FCC New Year's Eve Service (Dec 31)

Tired of all the parties?
Deaf from all the noise?
Need space to look back and look ahead?

Come to the FCC New Year's Eve Service:

BRAND NEW YOU 2008

31 December 2007
11.00 p.m. to 12.30 a.m.
FCC Main Hall

We have prepared a quiet, traditional, contemplative service.
Time to review the old, let go of the baggage, and start anew.
In the company of family and friends.

See you then!

Pictures from the FCC Christmas Service

Photos from the FCC Christmas Service found here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fonsus/sets/72157603552841982/

Courtesy of Alf

New Year's Service at FCC

SUNDAY SERVICE (ENGLISH)
30 Dec 2007 (Sun) - 10.30am

FCC Main Hall
56 Geylang Lor 23
Level 3, Century Technology Building
All are welcome!

A SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SERVICE

Worship Leader - PAUL WANG, KENNY ONG
Keyboards - QUAY YI MING
Guitars - NATHAN GUO
Prayer - JAMIE LOW
Communion - KENG HOCK PWEE
Sound - LUO QING LONG
Video - YAP FOO KEONG
Service Pastor - JOSHUA TAN



NYE SERVICE - BRAND NEW YOU 2008
31 Jan 2008 (Mon) - 11pm

FCC Main Hall
56 Geylang Lor 23
Level 3, Century Technology Building
All are welcome!

A traditional, contemplative service to usher in the new year...

Liturgy - TUCK LEONG LEE
Readings - JORG DIETZEL
Organ - NICHOLAS LEOW

TV3: Second Queen's honour for Sir Ian McKellen (Dec 30)

Second Queen's honour for Sir Ian McKellen
30-Dec 09:18
Sir Ian McKellen

Sir Ian McKellen is up for his second honour by the Queen in the New Years Honours List.

Sir Ian - most recently known for playing the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies will receive a Companion of Honour for services to acting and championing the causes of diversity.

He is a founding member of gay-rights group Stonewall and also stepped into a debate about decriminalising homosexual activity in Singapore on a recent visit there.

Sir Ian was awarded a CBE in 1979 and knighted in 1991.

Additionally, British journalist turned chat-show host Michael Parkinson has been knighted in the New Years Honours list.

Sir Michael was given a CBE in 2000 and an honorary doctorate in 1999.

He joins pop-diva Kylie Minogue and Jethro Tull front-man Ian Anderson in receiving honours this year.

England rugby coach Brian Ashton will also be honoured by the Queen.

The Morning After by Suchen Christine Lim (Dec 30)

For those who are interested, Film Formation's TV short film adaptation of the short story "The Morning After", by Suchen Christine Lim, will be telecast at the following time:

Arts Central
30 Dec 2007 (Sunday)
9.00pm
(*please check latest TV listings)

Brief plot: Divorced mom finds herself at the centre of major family changes, right at the time of her son's coming out as gay.

Readers would remember that "The Morning After" is the first story in Suchen's short story collection titled The Lies that Build a Marriage (Monsoon Books and Singapore Arts Council, 2007).

Pelangi Pride Centre Presents... An Afternoon with Johann S Lee (Dec 29)

PELANGI PRIDE CENTRE PRESENTS

An Afternoon with Johann S Lee
(Author of 'Peculiar Chris' and 'To Know Where I'm Coming From')
& Ng Yi-Sheng
(Poet and playwright, also known for his documentary book, 'SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century')

Saturday, 29 December 2007
Pelangi Pride Centre @ Bianco (21 Tanjong Pagar Rd, Level 4)
4-6pm
RSVP to pelangipridecentre@yahoo.com

Pelangi Pride Centre is proud to present a special event on the last
Saturday of 2007 - an afternoon with author, Johann S Lee, and
Ng Yi-Sheng, poet and playwright.

Many of us will remember with great nostalgia, the feeling of reading
Singapore's first gay novel, 'Peculiar Chris' when it was released in 1992.
Relive your first furtive glances at Singaporean gay literature in this
afternoon with the author.

Also get a chance to quiz Johann about the motivations in writing his second
novel 'To Know Where I'm Coming From'. Why did he take so long before
penning this second book?

Yi-Sheng (who majored in Comparative Literature & Writing at Columbia
University USA and curated IndigNation), together with Johann, will
facilitate a discussion around the relevance of Singapore gay fiction.

Join us on Saturday, 29 December at Pelangi Pride Centre,
for an informal and interactive afternoon.

About Johann's Latest Book: 'To Know Where I'm Coming From'

"A gripping story of love, caught between the gay worlds of London and
Singapore, unashamedly describing queer life as it is today: sexy and
sordid, romantic and political, frustrated and ecstatic."
- Ng Yi-Sheng, poet and playwright

"Hauntedly captivating and quietly powerful. Set against a diorama of
nostalgia and irresistible change, Lee observantly explores the ache of
falling in love and falling apart. For a Singapore which has evolved since
Peculiar Chris, Lee's assured second novel revisits the notions of choice
and choosing in a manner which, to his readers, has become not just
necessary, but imperative."
- Daren Shiau, author

"Read his novel... for its sheer honesty and at times heart wrenching
moments... Its importance in staking a claim in the territory of the
narrative of the overseas gay Singaporean male as well as the matured
Singaporean gay male experience, is not to be underestimated."
- Trevvy.com

"To read this book is not just to know where the author is coming from, but
to recognise, as gay people in a postmodern Asia, ourselves. How we love,
where we hope to go. Who we are."
- Fridae.com