From Eco-Anxiety To Climate Action

Do you feel eco-anxious? Climate-numb? Quietly hopeful?🤔

"​The first trigger to any form of personal and collective change begins with emotions."

🌍 Join Post Growth SG for an afternoon to share how we're feeling about the climate crisis, connect with others, and transform emotions into hopeful energy for collective action.

There will be:
🎬 Film screening: Lost World (2018)
🧭 Time and space to connect with your emotions
💬 Discussions about Eco-Hope and Resilience as well as new ways of being✨

📅 25 July 2026 (Saturday)
🕒 3.30pm-5.30pm
📍 Synthesis Creative Data House, 21 Cavan Road #03-00 S(209852)

Sign up at: tiny.cc/PGSJul26

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From Crisis to Clarity: Understanding the Metacrisis by Studio Dojo

Ever wonder why we keep throwing effort at the AI race, climate stalemates, or the exhaustion-inducing grind of school and work, and things still don't seem to improve? 🧐

This workshop session unpacks the difference between the permacrisis, polycrisis, and metacrisis as useful vocabulary for anyone trying to make sense of the worlds we live in.

Drawing on the work of people like Nate Hagens, Daniel Schmachtenberger, and Iain McGilchrist, they will look at the incentive structures, collective action problems and ways of thinking that keep reproducing collapse-adjacent patterns across totally different domains🤝

They invite you to zoom out/within and look at why such patterns still hold even when everyone can see it’s not working🤔

📅 25 Jul 2026 (Saturday)
🕒 9.30am-3pm
📍 Location will be disclosed after registration
💵 $50

Sign up at: https://www.studiodojo.com/events/understanding-metacrisis-jul2026/

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SQ21: Singapore Queer Families in the 21st Century Book Launch

How does the queer community navigate kinship and family?

Nearly two decades after the first book gave Singapore queer lives real names and real faces on the page, this new volume opens a new chapter on another deeply personal political topic: family.✨

A moving anthology of real Singaporean LGBTQ+ lives, SQ21 looks at the many ways queer people nurture, love and create families here: the families they are born into, the families they choose, and the families they build in a system that was not always built for them🏳️‍🌈

📅 29 Jul 2026 (Wednesday)
🕒 6.30pm-9.30pm
📍 Proud Spaces
💵 FOC

Sign up at: http://tiny.cc/SQ21booklaunch

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Double Take Exhibition📸

What lies behind the lives of sex workers, beyond main stream media portrayal?🤔

Double Take is a student-led exhibition by Project X in collaboration with SUSS students, exploring the lived experiences of sex workers beyond the labels society places on them. Through visuals, personal narratives, and reflective prompts, the exhibition invites visitors to question assumptions surrounding the work, dignity, morality✨

The exhibition is intended to encourage respectful reflection and dialogue. Photography and recording by visitors is restricted in the exhibition space to protect the privacy and dignity of contributors. This is a closed-door exhibition with limited capacity per time slot. Registration is required for entry.

📅 24 Jul- 27 Jul 2026
🕒 1 hour time slot
📍 Inspire Space (The Retreat)
💵 FOC

Sign up at: http://tiny.cc/doubletake

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‼️🗣️COMMUNITY DIALOGUE FOR GILMAN BARRACKS
Organised by: Friends & Residents of Gillman Barracks

Would you like to share your thoughts about Gilman Barracks?💭

Programme Flow:
2pm- Arrive @ Handlebar
2:30pm - 4.30pm-Guided Walk (optional!)- Heritage & Forest Walk🌳 by Tan Hong Chong, nature interpreter and environmental educator
(Sign-up here: http://tiny.cc/GBWalk)
4pm - 6pm: Community Dialogue💬 (No sign-ups required, Walk-ins allowed!)

‼️If you have any access needs, let them know here: tinyurl.com/gb-access

📅 26 Jul 2026 (Sunday)
🕒 2pm-6pm
📍Handlebar @ Block 10, Gilman Barracks
💵FOC

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🏳️‍🌈 What does belonging to Singapore mean to you?

This National Day, join Threads of Belonging for an evening of stories, conversation, food, and community as we explore what it means to call Singapore home through the intersections of identity, culture, faith, and queerness.

Bring a dish for the potluck, connect with others, and, if you’d like, take the mic to share your story through poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, or another creative expression. Whether you’ve always felt at home here or are still finding your place, you’re welcome just as you are.

📅 29 August 2026
⏰ 7.00pm – 10.00pm
📍 Venue shared upon confirmation
🍽️ Potluck & Open Mic
🎟️ http://tiny.cc/ThreadsOfBelonging (Registration is confirmed upon receiving a confirmation email.)

Hosted by QIN (Queer Interfaith Network): QUASA, Rainbodhi SG, South Asian Pride Singapore, and Free Community Church.

Belonging isn’t something we find alone, it’s something we build together. ❤️

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🖥️ ☕️ How can tech create real social impact?

Join Bettr Brews: Builder’s Future for an evening of conversations on social innovation, entrepreneurship, and building solutions that tackle real community, environmental, and systemic challenges.

Meet fellow founders, hackers, and creators, connect over coffee at Singapore’s first B Corp café, and get a first look at the Singapore–India Hackathon 2026, including its Social Innovation & Inclusive Development track.

📅 14 August 2026 (Friday)
⏰ 7.00pm – 9.00pm
📍 Bettr Coffee @ The Foundry
🎟️ Register: http://tiny.cc/BettrBrews

Whether you’re building your first idea or looking to use tech for good, come connect with others shaping more inclusive and impactful futures.

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🧩 What pieces make up your heritage?

This National Day, step into The Memory Block, a youth-led showcase exploring how young people revive, remix, and reimagine heritage through art, performance, exhibitions, interactive experiences, and conversations.

Journey through stories of family, identity, and community as youth creatives, artists, and heritage organisations piece together what heritage means today. Discover how the places we grow up, traditions we inherit, and memories we create continue to shape who we are and who we can become.

📅 8–9 August 2026
📍 The Treetop & The Gallery, SCAPE (Level 5)
🤳Check out http://tiny.cc/HyphenatedSG_instagram for upcoming event details

Come explore, reflect, and celebrate the many stories that connect us. Heritage isn’t just about the past, it’s something we continue to shape together. 🇸🇬

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🧊 What does melting Arctic ice have to do with Singapore?

Step into Melting Ice, Sinking Cities: The Arctic Impact, an immersive climate exhibition that explores how melting polar ice, ocean health, biodiversity, and the future of our cities are deeply interconnected.

Journey through five interactive zones to discover how changes in the Arctic affect ecosystems and communities around the world and why they matter here in Singapore.

📅 Now till 31 July 2026
⏰ 9.00am – 6.00pm daily (Closed every last Tuesday of the month)
📍 CDL Green Gallery, Singapore Botanic Gardens
💵 Free admission

Whether you’re a climate enthusiast or simply curious about our changing planet, take a closer look at the connections shaping our shared future before the exhibition closes. 🌍❄️

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Old Spaces, New Purposes: Reimagining Heritage for Communities

🏛 What does it take to breathe new life into historic buildings while preserving the stories they hold?

Join them to find out how heritage spaces can be thoughtfully reimagined to serve today's communities✨

Through the intersection of history, architecture, adaptive reuse, and placemaking, this event explores how old spaces can become vibrant hubs for connection and social impact🙌🏻

📅 8 Aug 2026, Saturday
🕒 2.30pm-4pm
📍Temasek Shophouse
💵 FOC

Sign up at: http://tiny.cc/TSAug8

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Healing Through Community by SGFamilies

Are you a caregiver or parent who is supporting a child or youth who is experiencing mental health struggles? You don't have to struggle alone🤝

Join SG Families, a ground-up movement for parents, by parents who have journeyed with their children through difficult moments. In this session, they will use scrap-booking as an activity to support one another, find resonance and community💖

📅 15 Aug 2026, Saturday
🕒 11.30am-2pm
📍 Grovve @ Scape
💵 FOC

Sign up at: http://tiny.cc/healingthroughcommunity

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Navigating Climate Emotions: Climate in Therapy Film Screening and Discussion

Ever felt overwhelmed, anxious, or numbed when thinking about climate change?🌍

Presented in collaboration with 💡ArtScience Museum, join them for a free screening of 🎥Climate in Therapy (2025), a documentary where seven climate scientists sit together to unpack their own emotions about the crisis they study, followed by a facilitated conversation about navigating climate emotions🧐

📅 15 Aug 2026, Saturday
🕒 3pm to 5.30pm
📍 ArtScience Cinema, Level 4
💵 FOC

Sign up at: https://marinabaysands.jotform.com/form/Festival-programmes

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MAJU For The People

🚨📣SAVE THE DATE!

2 weeks from now, SG Climate Rally will gather with fellow workers, residents and nature lovers at Hong Lim Park to MAJU (progress) for The People.

🌳 Discuss our land use and who gets to enjoy access to space and nature
🌳 Reflect on our feelings around the loss of our forests and natural spaces
🌳 Reimagine organising Singapore around the sustainability, equitability, and health of our People and Planet
🌳 Demand that decisions on land use are made with full transparency and genuine public involvement

📅 16 Aug 2026, Sunday
🕒 4pm-6pm
📍Hong Lim Park
💵 FOC

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(Inter) National Caturday🐱

Celebrate International Cat Day with Cat Welfare Society 🎉

There will be a volunteer meetup at 2pm and a private screening of 9Lives, an antology film at 4.30pm, followed by a short panel session with members of the CWS Board💬

📅 8 Aug 2026, Saturday
🕒 2pm-6pm
📍 FilmHouse
💵 FOC

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All of us experience loss in different ways - through the end of relationships, changes in life plans, watching our parents grow older, and eventually, the death of people we love. These experiences shape not only how we grieve, but also how ready (or unready) we are to talk about death itself.

Interestingly, a YouGov Singapore survey in 2024 that explored the idea of a living funeral found that attitudes towards end-of-life conversations differ across generations, suggesting that our experiences and life stage may influence how we think and feel about topics such as grief, death, and planning for the future.

In lieu of the global National Grief Awareness month, in collaboration with The Life Review, we are using grief and loss as a more relatable, less taboo starting point to explore how our community experiences and talks about these moments. We want to understand what feels difficult, what has been helpful, and what might make conversations about grief, loss, and death feel a little safer.

Your responses can be kept anonymous, and we will share key insights from what we learn with the community. 👀✍️

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