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Join author Jon Gresham and guests, Dr Andie Ang - Singapore’s leading primatologist, and Dr Ng Yi-Sheng- multi- awarding winning writer, for the launch of the novel, Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur, and a lively discussion on this critically endangered primate & ‘one of a kind’ work of speculative fiction!3.05 pm: Welcome by Jon 3.10 pm: Opening by Ng Yi-sheng3.15 pm Sharing by Dr Andie Ang on Raffles Banded Langurs3.30 pm Reading and Sharing by Jon3.40 pm Q&A with Jon and moderated by Yi-sheng4.00 pm EndsThe venue will be at 36 Blair Road.If you are feeling sick or experiencing flu-like symptoms, it is advisable to stay home. Attendees are also encouraged to mask up.About the Book:Finalist for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeIn this action-packed eco-novel, wild talking monkeys lead a revolution in a troubled Singapore. Gus, a precocious Raffles' banded langur, seeks to get home to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, a Filipino nurse tries to heal her grief, and an auditor strives to be a clown. Their adventures take place along the Rail Corridor, among the shophouses of Blair Plain, and beneath the skyscrapers of downtown Singapore.Purchase the book here. There will also be book sales at the event.About Speaker(s):Jon Gresham is the author of Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur (Shortlisted for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize) and We Rose Up Slowly (Math Paper Press 2015). His writing has appeared in various publications and his story 'The Visit' was shortlisted for the 2020 Short Fiction/Essex University Prize. He also co-edited In This Desert There Were Seeds (Ethos Books and Margaret River Press, 2019).He ran the Asia Creative Writing Programme, a collaboration between The School of Humanities at the Nanyang Technological University, and the National Arts Council from 2019 to 2023. He is a co-founder of Sing Lit Station, and founded Book A Writer.Dr Andie Ang is a National Geographic Explorer who pursued her M.Sc. at the National University of Singapore, studying the ecology of critically endangered Raffles’ banded langurs, before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is currently the Head of Primate Conservation and Singapore Programmes at Mandai Nature. Since 2018, Andie has served as President of the Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore), a charity organisation aimed at promoting greater awareness and protection of nature and wildlife.About Moderator:Ng Yi-Sheng is a Singaporean SFF writer, researcher and activist, with a keen interest in Southeast Asian history and myth. His books include Lion City and last boy (both winners of the Singapore Literature Prize), A Book of Hims, Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience and Black Waters, Pink Sands. Additionally, he served as editor of A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and Wok and EXHALE: an Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices, and as translator for Wong Yoon Wah’s The New Village and Homecomings. He tweets and Instagrams at @yishkabob.

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