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Bringing tradition to the youth with Malay dance pioneer Som Said
At the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF) school outreach programme, we always strive to inspire students in interactive ways. On April 10, the SWHF invited Som Said, award-winning Malay dance choreographer pioneer and 2014 inductee, to share her journey in Malay dance with some 70 students from Catholic Junior College. This was part of the week long roving exhibition (8 – 18 April) that the SWHF had put up, where 12 inductees from the categories of arts, advocacy and STEM were featured. For Reynardo, a Year Two student, it was his first time learning about the SWHF. “I thought that generally, males make good leaders so I look up…
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SWHF – Walking in the Footsteps of Our Foremothers
The Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF) and tour guide May Hui were joined by 10 excited participants of diverse backgrounds on a fine Saturday late afternoon for the very first heritage walk of the year, Walking in the Footsteps of Our Foremother. Starting promptly at 4.00 pm, SWHF staff-in-charge, Clara, gave a short introduction about the Hall of Fame before taking a group photo at the SCWO premise. May Hui kick started her sharing at the very first stop of the walk – the SCWO and the inductees who were activists of women’s rights. Holding up a past photo of one of SCWO’s founding members and SWHF inductee, Dr…
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Telling It As It Is: The Lives of Women in Early Singapore
In conjunction with the Lives of Women Exhibition, the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame organised two talks, She Works Hard for the Money and I am Woman, Hear Me Roar on 25 May 2018 and 8 June 2018 respectively. She Works Hard for The Money saw a diverse group of women from all walks of life, with a handful of men amongst them. They listened attentively, their gaze almost never leaving the archaic black-and-white photographs telling of a bygone era. Sociologist Dr Lai Ah Eng was the mouthpiece of women in pre-independence Singapore and Malaya, sharing her own anecdotes with her research on the various job categories that women were in, such as farming, prostitution,…
