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Singapore Contemporary Young Artists (SCYA) is inviting you to their first official launch of their website (www.contemporaryart.sg) at Sculpture Square on Thursday, 6th of Nov, 7pm! Exhibition of website and artworks continues till Sunday 9th Nov, 3pm.

The event will showcase selected artists from 10 different genres in contemporary art practices:

01. Sculpture
02. Painting
03. Printmaking
04. Installation/Site-Specific/Multi-Disciplinary
05. Video
06. Text-based art
07. Performance art
08. Graffiti art
09. Photography
10. Drawing

Besides the mini-exhibition, food and drinks will be served and wine provided by their sponsor, Sevenoaks Wines.

Come Thursday, make your way to the event and see what Singapore Contemporary Young Artists Projects (SCYA) is all about!

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Flea-a-Lot is organising their very first flea market called “The Green Drive”. This event is in support of the Bring Your Own Bag initiative.

For small online business owners, here’s an opening for you to participate in the green initiative as well bringing your online presence to the masses in person.

Registration for the booths ends 2nd Nov. Visit Flea-a-Lot website for details and registration.

For consumers, expect to see many blog shops owners strutting their stuffs at the event. It’s happening at the weekends at East Coast Park so drop by if your are around the vicinity.

Date: 15 & 16 Nov 2008
Time: 10am - 6pm
Venue: East Coast Park Area B, Lawn beside Big Splash, facing Sushi Tei

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Now into its fourth year, Noise Singapore is calling for submissions in it’s official t-shirt design competition this season. There is no theme involved but all designs should interpret what Noise Singapore means to you. Noise Singapore logo is not required to be incorporate into your design but if you want to, it can be downloaded right here.

The winning designs will not only be rewarded with cash prizes of SGD$200 - SGD$800, they will be featured online, in print and at the festival showcase exibition March 2009! And one more thing, they will get printed as the official Noise Singapore t-shirts and made available to the Noise community during the festival showcase. Sweet deal and awesome exposure isn’t it?

The competition is open only to citizens and residents of Singapore, aged 35 years and below. Closing date for submission is on the 15 December 2008.

Go to Noise Singapore, look for the competition category that says, “My Noise Tee” and click “View More Details”. You are required to sign up as a participant to submit your work.

This year, the brand new site by Noise Singapore comes with social networking elements that you find familiar in Facebook, Friendster or Behance Network. Participants will have their own personalised profile pages to showcase art works, photographs and music, a blog for them to express themselves with words, and functions to critique each other’s masterpieces.

All in all, it’s a great opportunity to get your design recognised and be rewarded handsomely as well. Good luck and have fun!

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The last 2 days has been abuzz with blog posts on the just concluded E27 Unconference Singapore 2008. Usually, we don’t post much on events such as this but some of the topics discussed were relevant and close to fabrikade. Both topics on Social Media and Web 2.0 are topics we have been following and implemented. It’s unfortunate that we did not attend the event but here’s some blog links that trickled in about the event.

Young Upstarts - Singapore Startups at the e27 Unconference Singapore 2008
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Think about this, ever wished you could host an exclusive private party for you and your friends at Velvet Underground and pay nothing for it?

SOL will be giving away 1 free party at Velvet Underground. 3 were given away at their last party over the weekend. If you want to host this awesome party and invite all your friends over, head over to SOL Beer Singapore for details and entry submission.

The next SOL Party is coming up soon on 2 Aug 2008 (Sat) and this is your chance to win your very own SOL party!

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For the third year running, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore is organizing a public awareness and fund-raising event titled Project IDentity 2008, “Bloom a Loving Heart”. This project aims to raise awareness for the intellectually disabled and encourage the public to integrate the intellectually disabled into society.

It will be a day of activites that include stage performances by various bands, dance groups, Kiki the Magician, MINDS Drummers etc., exhibition of our beneficiaries’ art pieces and also fund raising.

Event: Project IDentity 2008, “Bloom a Loving Heart”
Venue: Bishan Junction 8, Level 3, Top of the 8 Open Plaza
Date: 20th July 2008
Time: 11am to 6pm
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Revenue earned during the event will be donated entirely to the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled Society (MINDS). These donations will act as financial aid to improve the lives of the intellectually disabled community in Singapore. You may visit MINDS for more information.

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Are you itching to Touch? Here’s your chance to lay your hands on the HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC. (not just touch it but own it!)

The deal — we need your smart ideas.

We are looking for creative/innovative/whacky/inspirational/stimulating/fun ideas to the question…

If your entry is selected, one cool HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC (estimated retail price of S$1,999) will be all yours. This contest is open to all Singapore-based bloggers and readers only. (Kindly refer to Terms and Conditions in PDF)

Contest begins as of now and ends 0000h, 12 July. Winners and their entries will be announced on the HP TouchSmart Blog at 1500h, 18 July. (Please remember to leave your email address in the comment box so you can be informed if you win)

Good luck and start leaving your ideas in our comment box!

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