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2024 Singapore Literature Festival

Saturday, October 19-Sunday, October 20, 2024

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3:00 pm-9:00 pm Eastern

Korean Cultural Center New York & Asian American Writers' Workshop, 122 East 32nd Street, New York, New York

2024 Singapore Literature Festival: Living Adaptations
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The 6th Singapore Literature Festival returns to NYC, spotlighting writing for stage and screen. This year’s Festival is titled “Living Adaptations” and features a multidisciplinary and transnational lineup of artmakers, lots of food, community, and joy.

Programming highlights include: 

  • The New York premiere of the Korean-Singaporean film Ajooma, with the director, He Shuming, flying in from Singapore to chat with us; 
  • A panel on adapting classics for the stage, specifically featuring non-Western artists adapting Western classics for non-Western audiences, including Rebecca Martínez, who co-directed the bilingual production of The Comedy of Errors for The Public last summer; 
  • A conversation on pulling narrative from hundreds of hours of film with documentary filmmakers, including Chai Vasarhelyi, who won an Oscar for Free Solo;
  • And a keynote from artistic director Ong Keng Sen in which he’ll discuss adapting Euripides’ Trojan Women through traditional and contemporary Korean forms, from pansori to K-pop. 

This fun event is totally free. Save a ticket here.