Dim Sum Dollies in The History of Singapore

The Dim Sum Dollies (in the History of Singapore) are BACK!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Dim Sum Dollies are back! With their hilarious version of the History of Singapore!
Triumphant after a sold-out run last year, the Dollies (and Hossan Leong) will be strutting and singing in the Esplanade Theatre for a second time from 21 to 28 February 2008. So if you have not seen it, do catch them before […]

Singapore: Story of Possibilities

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

by Sarah Ismail

How many ways to tell the story of Singapore?
It’s August again, and it’s National Day Parade time, where the obligatory reference to Raffles, the Japanese Occupation, and Separation are made. In the later years of the NDP, Sang Nila Utama started making an appearance – possibly because Malay costumes are more […]

Review: Dim Sum Dollies as citizenhistorians

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

by Hong Lysa
It had been a long day. I had spent three hours that afternoon at a talk for teachers on historiography, which emphasized the importance of time and location in history-writing, both of the event and of the writing of it. How history-writing is not about finding out what really happened — an impossible […]