Time to talk about Queenstown

A few friends have asked for the details of the My Queenstown symposium where I'm speaking tomorrow. I've been publicising it old-school style in forwarded emails instead of plonking the information on my blog --- oops. Here you go:

My Queenstown symposium
"A forum series on social memory and development"
2.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m., Sunday, 26 May 2013 (that's tomorrow)
Queenstown Community Centre, 365 Commonwealth Avenue, Singapore 149732 [Google map]

Speaker line-up:

• Guest of honour Sam Tan, mayor of Central Singapore, among various other titles
• Dr Ho Kong Chong, sociologist, National University of Singapore 
• Dr Daniel Goh, sociologist, National University of Singapore
• Me, writer (my "About" page has more info)
• Dr Lai Chee Kien, architecture professor, National University of Singapore, and also a font of information about architecture and popular culture in Singapore and Malaysia (and also Malaya)
• Lam Chun See, heritage blogger extraordinaire and author at Good Morning Yesterday
• Dr Tan Kok Yang, author, From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s
• Kelvin Ang, director of conservation at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (and also a very dear old friend)

The publicity poster for the event is on Facebook (without Kelvin's photo and bio, but he's definitely in the line-up).

Each of us gets only 15 minutes to speak, so we'll be short and snappy, plus there'll be time for Q&A. If you're interested in social memory, Singapore heritage and/or the lovely HDB estate that is/was/will be Queenstown --- come!