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Our Guide to the Singapore Writer’s Festival 2012

  Reading expounds our very existence and it is in this search for our being that this year’s Singapore Writer’s Festival is celebrating. This year, the annual SWF takes us back to “being”. A slew of events are put together to contemplate our existence—heritage, globalisation and the very carnal.   Following in the footsteps of its successful predecessor, this year’s festival will once again be a mixture of the light-hearted and the intellectual, featuring a staggering Read more
Posted: 29 October, 2012 Literary Shortlink
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Body Language

Dance Take-Out Series 1: Arts Fission 10 & 11 Nov @ 7.30pm BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street Local dance company Arts Fission is known for their site-specific works: dancing on top of buildings, heck, on top of a truck - this time, they're moving in between shelves of books at indie bookstore BooksActually at Tiong Bahru. We catch up with dancer Mayu Watanabe in a quick Q&A:   What's your favourite book? MW: I think my favorite books are constantly evolving and popping Read more
Posted: 8 November, 2011 Dance, Literary Shortlink
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Our Guide To SWF 2011

Unlike the performing arts, the literary arts can be somewhat of a solitary affair. The written word can bring you to new places, wonderful worlds and fascinating people, but it's all in the space of your, well, imagination. So the fun thing about a writers' festival is getting to meet the authors. Coming face-to-face with those who have filled pages with rich stories, piqued curiousities with novel thoughts, or poetic musings. The Singapore Writers' Festival this year is taking this exchange head Read more
Posted: 18 October, 2011 Literary Shortlink