Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains

About the programme:
One day, a mountain appears.
It turns away the intrepid surveyors who show up at its base, until, one day, 9-year-old Aditi finds a path laid down with the greenest leaves.
In this season of beginnings, we’re extending an invitation of our own. Join us at Aliwal Arts Centre to celebrate the launch of We Saw Mountains, a short story collection that captures moments of transformations big and small. Follow author Diana Rahim into these fictional worlds as she sits with Prasanthi Ram to ruminate on what it means to imagine new worlds and ways of being. Expect intimate conversation and a chance to engage in collective daydreaming, before re-emerging into new possibilities for your own lived reality.
Programme Overview:
7:15pm: Doors open
7:30-8:00pm: Opening activity: Imagining an Oasis
8:00-9:00pm: Book conversation and Q&A
9:00-9:30pm: Book signing
About the author:
Diana Rahim is a writer and visual artist whose work circles around the themes of gender justice, the experience of the environment and the politics of public space. Her visual work has been exhibited in National Gallery Singapore and Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan. She is also part of Beyond the Hijab, a collective sharing critical perspectives, personal stories and research on Muslim women in Singapore. We Saw Mountains is her first book.
About the speaker:
Prasanthi Ram is a writer, editor and lecturer. Her debut short story cycle Nine Yard Sarees (2023) won the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) for English Fiction in 2024, and was also shortlisted for SLP’s “Best Debut” category and Singapore Book Awards’ “Best Literary Work” category in the same year. Her writing has been published in the Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (2022), Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021) and the award-winning Eat Here or Take Away (2022) among others. She also co-founded and is the prose editor of Mahogany Journal, which spotlights South Asian writers born or based in Singapore.

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