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April 2020
From Fear to Resilience: Let’s Change the Narrative of COVID19 in Southeast Asia
Call for Photo, Short Video and Art Essays by SEA Junction and Partners
These days we are inundated with photos of deaths, ICUs and suffering, creating fear as an incentive to keep us all at home. No matter how well-meaning, this narrative of COVID-19 remains one-sided and may have many unwanted consequences. We know from the HIV epidemic that fear only changes behavior in the short term and it may cause traumas and prejudices that make it more difficult to learn to live with the virus. This narrative also leads to seeing the…
Find out more »September 2020
Call for Proposals, Small Grant Program “Staying Resilient Amid the Pandemic in Southeast Asia”
In Southeast Asia, the spread of COVID-19 has been relatively slow when compared to other regions. With the exception of the Philippines and Indonesia, the number of seriously ill and death cases remain in the two digits. This, however, does not implies that the pandemic should be taken lightly nor that the health, economic and political impacts are insignificant. Like in other parts of the words, human suffering is real, with a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable. The pandemic…
Find out more »March 2021
Southeast Asia Mini Book and Craft Fair
Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book and craft fair focusing on Southeast Asia. For the books, three kinds of books are available: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm and River Book from Thailand, ISEAS form Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia New and used books that are double to those of SEA Junction’s Library. They include books in Thai, English and Indonesian on…
Find out more »Photo Exhibition “The Mekong is Blue and Dried” (Tentative)
SEA Junction’s “The Mekong is Blue and Dried” exhibition is born out of concern for the environmental degradation of the Mekong River. This river is the most diverse in fresh water fishery in the world with the greatest biodiversity after the Amazon. It feeds more than 60 million people who live along its entire route. Among them there are indigenous communities that depend on the Mekong for their natural resource-based livelihoods and as a source of income. However, their way…
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