Books + Toy Fair & Walking Books Tour: A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat @ Detention Barracks (April 14)

Featured here are snaps for "Walking Books Tour: A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat" @ Detention Barracks, taken on April 14th, 2018. Held as part of the Singapore Heritage Festival, this event is organisedby Ethos Books and SCC Travel. Booktique is facilitating the inventory for the "pop up" book fair (opened to the public from 3 to 5pm), and it looks to be a sweet spread!





The next tour is scheduled for April 21st, with registration required via wowgetaways.com - tickets priced at SG$45 per person, which is inclusive of light snacks, a copy of "A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat" by Philip Chew (retail price SG$12). Further details via this Facebook events page.



EVENT: Walking Books Tour: A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

Books + Toys @ Detention Barracks (Facebook)
Book Fair hours: 3pm to 5pm
Detention Barracks @ 56B Joo Chiat Place
(All images featured here via WriterBooktique)

"“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a suitable adage to describe the town of Joo Chiat because of the sheer number of names associated with this neighbourhood, including Geylang, Katong, East Coast and Paya Lebar. As people settle into a district and form a community, very commonly, they would refer to themselves by the name of the place they live by. Given its many names, it is no exaggeration to suggest that Joo Chiat town today is “Little Singapore”, complete with a melding of various ethnicities (Malay, Peranakan, Eurasian), cuisines, old and new architectures as well as trades.

This tour is broadly based on A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat (Ethos Books, 2017) written by Philip Chew, the great grandson of Chew Joo Chiat, whose name the town is named after. Learn about the historical development of the town and significant moments that allowed the community to determine its identity." (Contents via wowgetaways.com)