Background
Developed as a community-based art project, The Unforgetting Space collaborates with different communities in Singapore to invite their members to share historical episodes in the community that are missing or even misrepresented in the official narratives of Singapore. In so doing, we reclaim the narration of history from the state to the community, creating a Singapore narrative rich with diverse voices and perspectives.

Programme
The Unforgetting Space (2016 – ongoing): A Curated History of Malay women in Singapore/Malaya is a partnership with Aware’s project, Gender Equality Is Our Culture, to bring forth the voices of Malay women from different generations and backgrounds. This project consists of three events:

1. A workshop for ~10 women who will produce an artwork (timeline) articulating episodes in their generation which affect their community
2. An exhibition of the artwork inviting members of the community to respond with their own episodes
3. An inter-generational dialogue among the community members based on the episodes/responses from the artwork which seeks to bridge differences between them and facilitate individual aspiration

Episodes/responses may also be chosen to be included in volume 2 of Perempuan: Muslim Women in Singapore Speak Out, which is an anthology of essays and poems written by Muslim women.

Workshop
Participants develop and map a curated history of Malay women in Malaya/Singapore using visual materials and text. The workshop details are:

1. Introduction and briefing session
2. Brainstorming
3. Mapping: through narratives and research, identify histories, moments, stories
4. Visualizing: participants will draw out materials (archival, images, stories, objects) to visualize and plot onto map
5. Closing and reflection

Details
Date: 6 May 2017
Time: 1-5pm
Venue: Aware centre, Blk 5 Dover Crescent #01-22 S130005
Fee: Free!

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Facilitators
Tan Biyun makes work on issues concerning community life, human rights and social justice. Her recent works include ‘Future Trees & the Pulp of History’, Gillman Barracks (Singapore), ‘To Singapore with Love’, Substation (Singapore) and the performance, Waiting for Butterflies, Guyu Action Performance Festival (China) as a response against the environment destruction caused by overdevelopment

Nurul Huda Rashid is an educator, researcher-writer, and photographer interested in the study of narratives as medium, the spatial and bodily (gendered and other) as visual and sentient manifestations, and articulates them through written and visual projects. She has exhibited in group exhibitions, published in anthologies featuring women’s stories, and is currently working on an ethnographic project entitled ‘Women in War’.