blinkBL-NK #3
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Time: Doors at 7:00 PM, first speaker at 7:30 PM
Place: Third floor of Blu Jazz, 11 Bali Lane (entrance on Ophir Road)
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TALK SUMMARIES
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Talk 1 Art Therapy: When Art Meets Science
by Emylia Safian
Description: The idea of art as therapy has long been recognized in areas of mental and physical health management such as stress relief or the development of coping skills in the chronically ill. Beyond painting a nice picture, art is also a science rich in emotive contents. Art therapy is a field which combines psychology and the creative process. In this talk, Emilya will discuss the ways in which art therapy mixes these disciplines, showing us in the process how images express what words sometimes cannot.
Speaker: Emylia Safian (MA Art Therapy, BA Psychology & Humanities) is an art therapist and educator. As an art therapist, she gravitates towards working with children and adolescents in situational and/ or developmental crises through an independent practice known as The Art Therapy Project. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic’s Humanities and Social Sciences School.
Talk 2: Become Your Own Guru: How to Develop your Financial Philosophy
by Christopher Ng Wai Chung
Description: In this presentation, Christopher channels the approach in which an influential philosopher/writer explains her complex ideas to the public. The result is a framework for understanding how people view their personal finances. Using this framework, he reduces the different approaches of popular financial gurus to a compact format. The ultimate aim of the talk is to help the audience develop a clear approach towards their personal finances that remains independent from the commissioned salespeople in the world of finance.
Speaker: Christopher Ng Wai Chung studied electrical engineering, works in IT and writes finance books as a hobby. He is the author of 3 finance books, Sowing the Seeds of Prosperity, Growing Your Tree of Prosperity, and Harvesting the Fruits of Prosperity.
by Peter Friedlander
Description: Peter is both a university lecturer and a lifelong amateur painter. In this talk, he will show some of the paintings he has made from all round the world during the last forty years. Through talking about where and when he painted things, he will examine his ideas about how painting and life relate to each other and how the act of painting both depicts and creates the world. To whet your appetite for the talk, you can check out some of Peter’s work here: http://www.bodhgayanews.net/art.html
Speaker: Born in England, Peter left the UK after high school to follow the overland trail to India, where he lived for five years. He then went back to London to get his PhD before getting married and moving to Australia in 1996. For the last two years he has been a lecturer in Hindi and Buddhist Studies at the National University of Singapore.
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