Telling your stories

Telling your stories

Seniors from Anglican Senior Centres took part in reminiscence and got to share their stories in Mandarin to a live audience.   Last year, the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) presented a senior engagement programme titled “Telling Your Stories, Sharing...
Share your stories

Share your stories

The Necessary Stage is holding a workshop on devising and performance where you can tell your story through different modes like storytelling and visual imagery.   Share your story – The Necessary Stage has invited Alan Lyddiard, artistic director of The...
Telling seniors’ stories

Telling seniors’ stories

Calling for students to submit a film to bring awareness on the realities of ageing.   Tell the story of seniors and walk away with a cash prize! ACCESS Health International is calling for university, polytechnic and junior college students in Singapore to submit...
Recording the stories of WWII

Recording the stories of WWII

Malaysia’s newspaper The Star’s youth platform is collecting the stories of the survivors of the war and bringing them back to the locations.   The Last Survivors is an interactive online documentary project that hopes to bring those stories back to life, by...
Treasuring our pioneers

Treasuring our pioneers

Two women put together a book as part of the SG50 celebrations to show that seniors continue being active and contribute in many ways. There is the story of Siow Set Nyok, 84, who believes that it was important for her when she was younger to earn her own living...
Remembering the younger days

Remembering the younger days

A survivor of the tragic Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, James Seah has found a way to deal with his younger days by blogging about it. BY: Eleanor Yap Sixty-five-year-old James Seah knows a lot about the Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961 as he not only survived the fire (which...