Keeping memories alive: Maintaining Singapore nationalism abroad.

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Keeping memories alive: Maintaining Singapore nationalism abroad

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Keeping memories alive:

Maintaining Singapore nationalism abroad

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Singapore’s Transnational Citizenry

Memory is serious business

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A Day to Remember: Singapore Day 2008 (Melbourne)

New York 2007

Melbourne 2008

London 2009

Organised by the Overseas Singaporeans Unit (Prime Ministers Office)

Cuisine

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The queue for food

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Entertainment (Phua Chu Kang)

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“Rekindle and Rediscover”

Storytelling:

a) The Beaded Slippers

b) Attack of the Swordfish

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Attack of the Swordfish

This is an exciting story of how a village in ancient Singapore worked to fight off the attack of swordfish that terrorised their beautiful beach. Heroic and tragic at the same time, this tale will entrall every child.

[For children aged 8-12 years old]

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Microcosm of Singapore: Melbourne’s Sydney Myer Music Bowl

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