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SUMMARY:From Person to Page: Expressing the Self in Comics with Tania De Rozario
DESCRIPTION:The glow in your chest when you find the perfect meme to explain the day you just had. The laughter that bubbles up when your friends share the same. We have all experienced how images and narratives go hand-in-hand to move our emotions. \nJoin writing and visual art powerhouse Tania De Rozario in this four-week series\, where she will introduce you to her favourite comics\, demonstrate how the craft of comics allows you to understand visual metaphors\, and explore tools used in visual storytelling to make introspective\, diaristic comics. \nEvery week\, we will share our writing and drawing with one another in a casual environment. You don’t need to be a professional artist or writer to participate! \n  \nSESSION OUTLINE \nAll sessions will be held from 10am – 12pm Singapore time (SGT) / 6pm – 8pm Vancouver time (PST). Please use a time zone converter to find the corresponding time in your location. \nWe will be drawing and writing during this workshop. Please come with blank paper\, a pen and a pencil. If possible\, it would be great if you have a phone or camera that allows you to upload photos of your drawings to the internet. \n  \nSession 1: Thinking About Storytelling\nSaturday\, 8 February 2025 (SGT) | Friday\, 7 February 2025 (PST)\nLet’s begin by looking at frameworks through which we can begin to analyse and appreciate comics storytelling. We will also look at grids and experiment with how they can be used as structural guides to help organise information\, create rhythm\, and/or provide points of focus. \nSession 2: Visual Metaphors & Mark-making\nSaturday\, 15 February 2025 (SGT) | Friday\, 14 February 2025 (PST)\nIn this session\, we will look at the use of imaginative imagery in comics\, with a focus on non-representational elements as well as metaphorical images. We will also experiment with developing our own visual metaphors through a drawing exercise that utilises free association. \nSession 3: Medium\, Method & Material\nSaturday\, 22 February 2025 (SGT) | Friday\, 21 February 2025 (PST)\nExplore how different mediums and materials can help us expand storytelling possibilities and widen our visual vocabularies\, freeing us up to discover new ways of working and new ways of taking pleasure in the work that we make. \nSession 4: Hybrid Comics & Experimental Comics\nSaturday\, 1 March 2025 (SGT) | Friday\, 28 February 2025 (PST)\nIn our final session\, we will look at how comics-makers are pushing boundaries in terms of story structure\, form\, material\, language\, and the comic book as an object itself. We will also look at examples of poetry comics and visual art (e.g. painting\, collage\, sculpture) that combine image\, text and material in ways that we can learn from. \n  \nABOUT TANIA DE ROZARIO \nTania De Rozario is a writer\, visual artist\, and the author of four books. Her latest collection\, Dinner on Monster Island (Harper Perennial 2024)\, has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine)\, “unique” (Publishers Weekly)\, “a book with resonance” (Kirkus Reviews)\, “elegant”\, “droll” and “magnetic” (British Columbia Review). Her writing has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020) and the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest (2021)\, has been a finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards (2021) and has been published in journals/anthologies across four continents. Her art has been showcased in Singapore\, Europe\, and the US. \nTania has taught in various capacities for over two decades – this includes working as an adjunct at the University of British Columbia\, where she taught Writing for Graphic Forms for the Creative Writing Department (2021-2023)\, and across Visual Arts faculties at Lasalle College of the Arts (2006-2018). She has also run art/writing workshops for the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival\, Catapult\, The Substation\, Real Vancouver Writers Series\, and Sing Lit Station. \n  \nABOUT DIFFERENCE ENGINE \nDifference Engine is an independent comics publisher based in Singapore. We are inspired by stories from Asia\, and we are committed to publishing diverse\, well-written\, and beautifully illustrated comics of all genres and for all ages. We collaborate closely with Southeast Asian creators\, both new and experienced\, with genuine and thought-provoking ideas to share. \nIn addition to our main publishing line\, Difference Engine also publishes DE Shorts\, an imprint focused on self-contained stories on a wide range of social issues. \nOur range of print and digital comics and graphic novels are available locally\, regionally\, and internationally through our network of booksellers\, retailers\, and distribution partners. To view our full list of titles\, visit http://differenceengine.sg
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LOCATION:Zoom\, N.A.
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SUMMARY:Ethos Nights: Faceri
DESCRIPTION:Faceri is a night of film and spoken word co-presented by the Asian Film Archive and Ethos Books. The second of the Ethos Nights series\, this event features three short films and four writers\, tracing the lines of making and unmaking evoked by the etymology of the word “fashion”\, from the old French “Façon\,” meaning “a making\, style\, appearance\, behavior”. Through material culture we style ourselves\, but also create a living nexus of identity that people can don. This in turn stems from Latin “faceri”: the act of doing\, making\, creating; the act of birth itself. Through the interweaving of film and spoken word\, Faceri will explore materiality\, identity\, and craft. \n📅 Date/Time: 8 Feb 2025\, 5.30pm\n📍Venue: Oldham Theatre \nProgramme: \n🎥 In Pursuit of Temples in the Sky (Gagandeep Singh\, 2021)\nWith live narration by Shawn Hoo \n🎥 A million Threads (Thu Thu Shein\, 2006)\nWith textual responses by Jennifer Anne Champion and Prasanthi Ram followed by an improvised poem co-created with the audience by Shivram Gopinath \n🎥 Roach Love (Jacen Tan\, 2022)\nWith an exquisite corpse \nThis event will feature Shawn Hoo\, Jennifer Anne Champion\, Prasanthi Ram and Shivram Gopinath.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/ethos-nights-faceri/
LOCATION:Oldham Theatre\, Nationa Archives of Singapore building\, 1 Canning Rise\, Singapore\, Singapore\, 179868\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:TOOLS: A Workshop Series for Playwrights Exploring Theatricality - Magic Props
DESCRIPTION:This workshop investigates the remapping process\, where one thing stands in for another and real-world elements correspond with their stage-space equivalents. What happens when a stick becomes a gun or a house is described as an imaginary zone? We’ll examine the audience’s role in recognizing these substitutions and experiment with how to teach them to understand the play. \nThis is part of a workshop series by our visiting resident playwright Sean Dunnington. It invites playwrights to be curious about theatricality. Each session dives into a specific element of this conceptual spell\, blending discussion\, hands-on activities\, performance\, and experimentation.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/tools-a-workshop-series-for-playwrights-exploring-theatricality-magic-props/
LOCATION:42WS Black Box\, 42 Waterloo Street S187951\, 42WS Black Box\, 42 Waterloo Street S187951\, Singapore\, Singapore\, S187951\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Objectifs Film Club X Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance Of A Humble Atheist
DESCRIPTION:Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance of a Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping x One Way Street by Walter Benjamin \nFri\, 28 Feb 2025 | 7.30pm – 9pm\nVenue: Objectifs Workshop Space \nOrganised in collaboration with the NUS Malay Studies Department \nFree admission\, please RSVP here. \nPlease note that as this is a film screening x reading group\, participants will be required to finish the reading beforehand in order to partake in the programme. You may access the reading at this link. \n\nWalter Benjamin’s One-Way Street is an essayistic voyage of leaps\, disjuncture\, misleads\, and occasional dead-ends. A bewildering read\, likely to be influenced by Surrealism in the 1920s\, it comprises meditative fragments of extreme brevity\, cryptic ellipses\, and satisfying length on a range of subjects and formats – dreams\, cities\, childhood\, diary\, writing advice. One can start reading back to front\, from the middle then either way\, it doesn’t matter. The fragments of prose hang together like a collage\, which may only make ‘sense’ if we appreciate what collage does and the effect it creates. Headings with the name of a city do not tell us much about the place\, upsetting the relationship between ‘title’ and ‘content’. \nWe may find similar experimentations with form and content in the film Dance of the Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping\, in which the filmmaker meditates on ‘death\, faith\, the possibility of the afterlife\, the natural world\, consciousness\, and time.’ A larger question we will explore in our discussion is: Where\, when\, why\, and how do we make space for and embrace incoherence\, absences\, empty spaces\, non-linearity\, nonsense\, and irrationality? Engaging the essay and film as companion pieces\, this Film Club x Reading Group session invites readers to unpick and unravel our taken-for-granted notions of ‘form’ that structure our experience of art and culture. \nThe discussion will focus on the following ‘fragments’ from One-Way Street: No. 113\, Chinese curios\, Gloves\, Mexican embassy\, Construction site\, Teaching aid\, Post no bills\, No. 13\, Arc lamp\, Loggia\, Travel souvenirs\, Polyclinic\, Legal Protection of the needy\, To the Planetarium. Access the reading here. \nThe session will be led by Alicia Izharuddin. \n\nWalter Benjamin was a German-Jewish writer and philosopher whose influential work on art\, history\, modernity\, and capitalism has become a protean and prophetic lens for our collective past\, present and future. Although he wrote mainly about the ruins and emerging cultures of Paris and Berlin\, the essence of his arguments about how we write and experience the historical present\, how we experience art\, and how we must engage with the relentless onslaught of capitalism are relevant to us living at a time defined by both ruin and perpetual states of emergence. \nKey themes that animate Walter Benjamin’s well-known writings can be appreciated in Southeast Asian filmmaking. The Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group is a space for re-reading Benjamin’s work through Southeast Asian films about cultural memory\, collective pasts and futures\, post-colonialism legacies\, and affect in an age of information overload. \n\nAbout Dance of a Humble Atheist\nAn existential journey of semi-abstract imagery inspired by the filmmaker’s personal ruminations on death\, spiritual faith\, nature and the cosmos. From the funeral of a dying being\, a wondrous cornucopia after life\, to a phosphoric revolt of consciousness. This silent film is created entirely via frame-by-frame animation\, using digital scans of over six hundred individually sculpted ceramic reliefs. With production support from Pinch Ceramics Studio (Singapore). \nAbout the facilitator\nAlicia Izharuddin is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in Gender and Sexuality at the National University of Singapore where she teaches courses on film and gender in Southeast Asia. She is committed to the public engagement of academia through organising reading groups in bookshops and women’s rights organisations. An interdisciplinary scholar in gender studies by training\, she has taught at the University of Malaya\, Harvard University\, and held prestigious fellowships at the Harvard Divinity School and Leiden University. \nAbout the filmmaker\nToh Hun Ping is a video artist\, experimental filmmaker and film researcher. His video works explore and express themes of mental instability\, alternate realities\, resistance and existence. He employs experimental moving image-making methods from film-scratching\, bleaching photographs\, merging materials (mud\, meat\, nails) with video stills\, to stop-motion animation with ceramic reliefs. The works have been presented in exhibitions and film festivals in Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Taipei\, Paris\, Seoul\, Tokyo\, Boston and Bangkok. As a film researcher\, he is investigating the history of filmmaking in early-mid 20th century Singapore\, and has served as researcher-writer and video editor for projects organised by The National Museum of Singapore and Asian Film Archive (‘State of Motion’). He also started the Singapore Film Locations Archive\, a private video collection of films made in and about Singapore\, and runs a website about the intrigues of old Singapore film locations (sgfilmlocations.com). \nAbout the NUS Malay Studies Department\nThe NUS Malay Studies department aims to promote intellectual awareness to the concerns of the globalised Malay world through world-class teaching and research. It is home to the interdisciplinary synthesis of local\, decolonial\, and western approaches to Malay cultures of Southeast Asia and beyond. The department also maintains strong links with the local community in terms of policy studies\, public intellectual engagement and social service. \nAbout the Objectifs Film Library\nThe Objectifs Film Library is an initiative by Objectifs that aims to be a resource for film lovers in Singapore and the region. Currently\, the collection is focused on short films from Southeast Asia. \nUsers will be able to rent some of these films to watch in the comfort of their homes\, and a wider selection is available exclusively at our centre. \nAccess the Objectifs Film Library here.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-film-club-x-walter-benjamin-reading-group-dance-of-a-humble-atheist/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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