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News, research and opinion on memory, nostalgia and heritage in Singapore, updated weekly.
Keeping her memories close: Koh Lee Neo
I first met Lee Neo on Mother’s Day last Sunday. It was a memory collection drive under the auspices of the Yuhua Memory Project, and we had gone down to Yuhua Blk 318A’s Neighbourhood Link. Students from Nanyang Girls’ High School (NYGH) had generously volunteered their time on a Sunday morning to gather stories of ...
Gila Bola: Interview with Dan & Zakaria
After our initial launch of three commissioned films by Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin, our commissioned series Drawn From Memory moves to the format of the e-book in exploration of a wide range of topics on culture, identity and belonging. First up is a photo essay on the state of football fandom in ...
Photo roundup from our recent workshop
We recently ran a photo workshop at Jurong Regional Library on 13 May with the help of Jean Loo as part of the fringe events leading up to the upcoming “iremember goes to Yuhua” open house. We were heartened to see that the workshop drew 17 eager shutterbugs, including many who also reside in Yuhua. ...
Gila Bola: Surviving Singapore Soccer
Today I’m proud to present our latest commissioned work under the Singapore Memory Project’s Drawn From Memory series. Dan Koh and Zakaria Zainal‘s photo essay exploration of football fandom cannot have been better timed as the LionsXII are currently enjoying a successful run in the Malaysian Super League after an absence of 18 years. Breaking ...
Bollywood in Geylang: Revisiting Old Cinemas
The Bollywood craze in Geylang between the ‘50s and ‘60s kept suburban cinemas packed. At these open-air cinemas, ten-cent cinemas and decent fan-cooled theatres, Hindustani movies brought in the crowds in droves to the Taj, Garrick and Queen’s in Geylang. Mr Tamby bin Osman who worked in various cinemas during that era recounted this early ...
Everyman his own Historian?
Are smartphones leveling the historical conservation process? Heritage initiatives around the world are quickly benefitting from the past decade’s advancements in information and communicational technologies. Of particular mention is the now ubiquitous smartphone, which serves a principal role as a key infrastructural leveler in providing convenient access to web-based services. For heritage institutions this is an unprecedented ...
