AFCC

Celebrating Our Stars

For Festival delegates and invited guests

Date: 3 Jun 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30 - 8:00pm
Venue: The Pod, National Library Building
100 Victoria Street
Singapore 188064
Dress Code: Smart casual or Traditional
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Celebrating Our Stars is a special evening event dedicated to Singapore authors, illustrators, publishers, distributors and publishing professionals. 


Illustrated by Cai Gao, China

The event also welcomes the launch of three local titles that have been selected from a roster of Asian-inspired tales from local Singaporean authors for translation into the three mother tongue languages. Dinner is hosted by the National Library Board.

The Guest-of-Honour for this event is Ms Sim Ann, Minister of State for the Ministry of Education.

 

ABOUT THE TRANSLATED BOOKS 

Sponsored by the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism, three local titles have been selected by NBDCS, from a roster of Asian-inspired tales from local Singapore authors for translation into the three Mother Tongue languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programme Line-up

Time Activity
6:00pm Arrival of Guests
6:20pm Arrival of GOH
Ms Sim Ann, Minister of State for the Ministry of Education
6:40pm Speech by GOH
6:45pm

Talk: Children's Publishing in Singapore 2014

Ruth Wan, Armor Publishing

6:50pm

Book Launch:
Translated Books supported by
the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism

 

Book Talk: 
I REALLY Rescued a Goat to Save Chinese New Year

Neil Humphreys

 

Book Launch:
The Magic Bird 
​Dr Ken Spillman

 
7:05pm Dinner and Networking Session