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PROGRAMMES 10 NOVEMBER
an older part of Shanghai. While struggling to run the
eatery, she also has to care for her nephew and keep
her brother out of trouble, and, most importantly,
try to regain her family home lost during the Cultural
Revolution. The film acutely captures the tension
between the traditional and the modern in a rapidly
changing China, and the plight of the people caught
in-between.
SWF featured author Chi Li will be present for post-film
dialogue.
Curated by The Arts House.
开 卷 有 戏 :生 活 秀
嘉 宾:池 莉
主 持人:李 富 楠
十一月十日, 星期六 | 10am – 1pm | 作家节通行证
Screening room, taH
导演: 霍建起 | 演 员: 潘 粤明、陶 红、陶 泽如 | 2002年 |
106 分钟 | 中国 | 待定 | 中文片附英文字幕
《生活秀》改编自池莉畅销同名小说,小说中心人物
来双扬是个风情万种、精明干练的独身女子,在武汉
吉庆街经营小吃摊,生活过得孤单却毫不平静。她一
边苦苦支撑着小吃摊,一边还得照顾年仅十岁的侄子
和吸毒被捕的弟弟。最折腾的是与兄嫂为了文革期间
丢失的老房子而陷入争夺战。来双扬唯一的慰藉是一
年多来经常光顾小吃摊的警员卓雄洲,她开始对生活
有了憧憬,看到了幸福的曙光。《生活秀》突显了中国
在急速变革的进程中,传统与现代之间的拉锯,以及
身处新旧矛盾间的市井小民怎么无所适从。女主角陶
红凭来双扬一角,在2002年连封上海国际电影节“金
爵奖”、中国政府颁发的“华表奖”、“金鸡奖”,晋升
三料影后。
著名作者池莉将在影片放映完毕后与观众进行交流。此节目
将以中文进行。
节目由旧国会大厦艺术之家策划。
OFF THE PAGE: READ! Singapore’s Flash Fiction
Winners Announcement
Sat 10 nov | 11.30am – 12.30pm | FREE
Big Steps, School of information Systems, Smu
Hear from the winners and participants from
Singapore’s first flash fiction writing competition,
organised by NLB in collaboration with NAC
Participants, many of them writing for the very first time,
were challenged and inspired to use a specific opening
sentence to spin a tale around the theme ‘bridges’.
In collaboration with the National Library Board.
Panel: Reading Between the Lines
featuring: latha, tan chee lay, Shaffiq Selamat,
meira chand
mOderated By: aaron maniam
Sat 10 nov | 11.30am – 12.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
glass Hall, Sam
Mining the rich multi-lingual heritage of Singapore,
literary translators working in Chinese, Malay and
Tamil will read from their translations of an extract
from Meira Chand’s A Different Sky. In so doing, they
throw up the challenges one faces when translating
cultural context and ask whether translations can lead
to more conversations between the various language
communities in Singapore.
This programme will be in English, with multi-lingual readings.
Alvin Pang in Conversation with John Tranter
Sat 10 nov | 11.30am – 12.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
ilovebooks.com Pavilion, campus green, Smu
Two critically-acclaimed poets talk about the visionary
power of poetry and the distillation of language into
its most vital and urgent. Join this thought-provoking
conversation and be captivated by the insight and
subtleties of these two poets’ works.
PANEL: Finding the Child in Me
featuring: nian Hong, Wu meizhen, jimmy liao
mOderated By: Wong Seow Huar
Sat 10 nov | 11.30am – 12.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
exhibition gallery 2, Basement, nmS
Children’s literature might be easy to read but it
isn’t necessarily easy to write. Join this panel to find
out how children’s writers stay young-at-heart and
continue to keep their imagination flowing vividly. It’s
time to excite, tickle and coax out the kid in all of us!
This session is in Mandarin.
座谈会:唤起心中的童心
嘉宾:年红, 伍美珍, 几米
主 持人:黄 绍 安
十一月十日, 星期六 | 11.30am – 12.30pm |
作家节通行证
exhibition gallery 2, Basement, nmS
儿童文学读来简单,创作的过程却未必容易。本座谈
会将让你知道儿童文学作家如何保持心境年轻,让想
象与创意。请与我们的儿童文学作家一起激发、唤起
自己的童心!
此节目将以中文进行。
Cheong Yip Seng in Conversation with
Cherian George
Sat 10 nov | 11.30am – 12.30pm | FESTIvAL PASS
the ixora room, tPm
Two media insiders face off on the independence and
future of mainstream media in Singapore. Drawing
on their new books—Cheong’s reflective memoir of
his time leading The Straits Times newsroom, and
George’s incisive study of the state of Singapore
media—they raise hot-button issues in a frank and
insightful discussion.
OFF THE PAGE: Tell Me a Story
Sat 10 nov | 12.30pm – 1pm | FREE
festival Pavilion, campus green, Smu
Professional storyteller Kamini Ramachandran from
MoonShadow Stories is back to read us stories by
some of SWF’s featured writers. For this special
session, Kamini draws from The Scar by Charlotte
Moundlic and Slog’s Dad by SWF 2012 featured writer
David Almond, and shows us some ways to deal with
death when it happens to someone close to you.
SPECIAL FESTIvAL PASS EvENT: Urban Memories –
The SWF Chinese Literary Conference
mOderated By: ting kheng Siong
Sat 10 nov | 2pm – 5pm | FESTIvAL PASS
Possibility room, nlB
As more of the world’s population relocate to
the cities, so the city figures more largely in the
imagination of poets and writers. For this discussion,
veteran writers from Singapore and beyond share
how the city has touched their souls and invaded their
memories. Their keen observations express a need for
urban history and culture, and hope to inspire writers
to explore in greater depths their city’s psyche.
This session is in Mandarin.
Organised by Singapore Association of Writers, the
Singapore Literature Society and SgWritings.
城市文学: 城市记忆与文学书写
主持人: 郑景祥
十一月十日, 星期六 | 2pm – 5pm | 作家节通行证
Possibility room, nlB
城市,已是社会现代化与繁华进程的代名词。随着全
球越来越多人在城市生活与呼吸,城市和文学的关系
越来越近,在诗人作家的想象世界里占据越来越重要
的位置。
新加坡作家节邀请海内外知名作家,分享城市带给他
们的灵魂悸动,希望借着写作人的敏锐观察及深邃思
考,挖掘城市的厚重记忆,并唤起人们对城市历史文
化更深层的关怀,同时也激发更多写作人对城市的精
神面貌予以深入的描述与记录。
此节目将以中文进行。
由新加坡作家协会, 新加坡文艺协会与随笔南洋联办。
LITTLE LIT!: Parent and Child Storytelling
Workshop
featuring: kamini ramachandran
Sat 10 nov | 2.30pm – 3.30pm | FREE
Big Steps, School of information Systems, Smu
Ever wanted to make the wonderful creatures in
stories come alive? Storyteller Kamini Ramachandran
shows you how as she shares delightful tales and
demonstrates how to make your very own animal
figures to bring home for some family storytelling
fun! Bring scissors, adhesive tape, ice-cream sticks,
coloured papers and markers. Parental participation is
encouraged. For ages 4 and up, with parents.
WORKSHOP: The Poetry of Memory
inStructOr: Boey kim cheng
Sat 10 nov | 2.30pm – 5.30pm | $30
Blue room, taH
SWF 2012
The way a poem moves in time and manipulates time
makes it essentially a work of memory. The most
memorable poems are often moments of discovery
and recovery that restore fragments from the past,
and arrange them into a meaningful pattern or
tableau. This workshop focuses on poetry as an act of
remembrance, explores the saving grace of memory,
and looks at how poetry can revise the past so that it
illuminates the present.
OFF THE PAGE: Livehouse Featuring Elaine Lam
Sat 10 nov | 2.30pm – 3pm | FREE
festival Pavilion, campus green, Smu
Gracing the local jazz scene like a breath of fresh air
is Elaine Lam. She projects the picture of a sunny
girl-next-door, yet exudes the sensual sentiments
of a pensive soul. Featuring an EP of her original
compositions, this performance recalls snippets found
in our everyday lives. With her velvety voice, Elaine’s
melodies speak of blossoming love, comfort troubled
hearts, and take us back to a memorable childhood.
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