tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T10:11:00+08:00 Peatix TFOOPFest tag:peatix.com,2019:event-580506 2019-02-16T13:00:00SGT 2019-02-16T13:00:00SGT

Kickstart a month of exciting events and activities at The Future of Our Pasts Festival Launch! Be one of the first to experience TFOOPFest through an interactive exhibition featuring teasers from our commissioned projects, and hear from our project creators as they discuss their processes of reimagining history through different artistic and creative mediums. The Project Creators' Panel features Andre D'Rozario (Boka di Stori), Pang Xue Qiang (MEANTIME), Sean Cham (First Storeys), Tinesh Indrarajah & Jane Christine Zhang (Rojak Romance), and Yap Zhiwen (TFOOPFest Organising Team). Refreshments will be served during the Opening Reception in the Foyer.1 - 1.30pm: Registration & Exhibition in the Foyer1.30 - 3pm: Opening & Project Creators' Panel in the Redrum 3 - 5pm: Reception & Exhibition in the Foyer16 Feb, Sat | 1 - 5pm The Projector 6001 Beach Rd, #05-00, Golden Mile Tower Singapore 199589 Free with registration.Limited capacity, register now to secure your spot!About the PanellistsAndre D’Rozario (Boka di Stori) is of Portuguese and Dutch-Eurasian descent. He is an artist and illustrator, and the youngest member of the Kodrah Kristang Core Team. His Eurasian identity has always been an integral part of who he was, and he felt an immediate connection to the language. He was the Art Director for Ila-Ila Di Sul (The Southern Islands), the first professionally-developed Kodrah Kristang board game. He hopes to create new media and stories for the language and the community in the future.Pang Xue Qiang (MEANTIME) is a writer and journalist whose works have appeared in the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia. He enjoys documenting stories about little known people and places. When he is not writing, he is reading dystopian novels or taking photos of strangers. Xue Qiang graduated from the NTU Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information in 2017.Tinesh Indrarajah & Jane Christine Zhang (Rojak Romance) met when they were students at Yale-NUS College and quickly fell in love — Rojak Romance is their story. They graduated from Yale-NUS in May 2018, majoring in History and Anthropology respectively. Tinesh also simultaneously graduated with a Master Degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in June 2018. Questions about ethnic identities, diasporic communities, and inter-generational cultural transmissions have motivated him in his research, and formed the basis of this project. Jane was born and raised in Wisconsin, USA to Chinese immigrant parents from Sichuan, China. She moved to Singapore in 2014 to study at Yale-NUS. She is interested in migration issues, and social issues pertaining to the intersections of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.Sean Cham (First Storeys) is an intermedia visual and performance artist, whose body of work ranges from photographic series to room installations. He grew up in a HDB flat in Singapore and attended Yale-NUS College, where he discovered his dual passion in the urban environment and art. Sean’s works marries both his interests, often addressing urban issues in his artworks. First Storeys was motivated by his grandparents’ own relocation and resettlement. Sean’s visual works have been exhibited in Singapore and internationally – Ethiopia, South Korea, Spain and Sweden. One of his works, Yesteryears (2015 – 2017) was published by Math Paper Press in 2017, and was selected as a finalist for the 2018 Invisible Photographer Asia Photobook Award.Yap Zhiwen (TFOOPFest Organising Team) is the Festival Manager for The Future of Our Pasts Festival, and occasional graphic designer and artist. Since May 2017, she has been overseeing the creative direction and management of TFOOPFest. As a creative herself, she has enjoyed working closely with the project creators to realise their arts and media projects, and developing this inaugural festival from scratch.About the ModeratorYen Phang is a local artist and curator. He has organised projects such as DISPLACEMENTS (2013), and Repurposing Nostalgia (2016), a group exhibition challenging the nostalgia phenomenon in Singapore. In the lead-up to TFOOPFest, Yen worked with the project creators to develop and refine their ideas and works. —The Future of Our Pasts Festival (TFOOPFest) is a month-long festival showcasing 11 creative projects by students and recent graduates from different tertiary institutions in Singapore and abroad, that reimagine lesser-known stories of our communities and places through arts and media. #TFOOPFest invites you to view our history in a new light, discover stories of our past and present, and engage with what they mean for Singapore — now and in the future.Festival website: futureofourpasts.comFacebook: facebook.com/futureofourpastsInstagram: @futureofourpasts

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