Cinema Reclaimed: Driving, Kicking And PunchingThe National Heritage Board’s Heritagefest is an annual celebration of culture and heritage, and Cinema Reclaimed is its film strand. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Take a walk down memory lane at the 18th edition of the Singapore HeritageFest, which returns from May 3 to 30. This year’s theme delves into our country’s signature healthcare and food heritage milestones, namely the 200th anniversary of Singapore General Hospital (the nation’s first hospital) and the inclusion of our hawker culture in Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
“Singapore’s healthcare history and food heritage have a wealth of stories that are waiting to be discovered,” explains Singapore HeritageFest festival director David Chew. And these will be celebrated through an exciting line-up of on-site and online programmes that include virtual talks, photo essays, video documentaries, tours and hands-on workshops. Moreover, these will tell the stories behind medical buildings of our past, history and benefits of Eastern healing practices like traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, as well as foods that represent diff