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PROGRAMMES 3 – 4 NOVEMBER
PANEL: Hitting the Right Notes
featuring: dick lee, tay kewei
mOderated By: Boon chan
Sat 3 nov | 5.30pm – 6.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
the Salon, nmS
What makes a classic song? Veteran singer-songwriter
Dick Lee pairs up with Tay Kewei, an emerging talent
in the music scene, to share how they create winning
songs, how they know a song is complete and how
the music and a singer’s treatment shape a song’s
meaning.
OFF THE PAGE: The Ukulele Girls
Sat 3 nov | 7pm – 7.30pm | FREE
festival Pavilion, campus green, Smu
The Ukulele Girls, Kaylin & Tian, are one part sugar,
one part spice and almost everything nice! While
they cover songs from an eclectic mix of genres, for
SWF they will be treating audiences to their catchy
original tunes, with funny, heartfelt lyrics and soothing
harmonies. Enjoy their self-deprecating humour, ironic
little stories and kooky snapshots of everyday life.
PANEL: The Malaysian in Singaporean Literature
featuring: lee thean-jeen, dave chua,
Huzir Sulaiman
mOderated By: cheong Suk Wai
Sat 3 nov | 7pm – 8pm | FESTIvAL PASS
glass Hall, Sam
Singapore is home to many Malaysian-born and
bred writers and creative talents. This panel looks at
whether being born across the Causeway makes for
writers who can step outside of the box and give a
fresh perspective on life on this little red dot.
PANEL: Crime Scene – Do Not Enter
featuring: charlson Ong, Shamini flint, Paul
french, kjell Ola dahl
mOderated By: richard lord
Sat 3 nov | 7pm – 8pm | FESTIvAL PASS
ilovebooks.com Pavilion, campus green, Smu
Please come in for this special session on the popular
crime fiction genre to find out what makes this very
special breed of writers tick. How do they conduct
research and are they ever affected by the heinous acts
and evil villains they create or reimagine in their heads?
Kjell Ola Dahl’s appearance is supported by the Royal
Norwegian Embassy Singapore.
PANEL: Researching Singapore History
featuring: danièle Wieler, maxime Pilon,
kevin tan, gretchen liu
mOderated By: yu-mei Balasingamchow
Sat 3 nov | 7pm - 8pm | FESTIvAL PASS
the Salon, nmS
How does a writer look for Singapore’s past? By
digging through the National Archives, conducting
interviews, looking through artefacts—these tips
and more are shared by this panel of researchers
and writers who themselves have delved deep into
Singapore’s history.
SPECIAL FESTIvAL PASS EvENT: Dramatised
Presentation of Desmond Sim’s The Chair
Sat 3 nov | 7.30pm – 8.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
(Registration required)
2f Special exhibition gallery, tPm
Director: Richard Tan | Playwright: Desmond Sim |
Producer: Edmond Wong
An ornate chair makes its way from China to Malacca
as part of a set of furniture for a rich Malaccan
businessman. There it begins an odyssey spanning
five generations of a Peranakan family, from poverty
to wealth, hurtling headlong into World War II
and beyond. Staged publically for the first time in
Singapore, this play is a moving story of one family,
their origins and their deep connection to a unique
and rich culture.
Visit www.singaporewritersfestival.com to register.
This special SWF highlight is repeated on Thu 8 Nov.
Supported by Kim Choo Holdings Pte Ltd.
LITERARY COCKTAIL: Mick Foley
HOSted By: Stephen mccarty
Sat 3 nov | 7.30pm – 9pm | $25
timbre @ the arts House
Memoirist, children’s book author, activist and former
pro-wrestler – improbable roles that all gel together in
the imposing package that is Mick Foley. Have a drink
with him to discover more about his amazing journey
from three-time World Wrestling Entertainment
Champion to The New York Times best-selling author.
Curated by The Arts House. Supported by the United States
Embassy, Singapore.
BRAND NEW BOOKS: Who Are We? Five Cultural
Medallion Winners Discuss Our National Identity
Sat 3 nov | 8pm – 9pm | FREE
festival Pavilion, campus green, Smu
Join publisher Edmund Wee of Epigram Books and five
esteemed authors, all of whom are Cultural Medallion
recipients, in a discussion of their newly translated
novels and short stories. The panel of authors and
their works are: Singai M. Elangkannan (Flowers at
Dawn); Suratman Markasan (Penghulu); Wong Meng
Voon (Under the Bed, Confusion); Xi Ni’Er (The Earnest
Mask); and You Jin (Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops).
LITERARY COCKTAIL: Linda Jaivin & Farish Noor
HOSted By: carolyn camoens
Sat 3 nov | 9.30pm – 11pm | $25
timbre @ the arts House
What do you get when an erotica writer and a sex
historian come together? A night of uninhibited
confessions as well as lessons your teacher didn’t tell
you. So down a few cocktails and loosen up ’cause
it’s going to get tantalising and titillating with this
unlikely pair!
Curated by The Arts House.
Please refer to pg 48 for after dark programmes.
SUNDAY | 4 NOVEMBER
OFF THE PAGE: Coffee Reads at tcc
HOSted By: epiphany, the ntu english and
drama Society
Sun 4 nov | 10am – 11am | FREE
tcc @ Smu
Start the day with piping hot coffee and literary readings
at official SWF café tcc. Today’s reading puts the
spotlight on SWF featured writers Mohezin Tejani, Jeet
Thayil and Charlson Ong and students from Epiphany.
Supported by the tcc – the connoisseur concerto.
PANEL: Malay Literature in the 21st century
featuring: ahmad tohari, anuar Othman,
che Husna azhari
mOderated By: Syed ali Semait
Sun 4 nov | 10am - 11am | FESTIvAL PASS
glass Hall, Sam
Consider the future of literature in the Malay world.
Will more Malay authors write in English? Will there
also be more translations and will new themes
supersede the old?
This session is in Malay.
PERBINCANGAN PANEL: Sastera Melayu Pada
Abad Ke-21
mengemukakan: ahmad tohari, anuar Othman,
che Husna azhari
dimOderatkan OleH: Syed ali Semait
ahad 4 nov | 10pg – 11pg | PAS PESTA
glass Hall, Sam
Fikirkan masa depan sastera dalam dunia Melayu.
Mungkinkah lebih ramai penulis Melayu menulis dalam
bahasa Inggeris? Akan bertambahkah karya-karya
Melayu yang diterjemahkan dan tema-tema baharu
menggantikan yang lama dalam karya-karya Melayu
itu nanti?
Sesi ini dalam Bahasa Melayu.
PANEL: Multi-Hyphenate Writing Talents
featuring: Paul french, mukul deva, grant S clark
mOderated By: jeffrey lim
Sun 4 nov | 10am – 11am | FESTIvAL PASS
ilovebooks.com Pavilion, campus green, Smu
All accomplished writers, the members of this
panel wear or have worn many hats: business
consultant, journalist, TV presenter, army officer and
entrepreneur. Find out how they draw on their varied
life experiences to produce compelling literary works.
PANEL: Recreating Korea in my Fiction
featuring: Shin kyung-Sook, krys lee
mOderated By: Hyejin kim
Sun 4 nov | 10am – 11am | FESTIvAL PASS
the Salon, nmS
SWF 2012
Meet two authors with different takes on what
home means: one writes in English, dealing with the
dislocation of the diaspora; the other writes from
inside Korea, capturing the changes to Korean society
and traditional family dynamics.
This session is in English and Korean.
Shin Kyung-sook’s appearance is supported by the Embassy
of the Republic of Korea.
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