SCENES workshop: Healing with Humour By Gwee Li Sui
Event Information
About this Event
What is one thing we should learn or unlearn, in order to participate meaningfully in the world we live in?
Workshops by artist in Singapore to share knowledge and meaning in different areas to help us create, remember and laugh!
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Healing with Humour by Gwee Li Sui
This workshop aims to illustrate the importance of humour in our social interactions. If we can understand how a society thinks by how it laughs, can growing our sense of humour help us change?
This workshop will demonstrate that the gaps in our perception of another or a situation can be bridged by humour. Conducted entirely chat-based, participants can observe the way words work without cues from physical expression, and also appreciate the power of words more directly.
Workshop Details
Date: 10 September 2020, Thursday
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Language: English
Capacity: 15 pax
*Recommended for ages 16 and above
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*Note*
- Please note that Drama Box will be recording activities and content on the SCENES virtual site for archival purposes. Selected footage will be used for marketing and publicity purposes
- More information and workshop link will be emailed to you one day before the workshop. Please make sure you fill in the correct email address.
- We want to share with you a cup of tea from our sponsor Pek Sin Choon. If you’d like to enjoy some Chinese tea, please also fill in your home address so we can mail it to you.
About Gwee Li Sui
Gwee Li Sui is a poet, a graphic artist, and a literary critic. He wrote Singapore’s first long-form graphic novel in English, Myth of the Stone, in 1993. His works of verse include Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? (1998), One Thousand and One Nights (2014), Who Wants to Buy an Expanded Edition of a Book of Poems? (2015), The Other Merlion and Friends (2015), Haikuku (2017), and Death Wish (2017). Gwee has also edited acclaimed literary anthologies, taught at several universities, and lectured on a range of subjects. He has written FEAR NO POETRY!: An Essential Guide to Close Reading (2014), Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate (2017), and The Leeter Tunku (2019), a Singlish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.
