IndigNation 2014

The main organiser of IndigNation 2014, the tenth anniversary of IndigNation and ContraDiction, was Miak Siew.

The graphic designers were Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee.

=Programme=


 * Events highlighted in pink are not indignation events, but the organisers thought that they would be of interest.

Opening event - ContraDiction: 10 year series
A	FRIDAY	Indignation is 10 and so is Contradiction. Come celebrate the festival opening with readings and performances by 1	8 PM @ The Arts House	Singapore’s most acclaimed LGBT writers! Featured guests include poet Cyril Wong, novelist Ovidia Yu, playwright Joel Tan and songwriter Iris Judotter.

ORGANIZED BY NG YI-SHENG, STEPHANIE D0GF00T, EUGENE TAN, VANESSA VICTORIA 10 YEAR SERIES SUNDAY

HUMAN WORTH AND DIGNITY: TWO STORIES OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE
1 PM - 4:30 PM @ OnePeople.sg - Hall of Trust 381 Toa Payoh Lorong 1, Singapore 319758

The Humanist Society (Singapore) presents a discussion on human worth and dignity, by looking at two perspectives of the LGBT community in Singapore. Mr Alex Au, of the Yawning Bread blog fame, will present his personal journey as a high-profile member of the LGBT community, and how he continues in the face of the odds. The 2nd speaker. Asst Prof Lynette J Chua, will present her new book: “Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State”, which analyzes the development, strategy and tactics of Singapore's LGBT movement. c; Asst Prof Chua will examine the meanings of rights that emerge from the book’s ethnographic study of Singapore's LGBT activists and discuss how they influence the ways in which these activists continue to mobilize in face of legal and political obstacles. The talks will be followed by a Q&A moderated by President of the Humanist Society, Mr Paul Tobin. Attendees are welcome to purchase the book: “Mobilizing Gay Singapore” at the event and join Asst Prof Chua for a special book-signing session. Only 200 seats available. Attendance strictly via RSVP only. Tickets are $15, purchase from Humanist.org.sg ORGANIZED BY THE HUMANIST SOCIETY ‘Seeking/Looking’ is an exhibition-as-library, and an open invitation for readers to contribute volumes of their favorite queer literatures to this pop-up library. Each book will be bookmarked with their owner's favorite sex scenes, and will be returned to their owners at the end of the exhibition. For a brief moment, readers at the exhibition will be able to seek out these otherwise undisclosed sexual narratives.

SEEKING/LOOKING OPENING
SATURDAY 6 PM @ Grey Projects ORGANIZED BY GREY PROJECTS

The boys in the band
"7	Alliance Francaise Theatre	Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band- the second in a series of LGBT plays presented by Tim Garner Productions I		encouraging discussion on diversity, equality, and inclusion in Singapore. TO	THE BOYS IN THE BAND	16		It’s Harold’s 32rrt birthday. A good time goes bad as the amiable turns fraught, prejudices are exposed, and true		personalities are unleashed, ultimately leading us to question the characters’, and our own, concept of friendship.		Information and Tickets: Timgarnerproductions.com		PRESENTED BY TIM GARNER PRODUCTIONS SATURDAY 5 PM @ You Know Where

PINK PICNIC
Events highlighted in pink are not indignation events, but we thought they would be of interest

DR SKETCHY BIRTHDAY FEAT. NORIS
FRIDAY 8 PM @ Artistry Dr Sketchy is your favourite life drawing class with loads of drinking and drawing! And yes, there are prizes to be won too! * August is the month of BIRTHDAY. Indignation turns 10. Singapore turn 49. Madonna turns 102.1 And our model Noris, she celebrates, err, one more year of his life. Come DRINK, DRAW her and WIN prizes you won’t want to tell anybody about. Bring your own drawing supplies, we'll have a good time! Bring friends! $10 at the door ORGANIZED BY BECCA O'BUS 16 16 SATURDAY 9 AM @ To Be Updated

PINK RUN
SATURDAY 8 PM @ Artistry

A LONG TABLE ABOUT STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE
7 years ago, the first and only Pink run was organized as one of the many events of Indignation. The run, a causal affair along the Singapore river, never officially happened. As we were about to flag off some 40 runners, plain clothed policemen came up to the organizers and told them that we were contravening the Miscellaneous Offense Act. ‘I The police did not cite which part of the act we were contravening but only that a gathering of four or more people is consider illegal. Fast forward to the present, we would like to try again and stage the second Pink run in Indignation's ten year history. What would happen? We don’t really know but we would certainly like to find out. ORGANIZED BY NICHOLAS DER00SE How will queer activism create our future? What will we do now to make this possible? What do we want the future to be? U Join us and bring your voice and thoughts in a freely flowing conversation that will go wherever attendees want it to go in discussion that will be moderated by a table. The room will be full of experts in the field, and you. Nobody has been appointed as speakers. T The Long Table is a means of generating open discussion about a specified topic, using a stylized environment and participation protocol to heighten ordinary conversation. 1 The Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by combining re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum and encouraging informal conversation on serious topics. ORGANIZED BY EUGENE TAN 24 SUNDAY 3 PM & 8 PM @ The Arts House, Play Den

MASS HYSTERIA: RELAPSED
Attention: Health Notice Mass Hysteria has spread beyond detention and secondary school graduation. There are no expiry dates, no LUGs, but some spectres continue to haunt. ‘I Shrugging off uniforms and habits, the queerdos set their sights on the world outside, to re-act and negotiate the hysterical and the historical, great tropes and expectations, memory and homophobic violence, nightmarish dyke drama and the life cycles of lezbo love. Come quantify the insanity. Come queer the jealousy. Just come. ORGANIZED BY AMOK COLLECTIVE AND SAYONI on	SATURDAY	What does it mean when someone asks you,“Who are you?" oU	10 AM - 5 PM @ Various Venues			Who are you? Somebody, anybody, everybody, nobody.

CHECK-OUT: THE RACE 2
Join SGRainbow and Young OUT Here in a race across space and time in recovering the history, uncovering the present and discovering the future of Singapore’s LGBTQ community. ORGANIZED BY SGRAINBOW AND YOH 30 SATURDAY 8 PM @ Reading Room

CLOSING EVENT - A MINOR CONTRADICTION
To bring Indignation to a close, take a peek into the future of Singapore’s queer literary community as present you with a night of readings and performances by some of Singapore's most dynamic emerging LGBTQ voices. Raw. funny, honest, angry and hopeful, these young writers will show you what it means and how it feels to grow up queer in 21s' century Singapore. ORGANIZED BY NG YI-SHENG. STEPHANIE D0GF00T, EUGENE TAN, VANESSA VICTORIA

=See also=


 * IndigNation: Singapore's first gay pride month
 * IndigNation 2006
 * IndigNation 2007
 * IndigNation 2008
 * IndigNation 2009
 * IndigNation 2010
 * IndigNation 2011
 * IndigNation 2012
 * IndigNation 2013

=References=


 * The Indignation SG Facebook page.
 * An alternative IndigNation Facebook page:.

=Acknowledgements=