Public Programme
Fun with Languages
| Date: | 1 – 2 Jun 2015 |
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| Venue: | National Library Building 100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064 |
| Admission: | Free Admission |
Fun with Languages is a family-oriented programme that is free for the public. It is will feature a wide variety of activities and performances in Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English as well as bilingual activities! The programme would encourage parents to cultivate in their children an interest in speaking and understanding their mother tongue. You can expect to enjoy a whole host of performances such as storytelling, skits and cross talks in one of the local languages and English!
1 June 2015
11.00am - 11.45am
PLAZA
Tales from East Asia (Storytelling in Mandarin)
A collaboration with National Library Board (NLB), a Read! Singapore anthology for young readers.
12.30pm - 1.00pm
Duelling Illustrators (in Mandarin)
Patrick Yee 余广达 (Author, Illustrator) Liang Huiyu 梁慧瑜 (Founder, Sprout Language Centre) Joey Ng (Illustrator)
Don't miss this exciting battle of illustrations. Keep your eyes open as two local illustrators, Patrick Yee and Joey Ng, sketch on the spot while an unpublished picture book manuscript is read out scene-by-scene.
2.00pm - 2.45pm
Tales from East Asia (Storytelling in Malay)
A collaboration with National Library Board (NLB), a Read! Singapore anthology for young readers.
3.00pm - 3.45pm
PLAZA
Bilingualism at Home
Ying Chang Compestine (Author ) Rilla Melati (Director, Mini Monsters) R.G. Thiruselvi (Associate, National Library Board)
Want to help your children to be more effectively bilingual? Join Rilla Melati, Ying Chang Compestine and Thiruselvi Gopal as they get in on the discussion of encouraging bilingualism at home with their children.
4.00pm - 4.45pm
PLAZA
Tales from East Asia (Storytelling in Tamil)
A collaboration with National Library Board (NLB), a Read! Singapore anthology for young readers.
2 June 2015
10.30am - 12.00pm
B1 MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
Learning Language through Creative Music and Movement
Lavina Chong (Educator) Doreen Leong (Director, Co-Founder, Our Music Classroom)
FOR: Children aged 4-6 years old
Register here.
Come dressed comfortably
A musical journey to a little red dot called Singapore where you will meet people that speaks in 4 different languages (English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil). This is a fun and interactive workshop where participants will listen and move to music from our homeland. Come join us where languages come alive in this workshop filled with music, dance and drama!
11.00am - 12.00pm
PLAZA
Book Talk and National Story Challenge Roadshow (in English)
R Karthik (READ! Singapore Associate, National Library Board)
Discover the good reads selected by the “Read! Singapore” campaign for young readers in these multi-language book talks. Join the speakers as they share with you about the selected titles as well as conduct short interactive segments to get you reading! Come watch a skit and learn the art of improvisational storytelling at the NSC Roadshow.
12.00pm - 1.00pm
PLAZA
Book Talk and National Story Challenge Roadshow (in Mandarin)
Yang Qinli (Librarian, National Library Board)
The NSC Roadshow helps to illustrate the concept of Story Challenge better. The actors will explain the process of Story Challenge through their performance and this will give the students some insight as to how improvisational storytelling can be done.
1.00pm - 1.30pm
PLAZA
‘The Never Mind Girl’ – Bilingual storytelling in Korean & English
Jeong Jin Lim (Author) Rosemarie Somaiah (Storyteller)
What will the Never Mind Girl from Singapore find in a Korean classroom? Anna will have to find a way to survive the challenges of a new class, a new school and a new language.
2.00pm - 3.00pm
B1 MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
乐学华文- 为故事插上想象的翅膀 Chinese is Fun!
Su Zhangkai 苏章恺 (Founder, Sprout Language Centre)
FOR: Children aged 6-9 years old.
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在这一个半小时的活动中，孩子们能透过有趣的故事改编任务，激发出他们的创意和想象，更能够借此学习华文的创作和表达能力。
With a task of rewriting classical stories, children will be able to experience a fun and enriching session where they will be able to let off their creativity and imagination.
PLAZA
Book Talk and National Story Challenge Roadshow (in Tamil)
N. Nirmala (Librarian, National Library Board)
The NSC Roadshow helps to illustrate the concept of Story Challenge better. The actors will explain the process of Story Challenge through their performance and this will give the students some insight as to how improvisational storytelling can be done.
3.00pm - 3.30pm
PLAZA
‘The Wolf Khan from the DMZ’ - Bilingual storytelling in Korean & English
Jeong Jin Lim (Author) Rosemarie Somaiah (Storyteller)
The land mines in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Korea make it a cruel, dangerous place for humans, but plants and animals thrive. Will Khan, the lone wild wolf who is forced to come out of his homeland, be able to adapt to his strange new civilised surroundings?
4.00pm - 5.00pm
PLAZA
Book Talk and National Story Challenge Roadshow (in Malay)
Herman Rothman (National Library Board)
The NSC Roadshow helps to illustrate the concept of Story Challenge better. The actors will explain the process of Story Challenge through their performance and this will give the students some insight as to how improvisational storytelling can be done.