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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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
Date: 1st 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
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
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 3rd experiment.
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
Come celebrate the power of meaningful words at Literati!!! A showcase of poetry, prose and music delivered by talented local writers, storytellers and musicians. Featuring Jocelyn Chua, Dew Chaiyanara, Marc Nair, Azmi Danuri, Lee Yue Heng, and Jacklyn Soo of The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Also with special guest, Sharanya Manivannan (KL).
Organized by Platform (The Label). For more info, please visit our website: http://www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com
Time:
Venue:
Admission: Entry by donation
Contact: plasticblackspecs@hotmail.com
91813142 / 63323222
Do check www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com for updates
A Drama graduate of
Jocelyn Chua
Long-listed for the National Arts Council Golden Point Award 2005 for her short story "A Brief Affair with Infinity", playwright-performer Jocelyn Chua was last seen at the Arts House Play Den in March 2007 performing her debut solo show – a dramatisation based on her aforementioned short story. An avid local theatre practitioner who also dabbled in short film making, Jocelyn was commissioned by TheatreWorks in 2004 to complete the one-act play "Restless" before proceeding to publish her debut collection of stage scripts in December 2006 entitled "Restless and Other Plays". She is currently trying to write more with her fingers crossed for paid artistic projects – It. Is. Hard. To. Write. With. Fingers. Crossed.
Marc Nair
Marc D. Nair - Teacher, Poet, Musician, Songwriter.
A digital film student at S.A.E. Institute
Jacklyn Soo of The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is Jacklyn Soo and Ho Wai Kit. Formed early this year, the duo has been writing and producing songs of love, loss, memories, childhood, nature and peace.
Yueheng, a History/English Literature teacher has been writing songs since he was 17. His influences include The Beatles, Oasis, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and 70s Chinese oldies.
Guest
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Literati !!!
Literati III
Words and language have long been used as mediums of expression, standing alone in stanza and prose or collaborating with music and visuals to affect both sense and mind. Yet in this fast paced world, the meaning of words gets lost and become empty in a contextual void which exists in day to day conversation, and that is what Literati hopes to remedy by placing the spotlight on the word and it's power to move you.
Context will be the highlight of this event, in which we will line up wordsmiths from different avenues in one intimate performance of poetry, story and song. We hope that through this showcase, we may be able to demonstrate the indomitable presence of words not simply by its existence in our mundane exchange of information, but in forms which are profound and stirring.
This round of Literati will present Dominic Ng, Ruby Pan, Teng Qian Xi, Russell Tan, Donald Pan of Nuance and Amanda Tee.
Organized by Platform (The Label).
For more info, please visit our website: http://www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com
Date: 27th January 2007, Saturday
Time: 4pm
Venue: Books Actually
125A Telok Ayer Street
Singapore 068594
5 min walk from Tanjong Pagar MRT (exit G)
Admission: Entry by donation
Contact: plasticblackspecs@hotmail.com
91813142 / 62211170
The next Literati will be held on the 7th of April 2007 at The Singapore Art Musuem.
Do check www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com for updates
Performer’s Info:
Dominic Ng
Dominic has been heavily involved in the theatre scene back from his home country, Malaysia. He managed to clinch the title of the best actor of Malaysia under-18 in the year 2004. Since then he helped the Bangsar Actors Studio as a crew for a short while before arriving here in Singapore to become a full-time professional actor. He currently studies in LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. He's taking a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.Ever since stepping into Singapore, he has worked with renowned directors from around the globe such as Leith Taylor, James Kable, Samantha Scott Blackhall and Terrence Crawford, among many others.
Ruby Pan
Ruby Pan is a trainee teacher at NIE. When she is not learning to be a Native English Speaker, she writes and performs - she has appeared on the Mr Brown Show.Com. Ruby is also a member of Migrant Voices, a non-profit organization that seeks to platform the voices of migrant workers through the arts.
Russell Dominic Tan
A 21 year old undergrad majoring in English Literature in NUS. Russell who enjoysmusic, reading and writing poetry in his free time intends to pursue teaching as a career upon completion of university.
Teng Qian Xi
Teng Qian Xi's first collection of poetry, Eye and Tongue, will be published next year . Her writings have been published in QLRS, Softblow, the London Underground, and Today, among others. She was the publicist for the recent cinema release of Singapore GaGa, directed by Tan Pin Pin. She will be returning next year to Columbia University to finish her degree in comparative literature.
Amanda Tee
She may be only 17 years of age - but with a couple of years' experience, she will not disappoint. In her songs, she makes it a point to find a comfortable compromise between the realms of words and melody. After all, they can very much compliment each other. Her songs aren't perfect, but she tries. So don't miss your chance to catch her belting out songs that can take on a more emotional expression. 'If music be the food of love, play on!'
Donald Pan of Nuance
Donald Pan is a member of Nuance. An intelligent song-writer, his evocative and smoothly crafted lyrics flow like poetry, equally matched by beautifully haunting tunes. Nuance’s music is hopeful and optimistic, with acerbic and premonitory undertones. Exploring current affairs and testament inspired messages, their music is fodder for philosophical discoursers and inspires travel to utopian faraway lands. Literati will be Donald’s first solo performance.