Best Wishes for the Holiday Season!

Here's wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a wonderful year ahead!

Peace out,

The NHAA Team

Camino a la Modernidad The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Medallion, 1948,
Oil/Masonite, 50 cm x 40 cm, Private Collection
Camino a la Modernidad, The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting traces major developments in Mexican art from the 1900s to the 1950s, where Mexican society underwent tremendous changes in social and political spheres that impacted much of its artistic expression. The Mexican Revolution (1910) laid the foundation for a new artistic movement, Mexican Mural Renaissance, which attempted to bridge the class divide in the construction of a national identity and aesthetic, through bringing art to the masses in the form of highly accessible, outdoor public art murals. The exhibition features over 70 works from important Mexican public and private collections, including works by renowned mural artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Roberto Montenegro, Rufino Tamayo, Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo.

15 NOVEMBER 2009 TO 3 JANUARY 2010

(Information taken from Singapore Art Museum website)

Performance Opportunity Wanted for Concert Band this XMas

Feel the festive warmth and joy with this holiday season with a youthful and exuberant Christmas performance by the Marsiling Secondary School Concert Band! A Singapore Youth Festival Gold Award recipient, the Concert Band is looking for more opportunities to showcase its talents in  public. If your organisation would like the concert band to enliven this Christmas season or other events with their exciting tunes, please contact Ms Irene Nai at nai_irene@moe.edu.sg before 25 November 2009.

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Teach For India

Hey everyone, if you're looking for an opportunity to expand your horizon and do some good at the same time, read about the Teach For India programme in Pranay Puranik's message below.

Teach For India is a movement that aims to narrow the educational gap in India by placing the most outstanding college graduates and young professionals, of all academic majors and careers, in low-income schools to teach for two years. In June 2009, Teach For India will place Fellows in English-medium, primary schools in Mumbai and Pune (India). By its fifth year, Teach For India aims to place hundreds of Fellows in the country’s top metropolitan cities and their surrounding rural areas.
The Teach For India Fellowship is a two-year paid assignment. Throughout the Fellowship, Teach For India Fellows help close the achievement gap by leading their students to significant academic gains. In the second year of their fellowship, Fellows plan and implement a school-wide project to address one major obstacle to learning in their community.

As such, Teach for India is looking for Fellows who have demonstrated leadership, and are inclined to make a commitment to the community. Students in their final year of under-graduate or post-graduate studies and young professionals are eligible to apply.

Why should you join Teach For India?
Teach For India offers you the chance to build applicable leadership skills while making a real difference in tackling one of India’s most pressing challenges – educational inequity. By presenting you with one of the most difficult challenges of your life, the Fellowship helps you develop leadership skills that will make you a high-demand candidate for any career. You will leave the Fellowship literally ready for anything – and with the experience to advocate for a future in which all children have access to an excellent education.

Opportunities after Teach for India:
Teach For India will support their alumni whether they choose to remain in the education sector as teachers, principals, or NGO leaders, enroll in post-graduate schools, work in the corporate sector or pursue literally any path they wish. Teach For India alumni staff maintains relationships with top schools, universities, NGOs and corporates throughout the country and abroad, and helps Fellows connect with these opportunities after the Fellowship. Teach For India has already established close ties with the Indian School of Business, Thermax Group, S.P. Jain, Unilever, Citibank, ICICI, HDFC and McKinsey & Company, among many others. Teach for All, under which Teach for India falls, has been supported by reputed names such as HSBC, Dell, Visa, Google, Credit Suisse.

We believe that the experience and exposure that you will receive in your two years at Teach For India will open several doors, and a wide spectrum of opportunities for you. As the experience of Teach For America alumni shows, Teach For India alumni will be in high demand in any sector because they have the experience of overcoming immense challenges and have developed widely applicable leadership skills.

All those interested in this program can either refer to Teach for India’s website: http://www.teachforindia.org/ or e-mail me at puranikpranay at gmail.com.

Thanking you

Best Regards,

Pranay Puranik

Head Campus Ambassador
Teach for India (Singapore Region)

Public Talk by the Engaging Prof Timothy Barnard - and drinks afterwards

For those who have been taught by Prof Barnard, or even just interacted with him, you will know what a witty and interesting person he is. I personally have always found his lectures wholly absorbing and very informative. Therefore, I would highly recommend that you make time to attend his eagerly anticipated public lecture on pre-war Singapore films. Don't miss it, register now! Email  nhb_nm_lectures@nhb.gov.sg to register.

We are also meeting for drinks at Novus Bar after the lecture. Join us, and call your friends along, for a chillax evening!

Best,
Mei Yi

Information is as follows:

The Lighter Side of History: Pre-War Singapore Film and the Changing Landscape of Technology and Nation
Date: 23 Nov 2009
Venue: The Salon, Level 1, National Museum of Singapore
Time: 7 pm
Admission is free
To register, please email: nhb_nm_lectures@nhb.gov.sg

Lecture Outline:

In 1940 and 1941, the Shaw Brothers produced 8 Malay language films in Singapore at their newly built Jalan Ampas studio. These films not only represented the beginning of a sustained film industry in Singapore - which was reestablished after 1945 - they reflected the ideological and technological landscape of the island on the eve of Japanese Occupation. This lecture will highlight plots, stars, and history behind these eight films while examining how the audience and filmmakers understood their impact and importance on a multi-ethnic society like Singapore. In the process, participants will understand how film and new technologies, as well as a little known period of the nation's cultural history, can transform our society's cultural landscape.

Speaker's Biography:

Timothy P. Barnard is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.His main area of research is on the cultural and environmental history of Southeast Asia, with particular attention on the Malay world. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on Malay film in Singapore, and is currently working on a book on Malay film from 1940-1967

Novus Bar & Courtyard

Be Heard!

What do you think Alumni should be doing?
What kind of activities/events would you be interested to take part in/come for?
How can we do better?

We'd love to hear from you. So let your voice be heard!
Feel free to post comments here on the above questions or anything else alumni-related. If you're shy, you can always drop us an email at nushistoryalumni@gmail.com
For a start, you can also take a poll on this site (look to your right)
Give us your feedbacks, tell us your ideas. Of course, if you want to tell us how in awe you are with what we've done so far, we'd welcome that as well! ;)

Batam Trip for History Alumni

Let's Go Gallivanting in Batam!




When? 7-8 Nov 2009
How much? $90 for accommodation and return ferry and Go-Kart ride and traditional massage!
When to RSVP? 27 Sept (so we can make reservations la)
RSVP to...? nushistoryalumni@gmail.com...Alternatively, u can leave a comment on this post!

See yas!