Our CE, Dr Varaprasad was ferried in on a trishaw and launched the event with a welcome speech and a symbolic strike of a traditional Malay gong.
We were then treated to a Malay silat performance by Seligi Tunggal Kemuning and Dr Varaprasad went around to tour the booths.
Some of the donors came in really early. Since we are still collecting the donations and the contest is still on, I won't say who donated what, but here are some pics from the Publications booth I was manning:
More reports later. Better still, come down today and witness this event with your own eyes!
Our event partners also ran their own booths:
National Heritage Board – selling the following book Discover Singapore Heritage Trails. This book features seven trails (Singapore River Trail, Civic District Trail, Chinatown, Little India, Kampong Glam, Labrador Nature Reserve and Kent Ridge Park) in a single, collective publication. Through these trails, one can discover the social history, communities and special places in Singapore. The two nature trails are a collaborative effort of NHB with National Parks Board and are being released to the public for the first time.
Museum of Shanghai Toys – displaying old Shanghai posters, books, calendars and bookmarks. The booth is to promote the artifacts including print artifacts from the museum. The Museum of Shanghai Toys is the first museum of its kind in the world.
Singapore Heritage Society (2 booths) - selling publications of SHS and display exhibitions of activities of SHS so that they can create awareness of the society and recruit more members.
Web Archive Singapore by NLB's very own Digital Library Services folks.
Traditional Games by a private vendor who sells all sorts of traditional games.
Contributors to Yesterday.SG also blogged about this event:
On the paper trail by Tym
Top 10 Rare Finds of 11 Nov by muse
1 useful comments:
Hi Damien, I thot you were with NHB?
Too bad I couldn't make it in the morning. Sure would be nice to see if my old lecturer could still recognise me.
Anyway, regretablly, I couldn't find my father's 1918 birth cert and citizen cert which I would have glady donated. But to make up for it, I donated mine (duplicate and extract) which was still more than 1/2 century old.
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