Art and Culture

Evening coffee/tea session followed by dinner later, to meet new friends, exchange and share different cultures in a group event - group experience sharing is one of the best way to know your new friends ;-) Hey everyone, we will be at the the tables right in front of the Old Chang Kee, at the outdoors! Hope to see you soon! Closest MRT is Bugis and City Hall. Event Etiquette: • Please understand that this is not a business networking group, and please don't sell MLM (multi level marketing) here. You may still exchange numbers but it will be at your own discretion. • The organizer has the right to ban members from attending events and from the group.

Dropping by to grab a drink and read at Shake Coffee before they close on 30 April 2026. This is a limited seats, small group event, so do try to update your RSVP early if your plans change! Thanks in advance! Nearest MRT: Rochor

**Discover the Healing Power of Pranic Healing & Twin Hearts Meditation!** Join us for a complimentary introductory talk, meditation, and healing event on every Tuesdays, 7.30pm\~9.30pm. Pranic Healing is a powerful energy healing modality that can help you achieve better physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. It is a non-invasive, non-touch healing technique that uses prana, or life force energy, to cleanse, energise, and balance the energy body. During the introductory talk, you will learn more about Pranic Healing, how it works, and the many benefits it can offer. You will also have the opportunity to experience Pranic Healing for yourself with a complimentary session from our Pranic Healing volunteers. In addition to the introductory talk and healing session, you will also get to experience Meditation on Twin Hearts. This meditation is a simple yet powerful practice that can help you achieve inner peace, harmony, and love. It is also a great way to connect with your higher self and with the divine. This event is open to all ages 16 and above, but registration is required. To secure your seat, please sign-up at the link below. We hope to see you there! **Date:** Every Tuesdays **Time:** 7.30pm-9.30pm **Venue:** Downtown Gallery #02-09/10 Open to All, including public, who are 16 years of age & above. *Complimentary!* [Register your seat](https://form.jotform.com/210080203650438)

Join Os Angoleiros do Interior for a whole-body experience of Capoeira Angola to close out your day! Come in comfortable clothes as we learn basic movements and tune our senses to the rhythm of Capoeira Angola. Welcome to all levels of movement experience, even if you have never heard of Capoeira! First class is free! **Please note;** session venue on Tuesday is held at lawn bowls at stadium, on top of the singapore sports museum

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Most people in Singapore haven’t tried beach tennis yet — and honestly, that’s part of the appeal. It’s fast-paced like tennis, social like volleyball, and played barefoot on sand. You don’t need prior experience, and the learning curve is surprisingly quick. Beach tennis is big in Brazil, and it’s now starting to pick up in Singapore. Sessions are run by Pacific Beach Tennis Academy, which is Singapore's first dedicated beach tennis academy. If you’re looking to: – try a new sport without pressure – meet people in a more relaxed setting – or just switch things up from your usual workouts this might be worth checking out. Sessions are beginner-friendly, and all equipment is provided. If you’re keen or have any questions, feel free to message Luke at 8950 0295. You can learn more about Pacific Beach Tennis Academy here as well: Website: https://pbta.sg/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pbta.sg/

**INVASION**: No facilitation, just visiting a library! We'll stay near the entrance for a few minutes then head over to read. Say hi, or don't! :-) We think it's a slightly different experience exploring a spot with people you've been introduced to, however briefly, and having someone to share your personal trivia with when you find something interesting. Leave a comment in the meetup if you want to be found. We'll keep a lookout. If you're late, you will have to find us yourself! P.s. We _may_ have something for the early birds that chirp at us :-) - Nearest MRT: Bukit Batok

**Join us for a fun photography adventure in the vibrant Keong Saik neighborhood! Whether you're a pro or just starting out, this is the perfect place to capture amazing photos.** **You can expect to find lots of interesting subjects to photograph, from colorful street art and heritage shophouses to lively cafes and bustling markets. Bring your mobile phone or any camera you have – we'll be happy to help if you need any tips or advice.** **Join us if you are interested in photography. It doesn't matter if you are a pro or a beginner; we do it for the love of photography. We'll kick off with a short meet and greet before heading out to click pictures together.** **After our photo walk, we'll end at a nearby coffee shop to chat and share our experiences.** **This is a free event, but please RSVP to let us know you're coming. If you have any trouble finding us or have questions, feel free to call or text: Jay: +65 9352 0249 Sandeep: +65 8609 1667** **Join our WhatsApp group for live location sharing: https://chat.whatsapp.com/D9YcKn9GR7jH8q2U2g0xld?mode=hqctcli We share our live location there to help everyone stay connected — especially as people naturally wander off while shooting.** **Meeting Point: Outram Park MRT - Outram Park MRT — Exit 4 (towards Keong Saik / Teo Hong Road)** **Route: Keong Saik Rd → Bukit Pasoh → Neil Rd**

Step into the stories behind Singapore’s everyday flavours. This session brings you into the heart of a neighbourhood where food, family and tradition meet. Hear from the second generations of a popiah business (Fortune Food) and a long-standing Hainanese Western cafe (Tuck In). Discover how their journeys are shaped by resilience, relationships and craft. Beyond food, spend time at a nostalgic provision shop run by an elderly couple. Chat with them, hear their stories and capture the charm of an old-school space through your own lens. Enjoy: **Hainanese-style Food and Drinks, popiah and bring home a collectible DuringMyTime.sg coin!** An introduction to heritage of popiah & Hainanese Western food in Singapore Stories by Fortune Food & Tuck In Cafe Hands-on rolling popiah experience Conversations with an elderly-run provision shop Photography tips and moments capturing old-school neighbourhood life Light bites, mindfulness micro-practice & game quest. _Pending approval for use of SG Culture Pass. Ticket price is about $42 in total. RSVP if you are keen_!

## ✨ Heart to Art: Self-Discovery Series **Starting from 22 April - 20 May Every Wednesday, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM** 📍 Siglap Centre \#02\-24 \| Thought Reframe Bonus session location TBC ### Have you been feeling… • Tired of overthinking • Disconnected from yourself • Wanting a safe space to just *be* • Craving something meaningful, not just another activity This is not just an art class. This is a space to come home to yourself. *** ## 🌿 What is Heart to Art? Heart to Art is a **guided self-discovery experience** where you express what’s within—through art, reflection, and gentle facilitation. No pressure. No judgment. No need to be “good” at art. Just you, your heart, and a space that holds you. *** ## 🎨 The 5-Part Journey Each session is carefully designed to support a different part of your inner world: 22 Apr🌸 **Self-Love** – Fill your own cup 29 Apr🌟 **Fun** – Rediscover your joy 6 May🌿 **Freedom** – Release and create freely 13 May🌊 **Emotional Reset** – A safe space to feel and release 20 May🍃 **Thought Reframe** – Shift your inner narrative You can try 1 session… then decide if you'd like to experience the full transformation through the series. *** ## ✨ What You’ll Experience • Guided prompts (no experience needed) • Gentle inner reflection • A calming, safe, heart-led environment • Emotional release and clarity • Deep connection (with yourself and others) Many participants say they feel: → lighter → healing → connection *** ## 💬 What Others Have Shared “I didn’t expect to feel so much… in a good way. It felt like something inside me softened.” “I came stressed and left feeling calm and clear.” “It’s rare to find a space where you don’t have to pretend. I could just be myself.” “I realized things about myself I didn’t even know I was holding in.” “It’s not just art… it’s healing.” *** ## 💰 Investment ✨ First Time Trial: **$38** ✨ Single Session: **$58** ✨ Heart to Art Series: **$228** (5 sessions) 🎁 Includes **1 Bonus “Thought Reframe” session when series is taken** ## 💳 Payment Details Please make payment via **PayNow (UEN): 53334862E (Tracy.Im)** After payment, kindly: 1. Send a screenshot of your payment 2. Indicate the session date(s) you’re attending 📲 WhatsApp to: **9387 3142 (Tracy)** *** ## 🌸 Who This Is For This is for you if you: • Are on a self-growth or healing journey • Feel deeply and want a safe outlet • Want to reconnect with yourself • Are open, curious, or simply exploring *** ## 🤍 Important to Know • No art experience needed • All materials provided • Thought Reframe only available as Bonus when the full series is taken • Feel free to trial first then decide if you want to enjoy the full series • Small, intimate group setting • Limited slots per session *** ## 🌟 Final Note If you feel drawn to this, trust that feeling. You don’t need to overthink it. Sometimes the spaces that call you… are the ones your heart already knows you need.

**For ages 21 and above.** Sakthi Fine Arts is a registered academy in Singapore for teaching Bharatanatyam and dedicated to promote art and culture through teaching, artistic collaboration and performances. With the structured learning curriculum, the school gives an opportunity to learn and explore dance and to make this art form an integral part of the ethnic scene and accessible to all the art enthusiasts in the community. The school is committed to maintaining the cultural and aesthetic sensibilities of Bharatanatyam. ### **Address** 10 Woodlands Square, #03-54, Singapore 737714 ### **Schedule** Sundays 1030AM - 1130AM ### **Booking Information** * Please contact **98225900** to find out how to book this class. * The instructor will reach out to you once you've booked the class.

Where does genuinely new stuff come from, and what does the answer obligate us to do? We are primates, evolved for the African Savana, with meat machines in our heads. These meat machines can do something curious: they can imagine. Even further, they can be “creative”; that is, they can imagine something “novel”. At first glance, imagination seems like a cute quirk. We can imagine fantasies, tell fun stories, paint pictures, make gadgets. Some of these stories we deem “creative” or “novel”. But what actually counts as “new/creative”? The commonly used notion for “creative” in various domains of study is the creation of something “novel” and “useful/appropriate”. “Novel” ensures the new idea/invention is not just a basic recombination of old things. “Useful/appropriate” ensures that the idea is meaningful, reveals something interesting, and is not just a random mess. Both of these terms are broad and contentious (intentionally so). Who defines what is “novel” or useful/appropriate”? Should it be defined by the individual who originated the idea, or by the social judgment of peers, or specifically by experts, or by history/those who come later? The **Systems Model** recognizes that “creativity” is not a property determined by individuals, but through an interaction between the domain/field of innovation, the social ecosystem (gatekeepers, institutions, etc.), and the innovation itself. Other views emphasize the **cognitive mechanisms** of creativity. New ideas do not emerge “de novo”, they emerge from a recombination of past ideas, with a novel “transformation of the problem space”. Hence, an individual needs to make the creative leap with regards to themselves (their past experiences, cultural knowledge, etc.); it is a mental operation. Even if their new idea might already be known to someone else/the public, if they themselves did not know it, it is still a novel creation for them. Thus the question: Is there a rigorous notion that can tell whether something is “truly novel”, or even quantify how much? And who decides? Beyond the domain of fiction and art, our meat sack brains can also imagine things like multiple dimensions, 4D space, invisible forces, and other notions that at the time were heavily criticized as fanciful thinking (imaginary numbers, non-euclidian geometry, microscopic germs). Our minds were shaped by natural selection to solve savanna-scale problems — predators, social hierarchies, thrown objects. There's no selection pressure for imagining or grasping 11-dimensional string theory or quantum field theory. Feynman himself suspected we might not be able to understand wavefunction collapse or superposition. And human working memory is sorely limited. It is surprising that these ideas turn out to be “*real”*. They explain the physical world and give us tremendous power over it. Sometimes, increasing our power over the physical world depends on creating ever more “novel” ideas/absurdities (e.g. Infinite dimensional vector spaces. Subatomic particles. Quantum phenomena. etc.) Outlandishness is not sufficient for scientific success, but those ideas that yielded the greatest increase in understanding/power were often the most outlandish. In other words, the degree of “creative novelty” in science is proportional to the degree of increased physical power we gain. Is there a limit to what our brains can conceive? Science and art are very different domains. But therein lies the puzzle: the process of creativity deployed in science seems no different from the process of creativity deployed in art; so perhaps the same process is generating novelty in both. This suggests a tantalizing unity of what it means to be “novel”. If the same process generates “novelty” in 2 (seemingly) different branches: art and science, and one branch leaves physical traces, then “novelty” might not be mere arbitrary social judgment. Discussion Questions: * What counts as “creative”/”novel”? Who judges this? Is it an individual or social or objective judgment? How do we know whether something is “new” or not? Are we just “doing whatever we do?” * Operationally, how does creativity work? How does creativity “create new things”? Where does the newness come from? * Is the process of creativity in art, social science, natural science, engineering, technology, all the same underlying process? * If it is the same underlying process, how does “novelty”/creativity in science relate to creativity in art? * What’s the difference between imagination, creativity, and knowledge? * Is society obligated to create the conditions necessary for people to engage their creativity? If we disable people’s creativity, is that a form of mind control?

come join us for unguided watercolor jamming session! watercolor, paper and paint brushes will be provided. we will follow photos and paint, i'll be able to assist very basic techniques!

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who want to discuss international travel and culture, and anyone who enjoys getting together for good conversations."

Inspired by our successful events like "Saturday Mornings @ East Market" and other "Pot Luck in the Park" lunches, this gathering promises to be a blend of fun conversations, language exchange, and cultural insights, all while sharing wonderful foods with each other. **Please bring a dish to share and anything you would like to drink.** We will provide plates, plastic silverware and napkins. So, come hungry and ready to chat!

FREE event [https://www.ccad.edu/chroma](https://www.ccad.edu/chroma) Friday, May 16, 3–7 p.m. CCAD campus, 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH Join Columbus College of Art & Design for *2025* *Chroma: Best of CCAD*, our annual campuswide exhibition showcasing outstanding student work from across the college’s academic programs. This faculty-juried show features select work from CCAD students of all class years, and is a can’t-miss end-of-year campus celebration recognizing their tremendous achievements. It’ll be a night of fun and entertainment, with interactive games, animation and film screenings, art symposiums, poetry and prose readings, and more (along with some of the best local food trucks). *Chroma* is free and open to all. Many exhibitions including... **Game Art & Design:** **DSB, first floor, Welcome Center lobby and Room 115**

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."