keeping memories alive: maintaining singapore nationalism abroad
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Keeping memories alive:
Maintaining Singapore nationalism abroad
Singapore’s Transnational Citizenry
Memory is serious business
A Day to Remember: Singapore Day 2008 (Melbourne)
New York 2007
Melbourne 2008
London 2009
Organised by the Overseas Singaporeans Unit (Prime Ministers Office)
Cuisine
The queue for food
Entertainment (Phua Chu Kang)
“Rekindle and Rediscover”
Storytelling:
a) The Beaded Slippers
b) Attack of the Swordfish
Attack of the Swordfish
This is an exciting story of how a village in ancient Singapore worked to fight off the attack of swordfish that terrorised their beautiful beach. Heroic and tragic at the same time, this tale will entrall every child.
[For children aged 8-12 years old]
Microcosm of Singapore: Melbourne’s Sydney Myer Music Bowl