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Archive for August, 2008

Bear Fruit Writing

Saturday, 6 September 2008 (10 am – 5 pm) 
The POD, Level 16 
  
11 September, 18 September & 2 October 2008 (7 pm – 10 pm) 
Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1 
  
  
An old adage goes that the “pen is mightier than the sword”. If you’ve always had a desire to pick up a pen and express what might hopefully [...]

American Entrepreneurs in Singapore: Beers and Web 2.0

Wednesday, 17 September 2008
7 pm – 9 pm
The POD, Level 16
National Library Building
 
In the day of Facebook, Google and Apple, what does it take for a business, online or offline, to be successful?
 
As a Singaporean award-winning microbrewery restaurant started out by American entrepreneurs, the programme will feature Brewerks’ founder, Mr Devin Otto Kimble who will [...]

Eating together Singapore: The Hawker Centre in the Singapore Story

Saturday, 27 September 2008 
2.30 pm – 4 pm 
Mulit-purpose Room, Central Lending Library, Basement 1 
National Library Building 
100 Victoria Street 
  
Based on Professor Lily Kong’s book on Singapore Hawker Centres, she seeks to share her study on how such eating-places have become an iconic Singapore landscape and way of life. She intends to map out the development of [...]