August 2017 www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary OUR PICK FOR THIS MONTH

Tampines Regional Library re-opens! 16 Tampines Regional Library re-opens at Our Tampines Hub with a much larger floor area for all ages. Check out our new features like PIXEL Labs@NLB, a fully equipped place for tinkering, as well as People’s Association’s Culinary Studios.

August 2017 www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary

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August marks Singapore’s 52nd birthday and we want you to celebrate everything Singapore with us at the libraries!

Kick off the celebrations by joining us on 5 August at Tampines Regional Library’s re- opening at Our Tampines Hub. The new library spans 5 floors and features highlights such as maker space facilities and a culinary studio. More details on pages 16 and 17.

Then explore the beauty of the red dot through photographs of the nation’s streets contributed by local communities and residents at the National Day Photo Exhibition 2017 (page 39). We’re also commemorating ASEAN’s 50th anniversary this month! Discover the rich history, culture and traditions of Singapore and the region through exhibitions at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. Details on page 38.

Looking to get your creative juices pumping? Catch industry experts as they share their experiences on topics such as photography and print design at Creative Crew Talks (page 15) and unwind with a mystery movie at Cine-Flicks Presents . . . (page 22). Pick up tips on acyclic painting at The Drawing Room and transform your masterpiece into digital works of art through apps at the Digital Art Club. Check out page 19 for more information.

There’s lots to see and do at the libraries this month and we hope to see you around!

Editor: Nazreen Begum

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AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 03 ARTSEEN

Pop-up Craft Booth by In Merry Motion 6 August 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Level 2, Exhibition Area, Tampines Regional Library

Come celebrate reading with us and take part in creating your own decorative hanging ornament! Drop by our pop-up craft booth and typewrite your own quote about reading. Then, craft and embellish a wooden frame for your quote. Choose from our colourful assortment of craft materials and go wild personalising your own hanging ornament!

No registration required.

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ARTSEEN is a community arts and culture node All programmes are free with required in collaboration with the National Arts Council. registration and open to all unless otherwise Our objective is to create a vibrant and social learning space, where artists, art enthusiasts, and stated. Please register at the library e-kiosks, or the community converge to engage in authentic through our website www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary. artistic experiences. ARTSEEN positions itself as an To cancel a registration or request to be artistic “scene” which reflects Singapore’s trending placed on the waiting list for a fully registered or bourgeoning arts landscape and also as a programme, please email [email protected]. To place to “see” the arts and to be “seen”. subscribe to our mailing list, please email arts@ nlb.gov.sg with the subject “Add me to EDM”.

04 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary The SG Author Series celebrates local literature by showcasing Singaporean authors who have contributed to the August 2017 development of Singapore’s literary landscape. Each month, you will not Sithuraj Ponraj only discover interesting titbits but get an opportunity to meet the featured author.

AUG 19 SAT 19 August, Saturday, 5.00pm - 6.30pm Visitor Briefing Room, Level 1 National Library Building

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sithuraj Ponraj writes in English and Tamil. His first collection of Tamil short fiction "Maariligal" won the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize for Tamil fiction, and his first collection of Tamil poetry won the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize Merit Award for Tamil poetry. His short fiction collection "Maariligal" also won the 2017 Karikaar Chozan prize for international Tamil fiction.

Since then, he had published 2 Tamil novels, "Bernoulli's Ghosts" and "Kauntilya's Call No.: Tamil SING SIT Call No.: Tamil SING S894.811172 SIT Square" for the Young Adults. A winner of the Cha magazine prize for English poetry, Sithuraj Ponraj will have two works "Derrida and The Advertisement Length Death" and a collection of short stories published in October 2017. His first Spanish poetry collection "The Crocodiles No Longer Pass Here" and Tamil translations of English poems will be published in September 2017.

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Organised by READ SAT WED 02 05 分享读书会 壹度书会 Share Read Chinese Book Club (Yidu Reading Club) 10.30 am – 12.00 pm 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm Everest Room, Programme Zone, Woodlands Regional Library Serangoon Public Library

你喜欢阅读中文书吗？我们诚意邀请您来 壹度书会是由爱好读书的年轻人所组成。 参加我们的阅读分享会。每个月的第一个 通过阅读、讨论和分享,实现思维的碰撞和 星 期 三 ，我 们 都 会 介 绍 不 同 的 书 ，进 行 讨 情感共振的交流平台。 论，分享阅读心得。欢迎您加入我们的读 Conducted in Mandarin. Find out more at 书会。 www.facebook.com/yidushuhui

Book Lover’s Club

THU 03 THU 10 THU 17 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Multi-Purpose Room, Central Public Library THU THU 24 31 The Book Lover’s Club is a reading club for singles. Focusing on relationships and 陪你看报纸 inspirational stories, book discussions are 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm held on a bi-monthly basis. Programme Zone, To register, please email your particulars Toa Payoh Public Library (name and contact number) to [email protected]. 由《联合早报》和《联合晚报》组成的义 工团队将为您讲解过去一周的社会焦点、

时 事 动 态 、娱 乐 与 生 活 情 报 等 各 项 新 闻 , THU 让您轻松了解天下事 ！ 10 碧山乐龄读书会 适合50岁及以上人士参与。 Chinese Seniors Reading Club 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm Programme Zone, Bishan Public Library

想结交新朋友、促进华语会话和分享您的 阅 读 经 验 吗 ？碧 山 乐 龄 读 书 会 每 个 月 都 会 聚集一群活跃的乐龄朋友与图书馆馆员一 同讨论书籍和文章。现在就加入我们吧！

Take part in monthly book discussions with a group of enthusiastic senior citizens. Share how each book relates to your memorable experiences and improve your Mandarin conversational skills.

06 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary READ THU 10 MON 14 AfterWords Let’s Talk: Teh Tarik 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Programme Zone, Programme Zone, Adults’ & Teens’ Zone, Marine Parade Public Library Bukit Panjang Public Library

AfterWords is a platform for the public and Chat over a fresh cup of coffee or tea with literary communities to build ties through seniors about the latest news, food, health books. By giving opportunities to everyone tips or interesting facts. Spice things up with to read and discuss books in a conducive bubbly conversations or truly tall tales. environment, we hope to encourage more people to pick up the reading habit, and expose readers to works and writing from the Singapore community. WED 16 This initiative is supported by Ethos Book Club. Check out Ethos’ Facebook page for 交流点读书会 the latest speaker updates: www.facebook.com/ethosbooks (Interacting@BPPL) 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm Programme Zone, Adults’ & Teens’ Zone, Bukit Panjang Public Library SUN 13 喝 茶 、聊 天 ，分 享 书 籍 及 课 题 。我 们 邀 请 你 Thangameen Readers Club 来交流阅读心得，分享阅读成果，借此提 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm 升对书籍的认知与课题的了解。 Programme Zone, Toa Payoh Public Library Suitable for homemakers.

Thangameen Readers Club is a reading club formed to encourage the confident use of Tamil across generations. With short film

screenings, short story writing competitions THU and impromptu poetry contests, the club and 17 impromptu poetry contests, the club is the total literary package. This reading Malay in Minutes group is facilitated by readers of 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm www.thangameen.com, a Singapore Tamil Activity Room, e-zine. The discussions will be conducted in Tamil. All are welcome. Geylang East Public Library Would you like to converse in Malay with your friends and neighbours? Join us in this monthly book club where we use simple Malay books as learning tools.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 07 READ SAT THU 17 19 Singapore Literature Book Club Communities: Reading Allowed 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm Multi-Purpose Room, Imagine, Central Public Library library@orchard

From NLB’s Singapore collection comes a No silence here as we gather to read aloud book club with a unique local flavour. Discuss and listen to stories’ highs and lows. Discover books by both well-known and emerging books that you might have otherwise missed, Singapore authors touching on topics close or sit in for an alternative community reading to home. Get acquainted with local literature experience with a different book and discover national literary treasures right each session. here at the libraries. At this session, we will be discussing City of Small Blessings Co-organised with Read-Aloud Sg Book by Simon Tay. Club. For adults.

Pseudo Book Club 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm SAT 19 Level 3, Synergy Room, Jurong Regional Library Writing the City Writers’ Group 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm Calling all young adults aged 13 to 19 – learn Programme Zone, facilitation skills with the Pseudo Book Club Toa Payoh Public Library and make new friends with like-minded people! This is a book club facilitated by Writing the City Writers’ Group is a community young adults, for young adults. Highly of writers committed to the craft of writing. recommended for student librarians and all Our monthly workshops offer participants young adults who enjoy reading. writing exercises, guest lectures, and exposure to literature from both established and emerging writers. WED 23 In creating a group where writers are encouraged to give and receive feedback on FUNdaMENTALs Reading Club their work, the Writers’ Group aims to give writers the tools to take their writing forward. 10.00 am – 11.30 am Everest Room, To register, please send an email to Woodlands Regional Library [email protected] with your name and contact details. A reading club formed to encourage the confident use of English amongst adults in a comfortable environment. What better way to polish your language, than through a poignant read?

Come join us to hone your English proficiency, discuss your views and bond over a book. Make some friends along the way and go home feeling accomplished.

For adults only.

08 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary READ SAT THU 24 26 Organic Storytellers Meeting The Next Chapter Reading Club 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm 11.30 am – 1.00 pm Programme Zone, Adults’ & Teens’ Zone, Tomato Room (Meeting Room), Bukit Panjang Public Library Ang Mo Kio Public Library

Love telling stories to adults or children? Join Calling all seniors. Join us and discover more us! The Organic Storytellers welcomes adults about yourself through lively discussions (above 21 years) who wish to develop their and sharing of books related to our common oral storytelling skills: to tell (not read) stories interests: health, ageing, retirement, to a ‘live’ audience, with the goal to inform, relationships, travelling and recreation. entertain or influence. The monthly meetings are facilitated by professional storyteller and “都 市 人”系 列 讲 座 (Books & The City)： storytelling coach Ana Sousa Gavin who 中华服饰的历史变迁 believes that everyone is born a storyteller. 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm For more details, check out the Facebook Programme Zone, page of Organic Storytellers @ Library: library@chinatown www.facebook.com/groups/8980688469500 51/#readingnationsg 汉服在中国历史的不同阶段有各自的特点， 从 秦 汉 到 宋 明 ，经 历 了 传 承 和 发 展 。让 我 们 深入了解汉服的历史变迁。

FRI 25 主 讲 人 ：林 文 杰 ，新 加 坡 汉 文 化 协 会 顾 问 。 汉文化协会是一个以推广传统华人服装、礼 Heartlands Book Club: Meet author 仪及节日为主的非营利文化组织。 Dr Tommy Wong discussing his book “How an Engineering Professor Becomes a Spiritual Philosopher: Diary of a 21st Century Human Soul” WED 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm 30 Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library The Big Read Meet 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Engineering and spirituality are often Multi-Purpose Room, perceived as two ends of a spectrum. As Central Public Library engineering deals with the physical, and spirituality deals with the non-physical, there Join Straits Times Senior Writer Cheong Suk Wai is actually tremendous synergy once they are every last Wednesday of the month in a session combined. Come hear about the personal of The Big Read Meet. She will lead a discussion story behind this most unlikely pairing. based on books reviewed for her column Big Read published in The Straits Times.

This event is organised by The Straits Times and supported by Read! Singapore.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 09 BUSINESS SAT 05 TUE 15 Step by Step Portfolio Construction Lunch Bites with CPF: 3 Things You with SGX StockFacts Need to Know about Using Your CPF 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Monies for Housing Programme Zone, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Woodlands Regional Library Programme Zone, Woodlands Regional Library To be a successful investor, you just need to answer 3 questions: What are the stocks to Learn about how much of your CPF funds buy? When to buy them? How to buy? you can use to buy a flat and the refund amount if you sell one. Simply put, you require a stock portfolio that generates both dividend income and capital Registration required at: www.cpf.gov.sg/ gains. Learn how to put together a winning eSvc/Web/Seminar/MemberEvents stock portfolio and find out how to pick growth and income stocks.

Discover how to use SGX StockFacts to streamline your research and analysis to

create your customised stock portfolio SAT effectively and efficiently. 19

About the speaker: Dollars and Sense Learning Chua I-Min, CFA is the Lead Instructor for Community Investor Education with A.B. Maximus & 11.00 am – 12.30 pm Co Pte Ltd. He conducts regular classes for SGX Academy in fundamental analysis, Level 3, Synergy Room, stock valuation, REITs and property stock Jurong Regional Library investment. His flagship programme titled “Create a Secondary Income Stream through Financial literacy is a critical life skill that Long Term Share Investing” has been well helps you make informed, long-term received by retail investors. A book with the decisions for your financial well-being. same title has been written to reach out to The Dollars and Sense Learning Community a wider audience. focuses on sharing key financial literacy topics such as retirement planning, basic investing, savings and budgeting. Join us for this month’s session where we will be touching on Retirement Planning.

10 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary WELLNESS SAT TUE TUE 01 WED 02 15 05 勿忘我:共建失智友善社区 WED 16 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Programme Zone, Quick 6 Strength Exercise Bedok Public Library 1 & 15 August, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Programme Zone, 失智症是一种病症，它会使患者逐渐失去 Sengkang Public Library 2 & 16 August, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 智力，以致越来越没有能力进行日常生活 Merpati Hall, 的各种活动。失智症不仅只是影响患者本 Geylang East Public Library 身，同时还影响着周围的人，包括家人和社 区。在这一讲座中,你可以了解失智症的情 Learn fast and simple steps for building fitness 况, 如何识别症状,以及如何在社区内支持 with Quick 6 by the Health Promotion Board (HPB). Use a resistance band to strengthen the 痴呆患者。这个讲座是由“勿忘我”主办。 muscles and bones of your shoulders, arms, 勿忘我是连氏基金与邱德拔医院联合在义 chest, back, hips and legs. The low intensity 顺发起的独立倡议，目的是让更多人了解失 of this set of 6 exercises makes it suitable and beneficial for seniors. 智症患者不断增加的问题。这包括分享他 们每天面对的困难，指导公众可以如何帮 Led by HPB’s volunteer Health Ambassadors, 助他们。这提醒着我们时刻关爱失智 this is a 1-hour session conducted in English and Mandarin. Please come in comfortable 症患者。 sports attire. 健康从中医开始 六招速成力量活动是一组六个步骤的运 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm 动。它采用拉力带来强健我们的胸肌，腿 Programme Zone, 部 和 髋 部 ，上 背 肌 ，肩 膀 与 手 臂 的 肌 肉 和 骨 Ang Mo Kio Public Library 头 ，这 项 低 强 度 运 动 不 需 费 很 大 的 力 气 ，所 以适合年长人士参与。这活动长达一小时， 肥胖本身是一种慢性疾病，也会导致其他 是由保健促进局的义工们，保健大使，带领 的疾病；相反的，拥有健康减重就能帮助 的 。活 动 将 以 中 、英 语 进 行 。请 穿 运 动 你预防疾。肥胖的成因主要与遗传、新陈 服前来参加。 代谢、饮食、行为习惯、心理、环境等有关。 马光赵倩医师将在讲座上告诉大家中医是 如何针对个人体质的调理及食疗来使失衡 的生理机能重新恢复，从而解决肥胖 问题。

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 11 WELLNESS FRI 11 THU 17 好肠胃才有好身体(讲座） Mind Body Fitness by SACE/U3A 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm 11.00 am – 12.30 pm Radin Mas Hall, Programme Zone, Bukit Merah Public Library Tampines Regional Library

老年人一旦上了年纪肠胃功能就减弱，可是 Ageing seniors might face a host of discrimination and difficulties. See the changes 现在很多年轻人也开始肠胃闹毛病，一会 associated with ageing in a new light along with 胃 胀 ，一 会 胃 酸 ，一 会 拉 肚 子 ，一 会 又 便 秘 ， valuable maturity gained from life’s 折腾得够呛，所以说年轻不代表健康。肠胃 experiences. Develop your personal qualities which stand the test of time. 是维持身体健康的第一关卡。即使身体已 存 在 各 种 疾 病 ，只 要 胃 肠 功 能 好 ，也 会 Healthy Lifestyle - Starting Your Day 在短期内迅速恢复 Right! By Health Promotion Board 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Programme Zone, Tampines Regional Library SAT 12 What are diabetes and high blood pressure? 5 Biggest Dental Problems for People Can I improve my health by joining a walking programme? Find out about the small things over 40 you can do in the morning to 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm become healthier. Programme Zone, Toa Payoh Public Library

Learn how to keep a healthy smile to enjoy the next phase of life. Explore the 5 biggest dental problems you may encounter after you hit 40. Find out how your mouth can show signs related to possible chronic diseases and mental health issues. Discover how you can identify these signs and what preventive measures to take.

Presented by Jesselton Dental Centre.

12 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary WELLNESS FRI 18 SAT 26 Workshop on Mindfulness and Stress True Source Tai Chi Management 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Programme Zone, Radin Mas Hall, Marine Parade Public Library Bukit Merah Public Library Unlock your ever-present natural energy and “I’m worried about the future.” “I’m tired help your body heal with free-flowing tai chi but have trouble sleeping well.” “My child’s without set movements, breathing counts or grades are slipping and he has lost interest the need to control energies. Suitable for in his hobbies and friendships.” If these ring all adult ages and fitness levels. familiar, come hear from Wellness Advocate Jenny Ho on alleviating prolonged stress or addressing stressful situations. Learn about the benefits of mindfulness practice and aromatherapy for yourself or a loved one. THU 03 About the speaker: Book Launch: “Brand! Desire” Jenny is an ACTA-certified corporate trainer 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm with experience helping others in Myanmar and Singapore for over 15 years. For more Imagine, than a decade, she has provided simple library@orchard wellness solutions such as losing weight, getting fit and being more mindful. Wonder why the thousands of businesses created every day become invisible in the sea of competition? Author Karen Hoisington shares 39 time-tested principles to cut through the crowded environment to grab the spotlight SAT 19 for your brand and your brand alone. Start a business or revitalise one and stand out Building a Dementia Friendly Community with advice such as: Recipe #3: Present the 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm best side of your brand, Recipe #13: Tell your Programme Zone, brand story and create a myth, and Recipe #39: Clementi Public Library Repetition is the secret ingredient.

Learn about the wide-ranging effects of About the author: dementia on patients and their families. Hear Karen is the founder and owner of Datum about various aspects of dementia, how to Branding who pulls from her diverse experience recognise symptoms and what you can do to in branding for government and non-profit help those with dementia. sectors, and commercial industries from airlines to zoos. Starting her career in London This talk is brought to you by Forget Us Not, and moving on to Singapore to become an independent initiative organised by Khoo an award-winning art director at Ogilvy & Teck Puat Hospital and Lien Foundation. The Mather (SEA), she has since formed her own campaign aims to raise awareness of the successful branding consultancy. Karen increasing number of people with dementia lectures in all aspects of marketing at local and their daily struggles, and the importance of polytechnics and recently, Kyoto International building a dementia friendly community to University. She also appears regularly on TV as support them. a guest on heritage and lifestyle topics.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 13 OTHER HAPPENINGS FRI SAT 04 19 SUN 06 PIXEL Labs Equipment Briefing Elixir Point: Ricky FM Law (3D Printer) 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm 4 August, 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Imagine, 19 August, 12.00 pm – 1.30 pm library@orchard PIXEL Labs@NLB, Jurong Regional Library Ricky FM Law has over ten years’ experience as the Asia Pacific Lead for DuPont on crisis and This briefing is compulsory to attend if you digital communications. He has also started would like to reserve and use the 3D printer in a business venture to energise seniors and PIXEL Labs@NLB. This session will guide you encourage active aging. In this session, Ricky on how to operate the 3D printer and other FM Law will share his innovative approach on safety aspects of using the equipment in PIXEL turn aging into an enjoyable experience. Labs@NLB. Upon completion, you can reserve to use the 3D printer, subject to availability and He is joined by Dr Suresh Devnani, Chief prevailing policies. This briefing does not cover Happiness Officer of Dr. Devnani & the basics of 3D design and modelling. Associates and Amazon bestselling author of Happiness Reinvented. Suresh shares Participants must be at least 13 years how parents can create positive, safe and happy and above. environments for their children. This session is hosted and moderated by innovation and creativity advocate MD Indera from 98 Ft. SAT 05 Please note that filming and photography Elixir Point: Riduwan Matni, CEO of will take place during the event. Muse Group Game On! Board Games 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm Imagine, Programme Zone, library@orchard Serangoon Public Library Riduwan Matni, CEO of Muse Group, will share strategies on how he deepens and diversifies Never thought you could play games in the Muse’s international connections. Muse Group library? Now you can! Join us for an afternoon of is a creative marketing agency specialising board games with gamers from the Singapore in sports, entertainment and music which Boardgames Meetup group. This programme is operates in 5 offices across Asia. suitable for teens, adults, and older children with their parents. Dr. Suresh Devnani, Amazon best-selling author of Happiness Reinvented and Chief Happiness Officer of Dr. Devnani & Associates, will share how to find happiness and satisfaction in your job and remain engaged at work.

This session will be hosted and moderated by innovation and creativity advocate, MD Indera of 98 Ft., and it is open to all. Admission is free and registration is required.

Please note that filming and photography will take place during the event.

14 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary OTHER HAPPENINGS SAT TUE 08 12 Creative Crew Talks Physics in Everyday Life 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Programme Zone, Programme Zone, Toa Payoh Public Library Sengkang Public Library

Be inspired and learn from industry experts Learn the facts behind the scale and magnitude who will be sharing their unique experiences of objects around us and make sense of on topics such as photography, print design, numbers both big and small. video, web and much more. Find out the latest For ages 14 and above. trends as well as useful tips and tricks. Creative Crew Talks are held on every 2nd Tuesday of Script to Screen: How to Create an the month. For updates on talk venues, check out the Facebook page at Animated Series www.facebook.com/CreativeCrewSG 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Imagine, library@orchard

THU 10 Writer and producer Tiffany Lim explains how to craft your own stories, manage a production Artists’ Trading Cards Club team and produce your own animated series. As creator of Gate Seekers, she will talk about 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm how she has merged different cultures into Programme Zone, the compelling storyline of her independently Bishan Public Library produced action-adventure series about four young heroes who travel around mythological Join us at the Artists’ Trading Cards Club and kingdoms. Hear also about her experience learn how to create your own little piece of art! working with an international team. Let your creative juices flow and pick up tips on art! Trade your miniature works of art with one Suitable for teens and adults. another at the end of the session. About the speaker: Tiffany was an assistant producer and the lead writer for Mediacorp’s Secrets of the Swamp. She assisted the organising committee for the Southeast Asian Film Financing Forum in 2015 and was also the lead scriptwriter for Singapore Fashion Runway’s finale film in that year. Tiffany has collaborated with international speaker and trainer Joel Bauer, Skynamic Studios, Mojo Studios, and Business Intelligence and 8nalytics.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 15 Tampines Regional Library Re-opens on 5 August 2017! Address: 1 Tampines Walk #02-01 Our Tampines Hub Singapore 529684

Opening Hours: Mon – Sun: 10.00 am – 9.00 pm Closed at 5.00pm on eves of Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year. Closed on Public Holidays.

Check out these exciting programmes: iPad Course and Calligraphy Workshop Preview 5 August Level 6, Programme Zone Get a sneak peek of the upcoming programmes we have for seniors conducted by our beloved volunteers Mr Ho Hew Lee and Mr David Lim.

Experiential showcase 5 August, 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm 6 August, 10.00 am – 12.00 pm Level 4, Pixel Labs@NLB

Digital Storytelling 5 August, 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm 6 August, 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Level 4, Pixel Labs@NLB

3D printing pen 6 August, 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm Level 4, Pixel Labs@NLB We have lined up a series of digital and analogue activities for you! Try something new at our experiential showcases featuring crafts and microbits, and participate in workshops on digital storytelling and using a 3D printing pen. I’ve Cot You - Sayang, Sarong Baby sharing session 6 August, 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm Level 6, Programme Zone Local photographer Zinkie Aw shares her inspiration and motivation behind this photography exhibition. Enjoy a guided tour and hear from the cloth cradle generation – they have been invited!

Stand to win goodies when you tell us your cherished memories!

Supported by Our SG Fund, Noise Matchbox, and Young Change Makers.

Check out these exhibitions:

I’ve Cot You - Sayang, Sarong Baby by Zinkie Aw 5 August – 30 September The Showcase, shopfront display and various library locations

See for the first time a life-size cloth cradle made for an adult, together with personal vintage items and childhood photographs.

Go on your very own ‘treasure hunt’ with interactive spots in the library offering a window into the nostalgic experience of being a ‘sarong’ cloth cradle or ‘yao lan’ (摇篮) baby.

Revisit the intimate family bonding moments from generation to generation.

Tampines: A History & Faces of Tampines by National Heritage Board Ongoing Level 2, Our Tampines Gallery

Tampines: A History presents an overview of the history of Tampines from when it was a rural locale in the 19th century to its development into a successful residential town in the 1980s. Through maps, photographs, and objects, the exhibition uncovers lesser-known facts about Tampines. The exhibition also explores the development of Tampines Town in the late 1970s, which brought Singapore’s public housing onto the international stage for the first time.

Complementing Tampines: A History is a temporary exhibition titled Faces of Tampines. Featuring a collection of community memories from past and present residents of Tampines, the exhibition presents a glimpse into the diverse Tampines community as well as reflections upon and impressions of Tampines and the experience of living in this town.

Our Tampines Gallery is a community project organised by the National Heritage Board in partnership with the National Library Board and with the support of students from Temasek Polytechnic and residents of Tampines.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary. OTHER HAPPENINGS SAT THU 12 24 SUN 13 IT Talk: How to Start a Blog Elixir Point: Isman Tanuri, founder 12 August, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm of OOMRA & Dr. Stéphane-Laure 24 August, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Caubet, founder of 8S2BUSINESS Swordfish Room, 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Bukit Merah Public Library Imagine, library@orchard Find out how you can publish through a blog and learn a new way to communicate, to share, This session will feature two guest speakers, to influence, to connect and to matter. Isman Tanuri and Dr. Stéphane-Laure Caubet. Isman is the founder of OOMRA, an online Participants must commit to both sessions, and travel platform catering to ‘halal tourism’, bring along a laptop (Windows 7 or newer). and Dr. Stéphane-Laure is the founder and director of 8S2BUSINESS, a consulting firm offering tailor-made solutions in organisation, management and strategy. She has more than 10 years’ experience in the private and public sector in both Europe and Asia. SAT SAT 12 26 In this panel discussion, they will share how to navigate ambiguity, collaborate with others Community in Bloom and lead during a time of disruption. 11.30 am – 12.30 pm Garden Area, Dr. Suresh Devnani, Amazon best-selling author of Happiness Reinvented and Queenstown Public Library Chief Happiness Officer of Dr. Devnani & Associates, will share how leaders can inspire Join the Community in Bloom project at the their employees to go the extra mile for the Queenstown Library garden! We welcome company and the customers. anyone who is interested in carrying out simple planting and maintenance in our garden, as This session will be hosted and moderated well as participating in gardening activities by innovation and creativity advocate, MD facilitated by library staff. Indera of 98 Ft.

Please note that filming and photography will take place during the event.

18 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary OTHER HAPPENINGS FRI TUE 15 18 The Drawing Room 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm (Let’s Get Cooking!) Radin Mas Hall, Bukit Merah Public Library 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm Programme Zone, Welcome to the Drawing Room, a community Sengkang Public Library where we discuss and learn about how to draw, as instructed by a book. Different topics Pick up recipes, tips and book will be covered each month. Basic drawing recommendations on traditional Indian materials will be provided. This month’s cooking! Come share your favourite dishes topic is acrylic painting. with us! Conducted in Tamil. All are welcome.

WED 16 SAT Digital Art Club 19 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm Origami Workshop Programme Zone, 11.00 am – 12.00 pm Sembawang Public Library Activity Room, Bishan Public Library Do you like to doodle, sketch or paint? Are you interested in drawing manga characters, Make your very own origami model in just 10 painting landscapes or sketching 3D objects? minutes anytime during the session. All How about transforming your artwork into ages welcome! digital art pieces using simple apps?

Discover wonderful techniques and useful 刮痧 apps for creating cool digital art paintings or 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm sketches on your mobile devices. Join us and Programme Zone, meet other like-minded art enthusiasts! To find Jurong West Public Library out more, visit www.facebook.com/groups/ digitalartclubyipl 刮痧是传统的保健艺术，刮痧不仅仅是因 For ages 13 years and above. No art experience 为身体不舒服是一个治疗过程，它也是很 is required. Please bring along your own 好的舒压与排除体内有毒的物质。中医说 mobile devices. 透过刮痧可以达到疏通经络。活血化瘀之 目的。刮痧可以增加汗腺分泌，促进血液 循 环 ，对 于 高 血 压 、中 暑 、肌 肉 酸 痛 都 有 很 好的排除效果。经络刮痧可以帮助解除疲 劳 增 加 身 体 是 免 疫 功 能 。马 光 保 健 集 团 王 元葵推拿师会在讲座上告诉大家刮痧 概念同时也会有刮痧技巧教学。

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 19 OTHER HAPPENINGS SAT 19 WED 23 纪念二战故事会 Crafters’ Club 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm Programme Zone, Programme Zone, Sengkang Public Library library@chinatown Have you ever wondered how you can create 一群热爱讲古的乐齡人士将为您呈现一场 gorgeous roses by using pandan leaves? Here 精彩的二战故事表演和诗歌朗诵。 is your chance to learn step by step – and craft away in the company of other enthusiasts! Look back upon World War II through stories and poems presented by a group of senior Suitable for teenagers and adults. Limited citizen volunteers. places.

Conducted in Mandarin with Chinese dialects. Communities: Travel and Culture Explorers 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm Share, MON 21 library@orchard Lim Kopi, Let’s Talk Now Boarding: Wanderlusters, adventurers 11.00 am – 12.00 pm and culture enthusiasts. Communities is an Programme Zone, alternative learning environment in which you Toa Payoh Public Library can pick up a plethora of skills by sharing and experimenting with others. This monthly series Take part in this interest group for seniors is built on the belief that teaching and learning to discuss about the current happenings in can happen without a teacher. Singapore. You may also pick up useful health tips, share an interesting recipe and more over For more information on this session, please a cup of morning coffee or tea. visit www.meetup.com/sgtravelmeet

At this session, Ma Kuang Healthcare physician Huang Hui Mei explains what food you should eat more of or avoid at various times. Learn simple yet nutritious recipes THU 24 based on the age-old principles of traditional Chinese medicine. 故事迷 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Target Audience: Seniors Programme Zone, Ang Mo Kio Public Library

您有多久没听故事了呢？听故事不是小孩 子的专利，成人也能享受其中的乐趣。诚 邀大家一起来听故事，让馆员们带您穿越 古今中外的各个故事。适合50岁及以 上人士参与。

20 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary OTHER HAPPENINGS SAT 26 SUN 27 [PIXEL Labs@NLB] Interior Design Talk Series: Make It, Wear It! Renovation Dos and Don’ts 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm PIXEL Labs@NLB, Imagine, Jurong Regional Library library@orchard

Do-it-yourself paper craft made beautiful and What’s the difference between an interior wearable! Make one or two bracelets of different designer and contractor? Become savvy designs and enjoy the thrill of strutting down the at remodelling your living space when you street in your very own creation. hear industry experts share some renovation essentials: choosing the right home For ages 13 and above. Participants aged 6 professional, budgeting hacks, and common and below must be accompanied by a guardian renovation mistakes to avoid. aged 16 or above. This is an interior design series organised in Punctuality advice: Please note that remaining collaboration with Qanvast, a local renovation allocated seats will be released to walk-in portal that connects homeowners with participants 10 minutes after the start of trusted interior designers. the workshop. Sunday Origami Gardening with Kids – Growing Edibles 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm 5.00 pm – 6.30pm Activity Room, Programme Zone, Geylang East Public Library Queenstown Public Library What can you create by simply folding sheets Get ideas on how to engage your child to grow of paper? Come join us every 4th Sunday to plants and herbs using recyclable materials pick up origami folding techniques and learn found at home. about new styles. Get the opportunity to fold various interesting models to take home! This About the speaker: excellent family bonding activity is suitable Community in Bloom Ambassador Bucktha for adults and those with children (aged 4 and Seelan was the principal of Zhonghua Primary above). Children aged 7 and below will need School and has set up gardens at both there at least 1 accompanying adult. Materials and Tanjong Katong Primary School. He advises are provided. This session is facilitated by schools and organisations on new garden Origami Singapore. projects while sharing gardening tips and insights with school staff, students and parents.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 21 MOVIE SCREENINGS SAT WED 02 PG-13 19 PG Delicacy The Croods 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Open Stage, Programme Zone, library@esplanade Queenstown Public Library

A French woman mourning the death of After their cave is destroyed, a caveman her husband three years prior is courted family must trek through an unfamiliar by a Swedish co-worker. (French with fantastical world with the help of an inventive English subtitles) boy. Watch as the adventure unfolds!

PG SAT 05 FRI 25 The Lorax Cine-Flicks Presents . . . 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Programme Zone, Programme Zone, Queenstown Public Library Pasir Ris Public Library

In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where Join us in a family friendly movie session everything is artificial and even the air is where a mystery film will be shown. a commodity, a boy named Ted hopes to Open to all ages. win the heart of his dream girl, Audrey. As Ted searches for the one thing that will earn him success, he discovers the story of the Lorax, a grumpy yet charming creature. Who is the Lorax and what must Ted do with his new-found knowledge? Only one way to find out, join us!

22 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary SILVER INFOCOMM JUNCTION @ THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES

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Register at our library e-kiosks today! You can also go to www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary and key in “SIJ” for more details. 现在就通过图书馆内的电子服务站报名吧！您也可浏览 www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 输入 “SIJ” 以搜寻更多详情。

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iKnow Computers & e-Entertainment Discover the world of online digital media using (2–session course) YouTube and Spotify! Get to know more about NLB’s various digital resources and read conveniently using Part 1 of 2: 23 Aug (Wed), 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm our eNewspapers and eMagazines portals. Complete Part 2 of 2: 24 Aug (Thu), 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm your afternoon by picking up tips about Internet safety and copyright. Fees: $4 Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of computers and the Internet.

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 23 Ema, the Captive Cesar Aira The Little Paris Bookshop 2016 New Directions Nina George, 2015 Abacus BOOK Call No. English AIR Call No. English GEO REVIEW

his book was originally published in miles away from Pringles. The commander Spanish in 1981; this English version of the fort, Colonel Leal, is a convivial old Tis a beautiful translation by the poet man with white hair. Colonel Leal entertains Chris Andrews. The central figure in this Lavalle and Duval, but provides little news novel is Ema. She is depicted as “no different about Pringles. The settlement in Azul has from the [South American] Indian women, enough problems of its own, having fought with her dark skin and Asian features” but off a band of Indians barely two months ago, is “categorized as white because of her but Leal thinks that Espina, the commander history, and not just as a white woman but of the fort at Pringles, has no trouble with a captive: a romantic title that inflame[s] the Indians because he has done a deal with the savage imagination”. The story is set in the Indian chief Catriel. the 17th century, in the wild expanse of the Argentinian pampas. It begins with a convoy When the convoy resumes its journey, Lavalle of soldiers led by Lieutenant Lavalle. They gives permission for the soldiers to take the are escorting captives to a fort in Pringles women prisoners for their lascivious comfort hundreds of miles away. Ema is one of the for a night. Duval finds a young woman (who captives. She is thin, small, and frail, and is has a child with her) walking up to him; and he nursing an infant. spends the night with her. Then she stays with him a second night. But on the fourth and fifth Aira takes his time to introduce Ema to the night, Lavalle orders Duval’s girl to be brought reader. He sets the background by to him. That girl is Ema. There is nothing Duval introducing Lavalle and a young French can do. When the convoy stops to rest, Duval engineer named Duval, who is tries to amuse himself by identifying the birds accompanying the convoy to take up a job by their songs but he is not successful; in Pringles. Unlike the soldiers who enjoy “each kind of bird [sings] the song of eating all kinds of birds and animals they another kind, never its own”. find, Duval can only eat partridges. One evening, Lavalle feeds him a viscacha, a When they arrive at Pringles, Ema is handed small rodent similar to a chinchilla. Within over to an officer named Paz whose living 10 minutes, Duval vomits everything he ate, quarters with carpeted rooms is a welcome emptying his stomach entirely and is ill for change to living on the wagons for Ema. the rest of the evening. Ema sleeps in the day and lives only at night, an existence she deems “poetic and The convoy arrives at a small fort in Azul in pleasurable”; but Paz has told her that it the middle of the wilderness, still some 300 is only temporary because his European

24 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary mistress would soon be arriving, and Ema the court of the great Catriel. There she would have to leave. When the mistress consents to becoming the concubine of arrives, Paz gives Ema to a lower-ranked Catriel‘s minister, strangely named Evaristo soldier named Gombo, who is 53 years old. Hugo. After spending time with Evaristo, Gombo is affable, kind-hearted, and Ema tells him that she wants to return to extremely polite. But like the others, he is Pringles. Evaristo not only allows her to go not a man of Ema’s choice. They live in a but makes sure that she is well prepared hut outside the fort, believing that there is for the journey. Although Pringles has not no danger. Then Ema falls in love with an changed much, and neither has Espina; it is Indian named Mampucumapuro, who, when a different Ema now. She decides to set up Gombo is away for a couple of days, takes a pheasant breeding farm. Why does she Ema to the fringes of the forest and there want to do this? Will she succeed? they enjoy games of dice, sup on game that Mampucumapuro catches, and Ema listens This book is intended by Cesar Aira as a as he plays his 36-key flute. ‘simplified’ Gothic novel, because he found conventional Gothic novels “[have] too many One day, after Ema has returned to Gombo, passions, cancelling each other out like air there is a surprise raid by the Indians. freshener”. Aira has transformed a simple Gombo manages to kill one as he is about theme into a riveting story. Ema either to enter his house, but in the ensuing melee, marries or becomes a mistress to so many Ema is captured and taken away by the men – she has four children by four different raiders. She is sold to a powerful Indian men – and yet there is no description of sex. chief named Dodi. He “move[s] heaven and There are raids and deaths but no description earth” to find the son who was separated of violence. Aira rouses our imagination with from Ema when she was captured. By this subtle and beautiful language. time, Ema is already pregnant; probably by Gombo. She is to have another two children later on by different men. Dodi gives Ema to Hual, a prince from a big tribe. Hual is far The Alexandrian too preoccupied with the lazy pleasures of life – food and narcotics – but he marks a new phase in Ema’s life in which she is beginning to have a say in her destiny. She leaves Hual, and spends time travelling with a band of young people until she reaches

AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary 25 ogrammes to look ou Pr t for in CENTRAL / DOWNTOWN REGION ugu A st 2017 WED 02 THU 10 SAT 19 FOR SENIORS Delicacy (PG-13) Artists’ Trading Treasures of the Rare COMPUTER COURSES 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Cards Club Gallery and Lee Kong Chian iKnow基本汉语拼音输入法 (Windows 10 版) iKnow Computers & e-Entertainment Open Stage, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm Reference Library （共两堂课） (2-session course) library@esplanade Programme Zone, 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm 16 - 17 August, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm 23-24 August, 2.00 - 5.00 pm, Bishan Public Library Level 11, Entrance of Silver Infocomm Junction, Silver Infocomm Junction, Woodlands Regional Library Woodlands Regional Library THU Lee Kong Chian 03 Reference Library, THU 12 National Library Building 陪你看报纸 Exhibitions 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Biggest Dental Problems MON 21 Programme Zone, for People over 40 Toa Payoh Public Library 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Programme Zone, [ASEAN 50] The Arts of ASEAN National Day Photo Exhibition 2017 Toa Payoh Public Library Lim Kopi, Let’s Talk 3 Jul – 31 August 2017 29 July – 8 August 2017 11.00 am – 12.00 pm Levels 8 & 9, 10.00 am – 8.00 pm Lee Kong Chian Reference Library Level 1, Lobby & The Plaza, Programme Zone, Book Launch: Script to Screen: How National Library Building National Library Building “Brand! Desire” to Create an Animated Toa Payoh Public Library 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm Series [ASEAN 50] From Yangon to Yogyakarta: The Gate Seekers Exhibition Imagine, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm WED 23 A Journey of the Senses 1 Aug – 31 August 2017 library@orchard Imagine, 3 Jul – 31 August 2017 11.00 am – 9.00 pm library@orchard Level 11, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library Trend Gallery, National Library Building library@orchard

SAT Communities: Travel and [ASEAN 50] ASEAN Digital Library PAssionArts – Life Art – Kolam Ayer 05 SUN 13 Culture Explorers 3 Jul – 31 August 2017 National Day Art Exhibition 2017 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm Level 11, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library 5 – 8 August 2017 Share, National Library Building Level 1, The Plaza, 壹度书会 library@orchard National Library Building (Yidu Reading Club) Elixir Point: Isman Tanuri, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm founder of OOMRA & Dr. Programme Zone, Stéphane-Laure Caubet, THU 24 Serangoon Public Library founder of 8S2BUSINESS 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Book Lover’s Club Imagine, EASTERN REGION 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm library@orchard 陪你看报纸 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Multi-Purpose Room, TUE SAT FRI Central Public Library Programme Zone, 01 12 18 THU 17 Toa Payoh Public Library

SAT 26 Quick 6 Strength Exercise Physics in Everyday Life Secrets to Keeping Young 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm through Food Elixir Point: 陪你看报纸 Programme Zone, Programme Zone, 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Riduwan Matni, CEO of 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Sengkang Public Library Sengkang Public Library Level 3, Programme Area, Muse Group Programme Zone, “都市人”系列讲座 The LLiBrary 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Toa Payoh Public Library (Books & The City)： WED TUE 15 Imagine, 02 中华服饰的历史变迁 WED library@orchard 23 Singapore Literature 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm Book Club Programme Zone, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm SUN library@chinatown Quick 6 Strength Exercise Quick 6 Strength Exercise 06 Multi-Purpose Room, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Crafters’ Club Central Public Library Merpati Hall, Programme Zone, 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm SUN Geylang East Public Library Sengkang Public Library 27 Programme Zone, Elixir Point: Ricky FM Law SAT THU WED Sengkang Public Library 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm 19 03 16 Imagine, Interior Design Talk Series: THU 24 library@orchard Renovation Dos and Don’ts Communities: 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm The Art of Personal Quick 6 Strength Exercise Game On! Board Games Reading Allowed Imagine, Branding on LinkedIn 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm library@orchard 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Merpati Hall, Video Marketing Programme Zone, Imagine, Level 3, Programme Area, Geylang East Public Library Strategies – How to Serangoon Public Library library@orchard The LLiBrary Engage Your Customers WED 30 THU 17 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Writing the City FRI 05 Level 3, Programme Area, TUE 08 Writers’ Group The LLiBrary 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm The Big Read Meet Programme Zone, Malay in Minutes FRI 25 Toa Payoh Public Library 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm 勿忘我: 共建失智友善社区 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm Creative Crew Talks Multi-Purpose Room, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Activity Room, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm Central Public Library Programme Zone, Geylang East Public Library Programme Zone, Bedok Public Library Cine-Flicks Presents . . . Toa Payoh Public Library Origami Workshop THU 31 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm 11.00 am – 12.00 pm SUN 06 Programme Zone, THU 10 Activity Room, Healthy Lifestyle - Starting Pasir Ris Public Library Bishan Public Library Your Day Right! By Health 陪你看报纸 纪念二战故事会 Promotion Board SAT 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Pop-up Craft Booth by 26 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm 10.00 am – 12.00 pm 陪你看报纸 Programme Zone, In Merry Motion Programme Zone, Programme Zone, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Toa Payoh Public Library 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm library@chinatown Tampines Regional Library Programme Zone, Level 2, Exhibition Area, True Source Tai Chi Toa Payoh Public Library Tampines Regional Library Mind Body Fitness 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm by SACE/U3A 碧山乐龄读书会 Programme Zone, THU 11.30 am – 12.30 pm Chinese Seniors A Librarian’s World – 10 Marine Parade Public Library Down the Catwalk of Programme Zone, Reading Club Tampines Regional Library 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm Singapore’s Fashion History SUN 27 Programme Zone, with the National Library’s AfterWords Bishan Public Library Legal Deposit Collection 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm Programme Zone, How to Set Up an Sunday Origami Level 5, Possibility Room, Marine Parade Public Library National Library Building e-Commerce Enterprise 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Activity Room, Level 3, Programme Area, Geylang East Public Library The LLiBrary THU 31 FRI 18

How Prepared Are Our Children for a Digital Future? 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm ARTS READ BUSINESS WELLNESS OTHER HERITAGE (Let’s Get Cooking!) Level 3, Programme Area, HAPPENINGS The LLiBrary For more information and programme registration, 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm please visit www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary Programme Zone, Sengkang Public Library WESTERN REGION FOR PARENTS FRI 04 SAT 19 Playtime@Library 15 August 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August 3.30 pm- 4.00 pm JIGGLE, READ & RHYME 22 August 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Everest Room, 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm PIXEL Labs Equipment Pseudo Book Club 6, 13, 20 & 27 August Woodlands Regional Library 22 August Programme Zone, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Serangoon Public Library Briefing (3D Printer) 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Activity Room, 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Level 3, Synergy Room, Stories Come Alive Room, 25 August Children’s Zone, 3.30 pm- 4.00 pm Choa Chu Kang Public Library 24 August PIXEL Labs@NLB, Jurong Regional Library Bukit Panjang Public Library Programme Zone, Jurong Regional Library 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm Tampines Regional Library 12 August Activity Room, Little Library / Tots’ Cove 11.00 am – 11.30 am Sengkang East Public Library 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August Parenting Styles, Practice Multi-Purpose Room, SAT 05 Dollars and Sense 4.30 pm – 5.00 pm and Impact on Children’s Central Public Library 29 August Learning Community Programme Zone, Character and Achievement 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm Marine Parade Public Library 19 August 14 August Everest Room, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Level 3, Synergy Room, 10.00 pm – 2.00 pm Woodlands Regional Library Extending Science Learning Activity Room, The Lorax (PG) Jurong Regional Library Programme Zone, 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Experiences at Home Tampines Regional Library Cheng San Public Library 31 August Programme Zone, 5 August 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm 15 August Queenstown Public Library 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Reading is Fun: Start now! Programme Zone, Programme Zone, 19 August 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm Queenstown Public Library Sembawang Public Library 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Level 1, Programme Zone, Building a Dementia Friendly Jurong Regional Library Community Multi-Purpose Room, FRI 11 BabywearingSG: Central Public Library 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm 16 August Programme Zone, Babywearing and Posture 6 August Dyslexia Awareness Talk 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Clementi Public Library 2.30 pm – 6.00 pm 26 August Programme Zone, 好肠胃才有好身体 (讲座） Programme Zone, 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Clementi Public Library 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm Sengkang Public Library Programme Zone, Radin Mas Hall, Woodlands Regional Library 17 August Bukit Merah Public Library Baby Lapsit Programme 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm PIXEL Labs Equipment Foam Printing with Malay Programme Zone, Briefing (3D Printer) 10 August 4.00 pm- 4.30 pm Heritage Centre Marine Parade Public Library 12.00 pm – 1.30 pm SAT Programme Zone, 27 August 12 PIXEL Labs@NLB, Tampines Regional Library 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm 18 August Jurong Regional Library Level 1, Programme Zone, 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm Jurong Regional Library Activity Room, The Croods (PG) Geylang East Public Library Community in Bloom 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm 11.30 am – 12.30 pm Programme Zone, Garden Area, Queenstown Public Library Queenstown Public Library IT Talk: How to Start a Blog THU 24 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm NORTHERN REGION Swordfish Room, Bukit Merah Public Library WED WED SAT Organic Storytellers Meeting 02 16 26 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm MON 14 Programme Zone, Adults’ & Teens’ Zone, 分享读书会 Digital Art Club The Next Chapter Bukit Panjang Public Library Share Read Chinese 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm Reading Club Book Club Programme Zone, 11.30 am – 1.00 pm Let’s Talk: Teh Tarik 10.30 am – 12.00 pm Sembawang Public Library Tomato Room (Meeting Room), 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Everest Room, Ang Mo Kio Public Library Adults’ & Teens’ Zones, Talk: How to Start a Blog Woodlands Regional Library Programme Zone 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm WED Bukit Panjang Public Library 23 Swordfish Room, Bukit Merah Public Library SAT 05 Gardening with Kids - TUE 15 Growing Edibles FUNdaMENTALs 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm FRI Reading Club Programme Zone, 25 Step by Step Portfolio 10.00 am – 11.30 am Queenstown Public Library Construction with Everest Room, The Drawing Room SGX StockFacts Woodlands Regional Library 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Radin Mas Hall, Heartlands Book Club: Meet Programme Zone, Bukit Merah Public Library author Dr Tommy Wong discussing his book “How Woodlands Regional Library THU 24 Community in Bloom an Engineering Professor 11.30 am – 12.30 pm Garden Area, WED Becomes a Spiritual 16 Philosopher: Diary of a 21st Queenstown Public Library Century Human Soul” 故事迷 健康从中医开始 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Programme Zone, 交流点读书会 Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library Programme Zone, Ang Mo Kio Public Library (Interacting@BPPL) Ang Mo Kio Public Library 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm Adults’ & Teens’ Zones, Programme Zone SAT 26 TUE 15 Bukit Panjang Public Library

FRI 18 [PIXEL Labs@NLB] Lunch Bites with CPF: Make It, Wear It! 3 Things You Need to Know 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm about Using Your CPF PIXEL Labs@NLB, Monies for Housing Workshop on Mindfulness Jurong Regional Library 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm and Stress Management Programme Zone, 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Woodlands Regional Library Radin Mas Hall, Bukit Merah Public Library

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刮痧 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Programme Zone, Jurong West Public Library

ARTS READ BUSINESS WELLNESS OTHER HERITAGE HAPPENINGS For more information and programme registration, please visit www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and its War James Wright BOOK 2017 Thomas Dunne Books Call No. English 959.704 WRI REVIEW

As long as there have been wars, those his readers. This book, he tells us, “is who have fought in the field have not about the generation that grew up in post- “the opportunity, or perhaps even the World War II America and about their war”. interest, to read or hear contemporary He also says that his “primary focus is on accounts of their fight. Those who send those members of the generation who them to war and who debate the wisdom served in Vietnam”. It is for those in that of this are engaged in political arguments generation who fought the war and were about the purpose or the morality of the war. not only ignored when they got home to These are critical questions that need to America, but also feared and vilified. Wright be resolved – at best before the troops are recognises in them the face, no longer of dispatched. But once on the field, those at fear, for they had left that behind in war focus on their limited objectives and Vietnam, but the face of bewilderment and their survival.” These are some of the deep, disillusionment. Was it just a matter of a humanistic reflections of the author of different war or a different time that Enduring Vietnam. It has been published 42 American troops returning from Iraq are years after the end of the war the Americans hailed as heroes but their counterparts from call the Vietnam War, and the Vietnamese the Vietnam War had only themselves for call the American War. This “war” has many support and recognition? lessons. Military people all over the world may probably claim that they have learnt all that Vietnam is a mountainous country, and the there is to learn, such as the art of guerrilla Vietnamese have names for their hills and warfare, building tunnels, blasting tunnels, hit mountains. The one they called Dong Ap and run tactics, blanket bombing and so on. Bia is the one marked in all American maps But there are important sociological, political, as Hill 937, but in the minds of all American and philosophical lessons. Those lessons troops who fought in that war, it will forever must not only be learnt. They must not be remembered as Hamburger Hill. be forgotten. This battle site ranks in the annals of the war alongside Ia Drang (1965), Dak To The voice of James Wright in Enduring (1967), and the Tet Offensive (1968), but its Vietnam comes through; no matter how one significance and symbolism lie not in any reads the book, it almost sounds like grand strategy on either side, nor in any Sophocles telling the tragic story of Oedipus brilliant tactical moves, or great heroics of Tyrannus in some ancient Greek theatre. either individuals or groups. It was none of Wright does not condemn, nor does he that. Many lives were indeed lost in the long glorify the actions of those involved on either days of fighting without any semblance that side of this war – he leaves all judgement to one might call a victory. Yet it was because

26 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George, 2015 Abacus Call No. English GEO

of this that the American public, Senator That brings us to the only part of this book Edward Kennedy, and now, James Wright, in which the reader might just detect a hint call into question, the whole point of it all. of disdain in Wright’s voice – the actions and conduct of the political leaders, not The detailed story of Hamburger Hill just President Johnson, but after him, Nixon provides a backdrop unto the winds of and Henry Kissinger. Wright notes: “Henry war which were already blowing in 1961, Kissinger was opposed to any significant when a cautious John F. Kennedy sent reduction in the American military presence a “politician’s politician”, Lyndon Baines in South Vietnam [and] urged Nixon to ‘go Johnson, to Vietnam “to evaluate the for broke’ and to always have a threat to situation”. Johnson reportedly told Kennedy escalate on the table . . . He and Nixon fed that “the battle against Communism must each other’s aggressive instincts.” But the be joined in Southeast Asia with strength anti-war American public pushed Nixon into and determination”. Then Kennedy was signing a peace agreement on 22 October killed and Johnson took over as president. 1972. America withdrew its troops. South Within a week of Kennedy’s death, Johnson Vietnam’s President Thieu refused to sign declared to his advisers: “I am not going to accordingly for he knew that the terms were lose Vietnam . . . I am not going to be the not favourable to his regime. On 9 August President who saw Southeast Asia go the 1974, Nixon resigned from the presidency in way that China went.” disgrace. In March 1975, the North Vietnamese launched an all-out assault. And Wright is a master at showing the realities on 30 April 1975, the world saw photographs on the battlefield and how they were of the last American troops flying out of perceived back home in distant America, Saigon with desperate South Vietnamese with peace and quiet in the night, and the clinging onto the skids of helicopters. clinking of glasses being toasted in the White House. Men in the field learnt to keep Wright has written this book for all the men a distance and not get too close with too and women who fought in that “war”. For many as part of the way to deal with death. the sake of other generations, may the After just one mortar shell launched by the story in this book never be forgotten by any North Vietnamese Army in Dak To, medics generation if history is not to repeat itself. had a hard time telling who was alive and who was dead. The damage and effect will be better understood against the 7 million tons of bombs dropped by the Americans in The Alexandrian the Vietnam War.

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Author: David Grann Publisher: New York: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017

The Amazon has beguiled explorers ever since Europeans first landed in South America. Convinced that it hid an ancient glittering kingdom, thousands ventured into the Amazonian jungle and never returned. Like the ill-fated explorers before him, the famed Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett vanished in 1925 during a much publicised expedition to find the Lost City of Z.

80 years later, journalist David Grann sets out to solve the mystery. Facing starvation and surrounded by hostile Indian tribes and bloodsucking pests, Fawcett and his party were literally on a suicide mission. What could possibly have propelled men to risk everything to find a fabled city? Grann ventures into the jungle, and into Fawcett’s life story, to find out.

Grann’s reconstruction of the bygone age of exploration is a captivating blend of travelogue, biography and detective story, and a spellbinding read.

Contributed by Shirley Lim

Asian Inspiration: Art, Graphics & Illustrations Author: Victor Cheung Publisher: North Point, Hong Kong: viction:ary, 2016 Call No.: Adult Lending English 741.6 ASI - [ART]

Asian art has played the role of muse to artists all over the world. Whether Asian art styles surface as allusions to artists’ origins, or as displays of fond tribute; they have fostered many a work of art.

This collection of murals, prints and posters showcases the work of over 40 exceptional artists from the East and West, and captures the cultural diversity of Asia in a new light. Through these graphics and illustrations, this book observes how Asian art is adopted for self-expression and brings the enigmatic charm of Asian art onto the international scene.

A fresh look at Asian myths, philosophies, and popular culture from different periods, this book is for anyone with a keen eye for Asian culture.

Contributed by Renu Siva

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Food Author: Sylvia Tan Publisher: Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies: Straits Times Press Pte Ltd, 2016 Call No.: Adult Lending SING English 394.12095957 TAN

Take a trip down memory lane with food writer Sylvia Tan as she discusses the food and culinary culture of Singapore. Reminisce about the times when sounds of the ‘tok-tok’ hawkers would fill the streets as they peddled their fare with two pieces of wood, or recall the familiar sight of a ‘kachang puteh’ man balancing a tray of nuts on his head.

If you are too young to have experienced these sights and sounds, this book will bring you on a tour of iconic eating haunts from the past to the present. Did you know that the Satay Club used to be located close to a bus terminus at Beach Road, where customers were charged according to the number of sticks of satay they ate, and not how many they ordered?

This book is full of insightful titbits about how modern Singapore cuisine has been shaped. If you ever need some help to whet your appetite, read this book.

Contributed by Chan Xin Yi

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why Author: Amanda Ripley E-book

How do people react when disaster strikes?

When the planes struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, some people waited as long as 45 minutes to leave their cubicles. Survivor Elia Zedeno took a mystery novel with her. In 1994, the MV Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, entombing hundreds of passengers who froze like statues as water flooded around them. After Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River, Roger Olian jumped out of his truck and into the ice, knowing he would probably die too. But his heroism might have kept the five survivors conscious until rescue arrived.

We all wonder how we will fare in a crisis – this perhaps is why news reports of disasters terrify and mesmerise us. Reporter Amanda Ripley sets out to understand how the human brain operates under extreme duress, and to find out how we can train our brains to save ourselves. In this riveting catalogue of tragedies, she uncovers some unexpected, unsettling and hopeful truths about human nature.

Contributed by Chua Su Yin

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Sekeping Gambar Seindah Memori: Merakam Gambar Anak Gaya Profesional Penulis: Zubye Rosli Penerbit & Tahun Penerbitan: Selangor: MPH Group Publishing, 2015 Nombor Panggilan: Malay 779.25 ZUB - [ART]

Telatah anak-anak yang sedang membesar sering mencuit hati sesiapa sahaja yang menyaksikannya, terutama sekali para ibu- bapa. Semestinya anda mahu merakam memori indah bersama anak-anak untuk dikenang sepanjang hayat. Sebaiknya kenangan manis ini dirakam secara professional dengan kamera supaya saat yang indah itu tepat dapat dilihat dalam gambar-gambar.

Sekeping Gambar Seindah Memori merupakan karya Zubye Rosli, seorang jurugambar profesional khusus dalam bidang fotografi kanak. Ilham untuk merakamkan teknik- teknik bergambar datang daripada pengalaman bergambar bersama datuknya sewaktu kecil. Meskipun tidak pernah mengikuti kursus formal dalam bidang fotografi, minat dan ketekunannya mempelajari ilmu fotografi dari pelbagai sumber akhirnya berhasil dengan pengiktirafan antarabangsa bagi beliau.

Buku ini mengandungi aspek-aspek fotografi yang bermanfaat seperti tip-tip memilih kamera, sudut teknikal dan cara memetik gambar mengikut fasa dan umur. Turut dimuatkan juga tip-tip rahsia daripada penulis. Ianya ditulis dengan cara santai dan dalam nada positif bagi merangsang ibu-bapa supaya dapat merakamkan memori yang terbaik anak-anak mereka. Selain ibu-bapa, ianya sesuai dibaca oleh mereka yang baru berjinak-jinak dalam bidang fotografi kanak-kanak. Penulis menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan fotografi dan setiap gambar dalam buku ini, disertakan dengan exif data supaya pembaca dapat mencubanya.

Apabila terlintas dalam minda tentang gambar yang “profesional”, mungkin anda akan membayangkan gambar-gambar yang “sempurna” dari sudut teknikal. Meskipun ilmu teknikal ini penting, penulis mengingatkan para pembaca tentang konsep yang penting dalam fotografi kanak-kanak, iaitu, menghasilkan gambar yang jujur. Ini dihasilkan sewaktu subjek merasa selesa bergambar dan bukan dalam keadaan tertekan. Bagi beliau, fungsi gambar itu adalah untuk merakam cerita. Maka setiap ekspresi, emosi dan aksi anak-anak merupakan memori yang seharusnya dihargai. Sekiranya anak-anak sedang bermain, penulis mencadangkan untuk ibu-bapa turut bermain bersama anak-anak untuk lebih mudah mendapat hasil gambar yang menarik. Dengan itu, percayalah bahawa bukan mereka yang mahir dalam sudut teknikal fotografi sahaja yang boleh merakamkan gambar-gambar professional anak-anak anda. Anda juga boleh lakukannya dengan memahami dan berinteraksi dengan anak-anak anda.

Diulas oleh: Nur Sadidah Binte Mohmad Said

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一张纸做一本书：每个人都能上手的超创意小书,王淑芬教 你轻松做! 作 者 ：王 淑 芬 出版社与年份：台北市：天下杂志股份有限公司,2014 索书号：Chinese 745.54 WSF - [REC]

顾名思义，这本书的魅力，在于它展示了应用一张纸的无限可能。只需 准 备 一 张 纸 ，结 合 简 单 的 材 料 和 工 具 ，并 依 据 书 中 所 示 范 的 步 骤 ，就 能做出一本本别出心裁的迷你书。作者分享多款单纸成书的设计点子，其中包括富创意十足的 简单小书，如城堡书、信封小书、相反书和相本书。此外，书中也有一些趣味游戏书的做法，如 三明治书、魔术书和翻转书等。完成了迷你书的造型后，你也可增添小书的实用性，例如创作 不同主题的小故事书，或以剪贴照片作为收录回忆的相本小书。

本书图文并茂，适大小朋友们齐来发挥巧思创意，尝试以一张纸做一本书的休闲活动。通过 折、剪、写、画的过程享受制作迷你书的乐趣！

编 写 ：王 婷 婷 (Sharon Ong)

真实剧本 作者：李南星 出版社与年份：Singapore: Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, 2015 索书号：SING Chinese 791.45028092 LNX

“从小，我的心里就一直有一个信念，告诉自己以后一定要赚很多钱， 不 再 过 这 种 苦 日 子 。”

就是这个信念，让李南星在中学三年级时毅然退学，在外打工赚零用 钱以及帮母亲补贴家用。从杂货店的帮手、到酒店的侍应生、最后踏入 演艺界，儿时穷苦的日子成为了李南星的推动力，不论面对哪一份工作他都是那么地认真和努 力。

可惜，人生如戏，戏如人生，李南星就是个活生生的例子。谁也没预料到李南星会如他所扮演 的经典角色：《双天自尊》里的言飞一样，陷入了赌博的恶习里。本书也叙述了他人生中其他的 起起落落，记载了他如何从落魄和困境中找到希望，因而重新振作了起来。

编 写 ：关 凯 瑜 (Wendy Guan)

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Manny Publisher: Beverly Hills, California: Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2015 Call No.: AV English 796.83092 MAN - [REC]

“Boxing takes so much from a man,” Liam Neeson narrates. “No other sport asks a man to sacrifice himself so deeply.” Manny traces the life of Manny Pacquiao, once a poor Filipino boy who has overcome insurmountable odds to become the boxing phenomenon he is today.

Raised in the shadows of war in the Philippines, teenager Pacquiao left his small village to escape a life of poverty. In Manila, he entered the ring at the age of 16 to support his family. Boxing eventually led him to America, where his dazzling career began under the tutelage of Freddie Roach. Crowned world champion in eight different divisions, his record has not been eclipsed by any other fighter. Today, he is cloaked in the same glory as legendary champions Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

Directed by Ryan Moore and Academy Award winner Leon Gast, Manny takes an intimate look at the trials and accomplishments of the Philippines’ national hero, and will leave you enthused by his fighting spirit inside and outside the ring.

Contributed by Nur Farhana Binte Ramlan

Global Sightseeing Tours. 708, North Vietnam Publisher: Tampa Florida: TravelVideoStore.com, 2015 Call No.: AV English 915.97 GLO - [TRA]

Enjoy the sights and rich history of North Vietnam from the comfort of your living room! On this tour, you’ll see how the traditional and contemporary steer the bustling capital city of Hanoi. After that, journey to Hai Phong, an important industrial harbour town in North Vietnam. There, you’ll get a glimpse of the Red River, which has been known to rapidly rise an additional four metres during the monsoon season.

Explore the road less travelled as the documentary takes you through Hao Binh, a provincial agricultural town, and Mai Chau Valley, where there are karst rock towers similar in shape to those of China’s Guilin. And of course, feast your eyes on the beauty of the famous Ha Long Bay, which is home to more than 1,600 islands in the gulf of Hanoi.

This short documentary will show you the sights and colours of North Vietnam and perhaps inspire you to take a trip of your own.

Contributed by Norlizah Juffri

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The Legend of Tarzan Publisher: United States: Village Roadshow Pictures, 2016. Burbank, CA9: Warner Home Video, 2016 Call No.: AV English 791.4372 LEG - [ART]

After Lord Greystoke – aka Tarzan – receives an invitation to return to Congo, he finds himself in the thick of an evil scheme in the corrupt diamond trade, helmed by the villainous Captain Leon Rom. Alexander Skarsgard is a perfect fit for the role of Tarzan as he shows off his strength, athletic prowess, height and muscular physique. The dazzling Margot Robbie plays his love interest, Jane, and Samuel L. Jackson gives a brilliant performance as Tarzan’s sidekick, George Washington Williams, who helps Tarzan and those enslaved fight against oppression.

Set against the backdrop of the Congo Basin, this action-packed adventure features spectacular landscapes and wildlife. Not just a feast for the eyes, this movie also depicts the violence and slavery the African people endured under King Leopold II’s rule. A story of colonial greed and human nature, this movie is not for the faint of heart.

Contributed by Zainap Osman

34 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary You can check the availability of these titles SUGGESTED via our online catalogue at www.nlb.gov.sg DVDs THU 03 THU 17 The Art of Personal Branding How to Set Up an e-Commerce on LinkedIn Enterprise 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Level 3, Programme Area, Level 3, Programme Area, The LLiBrary The LLiBrary

LinkedIn is the de facto marketplace for Leverage on the hottest current trend of all kinds of business e-commerce, and generate connections for clients income from it. Find out to vendors and partners how every person on the to potential hirers. Learn street can easily set up the 10 areas of LinkedIn an online store and drive profiling that transform customers to their products, your status into an All-Star with available tools and tech one with a higher Social out there. Selling Index. PROGRAMMES FRI FRI 11 18 Secrets to Keeping Young Legal Series @ The LLiBrary: through Food Copyright Infringement 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Level 3, Programme Area, Level 3, Programme Area, The LLiBrary The LLiBrary Learn some well tested National Library Presents: Are you worried about your creative works and practical nutrition being illegally downloaded or stolen online? advice based on Natural Concerned about whether you are infringing Holistic Medicine any copyrights while surfing the web? principles on how to eat Let Robert Raj help you right and live right to to be aware of the legal prevent premature ageing implications of online and reverse diseases. actions, and what to be aware of as Find out: a content producer or a • What you may be doing wrong with consumer. your food and lifestyle habits • What causes premature ageing and diseases • What toll they exact on your health and body • What you can do differently to prevent further damage and reverse the damage already caused • How to maintain youthfulness, wellness and happiness

36 AUGUST 2017 // www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary THU 24 THU 31 Video Marketing Strategies – How to A Librarian’s World – Down the Engage Your Customers Catwalk of Singapore’s Fashion 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm History with the National Library’s Level 3, Programme Area, Legal Deposit Collection The LLiBrary 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm Video consumption is growing exponentially. Level 5, Possibility Room National Library Building How are you going to be part of this phenomenon and make it work for your Ever wondered what librarians do? In this brand or product? Join us to find out how to series of monthly talks, find out what makes combine content, technology and strategy our librarians tick as they share highlights to create video campaigns that’ll really of their work from the collections of the Presents: Library National engage your users. National Library.

Join Associate Librarian Zoe Yeo as she uncovers Singapore’s fashion history as THU 31 seen through early books, magazines and souvenir publications from the National How Prepared Are Our Children for a Library’s Legal Deposit collection, such Digital Future? as Fashion, Her World, Fashion Parade for Men, Costumes of Malaya and the Woman’s PROGRAMMES 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Level 3, Programme Area Beauty Club: Hair Fashion And Beauty The LLiBrary Culture Edition.

How prepared are our children for the digital future, where everyone is talking about technological disruption and the Fourth Industrial Revolution? How will these dramatically change the way they live and work in the future?

New author Joseph Wong offers parents an unorthodox way to help their children understand how the world works a lot earlier in their life.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

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Singapore continues to evolve even after 50 years of independence. Streets that you traverse day by day may not be around in the next 5 years. Do any of our conserved heritage sites on our local streets hold a special place in your heart? What do you see from day to day in our streets that capture your attention? Share your photos with us!

This initiative is a two-year pilot project to compile an assortment of photos of

Singapore street scenes by the community and residents all over the island; it covers Presents: Library National streets that features natural features, built heritage and people in the immediate post SG50 period. The contributed images will form a valuable collection as a keepsake in the National Archives of Singapore. So let’s do our part and contribute so that everyone can reminisce when we celebrate SG75 and SG100!

AUG 05 - AUG 08 EXHIBITIONS PAssionArts – Life Art – Kolam Ayer National Day Art Exhibition 2017 Level 1, The Plaza, National Library Building

With the theme of Sights, Sounds and People of Singapore, over 100 artworks will be featured. These art pieces are mostly works of members from Kolam Ayer Visual Arts Interest Group, together with Life Art Society, and other contributions include from schools, artists and art collectives.

PAssionArts – Life Art – Kolam Ayer National Day Art Exhibition 2017 is organised by PAssionArts and Kolam Ayer Community Arts and Culture Club, in collaboration with Life Art Society and supported by NLB.

Admission to programmes is free and open to all unless otherwise stated. Please register at library eKiosks or www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary.

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Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legacies Ongoing 9.00 am – 5.30 pm (Mon-Sat) 12.00 pm – 5.30 pm (Sun) *Open on Public Holidays except for first day of Chinese New Year Former Ford Factory, 351 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 588192

“Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legacies” is a permanent World War Two exhibition presented by the National Archives of Singapore at the historic Former

Ford Factory. This is the place where the British forces surrendered unconditionally Presents: Library National to the Imperial Japanese Army on 15 February 1942. The exhibition presents the events and memories surrounding the British surrender, the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, and the legacies of the war. Through oral history accounts, archival records and published materials, the exhibition highlights the diverse experiences of the people in Singapore during this period in our history.

Daily Guided Tours

Join our walk-in tours led by volunteer guides to learn more about war and its EXHIBITIONS aftermath, and discover the stories behind the rich collections on display.

English Guided Tour (60 min) Meeting Point: Level 1, Information Counter

There are 20 places available on a first come, first served basis.

Mandarin Guided Tour (60 min) 1st & 3rd Sat of the month (5 & 19 Aug), 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Meeting Point: Level 1, Information Counter

There are 20 places available on a first come, first served basis.

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Shown in this black-and-white photograph is a float during the National Day celebrations passing by the Victoria Memorial Hall. It has the message “Health and Happiness” in the four official languages on it. Below this are shown years and a sum of money, “1961-1964 $35,800,000”, probably indicating the amount spent on healthcare during the period. Crowds of people are seen lining the sides of the road.

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Credit: © Kouo Shang-Wei and National Library Board Singapore, 2017

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