On 6 October Sing Lit Station and Grapple Max presented Sing Lit Body Slam, the inaugural Poetry & Pro Wrestling Performance, at Aliwal Arts Centre in Singapore.
What a night. The room was packed with standing room only at the back. My doppleganger Jon Gresham would be proud.
Here are the images:
All images are copyright Jon Gresham. All rights reserved. Please ask beforehand if you wish to use an image.
On 6 October Sing Lit Station and Grapple Max presented Sing Lit Body Slam, the inaugural Poetry & Pro Wrestling Performance, at Aliwal Arts Centre in Singapore.
What a night. The room was packed with standing room only at the back. My doppleganger Jon Gresham would be proud.
Here are the images:
All images are copyright Jon Gresham. All rights reserved. Please ask beforehand if you wish to use an image.
On 6 October Sing Lit Station and Grapple Max presented Sing Lit Body Slam, the inaugural Poetry & Pro Wrestling Performance, at Aliwal Arts Centre in Singapore.
What a night. The room was packed with standing room only at the back. My doppleganger Jon Gresham would be proud.
Here are the images:
All images are copyright Jon Gresham. All rights reserved. Please ask beforehand if you wish to use an image.
WARNING: These images show the slaughter of animals in detail. Not for the squeamish or the sensitive.
Images from prior year's Hari Raya 2016
Jakarta Selatan, September 2017
The October Writing the City will be a Playwriting Workshop with Haresh Sharma, presented by Writing the City and the NLB SG Author Series, and will take place on 21 Oct 2017 at 2pm at Toa Payoh Library.
Haresh Sharma has been the Resident Playwright of The Necessary Stage since 1990. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2015. To date, he has written more than 100 plays which have been staged in over 20 cities. His play, Off Centre, was selected by the Ministry of Education as a Literature text for 'N' and 'O' Levels.
Haresh has 13 publications of his plays, including Trilogy, Shorts 1, Shorts 2 and Don't Forget to Remember Me. His works have been translated into Malay, Mandarin, Greek and Italian. He was awarded Best Original Script for Fundamentally Happy, Good People and Gemuk Girls at the 2007, 2008 and 2009 The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards respectively.
He is the first non-American to be awarded the prestigious Goldberg Master Playwright by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011. In 2014, he was conferred the Southeast Asian Writers (or S.E.A. Write) Award (Singapore), which recognises and honours literary excellence in the ASEAN region.
Happy Birthday to the best Wife and Mum in the whole universe & beyond.
"The goal of the Singapore Unbound Fellowship is to cultivate literary talent and encourage literary achievement by immersing a promising Singaporean author in the cultural life of New York City."
On 19 July at Artistry, the inaugural winner of the Fellowship was announced.
Congratulations to emerging playwright Nur Sabrina binte Dzulkifli. We were treated to the performance of a scene from her play "This is not a Draft".
It was lovely to hear some other emerging writers such as Teo Xiao Ting, one of the six poets chosen for the 2017 Sing Lit Station Poetry Manuscript Bootcamp, and Nuraliah Norasid, winner of the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize for The Gatekeeper.
Larger images are here.
