Literati @ SeptFest

Come celebrate the power of meaningful words at Literati!!! A showcase of poetry, prose and music delivered by talented local writers, storytellers and musicians. .

This round of Literati will present Elizabeth Tan, Yong Shu Hong, Susy Bungsu, Maya Dance Theatre Ltd. Patrick Chng, Ben Harrison, Zack Yusof and The Random Collective #3.

Organized by Platform (The Label). For more info, please visit our website: http://www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com

Date: 1^st September 2007, Saturday
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Substation Theatre
The Substation Ltd
45 Armenian Street
Singapore 179936
Admission: Entry by donation

The next Literati will be held in January 2008 at Books Actually. Watch for it.

Do check www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com for updates

Performer's Info

Story

Elizabeth Tan
Elizabeth caught the arts bug since 7 yrs old, performing for Act 3 Theatre Company. Now an actress/host for stage and television, she was last seen in Ho Tzu Nyen's 'King Lear: Avoidance of Love' as part of the Esplanade Sparks Project and World-In-Theatre's 'Mishima: Women in Love'. Also a presenter, she has hosted programs for Mediacorp Channel 5, Kids Central and Nickolodeon Asia. Having an intimate relationship with writing, she reviews movies for http://www.cinemaonline.com.my and her passion for fashion is fulfilled at http://www.60nicholson.com.

Maya Dance Theatre
Maya Dance Theatre Ltd. is Apsara Asia's production entity that focuses on creating and presenting arts productions. It aims to create productions that transcend all cultural, ethnic and national boundaries, presenting in its original form within a unique contemporary dance theatre style combining dance forms, text and sound. Maya Dance Theatre will be presenting a preview of their performance, ATMA, which will take place at the Esplanade in October.

Poetry

Susy Bungsu
Susy Bungsu , otherwise known as "soozeeB", who is a secretary by training, is currently in the education sector, with a focus on events management. She is actively involved in Migrant Voices, a registered arts society, as a Secretary as well as being in charge of volunteer management. She aspires to be an Art Therapist in the near future and hopes to help children with learning disabilities. She pens her poetry under the moniker "Petal P. Rose".

Yong Shu Hoong
Yong Shu Hoong is an accomplished poet. His published collections of poetry include Isaac (1997), do-while (2002) and Frottage (2005), which won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2006. His works has also appeared in various publications, including The Straits Times, South China Morning Post and the MTV Asia website.

He is the organizer of the monthly subTEXT readings at the Central Lending Library and is also a regular guest of literary events all over the world – most recently, British Council's Cambridge Seminar for Contemporary Literature and Byron Bay Writers Festival in Australia.

Music

Patrick Chng
Patrick Chng started performing in the mid 1980s and formed one of Singapore 's most loved indie bands The Oddfellows in 1988. The band went on to released two albums "Teenage Head" in 1991 and "Carnival" in 1992 and had huge radio hits such as "So Happy", "Unity Song", "Your Smiling Face", "She's So Innocent" and "Breach" in the 1990s.
Patrick was also an original member of The Padres and has occasionally performed as a solo acoustic act. He's now the guitarist in TypeWriter and is the founder of non-profit music organisaton Music For Good.

Ben Harrison (Etc)
Ben Harrison was born the day Elvis died. He's lived in Singapore for a long time and was in the Joe Ng-fronted band, Padres. For the last decade Ben has been the only constant member of Etc – a loose-knit band that instinctively adapts its volume, songs & line-up depending on the occasion. They've played numerous live shows and spent barely any time recording. Nobody's offered them money to do an album yet, but they do have enough material for several. You can hear songs Etc songs at http://myspace.com/abcdetc

Guest

Zack Yusof
Zack Yusof is a music journalist, occasional indie radio jock and enthusiastic part-time club deejay who sings, plays guitar and writes songs in KL-based indie rock five piece Deserters. Driven by his love of classic songwriting and inventive sonic experimentation, Zack also makes intimate lo-fi acoustic folk under the guise of Kid Kowalski. Previous musical form includes Rebecca Fishpond (UK), Release (UK), Fast Boyfriends (UK) and Trafford (MAL). Visit: http://amp.channelv.com/deserters

The Random Collective #3
Order a poem from the Proletariat Poetry Factory by providing a word and paying a fee of your choice. The Servile Poet will generate your poem live, using a typewriter, while being psychologically infected by a noise feed from the Supreme Programmer. Part of an ongoing situationist experiment by Rage Goh, in collaboration with YC Teo. This will be their 3^rd experiment.