Pp2021-Artivity-Book.Pdf

Acknowledgements

About

artseen Team

Calista Lee Chiang Yu Xiang Ren Rong Chloe Tong Paddy Ong Xu Xi Irny Irdina Abdul Halim

Festival Support

Krist Chan Zulkifli Amin Public Library Marketing Communications

PRESSPLAY is an annual arts festival that celebrates young people and their creativity. Through hands-on workshops, artist showcases, and collaborations with homegrown studios and collectives, PRESSPLAY invites audiences to explore new art forms and connects them with up-and-coming artists in Singapore.

Contributors

Candice Phang (@puffingmuffin) Chiang Yu Xiang Chloe Tong Bartholomew Ting (@butternmilk) Nadia Arianna Ramli Ministry of DJs (@ministryofdjssg) PAYNK (@paynk)

Design

MAKE Design

Printer

Chung Printing Pte Ltd

Printed in January 2021.

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INSTRUCTIONS

Test out your pens here.

This hands-on activity book is best enjoyed with a dash of inspiration, a spoonful of playfulness, and heaps of self-expression.

So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to PRESSPLAY!

artseensg [email protected]

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#ARTISTANONYMOUS

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#ARTISTANONYMOUS

Candice Phang

In this PRESSPLAY exclusive, our featured artists spill the beans on their individual

ABOUT THE ART

Drawing inspiration from the quirks of life, Candice’s work features a mix of traditional and digital mediums that are fronted by playful characters in bright colours. Through her tongue-in-cheek illustrations, she hopes to take life more seriously in a less serious way.

journeys and chosen art forms. Learn more about their craft and join the party with extra special activities, created

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Candice Phang, a.k.a. Puffingmuffin, is an artist and illustrator based in Singapore. She was trained to be an architect at the National University of Singapore but the universe had other plans for her. Today, she draws, drinks plenty of coffee, and smothers her cats with too much love.

just for you!

puffingmuffin puffingmuffin www.puffingmuffin.com

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YOU WILL NEED

CREATE AN ABSTRACT
PAINTING USING SHAPES
AND PATTERNS!

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Draw a rectangle to mark out the dimensions of your painting. Use washi tape to tape around the edges of the rectangle. Make sure the washi tape is pressed down fully without leaving any gaps or air bubbles.
Once the first layer dries, you can add more shapes on the second layer. Once again, space them out and leave some gaps in between. You may also overlap some shapes above one another.

STEP
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Paint random basic shapes across the paper. Shapes can be geometric, organic blobs, or both. Leave gaps between the shapes – you don’t have to fill up the entire space.
When the second layer is dry, you may repeat the process and overlap more shapes. You can also include some simple patterns in between the layers or mix them together with the shapes.

STEP
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STEP
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#ARTISTANONYMOUS

BY

Bartholomew Ting

Now, let’s add details with coloured pencils. Play around with lines, dotted lines, polka dots, and other patterns! You may also add faces to a few shapes to give your art some character.

STEP
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ABOUT THE ART

As an artist, Bart believes in cooperation, collaboration, and innovation. He sees his cardboard sculptures not just as installations, but as invitations for audiences to participate in the process of creation.

Originally a graduate from National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Bart discovered his creative side while designing corporate exhibitions in his line of work. Today, he is best known for experimenting with unconventional materials and his larger-than-life cardboard sculptures.

butterNmilk butternomilk www.butternmilk.com

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YOU WILL
NEED

Follow the instructions to make your own PRESSPLAY unicorn. Colour it any way you like, just make sure you cut and fold according to the lines!

1. Penknife
2. Cutting mat
3. White/ Wood/UHU glue
4. (Optional) Toothpick/
Bamboo skewer

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CROSS PLAY

Where art meets more art. Across Mediums: From Page to Stage, Print to Screen

What do Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and

Game of Thrones have in common? That’s right– they’re all literary adaptations. Thanks to the popularity of their film, television, and theatre adaptations, these stories leapt off the page and exploded into mainstream pop culture.

When a book is adapted, actors, music, and special effects come together to breathe new life into its narrative. This creates newfound appreciation for the original written work in the process.

Get started with these homegrown literary adaptations in NLB’s collection!

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Prior to the advent of Ah Boys to Men, there was Michael

Chiang’s Army Daze (1996).

The film was a hit at the boxoffice, and Chiang’s fresh-faced army recruits won places in the hearts of Singaporean filmgoers. But few knew that the comedy had been

born long before–Army Daze

had already gained a steady following in its original medium as a novel in 1985, while its stage adaptation in 1987 was a sell-out affair.

Johari

Laid-back recruit and “muscleman” a.k.a. Rambo

Army

Malcolm

Daze

The narrator, a mummy’s boy who slowly learns independence while

Ah Beng

by

Rebel with a heart, and colourful vocabulary to his name serving National Service

Michael Chiang

PP INSIDER:

The original novel includes a glossary of “verbal

Read the first draft of the Army Daze screenplay at Lee Kong Chian

delights” that may have been commonplace at one point in time, but many did not make it to the film! You’ll also find that the film’s titular characters Malcolm Png, Kenny Pereira, Krishnamoorthy, and Johari Salleh are conspicuously absent in the novel.

Reference Library:

Krishna

Out to prove his love and bravery to his girlfriend Lathi

Kenny

A flamboyant recruit

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Gone Case, a coming-of-age

tale of a 12-year-old boy in an HDB estate, was first penned as a novella by Dave Chua.

Gone

It earned him a Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1996. Gone Case was then re-imagined as a popular two-volume graphic novel by artist Koh Hong Teng, which were published in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The cult homegrown bildungsroman, set in the 1990s, reached new audiences when it was adapted into a telemovie and aired on MediaCorp Channel 5 in 2013.

Case

by Dave Chua

Find the novella at selected libraries:

PP INSIDER:

The graphic novels illustrated by Koh Hong Teng include fantastique elements that are not found in Chua’s novella. Look out for the sword fighting scene in volume 1 and gang fight in volume 2!

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Regarded as the “doyenne of Singapore stories”, Catherine Lim is a household name. Her second collection, Or Else,

The Lightning God & Other

Stories was published 1980. The collection’s namesake was adapted for television on Mediacorp’s three-part series

AlterAsians in 2000. The series

became a finalist at the 42nd Annual New York Festival, in the Hors Concours Selection for Canada’s Banff Television Festival and Asian Television Awards in 2000.

MAKE PLAY

Or Else, The Lightning

Why let kids have all the fun when it comes to arts and crafts? Let your creativity run wild in the next few pages, and pick up some DIY artmaking tips along the way!

God

by Catherine Lim

Listen to the soundtrack on MusicSG:

PP INSIDER:

Lim’s short story about the struggle between protagonist Margaret and her mother-inlaw is amplified by the moving soundtrack that accompanies

AlterAsians.

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Dreaming of becoming a poet but don’t know where to start? Try your hand at found poetry in this easy-peasy activity!

Now, it’s your turn. Follow the instructions to find your own poem!

Step 1: Break out your best pens, markers and crayons.

Step 2: With your writing materials, link words and phrases together

Find-yourown Poem

Found poetry is the art of

any way you like. Cross stuff out, draw arrows… don’t hold back.

Step 3: Enjoy your new found poem!

constructing poems out of other existing texts. From cereal boxes to newspaper articles, anything can be used as material for your very own found poem.

Check out PRESSPLAY’s take on found poetry! Using markers and doodles, we created a new poem from an excerpt of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

uriouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). “Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.”

Show off your found poetry!

PP INSIDER:

Tag us on Facebook
Mark out your chosen words
(@artseensg) or Instagram with a pencil before colouring
(@publiclibrarysg) for a the rest in! chance to be featured.

This excerpt of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is courtesy of Project Gutenburg.

Colour
Your World

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STEP 1: Connect equipment

as shown.

STEP 2: Download your

preferred DJ software.

STEP 3: Import music tracks. STEP 4: Ready to go!

Interested in digital art but

HOW TO BUILD A HOME DJ SETUP

BY MINISTRY OF DJS

WEB-BASED DRAWING APPLICATIONS

not ready to splurge on drawing software? Play around with these free open-source options, easily accessible through the web!

CHIMERA PAINTER

Convert your 2D monster drawing automatically into a fully fleshed out 3D rendering with this trained machine learning model.

• User-friendly tools that do not require accuracy in drawing for 3D rendering.
• Canvas size cannot be increased. • Smoothness of rendering is dependent on brush size.

Create a 3D alien out of a 2D drawing!

Tip: Colour in a circular motion.

SKETCH.IO

A free online drawing application for all ages. Doodle away and export your drawings to share on Instagram!

• Wide variety of brushes with different settings and textures.
• File can be exported in multiple file formats and resolutions.
• Not suitable for detailed illustrations. • Brushes are not pressure-sensitive.

Sketch your friends hanging out!

VECTR

A simple yet powerful software that allows you to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.

• Offers all the essential tools for vector drawing, with similar shortcuts and user actions to commercial vector software.
• Users must sign up or log in to Vectr to save the progress of artwork.

Transform your pet doodles into high-quality images!

Bite-Size

Reads

Can’t find the time to finish a book? Or perhaps you need inspiration on what to read next? Check out our articles covering a myriad of topics from psychology to self-improvement to book recommendations, and find inspiration or build your knowledge in less than the time it takes you to finish your lunch!

Why It’s Okay to Read YA Fiction

Nostalgia is comforting. Whether you’re in your twenties, thirties, forties or fifties, it’s easy to see that few things get people excited like the simpler times of their younger days. The literary world is no different, so why feel ashamed to indulge in some Young Adult (YA) fiction?

Upsizing Empathy: Why We Struggle to Register Large Tragedies

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, more than 51 million people have been infected globally, and over 1.2 million people have succumbed to the disease. Yet as the crisis drags on, we may ﬁnd ourselves getting emotionally tired. We know we ought to feel more, yet why do we get increasingly indiﬀerent the higher the toll?

3 Unsolved Mysteries That’ll Push Your Imagination Into Overdrive

Misadventure or foul play? Suicide or murder? Despite the leaps in crimesolving technology, dozens of cases still remain unsolved around the world. If you’d like to further test your sleuthing skills, take your pick from three of the most puzzling mysteries found on our shelves. Who knows? You might even be the one to ﬁnally solve these cold cases!

Scan this QR code or visit

go.gov.sg/nlb-medium

to read the articles and ﬁnd other interesting reads we have to oﬀer.

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Before you put us back on the shelf, take a closer look at our cover.

Locations

Ang Mo Kio Public Library

4300 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 Singapore 569842

Jurong Regional Library

21 Jurong East Central 1 Singapore 609732

Pasir Ris Public Library

1 Pasir Ris Central Street 3 #04–01/06, White Sands Singapore 518457

Bedok Public Library

11 Bedok North Street 1 #03–04, Heartbeat@Bedok Singapore 469662

Jurong West Public Library

60 Jurong West Central 3 Singapore 648346

Inspired by the creative expressions that flourished during quarantine, our cover illustration showcases the vibrance of our digital landscape.

Queenstown Public Library

53 Margaret Drive Singapore 149297

library@chinatown

133 New Bridge Road, #04–12, Chinatown Point Singapore 059413

Bishan Public Library

5 Bishan Place, #01–01 Singapore 579841

Sembawang Public Library

30 Sembawang Drive #05–01, Sun Plaza Singapore 757713

Bukit Batok Public Library

1 Bukit Batok Central Link #03–01, West Mall

library@esplanade

8 Raffles Avenue #03–01, Esplanade Singapore 039802

PAYNK is an illustrator who was born in China and raised in Singapore. Nature, mythology, modern-day living, and the female form are her main sources of inspiration. Heavily influenced by a mash-up of vintage Chinese cartoons, Japanese anime, and strange folklores passed down by different cultures, she loves good story-telling and visual metaphors. No matter what the subject matter is, she endeavors to portray it with balance and beauty.

Sengkang Public Library

1 Sengkang Square #03–28 & #04–19 Compass One Singapore 545078
Singapore 658713

DJs playing sets right from their living rooms. Arts aficionados exploring the likes of the Louvre with AR. Yet another homemade Basque Burnt Cheesecake on your feed.

Bukit Panjang Public Library

1 Jelebu Road #04–04 & #04–16/17 Bukit Panjang Plaza Singapore 677743

library@harbourfront

1 Harbourfront Walk #03–05, VivoCity

Serangoon Public Library

23 Serangoon Central #04–82/83, NEX (Level 4R) Singapore 556083
Singapore 098585

library@orchard

277 Orchard Road #03–12 & #04–11 Orchard Gateway Singapore 238858

Central Public Library

100 Victoria Street, #B1–01 Singapore 188064

Tampines Regional Library

1 Tampines Walk #02–01, Our Tampines Hub Singapore 529684