Singapore Dream Project Workshop 2014

Some interesting lessons from this experience 

Firstly, the opportunity came when I learned my friend Catherine Lim from my Bukit Brown connection was giving a talk on "women of the straits settlements". Catherine had previously seen me doing GR scribing for the Bukit Brown advocacy community. I asked her to ask the Organisers to let me do GR for her.

I registered for the event (Eventbrite) and found there were 18 items 10 minutes each, on the agenda!

I received a very positive email response from the organisers, and asked if I could bring in a team of co-recorders: Affirmative response soon came.

The team of Lim, Lim and Lim was soon assembled.

I decided to use A0 foam core board for the recording: I got the metal tripod and extended the central holder in case I was going to record in portrait mode. I was worried about the toothyness of the paper surfaced foam core board, so bought three sets of quick and nasty sharpie type permanent markers,.

At 5 am, 9 hours before the event started I decided to staple a flip chart onto each of the 18 foam core boards. I was planning to stack recorded boards as a triangular tower.

(To add to my fun I had a Sketchwalk urban Sketchers event 9 am -12:30pm in the vicinity)

Sketching done, I joined my team at 1 pm at Theatreworks.

We prepped our boards and assigned the tasks equally, 6 sessions each.

We used blue tack to fasten three boards on the wall at eye level.

The blue tack held for some but gave way for others. 

We continues to record on the tripod.

The scribe continued finishing touches with board on our knees 

while next scribe readied next board on the tripod.

We peeled off completed sheets and blue tacked them on the wall.

Without the foam core board the flipcharts stayed blue tacked to the wall.

10 minutes per session was quite fast: 

Some sessions were content light and a breeze to do.

A few sessions were content dense and one even rambling!

Participants and audience liked our work and many came to take photos,

Calling cards were exchanged and potential gigs are in the offing!

LESSONS LEARNED

Team work is invaluable

Expect the unexpected 

Adapt and adjust.

Probono work has its rerwards!

And thanks to Bernie for portrait lessons the evening before!

SGGR meetup August 2014 edition

 

Chatting while the others fight traffic jam on the way in.

Food, glorious food...

A set of double sized playing cards, $2.00 from Daiso. images from glossy magazines cut and paste: pick a card (face down). Use image to tell us about you. 

Roller coaster : 

My life is..

My buisness is...

Sketch noting the proceedings

Large chart GR of the meeting

Debriefing on doing graphic recording at IAF meeting

Group photo

The Chart

"Confucianism and Citizenship in the Nanyang Diaspora"

"Confucianism and Citizenship in the Nanyang Diaspora" 

the 3rd Lim Boon Keng Memorial Lecture 

a Distinguished Public Lecture presented by Dr Prasenjit Duara
Raffles Professor of Humanities & Director, Asia Research Institute,

National University of Singapore. 
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place, Singapore
4 September 2014 Thursday 6.00 pm

A stealth GR  from my front row seat, place of honour not withstanding.

This was my opening panel (pan pastels added at home)

Middle of first panel.

Bottom of first panel.

Top of seconds panel 

Rather like the arty effect.

Middle of second panel

Bottom of second panel

Top of third panel

Arty bit to fill up unused real estate

GR in memory of my great grandfather

At a Bukit Brown event celebrating the advocacy award, Alex Tan reminded me of the Lim Boon Keng Memorial Lecture at Asian Cilivisation Museum 4 Sept 2014, 6 days before the event.

Alex Tan is the trustee for Lim Boon Keng estate. I got to know Alex over the past 2 years due to our mutual interest in the history and Heritage at Bulkit Brown 

Lim Boon Keng is my paternal great grand father. Amongst other things, I discovered that my Great grandfather Dr Lim Boon Keng was the founding president  of The China Society. 

The invitation came. 

"The China Society is proud to present 
the 3rd Lim Boon Keng Memorial Lecture 4 September 2014 Thursday 6.00 pm

Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place, Singapore

"Confucianism and Citizenship in the Nanyang Diaspora"

a Distinguished Public Lecture presented by Dr Prasenjit Duara
Raffles Professor of Humanities & Director, Asia Research Institute,

National University of Singapore 5.30 pm)

Then the inspiration came: why not do a GR? 
After all I am a great grand son of the grand old man.
I wrote to the Society. I got no reply. "who is the head?" I asked.
" Ms Aileen Tan" came the reply.
I recalled I had met her at a previous China Society meeting.
And at that meeting we recalled we had played together with mutual friends as pre-teenagers, half a century ago.
I sent Aileen an email requesting to do a graphing recording .
Finally got approval some 5 hours before the event: with much lobbying from the honorary auditor.

I turned up with my 6x3 board only to be told that the committee were horrified by the potential disruption that a 6x3 foot chart might produce: they were adamant and definitely vetoed the idea of me doing a big chart recording but I was given a place of great honour, a front row seat where I could do a small recording, body language implying an A4 recording. 
I gracefully sat down and fumed. Then my inner Ninja kicked in. I went to cut a 3x4 foot piece of paper, folded into 4 panels, and folded that into four. Learning Ninja Origami has its uses! I GRed blithely on my front row seat, place of honour not withstanding.

This was my opening panel (pan pastels added at home)

Middle of first panel.

Bottom of first panel.

Top of seconds panel 

Rather like the arty effect.

Middle of second panel

Bottom of second panel

Top of third panel

Arty bit to fill up unused real estate

UP Storytelling Workshop

The stealth recording that wasn't!

I had come prepared for a stealth recording but found a seat at the back of the hall, next to a glass window that was 8 foot wide: could not help taping my chart up and start scribing!

Our core GR team happended to be in attendance.

On my way into the meeting I took a picture of the building, which later proved to be useful.

There was a handout from which I developed the heading.

This panel captures the introduction.

This was the first keynote speaker 

Data and my "sign off "

Keynote speaker #2

Keynote speaker #3

Keynote speaker #4 and Q&A

A list of colour codes for the meeting

A sketch of the building to nicely occupy some leftover real estate! Building housed South Bridge Road branch if Overseas Union Bank Cooperation once upon a time.