But in this case, it's IndigNation, our monthly LGBT Pride Festival! This year, we have a logo!
We also have a theme: looking back at our heritage. It's not reflected in all our events, but it is in some. Click on the link to see the calendar properly:
Specific timings for each of our events is listed here. Since this is a literary blog, I'll advertise only the literary events specifically. (I curated the last two, btw!)
Book Launch of ‘The Pillow Book’ by Koh Jee Leong: Our Very Own Literature
Date: Fri 10 August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street
Math Paper Press launches Koh Jee Leong’s new chapbook The Pillow Book. Written in the Japanese genre called zuihitsu, these miscellaneous jottings by one of Singapore’s finest poets throw a kaleidoscopic light on life in Singapore and New York.
Gaily Ever After: Our Very Own Fairy Tales
Date: Fri 17 August
Time: 8pm
Venue: BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street
Sit down for an evening of storytelling with four queer Singaporean writers, each bearing a fairy tale with a gay twist. Featuring Ng Yi-Sheng, Cyril Wong, Tania de Rozario and Anila Angin.
ContraDiction 8: Our Very Own Literature
Date: Sat 25 August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: The Reading Room, 21 Tanjong Pagar Road #04-01 (old MOX bar)
Our annual queer literary evening is back, with a new focus! Listen to some of Singapore's oldest works of queer literature from the 1980s, as well as works by our youngest writers from the 2010s. Featuring Ovidia Yu, Joel Tan, NUS Poet-in-Residence Jay Bernard and many more.
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