What will Singapore be like in 2035: A Time Capsule Workshop
- Ages 14+
Join Victor Fernando R. Ocampo in learning about micro-fictions through a time capsule workshop.
Location
Our Tampines Hub : Space Level 2, Lobby B
1 Tampines Walk Singapore, 528523 SingaporeSpeakers
About this event
- Paid venue parking
About the Workshop
What will Singapore be like in 2035?
Facilitated by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
What if there was a way to contact yourself ten years into the future and vice versa? What would you want your future 2035 self to know? What do you think you’d like to tell your present 2025 self?
What will Tampines look like in 2035? What technologies, challenges, or surprises might shape our lives? This workshop invites participants to imagine how YOUR LIFE could possibly be in ten years time using simple techniques from Science Fiction Worldbuilding, Futurecasting, and writing microfiction. Explore how your future everyday life, community spaces, and even your personal dreams could possibly evolve.
Through guided writing prompts and creative exercises, we’ll anchor your imagination exercise in possibility -- helping you envision a future that’s personal, hopeful, and rich in stories about community.
Get a chance to become part of a multi-media art project that will be unveiled only in SG70.
The workshop part of this session is designed to be playful, reflective, and inspiring — welcoming both seasoned writers and curious newcomers.
Come and help shape tomorrow, one word at a time.
About A Few Little Words: Memories of The Future
Following the success of A Few Little Words: Stories from Tampines and Beyond 2024, this second installment, A Few Little Words II: Memories of the Future, continues to build a creative legacy in Tampines, commemorating Singapore's 60th National Day (SG60). Through a series of engaging literary workshops running from July to November 2025, participants will delve deeply into our rich history, shared heritage, collective memories, and imaginative cultural landscape. These workshops will act as a creative incubator for the local community, encouraging residents to explore new narratives deeply rooted in temporality—honoring the past, celebrating the present, and envisioning an inspired future. Participants will reflect on personal and communal histories, drawing from lived experiences and inherited stories to forge fresh literary expressions uniquely representative of Tampines' evolving identity.
Part of Singapore Writers Festival 2025, the culmination of these workshops will be an anthology co-edited by Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and Vertical Submarine. This curated publication will showcase a vibrant collection of narratives capturing the distinct spirit, memory, and imagination of Tampines residents.
Frequently asked questions
These workshops are designed to be a once-off experience, so just attending one is sufficient.
Yes, Our Tampines Hub is rather huge and can be quite daunting for first-timers. We recommend all our guests to arrive 10-15mins earlier to explore the mall and navigate so that you arrive at your workshop on time! If you need any assistance, head over to the Customer Services counter for help.
Yes, we welcome anyone with an interest to write even if you don't have the proper training.
Yes, definitely! It can potentially be a pretty fun family bonding session if you are open to it :)
We will be sharing with you the date shortly. Do join our mailing list and to keep a look out when you can submit once the date of our Open Call is released for your chance to be published.
Organized by
Vertical Submarine is an art collective that does cross-disciplinary projects, which incorporate painting, theatre, installation and curating, to explore methods of storytelling through words and images.