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The University Women’s Association of Singapore (UWAS)
The University Women’s Association (Singapore) (UWAS) is a non-profit organization working towards promoting lifelong education to improve the status of women and girls, and to enable women to effect positive change for a peaceful world. It encourages women to assume ownership of issues affecting society as a whole and to take on leadership roles. Since its founding UWAS has engaged in several projects designed to enlarge women’s perspective of the world and contribution to society through publications, global networking, attendance at international women’s conferences, and community work at home and in the region. UWAS was inaugurated in August 1996 and is a national affiliate of the International Federation of University women (IFUW) based in Geneva. Its membership comprises women graduates from different universities.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
A leading global university centred in Asia, the National University of Singapore (NUS) offers a global approach to education and research, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. Its transformative education includes a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment, as well as special programmes which allow students to realise their potential. Over 30,000 students from 100 countries further enrich the community with their diverse social and cultural perspectives, making campus life vibrant and exciting. A research-intensive university with an entrepreneurial dimension, NUS is ranked consistently as one of the world's top universities.
‘Constructed Landscapes: Singapore in Southeast Asia’ Exhibition
The University Art Museum (precursor of NUS Museum) was inaugurated in 1955 at the University of Malaya in Singapore. The collection was instrumental in the teaching and study of Art History. Its holding of acquired paintings served as a vital archive and resource to interpret landscapes and themes in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Presented in three sections - Engagement/Memory/Imagination - the exhibition explores artistic interactions with the land, personal and collective memory, as well as relationships with physical space, cultural imagination and practice. Through paintings, drawings, photographs, textiles and video documentations, the landscape observations convey, construct and represent aspects of such landscapes, as well as offer presentations and interpretations.
KR - 50
A contemporary restaurant in NUS Cultural Hub, next to the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music offering an imaginative European menu with an emphasis on modern creative vegetarian items & seafood. Dining will be outdoor alfresco in the setting of a lush tropical garden, weather permitting. The APEC-WLN Dinner will be an international buffet spread with starters, mains, desserts and coffee, with three “a la minute” cooking stations – a fruits & vegetable ‘rojak’ station, a mixed tempura station and a pasta station. Mains include coffee chicken, roasted boneless leg of lamb, cottage pie, baked salmon with laksa marinade, handmade Chinese dumpling, spinach and cabbage (vegetarian) Thai pineapple rice, etc.
