Ethos Nights: Faceri
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Faceri is a night of film and spoken word co-presented by the Asian Film Archive and Ethos Books. The second of the Ethos Nights series, this event features three short films and four writers, tracing the lines of making and unmaking evoked by the etymology of the word “fashion”, from the old French “Façon,” meaning “a making, style, appearance, behavior”. Through material culture we style ourselves, but also create a living nexus of identity that people can don. This in turn stems from Latin “faceri”: the act of doing, making, creating; the act of birth itself. Through the interweaving of film and spoken word, Faceri will explore materiality, identity, and craft.
📅 Date/Time: 8 Feb 2025, 5.30pm
📍Venue: Oldham Theatre
Programme:
🎥 In Pursuit of Temples in the Sky (Gagandeep Singh, 2021)
With live narration by Shawn Hoo
🎥 A million Threads (Thu Thu Shein, 2006)
With textual responses by Jennifer Anne Champion and Prasanthi Ram
🧶 Text & Textile
An improvised poem co-created with the audience by Shivram Gopinath
🎥 Roach Love (Jacen Tan, 2022)
With an exquisite corpse
This event will feature Shawn Hoo, Jennifer Anne Champion, Prasanthi Ram and Shivram Gopinath.
Shawn Hoo is a poet and the author of Of The Florids (Diode Editions, 2022), which received the Medal Provocateur at the Eric Hoffer Award (2023). His poems have been featured in Poetry Daily, Queer Southeast Asia and New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022). His translations from Mandarin Chinese have been published in the Journal of Practice, Research & Tangential Activities (PR&TA) and Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
Jennifer Anne Champion is a writer and artist, focusing on performative storytelling and textile experiments. She recently graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from Nanyang Technological University. Prior to this, Jennifer has been a steady voice in spoken word, both in Singapore and abroad. Her poems have been anthologised and are forthcoming in a collection by Cambridge University Press.
Shivram Gopinath, born in Chennai, India, is a poet who has called Singapore a home for more than two decades. His work has been heard at literary festivals, dingy bars and living rooms across Asia Pacific. He enjoys teaching workshops structured around poetic identity, and is a twice-winning Singapore National Poetry Slam champion. Dey (Ethos Books, 2025) is his debut collection.
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. Her writing can be found in Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (2022) and Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021) among others. She also co-founded and is the prose editor of Mahogany Journal.
Ethos Nights: Faceri
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