Seletar Airbase: Singapore’s Secret Garden is screening twice in the next two weeks. Details as follows:
6th March
Tuesday, 7.30pm, the theatre in the Substation
Tickets: $7
It is screening as part of the Singapore Indie Documentary Festival together with three other shorts.
Tickets available from Gatecrash or call hotline 6222 5595.
Also available at SingPost branches, S.A.M. kiosks, and The Substation Box Office
13th March
Tuesday, 7 pm, Timbre bar in the Substation garden
Tickets: Free, but you need to buy a drink.
A screening by sinema.sg. I think other films are included too.
If you come, do come up and say hi!
March 7, 2007 at 12:04 am
Hey Xiuqi. Forgot to tell you… have you heard about FARM? It’s a really cool group of curators/artists/designers that seek to promote creatives in Singapore, and they’re generally very interested in the issue of preserving architecture.
They hold a quarterly event entitled Rojak where creatives in Singapore can talk about their work – these are often hosted in endangered Singapore architectural sites. I’m sure they’d be interested if you told them about your project.
http://farm.sg
http://farm.sg/index.php/rojak/
Sincerely,
March 10, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Sounds cool.. gonna watch the vid in your link
also gonna advert the event for you on my blog’s calendar
http://naturespies.blogspot.com
cheers
March 15, 2007 at 2:24 am
i used to live there in the 60s & 70s.Worked in LASS in late 70s & later SAMCO till 85.
Nostalgic memories.
March 26, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hey the movie is fantastic. Is there anyway I can buy or otherwise get a copy? How to gain access to the website? I was one of the ones you interviewed but sadly I guess you can’t put everyody in the final movie. Keep up the good work! Anybody heard a progress report on the new aerospace park? I sure hate to move out!
Bob Swick
April 16, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Hi,
What is the latest on the development in the camp – will the residential houses be targeted for destruction and the nature surrounding the whole area. I used to live in the camp for more than 7 years and during those times, I had become an avid bird watcher, having spotted many species of birds – it would be a huge loss to Singaporeans and their future generations if this habitat is not retained. I have recently returned to Singapore and would really appreciate any further news on the development in the airbase. Tks.
April 24, 2007 at 10:13 am
We lived on Mornington Crescent, East Camp from 1978 to 1989.
Seletar Air Base is indeed Singapore’s Secret Garden. It will be pity if the houses are destroyed to make room for an aerospace industrial park.
June 18, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! criazsolgk
July 1, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Haven’t seen the film yet, but sure would love to get a copy. Seletar Airbase has been our home since 1994 and we just got the news that our lovely home (home to lots of beautiful trees, plants and wildlife) will have to make way for an aircraft hanger. It breaks my heart.
Thank you for making this site, it’s nice to read the comments and to know that many people feel the same about this great and unique area.
July 11, 2007 at 6:22 pm
First stayed RAF Seletar, 1956 to 59, later in 1967-70, went back again in 1973 and have recently left after a hoiday in Singapore, April to May of this year, 2007.Seletar itself was quite nice but as a serviceman on active service during the first period, Seletar base was like a prison camp, great if you were a small kid, living in married quarters, but dreadful if you were a serviceman, on active service by the way, no fun at all, the food wasn’t fit for pigs to eat.I’d like to see the main gates preserved however, if only as a monument of the old air base built in 1929 and which was ‘given to the japs, complete with thousands of British Serving RAF personnel in 1942′, the start of the end of British Colonial ignorance and snobbishness. I hope the S’Pore Govt do turn it into an industrial park, it will create work for hundreds of people, lets get real, let’s get practical and stop thinking about it as being a holiday camp for a ’special class of people’ I think Singapore is a beautiful place, led by a smart pragmatic government who have done more in five years than the British did in ninety five years! Majulah Singapura!
August 12, 2007 at 12:52 am
hello! we didn’t even realise such a beautiful place exist in singapore anymore, a place in it’s gloriously natural, untainted state. i’m not even gonna talk about conserved buildings that have been freshly painted with too-modern color tones. we seem to have less memories of the past to cling onto. things move too fast around here. being at seletar airbase gave me the feeling of not being in singapore. i like the feeling of knowing how a place will stay unchanged for a while but singapore is a city that can change overnight.
found your site through culturepush
August 12, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Dear Xiu Qi,
I was the one who went up to you this afternoon at Arts House to enquire abt yr film Seletar
Well….very paisei to stay I have been staying in my Seletar Estate for nearly 10 years yet I have never never “ventured, explored” further my Seletar estate….the furthest is Jalan Kayu for food.
It is after reading abt yr film that my family started to travel deeper into Jalan Kayu to Seletar Airbase and wow it is a paradise away from the hustle and bustle of Spore! In fact, the black and white houses and winding roads reminded us of UK country’s side. We never knew Spore could be so beautiful…. yet these will soon be gone in the name of development.
Thanks so much for filming this documentary. It is a most meaningful project and sincerely hope you will continue to film more. You have all our support!
Cheers & Take Care
September 18, 2007 at 11:30 pm
From 1959/61 I worked in what is now called the Medical Centre {was Station Sick Quarters]Had a great time for two years.Loved to walk around camp in the evenings,sunsets,birdsongs,peace and quiet,then down to the village of Jalan Kayu to Pops curry shop and a few Tiger beers.Please don’t let them destroy it,try to keep it going for mine and your grandchildren. Trying to save very hard to come back to see you.!!!!
Is the market still going on Friday evenings!!!
October 16, 2007 at 8:49 pm
hey peeps,
would you be able to contact me through my email iwantyouonmybed@gmail.com, am interested to screen your short film in republic polytechnic film festival this coming november 2007.
please contact me soon.
Ghaz
November 4, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Dear All lovers of Seletar,
Here’s a wonderful piece of work put together by students of Pei Hwa Secondary School @ Jalan Kayu. It tracks the history of Jalan Kayu & Seletar Airbase, complete with photos dating back to the British days. The school also tracked down and organised a reunion for some of the British soldiers.
See it all when u check out:
http://jalankayutrail.blogspot.com
For those of you who have a soft spot for Seletar, get your tissues ready! Now that we know that Seletar estate has to give way to modern development, the information in this Jalan Kayu website is so so precious and sad.
December 21, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I watched this film and thank you it brought back some happy memories, my dad was in the air force and we lived at 17 mornington crescent from 69 to 71, Is there anyone who can take some pictures of that area as I would love to see it again.
very much appreciated
January 17, 2009 at 1:55 am
Hi Lynn
We can organise the photos, if you want to leave a comment (so we can capture your email contact) either at http://www.seletarchronicle.com or http://www.postcardsfromseletar.com
April 16, 2009 at 1:47 am
Not that I’m totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected when I found a link on Digg telling that the info here is awesome. Thanks.