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SUMMARY:SMU Global Summer Programme (10th Edition)
DESCRIPTION:Session 1: 23 June – 18 July 2025\nSession 2: 7 July – 1 August 2025 \nApplication Period: 6 January – 15 April 2025 23.59 (GMT +8) \nGain new insights and perspectives on Asia\, Digital Intelligence and Sustainability from SMU faculty! \nWhat to expect from SMU GSP: \n\nSpend four weeks with SMU professors and international students\nRead courses focusing on Asia\, Digital Intelligence and Sustainability\, and earn credits towards your studies\nExperience 36 contact hours per course\, spread over three interactive seminar style classes per week\n\nSign up if you are an undergraduate\, a postgraduate\, or a recent graduate!\nSession 1: 23 June – 18 July 2025\nSession 2: 7 July – 1 August 2025 \nApplication Period: 6 January – 15 April 2025 23.59 (GMT +8) \nAPPLY NOW! \nEarly Bird Special*: Complete your application and make all necessary payments before 28 February 2025\, 2359 hours (GMT +8) to reserve a spot in our popular day trip to Johor Bahru\, Malaysia! Click here for the poster and more details. \nMain SMU GSP Website: https://geo.smu.edu.sg/study-in-smu/global-summer-programme \nWHY SMU? \nEstablished in 2000\, the Singapore Management University (SMU) is internationally recognised for its teaching excellence and world-class research that addresses Asian issues of global relevance. Our distinctive pedagogy of small class sizes and seminar-style teaching in our lush city campus\, set within the heart of Singapore’s cosmopolitan cityscape\, offer a transformative education to help you discover your fullest potential. \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/smu-global-summer-programme-10th-edition/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL – WOMEN IN FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY 2025
DESCRIPTION: \nWomen photographers\, filmmakers\, and visual artists who use film or photography are invited to submit work for Objectifs’ 8th Women in Film & Photography Showcase in 2025. Selected work will be part of the print exhibition\, slideshow/video installation\, artist talks or screenings at Objectifs (Singapore) from Oct to Nov 2025. \nThe Women in Film & Photography Showcase at Objectifs is a tribute to the artists\, photographers\, and filmmakers who have created works that tell stories with impact\, break boundaries\, and inspire us. The Showcase focus is on work from Southeast Asia\, East Asia and South Asia.  \nOur theme for this edition is WHAT WE CARRY. \nWhat are some things we carry with us throughout our lives? When is the act of carrying a marker of hope\, resilience\, resistance\, or choice\, and when is it not? How do we decide when to keep holding on\, and when it is time to let go? How do the things we carry inform our identities\, our journeys\, and our connections to the world around us? After all\, we carry to be able to carry on\, carry over\, and carry towards. \nThese questions invite reflection on the diverse and personal ways in which our histories\, environments\, and experiences shape what we carry. We invite projects that interrogate the theme\, and how these elements interact with our sense of self and community. We also welcome submissions that consider the theme expansively\, and broaden our scope for dialogue. \nThrough your work\, we aim to engage with the many layers of individual and collective experiences\, inviting new perspectives on the things we hold close\, and the stories we choose to carry forward. \nAPPLY NOW! \nWHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?  \n\nPhoto essays or photo-based work of any genre\, based on the theme of What We Carry. Completed series or ongoing projects are both acceptable and can be from any year of production. Selected work may be presented in a group print exhibition or slideshow presentation. OR\nShort films or video art (below 30min) of any genre\, based on the theme of What We Carry. Works should be 30 min and below in duration and available for screening in a digital file format\, and can be from any year of production. Selected work may be presented in a group screening or video installation.\n\n\nOur focus is on work from Southeast Asia\, East Asia(China\, Mongolia\, North Korea\, South Korea\, Japan\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan and Macau) and South Asia(Bangladesh\, India\, Sri Lanka\, Pakistan\, Bhutan\, Nepal\, and Maldives). We welcome applicants who are from these countries to submit their work for consideration. Applicants who are not currently residing in their native countries may also submit their work for consideration.\nWe welcome work from artists who identify as female\, and non-binary individuals.\nSelection of works will be made by Objectifs\, and will be based on how the work relates to the theme\, as well as how it resonates with other projects that are chosen. We will also consider the feasibility of presenting the work in our galleries. Selected work will be part of the print exhibition\, slideshow installation\, artist talks\, or screenings at Objectifs.\n\nKEY SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS \n\nA summary of the project (up to 250 words).\nArtist bio (up to 180 words).\ni) FOR PHOTO ESSAYS/PHOTO BASED WORKS: URL to an online gallery (e.g. Facebook album\, Photoshelter\, Googledrive\, or a dedicated page on your website etc) and not download links (e.g. wetransfer)\nii) FOR SHORT FILMS/VIDEO ART: Please provide the URL to preview the work (e.g. YouTube\, Vimeo or other video viewing platforms)\, and not download links (e.g. wetransfer). Please include the passwords for any private views.\n\nSUBMISSION TERMS & CONDITIONS  \n\nThere is no entry fee. If the applicant’s work is selected\, Objectifs will undertake the printing and exhibition production costs.\nApplicants may submit more than one project for consideration\, but must submit each project as a separate application.\nApplications must be submitted electronically by 28 Mar 2025 (1159PM SGT). Incomplete or physical submissions will not be accepted. We will not accept any late applications after the deadline.\nObjectifs’ selection decision is final. We regret that we are unable to provide feedback for applicants who are not selected for the showcase.\nBy submitting an entry\, an applicant warrants and represents that any intellectual property are original to them\, and that they have the rights granted for the work\, that here have been no prior transfer of the rights to the images and that the publication of the images will not infringe upon any other person’s copyright or other rights. The applicant agrees to indemnify and hold Objectifs harmless from any liability\, loss cost and expense (including legal fees) arising from any breach of the foregoing warrants\, due to or arising out of the applicant’s submission materials.\n\n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/open-call-women-in-film-and-photography-2025/
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SUMMARY:“Fragmentation: A Photo Exhibition by Nyein Chan Aung”
DESCRIPTION:The education situation in Burma (Myanmar) has been severely disrupted by ongoing political instability and conflict\, particularly following the military coup in February 2021. Many students and teachers have participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)\, refusing to attend or operate under military-run institutions\, leading to a parallel system of learning developed by the National Unity Government and local communities. Moreover\, the conflict has displaced thousands\, making access to education even more challenging in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and remote areas\, where resources are scarce\, and conditions are not conducive to learning. This upheaval has exacerbated pre-existing challenges in educational equity\, quality\, and accessibility\, leaving a generation of Burmese youth at risk of losing educational opportunities and facing uncertain futures. \nThe photo exhibition by New Burma in collaboration with SEA Junction on 4- 16 March in the Curved Wall\, 5th Floor\, BACC\, displays photos by Nyein Chan Aung\, as a tribute to school teachers who\, as part of the CDM\, continue to live as fractured beings in the IDP camps of Karenni State. It seeks to illuminate the resilience of these individuals—people who have lost much but still carry the unyielding spark of resistance within them. Through their stories\, we witness not just the tragedy of displacement\, but the unbreakable will to educate\, to nurture\, and to keep alive the ideals of freedom and justice\, even from the deepest of human suffering. This exhibition does not only document their struggle; it amplifies their voices reminding us that even in the most dire of circumstances\, fragments can still form a whole\, and hope can still emerge from the ashes. \nThe exhibition will be launched with an opening event on 4 March at 6 pm at SEA Junction\, featuring a panel discussion titled “Where are the Schools?: Education in Fragility.” This panel will explore how educators\, communities\, and non-governmental organizations are adapting to current challenges in Burma. The discussion will highlight the creativity and determination of the Burmese people and the significant hardships faced by students and teachers; delve into the psychological and social impacts of these educational disruptions on children; consider the long-term implications for a generation that might miss out on formal education and for Burma’s future; and explore strategies for addressing these educational gaps taking into account the current conflict. \nPhotographer Bio \nNyein Chan Aung is a street photographer from Yangon\, Burma who started as a photographer to document urban life’s unadulterated beauty and soul. Combining his sense of detail and passion for storytelling\, he began documenting his city’s rich diversity of traditions\, customs\, and daily life. Due to the coup in Myanmar in 2021\, he moved to the Karenni State in 2024 where he began taking documentary photographs in the region of war\, capturing images of several lives—those of people defenders\, teachers\, internally displaced individuals\, and those in conflict zones. In terms of photography\, he is interested in documenting people’s lives and hardships\, such as those of children\, young people\, and grassroots fighting for their natural rights throughout the current revolution. \n \nFor more information\, please email: info@seajunction.org or phone/wa: +66970024140 \nNB: The exhibition and the opening event are free\, but donations are welcome to support SEA Junction and New Burma activities. \nOrganizers \nA New Burma (ANB) is a collective committed to promoting creative resistance\, advocacy\, and social movements to champion the rights of marginalized communities in Burma. With a focus on non-violent tactics\, ANB collaborates with the creative community to turn innovation and activism into advocacy tools against human rights violations. ANB provides training to pro-democracy leaders and activists\, enhance the creative resistance movement with resources and techniques\, and create civic spaces using arts and digital platforms in restrictive environments. Founded by individuals in exile\, ANB values the profound role of shared creativity and community in shaping identities and giving meaning to life beyond mere survival. ANB’s philosophy of Creative Resistance is about more than opposing oppression; it involves collectively envisioning and constructing a new\, democratic and inclusive future for all who consider Burma their home. \nSEA Junction \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organisation Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions\, from arts and lifestyles to human rights\, gender\, migration and development. Conveniently located at Room 407-8 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public education and access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information\, see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on Twitter (X)\, Bluesky and Instagram @seajunction \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/fragmentation-a-photo-exhibition-by-nyein-chan-aung/
LOCATION:5th Floor\, BACC
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