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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 Contributors Candice Phang (@puffingmuffin) that celebrates young people and Chiang Yu Xiang Chloe Tong their creativity. Through hands-on Bartholomew Ting (@butternmilk) Nadia Arianna Ramli Ministry of DJs (@ministryofdjssg) workshops, artist showcases, and PAYNK (@paynk) collaborations with homegrown Design MAKE Design studios and collectives, PRESSPLAY Printer Chung Printing Pte Ltd invites audiences to explore new art forms and connects them with up-and-coming artists in Singapore. Printed in January 2021. PRESSPLAY 2 3 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! Want more arts programmes by artseensg NLB? Follow us on social media [email protected] or shoot us an email to join our mailing list! 5 #ARTISTANONYMOUS BY #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 journeys and chosen art 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 forms. Learn more about seriously in a less serious way. their craft and join the ABOUT THE ARTIST party with extra special Candice Phang, a.k.a. Puffingmuffin, is an artist and illustrator based in Singapore. She was trained to be an activities, created 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 just for you! with too much love. puffingmuffin puffingmuffin www.puffingmuffin.com PRESSPLAY 6 7 #ARTISTANONYMOUS CREATE AN ABSTRACT YOU WILL NEED PAINTING USING SHAPES 1. Watercolour paper | 2. Brushes | 3. Pencil | 4. Washi tape AND PATTERNS! 5. Palette | 6. White gel pen or paint | 7. Coloured pencils PRESSPLAY 8 9 #ARTISTANONYMOUS Draw a rectangle to mark out the dimensions of your Once the first layer dries, you can add more shapes on STEP painting. Use washi tape to tape around the edges STEP the second layer. Once again, space them out and leave 1 3 of the rectangle. Make sure the washi tape is pressed some gaps in between. You may also overlap some down fully without leaving any gaps or air bubbles. shapes above one another. Paint random basic shapes across the paper. Shapes When the second layer is dry, you may repeat the STEP can be geometric, organic blobs, or both. Leave gaps STEP process and overlap more shapes. You can also include 2 between the shapes – you don’t have to fill up the 4 some simple patterns in between the layers or mix them entire space. together with the shapes. PRESSPLAY 10 11 #ARTISTANONYMOUS BY Now, let’s add details with coloured pencils. Play around Bartholomew Ting STEP with lines, dotted lines, polka dots, and other patterns! 5 You may also add faces to a few shapes to give your art some character. 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. ABOUT THE ARTIST 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 PRESSPLAY 12 13 #ARTISTANONYMOUS Follow the instructions YOU WILL to make your own NEED PRESSPLAY unicorn. 1. Penknife Colour it any way you 2. Cutting mat like, just make sure you 3. White/ Wood/UHU glue 4. (Optional) Toothpick/ cut and fold according Bamboo skewer to the lines! PRESSPLAY 14 15 #ARTISTANONYMOUS PRESSPLAY 16 CROSS PL AY 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! PRESSPLAY 18 19 CROSSPLAY Prior to the advent of Ah Boys to Men, there was Michael Johari Chiang’s Army Daze (1996). Laid-back recruit Army The film was a hit at the box- and “muscleman” a.k.a. Rambo office, and Chiang’s fresh-faced army recruits won places in Malcolm Daze The narrator, a mummy’s boy who slowly learns the hearts of Singaporean Ah Beng independence while by Rebel with a heart, and filmgoers. But few knew serving National Service colourful vocabulary Michael Chiang that the comedy had been to his name 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. PP INSIDER: Read the first draft of the The original novel includes Army Daze screenplay at Lee Kong Chian a glossary of “verbal Reference Library: delights” that may have been commonplace at one point in Krishna Out to prove his love time, but many did not make it and bravery to his to the film! You’ll also find that girlfriend Lathi Kenny the film’s titular characters A flamboyant Malcolm Png, Kenny Pereira, recruit Krishnamoorthy, and Johari Salleh are conspicuously absent in the novel. PRESSPLAY 20 21 CROSSPLAY Gone Case, a coming-of-age tale of a 12-year-old boy in an HDB estate, was first penned Gone as a novella by Dave Chua. It earned him a Singapore Case Literature Prize Commendation by Award in 1996. Gone Case was then re-imagined as a popular Dave Chua 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. 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! PRESSPLAY 22 Regarded as the “doyenne of MAKE PLAY Singapore stories”, Catherine Or Else, Lim is a household name. Her second collection, Or Else, The The Lightning God & Other Stories was published 1980. Lightning The collection’s namesake was adapted for television on Why let kids have all the God Mediacorp’s three-part series by AlterAsians in 2000. The series Catherine Lim became a finalist at the 42nd fun when it comes to Annual New York Festival, in the Hors Concours Selection arts and crafts? Let your for Canada’s Banff Television Festival and Asian Television creativity run wild in the Listen to the Awards in 2000. soundtrack on MusicSG: next few pages, and pick up some DIY artmaking tips along the way! PP INSIDER: Lim’s short story about the struggle between protagonist Margaret and her mother-in- law is amplified by the moving soundtrack that accompanies AlterAsians. PRESSPLAY 24 25 MAKEPLAY Dreaming of becoming a poet Now, it’s your turn. Follow the but don’t know where to start? Find-your- Try your hand at found poetry in instructions to find your own poem! this easy-peasy activity! Step 1: Break out your best pens, markers and crayons. own Poem Step 2: With your writing materials, link words and phrases together Found poetry is the art of any way you like. Cross stuff out, draw arrows… don’t hold back. constructing poems out of other Step 3: Enjoy your new found poem! Check out PRESSPLAY’s take on found poetry! Using markers existing texts. From cereal boxes and doodles, we created a new to newspaper articles, anything poem from an excerpt of Alice’s can be used as material for your Adventures in Wonderland. very own found poem. 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 PRESSPLAY 28 29 MAKEPLAY STEP 1: Connect equipment Interested in digital art but HOW TO BUILD A as shown. WEB-BASED not ready to splurge on HOME DJ SETUP STEP 2: Download your DRAWING drawing software? Play around preferred DJ software.