Originally posted Jul 20, 2014 (see original archived version here) This is the second of seven articles on Hari Raya and Malay Culture appearing in the July/August 2014 issue of PASSAGE, the magazine of the Friends of the Museum (FOM). Two Ramadan bazaars of long standing in Singapore distinguish themselves in cultural and socio-historical importance, […]
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Singapura Stories Seminar Nine, in conjunction with Pesta Raya 2016 Saturday 6 August, 2016 2-4:30pm Library @Esplanade Free seating – Registration not required This Seminar, held in conjunction with Pesta Raya 2016 by Esplanade Theatres, presents two talks by well-known experts who contextualise Malay adat and material culture within wider cultural perspectives. The talks emphasise […]
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Singapura Stories Seminar Eight Some of the items kept by the artist behind one of the murals, Shamsuddin H Akib, father of the speaker Dahlia Shamsuddin. The three murals were commissioned following a competition held in 1963. In 1963, two artists won a competition to design murals for the new terminal building for the Paya […]
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Singapura Stories is very fortunate to have two article contributions from an independent scholar, Daeng Paliweng from Johor, Malaysia and a member of the Johor Bugis Association (UGIK), on two of the merchants buried in Jalan Kubor Cemetery, behind Malabar Mosque, Victoria Street, Kampung Gelam town (Kampong Glam) in Singapore. The first article was […]
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Singapura Stories is very fortunate to have two article contributions from an independent scholar, Daeng Paliweng from Johor, Malaysia, on two of the merchants buried in the historically significant Jalan Kubor Cemetery, Singapore. In this first article we learn more about a man who was possibly the wealthiest among the Bugis merchants in late nineteenth- […]
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There is wizardry in cooking. So I was told by mum as I poked around the kitchen as a young boy, amazed by the various transformations of just one dish before my eyes. That dish is the rendang, which hails from West Sumatra, that has today become part of the pan-Malay culinary repertoire. Like most […]
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