PRESIDENT’S LETTER 31 MARCH 2022

PRESIDENT’S LETTER 31 MARCH 2022

Dear Nyonyas and Babas Annual General Meeting, 12 June 2022 It was very encouraging to hear Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong telling us on 24 March that Singapore’s public health situation has improved. We are also acutely aware that the good news come with the caveat...
PRESIDENT’S LETTER 31 MARCH 2022

PRESIDENT’S LETTER. 28 FEBURARY 2022

Dear Nyonyas and Babas One Tough Cookie I remember clearly the year I first set my camera lens on her.  She had the most exquisitely coiffured head dress and was so resplendently styled that she seemed to float delicately in a sea of beautiful sarong kebayas.  This...
PRESIDENT’S LETTER. 29 JANUARY 2022

PRESIDENT’S LETTER. 29 JANUARY 2022

Dear Nyonyas and Babas, Tyger In The Making Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand,...
THE PERANAKAN MAGAZINE 01/2022

THE PERANAKAN MAGAZINE 01/2022

Dear members We usher in the Year of the Water Tiger with this special Convention Issue of THE PERANAKAN magazine which is on its way in the mail to you. Read about the dream performance by theatre doyens GT Lye and Ivan Heng. Sense the optimism for an evolving...
THE PERANAKAN MAGAZINE 01/2022

Issue 1 2022

Alternatively, click here to download and view The Peranakan Issue 1 2022. The new issue of THE PERANAKAN magazine is out now! THE PERANAKAN, our award-winning volunteer-run magazine is packed with fascinating features and insights about Peranakan culture. We hope...
2ND BABA NYONYA LITERARY FESTIVAL 19 and 20 March 2022

2ND BABA NYONYA LITERARY FESTIVAL 19 and 20 March 2022

Keeping the Culture Alive – A unique celebration of Peranakan Culture and the Written Word  This is the second edition of the Baba Nyonya Literary Festival by The Peranakan Association Singapore which aims to showcase the written works of both Peranakan and...
PRESIDENT’S LETTER 31 MARCH 2022

PRESIDENT’S LETTER. 31 DECEMBER 2021

Dear Nyonyas and Babas, Kamsiah Manyak Manyak for supporting our hybrid 33rd Baba Nyonya International Convention on 20 November 2021. Memory of the last scene in our convention’s play, The Matriarchs, lingers. Played to perfection by Baba Ivan Heng, Emily...