As an oral storyteller I sometimes wish it was an offence under the Trade Description Act to read aloud a story and describe it as ‘storytelling’ – the two activities are that different! Reading aloud is important, and something that every parent should do regularly to their young kids to demonstrate their love of reading …
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The Lament of Lonesome George Lonesome George, the last known individual of the subspecies, Pinta Island tortoise died June 24, 2012 at the age of 101. However I first learnt about him via a report in the Straits Times in 1991 and I wrote this elegy, though he still had two more decades of solitary …
23 December Seren Chen and I audio described Wild Rice production of Alfian Sa’at’s SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS We had a group of (coincidentally but very appriately) seven visually impaired members of the audience. Wild Rice continues to be a committed promoter of access and inclusion in Singapore theatre. We were joined in …
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