Thursday, May 01, 2008

April 2008 texts

I've been doing a fair bit of Japanese cultural research, as you can see. But my tastes remain pretty eclectic.

*POETRY*
+Anna Akhmatova’s “Poems” (Everyman Library)
+Benjamin Zephaniah’s “Too Black, Too Strong”

*FICTION*
Isa Kamari’s “One Earth”
+Gail Jones’s “Dreams of Speaking”
+Neil Gaiman’s “Fragile Things”
+Haruki Murakami’s “Dance Dance Dance”

*DRAMA*
Kunio Shimizu’s “Tango at the End of Winter”
Elangovan’s “1915” and “Romusha”

*NON-FICTION*
Asiapac’s “Pioneers of Singapore: Builders of Our Land”
+George Williams’s ”Religions of the World: Shinto”
+Charles C. Mann’s “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”
+Mamoru Shinozaki’s “Syonan – My Story”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative's "Porn For Women" and +"Porn For New Moms"
+Art Spiegelman’s “Maus II”
Paul D. Storrie amd Ron Randall’s “Amaterasu: Return of the Sun”

*PERFORMANCES*
+The Theatre Practice’s “The Soldier and His Virtuous Wife”
+Theatreworks’s “Dance Dance Dance”
NUS’s “The West Wing”
+Pentas Theatre Collaboration Project’s “Break-ing Ji Po Ka Si Pe Cah”
SimplyWorks’s “The Enchantment of Sangkuriang”
+Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Rizman Putra’s “Circus”

*EXHIBITIONS*
Steve Chua,Betty Susiarjo and Soh Ee Shaun’s “Lightz Out!”
Singapore Art Museum’s “Primary Colours: Feng Zhengjie”, “Xu Beihong in Nanyang” and “Re-Woven: Featuring the Works of Benny Ong”
+Seelan Palay and Kummi’s “Seelan & Kummi”

*FILM AND VIDEO*
+Sun Koh, K. Rajagopal, Boo Junfeng, Brian Gothong Tan, Chew Tze Chuan, Ho Tzu Nyen and Tania Sng’s “Lucky 7”
Yousry Mansour’s “Dirt Out”
+Todd Haynes’s “I’m Not There”
+Han Yew Kwang’s “18 Grams of Love”
+Boo Junfeng’s “Keluar Baris”, +Michael Tay’s “Wet Seasons”, +Fran Borgia’s “Para Asia”, Muhammad EySham Ali’s “My Home, My Heaven”, Lincoln Chia Zhicheng’s “Love Me, Love My Dogs” and Cheng Ding An’s “Kallang Roar”
Abdul Nizam Hamid’s “Keronchong for Pak Bakar”
Kelvin Tong’s “Rule #1”
+Colin Goh's "Talking Cock: the Movie"
+Boo Junfeng’s “Tanjong Rhu”
+The Gay Christian Network’s “Straight to Heaven”

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