Tia Boon Sim, Singapore

TIA BOON SIM is an architect turned art and design educator. She is currently the first Artist-in-Residence at Centre for TransCultural Studies at Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. TIA is the founder for Urban Sketchers Singapore and Thow Kwang Clay Artists Studio. Her paintings were made into stamps and first day covers to commemorate the Singapore National Day in 2011. TIA is also an independent publisher for the book “Urban Sketchers Singapore: Volume One”. Her artwork of the campus was presented by the institution as a gift to the Prime Minister of Singapore in Nov 2012.

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Activity 8: Sketching the Colourful Cultural Activities

Location: Glocal Connect Village, Temasek Polytechnic

Activity description

The participants will get to see and take part in various activities at Global Community Day 2015 (GCD) at Glocal Connect Village (GCV) in Temasek Polytechnic (TP). The activities will be excellent subjects to sketch. For example, in the past, we saw ambassadors from Kazakhstan, Spain and also Minister of Womens’ Affairs from Cambodia. Ambassador from Spain was giving a cooking lesson in his chef attire with Spanish flag as background. There were also Arabic tent with local coffee and sweets, French wine and dine etiquette class, cultural dances by Japanese Club, Indian dance and the energetic Malay Dikir Barat – a traditional musical performance just to name a few.

More details.

For more information about the Symposium, including schedule and registration information, please visit the Symposium site.