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The Arts House
Sunday, October 25 at 4:00pm - Forward Motion
Sinema Old School
Friday, October 9 at 8:00pm
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- Entertainment & Arts - Books & Literature
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- The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We work to bring together artists and audiences across the world to share their experiences and their work. Disclaimer: The British Council is not responsible for the content of external websites. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). Registered in Singapore as a branch (T09FC0012J) and as a charity (No 0768). Our privacy statement:... (read more)
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- Novelists Christine Suchen Lim and Courttia Newland are leading a residential writing project this week at Pulau Ubin. Over five days, 14 writers will be discussing their work and exploring new forms in a rustic tropcal setting. This project is the fruit of 18 months of discussions and relationship building and is a partnership between the British Council, the NAC and Catalyst Central, a not-for-profit literary organisation headed by poet Alvin Pang and publisher Fong Hoe Fang.
Participants, including Alvin and Hoe Fang, will be discussing their experience at a special session organised as part of the Singapore Writers Festival on Saturday 31st October, while Courttia will be sharing his experience of writing urban lives alongside Singaporean novelist Daren Shiau on Sunday 26th (details below).
25 Oct 2009, 4:00 pm Tales from Two Cities
Featuring: Courttia Newland, Daren Shiau
Moderator: Alvin Pang
Venue: Play Room
Courttia Newland is a master at highlighting multicultural aspects of the urban environment and infusing this into his writings. Courttia will be joined by Daren Shiau, a Singaporean novelist and a poet, whose book Heartland explored the idea of Singaporeans’ sense of rootedness and rootlessness. Courttia and Daren will be sharing their thoughts and insights in being writers in a multicultural world and how this has developed their individual creative writing style.
31 Oct 2009, 6:00 pm
The Creative Writing Experience
Venue : The Hall
Featuring: Alvin Pang, Christine Suchen Lim
This October, 14 Singaporean writers are taking part in a week-long creative writing camp on Pulau Ubin, based on the renowned Arvon retreats in the United Kingdom and organised by Catalyst Central, a not-for-profit arts initiative directed by Alvin Pang and Fong Hoe Fang. Some of the participants and tutors will share their camp experiences and discuss the value of structured writing residencies in sharpening writing skills. You can also find out about how you can participate in future creative writing residencies!
See: http://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/
Two films by Singaporean filmmakers are playing at the UK's leading short film festival, Encounters. Tanjong Rhu (The Casurina Cove) is Boo Junfeng's third film to be shown in the the festival and plays in the International Panorama, while Sun Koh's Tu Nv (Dirty Bitch) plays as part of the Late Lounge. Over the last three years, strong relationships have been forged between Encounters and Singapore and these links will develop further over the next year.
http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/2009-programme/Competition-Screenings/International-Panorama-1.html
http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/2009-programme/Competition-Screenings/Late-Lounge.html
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University of London’s Central School of Speech and Drama (Central) is interviewing in Singapore for some of its three-year, full-time undergraduate courses, and its one-year full-time/two-year part-time postgraduate courses.
The Central School of Speech and Drama is one of the UK’s pre-eminent training centres for drama. . Students are taught by distinguished practitioners in the industry; follow highly-specialist courses; and have access to brand-new facilities.
Auditions - Studying theatre in the UK
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2009
Venue: National University of Singapore
Prior registration is required. Please register your interest by emailing admissions@cssd.ac.uk.
Courses being interviewed include:
• BA (Hons) Acting: Musical Stage
• MA Classical Acting
• MA Acting for Screen
• MA Music Theatre
• MA Theatre Studies (Performance and the City)
For more information about Central, please visit www.cssd.ac.uk