News

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 […]

Movie: Invisible City

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

The latest work from Tan Pin Pin Invisible City opens 19 July 2007 with free screenings at NUS followed by a commercial run at The Arts House. Tan Pin Pin, one of Singapore’s best known filmmakers, directed the critically and commercially acclaimed Singapore GaGa as well as the multi award-winning Moving House. She now turns […]

Citizen Historian in the Newz

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

 Things left unsaid.
One spark that inspired us to start this project was all the little golden leftovers that got edited out. Sometimes it’s a hilarious anecdote that would have annoyed a then-important person (or paymaster!), or a snippet that didn’t fit the overall thesis and argument. Or a tale just too R-rated for a country with […]

quicklinks

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

A selection of the history related news from outside of Singapore. in the month of May Cambodian ghosts remind a generation unfamiliar with the past, a Creation Museum unites historians, pre-historians and scientists, and lastly, “That’s history” means different things to Europeans and Americans.