Going Past Forward

So (part of) the reason I've been absent lately from my blog, is I've been pulling together this event as part of the upcoming Singapore Heritage Festival:

Past Forward: A Blogging and Social Media Workshop
Saturday, 14 July, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
(optional tour 4:30 - 6:30 pm)
The Arts House (Old Parliament House)

Interested in local heritage? Enjoy sharing information online? Come and meet some of Singapore’s most interesting heritage enthusiasts and bloggers, as they share how they have used blogging and social media to share their passion for Singapore’s past and present. You can also sign up for a special neighbourhood tour of either Chinatown or Queenstown, which will take place immediately after the workshop. The tour will be conducted by a heritage blogger.

Why you should come if you're interested in heritage and/or sharing online:

• We have cool speakers who have been blogging, writing and sharing about heritage online for several years at least, if not for a decade in some cases.
  
• Everyone really loves what they write about, whether it's 1960s music, photography or their own neighbourhoods.
• Some of our speakers don't write "typical" heritage websites, but they've all found interesting ways to make connections between Singapore past and present, their own family histories/cultures and the wider world out there.
  
• We have speakers from different age groups and generations in Singapore --- it ain't gonna be just "young punks" or "oldtimers" telling stories here.
  
• If you can spare an extra hour or so after the event, you can go on a one-time only personalised neighbourhood tour conducted by two of our blogger-speakers, which will show you a different side of either Chinatown or Queenstown.
  

Our delightful speakers for the afternoon:

• Lam Chun See, Good Morning Yesterday
  
• Ivan Chew, self-described "rambling librarian" with the Singapore Memory Project
  
• Dan Koh, POSKOD.SG
  
• Adrianna Tan, young Singaporean at large at Popagandhi
  
• Rosenah Omar, Berbudi Bahasa, Jalinan Mesra
  
• Andy Lim, Singapore 60s: Andy's Pop Music Influence
  
• Georgiana Glass, The Hamster and the Guppies, formerly of mod-ified music
  
• Char Lee, Second Shot
  
• Zakaria Zainal, photographer of extraordinary images of former Gurkhas, Singapore's soccer scene and mosaic playgrounds.
  
• Victor Yue, bullockcartwater, who also will lead a walking tour of Chinatown after
  
• Kwek Li Yong, My Queenstown, who also will lead a bus tour of Queenstown after
  

I will be moderating the main panel and two sessions; the smart and savvy Pooja Makhijani will be moderating the other two sessions.

Full details are at the Facebook event page. The event is free; register at this Singapore Heritage Festival webpage (including booking your seat for the tour).

Questions? Leave them in the comments or stick them on Facebook.

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