This issue is about the detention forum of February 2006 and its aftermath. Two former political detainees Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee and a poet/playwright Robert Yeo gathered on stage to talk about art and healing (more…)
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Editorial
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Hide-and-Seek History
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Teng Qian Xi
An edited version of this article first appeared in Today, 9 March 2006.
What picture does the phrase “political detainee” conjure up for you? What picture does the phrase “political detainee” conjure up for you? (more…)
Ex-Political Detainee Forum at Singapore in 2006
Posted in 05 detention, tagged oral history, political detention on October 2009| 1 Comment »
Kevin Blackburn
This article was originally published in the Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 29, 2007.
On a Saturday afternoon, 26 February 2006, over 200, mostly young people, crowded into the Recital Studio of Singapore’s Esplanade Arts Centre to listen to ex-political detainees from the 1960s and 1970s give their side of Singapore’s history. (more…)
Forgetting Detention
Posted in 05 detention, tagged history, political detention on October 2009| 1 Comment »
Sai Siew Min
Sometime in June this year, a friend alerted me to Alex Au’s commentary on a book launch he had attended in Malaysia. The book in question was a poetry collection, Our Thoughts Are Free (more…)
Review: Dark Folke
Posted in 05 detention, tagged music, pop culture on October 2009| 1 Comment »
Ang Song Ming
The Observatory. Dark Folke. Singapore, 2009.
On their fourth album Dark Folke, The Observatory continue charting a path that, quite frankly, no other Singaporean band has managed to do over the span of five years. (more…)