ANNEX D ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SEASON 2019 About the Architectural Heritage Season Now into its third year, the Architectural Heritage Season is a month-long programme organised by URA with support from community partners. Through a series of activities in November, it aims to facilitate greater knowledge sharing among professionals, promote higher public awareness for URA’s conservation efforts, and to drive greater public participation in shaping Singapore’s built heritage landscape. See table below for the list of activities. To find out more and register, visit: http://ahs-ura.eventbrite.sg for Architectural Heritage Season activities; and http://uradayout2019.eventbrite.sg for Tanjong Pagar Day Out Exhibitions Date/Time Events/Activities Address/Venue 21 Oct until 14 Dec 30 years of conservation URA Centre Atrium URA Centre Opening Hours (Mon – Sat 9am to 5pm) 21 Oct until 14 Dec 30 Years of Built Heritage URA Centre Facade Conservation: A Youth Perspective Exhibition (In partnership with SOTA) 25 Oct until 15 Dec 2019 Hokkien Architecture: From 137 Telok Ayer Street Thian Hock Keng to Lim Loh House (In partnership with Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan) 16 Nov Voilah! France Singapore National Museum of Festival Exhibition: Singapore Lawn Photography by Paul Piollet (In partnership with National Heritage Board and the Voilah! Festival) 18 Nov until 16 Dec Documenting Kampong Malay Heritage Centre Glam (In partnership with NYAA and the Malay Heritage Centre) Public tours Date/Time Events/Activities Address/Venue 9 Nov (Sat) Temasek Shophouse 28 Orchard Road 11am – 1pm 9 Nov (Sat) St Patrick’s School 490 East Coast Road 10am – 12noon Professional site visits Date/Time Events/Activities Address/Venue 9 Nov (Wed) Temasek Shophouse 28 Orchard Road 2pm – 4pm 11 Dec (Wed) St Andrew’s Cathedral 11 St Andrew’s Road 4pm – 6pm Seminars and lectures Date/Time Events/Activities Address/Venue 30 Oct (Wed) Lecture by Donovan MND Auditorium 4pm – 5.30pm Rypkema: The Role of Heritage in Sustainable Development and Urban Resilience In partnership with Centre for Liveable Cities 02 Nov (Sat) Writing Home: Women's Asian Civilisations Museum, 12.30pm – 1.30pm Narratives of Place Ngee Ann Auditorium (In partnership with Singapore Writers Festival 2019) 04 Nov (Mon) Monday Morning Lecture – URA Centre, 11am – 12.30pm Empire of the Winds with Level 5 Function Hall Friends of the Museums 11 Nov (Mon) Monday Morning Lecture – URA Centre, 11am – 12.30pm The rhyming lines: pantun, Level 5 Function Hall the traditional Malay poetry with Friends of the Museums 13 Nov (Wed) AHA Pioneers Level 5 Function Hall 4pm – 6pm Ms Rita Soh 16 Nov (Sat) Voilah! SMU 11am-1pm Lecture by Didier Repellin & School of Law Prof. Lily Kong Seminar Room, B2.01 20 Nov (Wed) Past AHA Winner lecture: Asian Civilisations Museum, 4pm – 6pm ACM Ngee Ann Auditorium 6 Dec (Fri) AHA Pioneers To be confirmed 4-6pm Ms Wo Mei Lan Tanjong Pagar Day Out on 23 Nov (Sat) Time Activity Details Location/Meeting point Whole day Installations: Witness some of the public spaces in the Tanjong Pagar 1) Guoco Tower Pop-Ups@ Tanjong precinct come alive with five brand new pop-up 2) Open space beside Pagar installations. Part of the ‘Our Favourite Place’ programme, Tras Link Park these delightful installations are created in collaboration with 3) Duxton Plain Park the community. Whole day Booklet: Discover heritage gems in more than 20 locations around To be confirmed Backyard.65 @ Tanjong Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Pasoh with this self-exploration Pagar-Bukit Pasoh guide. This booklet is designed and curated in collaboration with Singapore Institute of Technology and designers Eddie Sim and Yeo Yu Xin. 9:15am – 12pm Bukit Pasoh Tour: Join the URA-Friends of the Museums (FOM) volunteer Guoco Tower by Friends of the docents as they bring you on their popular walk of the 1 Wallich St Museums (FOM) quaint Bukit Pasoh area. Singapore 078881 (Registration required) 4 sessions at the following times: *Meet at Level 1, City Room 9.15am, 9:30am, 9:45am and 10am (Atrium Space) Pre-registration is required. 9:30am – 12pm Tanjong Pagar Tour: Join the URA-Friends of the Museums (FOM) volunteer Guoco Tower by Friends of the docents as they bring you on their popular walk of the 1 Wallich St Museums Tanjong Pagar area. Singapore 078881 (Registration required) 2 sessions at the following times: *Meet at Level 1, City Room 9:30am and 10am (Atrium Space) Pre-registration is required. 11am – 6pm Art Exhibition: To commemorate the Singapore Bicentennial, this exhibition Art Gallery by Tanjong Pagar CC by the Art Club members is themed “Shine 200”. Members Tanjong Pagar Community will be showcasing their talent in the different aspects: Club Chinese calligraphy Chinese ink painting, watercolour 101 Cantonment Road painting, oil painting and calligraphy carving Singapore 089774 1pm – 2pm Talk: Join Dr Loh Kah Seng, historian and researcher as he shares Singapore Chin Kang Huay The Communicable on the history of the former Middleton Hospital, the rich Kuan Disease Centre in heritage of the hospital's wards and pavilions. 29 Bukit Pasoh Road #04-01 History, Heritage and Pre-registration is required. Singapore 089843 Memory by Dr Loh Kah Seng 1pm – 7pm Exhibition: Developed in conjunction with the Singapore Bicentennial, To be confirmed MPA Maritime Bus by this travelling bus is a showcase of Singapore’s maritime Maritime Port Authority past, present and future through interactive content. 2pm – 4pm Demonstration: Dr Tan Ching Yam (PhD) is an award-winning artist who is Art Gallery Finger Painting skilled in Chinese finger and brush painting. He is also an Tanjong Pagar Community Demonstration by Dr avid art educator who regularly conducts art courses with Club Tan Ching Yam People’s Association. 101 Cantonment Road Singapore 089774 2:30pm – 4:30pm Activity: Holiday fun begins with the TPCC Pottery Club’s special Pottery Studio #02-02 TPCC Pottery Club pottery workshop for kids aged 7 to 12. Pre-registration is Tanjong Pagar Community required at the Tanjong Pagar Community Club counter by Club 16 November 2019. The cost fee is $55 inclusive of 101 Cantonment Road materials. Limited to 20 participants. Singapore 089774 3pm – 4:30pm Talk: Archaeologists have mainly focused their attention on the To be confirmed Singapore's Chinatown area northeast of the Singapore River. Most of the area in History and southwest of the river ("Chinatown" and Tanjong Pagar) has Archaeology by Dr John been subject to so much recent development that it is difficult Miksic to imagine any locations where research might reveal undisturbed 19th-century remains. In this talk by eminent archaeologist, Dr John Miksic, discoveries from Duxton Hill and Pulau Saigon will be compared to other 19th-century remains found northeast of the Singapore River. Pre- registration is required. 3pm – 4:30pm Activity: This is a special programme for children ages 4 to 12, Singapore Chin Kang Huay centred around the popular Singapore folktale of how Kuan Hang Nadim and the Singapore was attacked by garfish/swordfish. Participants 29 Bukit Pasoh Road #04-01 Garfish by Helang will receive a special book as part of the activities. Limited to Singapore 089843 Books 30 children. Pre-registration is required. 3pm – 6pm Activity: This popular event is running for the seventh year and is Tanjong Pagar Community Sing-a-long by Tanjong hosted by popular Getai singers Zhang Xiong and Xu Qiong Club Pagar Community Club Fang. Their special guest for the afternoon is Lee Pei Fen, 101 Cantonment Road (Ticketed Event) who will surely make the session an enjoyable one. Singapore 089774 3pm - 7pm Activity: Support our local businesses! A specially curated Farmer’s Bukit Pasoh Road Farmer’s Market by Market by Central Singapore CDC, this is a platform to Central Singapore CDC encourage healthy eating habits and lifestyle. Shoppers can enjoy fresh, organic produce such as locally grown vegetables, granola and organic honey. 4pm – 5:30pm Film Screening: Rediscover the stories and rich food heritage of our To be confirmed Reviving Our forefathers through this short film, produced by Lynn Wong. Forefathers’ Produced in 2018, this film looks at little known heritage food Disappearing Foods from the Cantonese and Hakka communities By Singapore Heritage Pre-registration is required Society 4pm – 7pm Activity: PlaystreetsSG converts the street into a giant playground To be confirmed Playstreets@SG by offering a high-impact way to encourage more physical Singapore Wellness activity, particularly in neighbourhoods that often lack open Association space. This is one for the whole family to enjoy. 8.30pm - 10pm Movie on the streets: The day culminates in a free movie screening under the stars Bukit Pasoh Road Wayang Boy and on the road. Bring your own mats, deck chairs to enjoy a (PG13) ‘Made-in-Singapore’ film. SPECIAL PROMOTIONS BY STAKEHOLDERS 11:00am – Tea Chapter Visit the first shophouse in Tanjong Pagar that was the first 9 Neil Road 10:30pm pilot restoration project undertaken by the URA Conservation Singapore 088808 Porgramme. Visit Tea Chapter on 23 Nov and receive a special souvenir if you mention a special code. Note: Information accurate as of 21 October 2019. Spaces are limited for tours, talks and workshops. Visit the link for the latest updates. .