Cross Talk: A Podcast on Cross-Generational Literature in Singapore
Event Details
Ongoing
Online
Hosted by Textures' Artistic Director Jason Wee, CrossTalk is a podcast series on the art and life of writing across generations of writers. We will hear veteran authors through archival recordings as well as younger writers responding to them. These archival recordings are courtesy of the National Library Board and the National Archives Singapore.
Aaron Maniam listens to the poet Dr Lee Tzu Pheng
Episode 1
Episode 2
Stephanie Chan listens to writer Catherine Lim
Episode 1
Episode 2
Bani and Ila listens to poet and writer Suratman Markasan
Episode 1
Episode 2
Aaron Maniam
Aaron Maniam's debut poetry collection "Morning at Memory's Border" (2005) was shortlisted for the 2007 Singapore Literature Prize. "Second Persons" was published in 2018. He has mentored younger writers under the Creative Arts Programme (since 2004) and NAC's Mentor Access Project, and has twice judged manuscripts for SingLit Station's Poetry Bootcamp. He is a civil servant by profession.
Bani and Ila
As an artist and musician, Bani considers music as material and his projects revolve around human-machine intimacies through various forms of interfacing and interaction. Ila's research centres on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space, and histories that lie hidden, particularly looking at kinships with land and water bodies. She does art sometimes.
Stephanie Chan
Stephanie is a Singaporean writer, performer, and producer whose first poetry collection, Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press, 2019) explores growing up, good times in strange places and strange times in good places. In 2020, with the support of the National Arts Council, she co-created a short film based on poems from the collection called An Intermediate Guide to Roadkill. She has won national poetry slams in Singapore and the UK and has been invited to perform her work in thirteen countries. The founder of a poetry night called Spoke & Bird and the co-founder of a comedy night called Siao Char Bors Comedy, Stephanie is inspired by mud and Southeast Asian wildlife.
