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International Migrants' Day Events 2007
Ghosts Special Preview 6 August 2007, Golden Village Vivo City Screen 2 The film tells the story of Ai Qin, a Chinese immigrant to the UK. It follows her from China to the UK and looks at the work she does in the food industry. It reveals that the UK's food industry is heavily dependent on underpaid, expolititive, migrant labour. Eventually she starts work cockle-picking at Morecambe Bay. The film begins and ends with the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which 23 illegal workers lost their lives while cockle-picking. The screening was followed by a discussion on the issues raised by the film, lead by Braema Mathiaparanam, and is organised by the British Council, Singapore Film Society Migrant Voices, Transient Workers Count, Too and Golden Village. Tales Within Borders 28th & 29th July 2007
They build our homes, our mega malls and care for our families. There are many who toil 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They are in our midst, living on our lands, but do we know Tales Within Borders is a multi-ethnic performance as well as a visual arts, photo and video exhibition that celebrate the diversity in language and cultural heritage that are brought to our shores by our migrant worker friends. Through the performance, they share their art, music and stories; the personal and the public, the intimate and the mundane. This piece also includes a forum on migrant issues and a talk back with the creators and actors of the piece.
One Voice @ Earshot 22nd July 2007 (Sunday), 3pm One Voice, was coming together of musical talent from various countries, and wasMigrant Voicees' second show after the successful showcase of "Integrate" at Timbre, The Substation last year. The One Voice lineup included Laras, Himalaya, Tinig Pinoy, FOWS, Ruby Cana, Divine Sutra with Jegan and Olivia's Angels. Walk Into Their Lives 4 & 6 March 2007 This heartland exhibition organized by a team of students from the Singapore Management University was staged to give Singaporeans in the heartlands a peek into the lives of the migrant workers in Singapore. The 2nd exhibition was graced by Minister George Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and MP for Aljunied GRC as well as Professor Howard Hunter, President of the Singapore Management University. It featured a re-creation of the Web of Friendship installation art piece as well as photographs from the InsideOut and Day Off series, as well as images taken during Grass Day Out sessions. Voices Voices was a joint collaboration between the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics and Migrant Voices to celebrate International Human Rights Day and International Migrants Day on the 10th and 18th of December respectively. Playing to a full house on both days, it depicted the journey of a domestic worker from her home town, to Singapore and her experience here. SOIL 4, 5 & 12 November 2006 SOIL was a forum theatre piece that depicted the lives of 2 characters in 2 plays. The Story of Shah was about a construction worker and his unfortunate experience whilst the Story of Atin was about a domestic worker who was stuck in a predicament. Forum theatre is an interactive form of theatre that allows the audience to experience being the shoes of the characters, offering alternative solutions to social issues. Do look out for our re-staging of this piece in 2007. INtegrate 30 September 2006 Integrate was Migrant Voices' first event as a society and featured Migrant Voices' very own Himalaya, Richard, Jegan & Divine Sutra performing on the Timbre Stage. It also featured a interactive art piece called the Web of Friendship which was held at the Substation gallery. 1-Degree Asia This was a youth leadership forum organized in conjunction with Youth Month in July. Migrant Voices was one the the participating groups. For the opening, the ladies of HOME, also one of the participating groups, cooked a sumptuous home-cooked meal for the delegates.Our very own Sha Najak and Ruby Pan carried out a workshop at the Singapore Management University on the last day of the event to tell people about Migrant Voices and our cause. The organisers of 1-Degree also invited our performing groups to perform at their gala dinner held at the Conrad Centennial Singapore Ballroom. Ruby Cana and Art were the stars for the night, impressing people with their showmanship as well as their incredible talents. Migrant Voices CD Launch Date: 5 March 2006 This was the climax of the Migrant Voices CD project that kicked off all the buzz for Migrant Voices. People from all walks of life came down for the performances which were held over 3 nights, 2 of which included MFG's local bands. The proceeds from that day went to the 6 beneficiaries and the performers, then Darul Arqam, Tinig Pinoy, Singsaderd, HOME and Divine Sutra all strutted their stuff in Migrant Voices' first showcase.
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Directed by Kok Heng Luen
1-Degree Asia 
