities and initiatives such as Reminiscence in Dementia Care Community Project in 2021 and the pilot-run of a curated reminiscence programme for the Seniors at selected community care organisations from 2021 to 2022. By end this year, the NLB/NAS Reminiscence Library comprising six-themed reminiscence packages and a video guide will be made available to the community. Look out for details!
In this public lecture, we are privileged to have our long-term partner, Dementia Singapore (DSG) Ms Eunice Tan, a Social Worker and Gerontologist who oversees the enrichment centre, Family of Wisdom. -She is joined by Ms Patricia Lee, Co-founder, Reminisce Connect and a former staff at the Oral History Centre. At this fire-side chat, both Eunice and Patricia will share their fond memories and reflection of the above reminiscence projects and its impact on the persons with dementia and their caregivers at the Family of Wisdom.
About Speakers
Patricia Lee, an oral history interviewer, is the Co-founder of Reminisce Connect. Trained and accredited as a Reminiscence Arts Facilitator with the European Reminiscence Network (ERN), Patricia conducts reminiscence sessions with Seniors, including persons living with dementia. She also provides reminiscence facilitation workshops at the university and social service agencies.
Eunice Tan is a Social Worker cum Gerontologist, in-charge of an enrichment Centre under Dementia Singapore, called Family of Wisdom Centre. She have been working in the eldercare sector for the past 28 years. The first 17 years, in a Social Day Centre for the Elderly; and the last 11 years, in the Family of Wisdom Centre.
Besides running the enrichment Centre, at times, Eunice is also involved in consultancy projects, to nursing homes, day care centre and churches who want to run programmes for seniors with cognitive impairment. Working with the seniors is her passion. She will never exchange anything else for that.
Tues, 15 Oct 2024
7pm – 8pm I Zoom
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Archives Unlocked: The People’s Cinema
**The People’s Cinema: A Hidden Side of Singapore’s Film History**
Join Audiovisual Archivist Ray Tan as she introduces the significance of home movies in Singapore’s film history. Explore these intriguing records in the National Archives of Singapore’s collection, learn about the challenges of acquiring and preserving these films, and discover how the amateur films of the past remain remarkably relatable to us today.
About the Speaker
Ray Tan (Tan Shu Jun) is an Audiovisual Archivist at the National Archives of Singapore (NAS). Whether you’re keen on exploring the sounds of Singapore with SoundscapeSG, seeking advice on reproducing clips from the archival collection, preserving a film or tape with NAS or simply curious about NAS’s curated resources, Ray is your friendly guide to all things audiovisual.
About Archives Unlocked
Curious about what goes on in the National Archives of Singapore? Join us for this series of talks, as we unlock stories of our nation through the Archives’ collections.