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Travel and Tourism Heritage: Where are you local?

A collection of essays, art and other media featuring people and places around Singapore drawn from The Birthday Book Jr. main collection.

The booklet, “Travel and Tourism Heritage: Where are you local?” features a selection of essays, artwork and photos from our Junior writers and contributors age four to 15.

It provides an insight of thoughts, experiences from children living in Singapore, their travels around their world, or what their “links” are with Singapore exploring the theme “Where are you local?” a phrase inspired by a TEDTalk by writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of ""multi-local"" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two.

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People Places Tours & Trails

37 Emerald Hill Site Tours

18 - 19, 25 - 26 May • 10:00am

18 - 19, 25 - 26 May • 02:00pm

Come along for the first ever public site tours of 37 Emerald Hill, former home of Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, the first locally founded secular school for girls by our Straits-born community and conserved through a ground-up community effort.

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People Places Exhibitions

Appreciating the Architectural Moments of SCCCI over the Past Century

Enjoy a session of sensory display of how the SCCCI building maintain its stature of a century year old building. View through the eyes of the architect and avid photographers as they display the unique angles of the SCCCI building.

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Objects Places Tours & Trails

Archaeology After Dark: Curator's Tour

3 May • 07:30pm

In this special archaeology-themed tour, dig deep with curator Michael Ng as he shares insights and stories about the history of Empress Place, told through objects found during excavations in 1998 and 2015.