Sebastiao Salgado’s Exhibition ‘Genesis’ at the National Museum of Singapore

Saturday July 26, 10:30am

Committee member and art advisor Bonnie B. Lee (Selwyn, Cambridge) will guide a small group around the National Museum Singapore’s current exhibition of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado’s latest series, ‘Genesis’. Already the museum’s highest attend exhibition ever, ‘Genesis’ debuted at Natural History Museum London last year to record crowds and has been touring museums in Paris, Rome, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Lausanne, Berlin, Stockholm, and soon, New York, Shanghai, and Seoul. The National Museum show is its Asia premiere. In 250 images taken on every continent of the world, and nearly a decade in the making, Salgado captures the pure, untouched, and largely unseen beauty of the natural world.

This event is free to Oxbridge members and will be limited to 12 people.

Please email Bonnie and cc Dominic to reserve a slot. Bonnie will email you directly with details.

Venue: 21 Chee Hoon Avenue [kindly note the change in venue]
Date: 16 April 2014, Wednesday
Time: 6.30pm-9.00pm
Fee: $25 for cost recovery (Both members and non members)

Sign up at http://carolblackfireside.peatix.com

Professor Dame Carol Black has had a pivotal role in addressing the issues of health and the workplace in her decades-long illustrious career that includes prominent appointments such as the first UK National Director for Health and Work, President of Royal College of Physicians, and her current role as Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

As the author of the landmark review of Britain’s working age population that was presented to UK Government to broad cross-party support, Prof. Dame Black will share the challenges she identified through her research to health and well-being in working life and the reforms she recommended to improve overall occupational health that consider human, social, and environmental factors beyond mere clinical diagnoses. Prof. Dame Black will provide insight into the interconnected topics of work and health at public policy and at personal levels that often go unconsidered. As a leader in her field, she will also talk about her experiences as a woman in leadership roles and bring her perspectives to young ambitious career women today.

Further Background

Professor Dame Carol Black was trained as a medic and was first appointed Professor, then Head of Rheumatology at Royal Free Hospital, London, where she was Medical Director from 2000-2002. The Centre she founded there is internationally renowned for its research on connective tissue disease. From 2002-2006, she was President of the Royal College of Physicians (only the second woman president in its 500-year history), and then held the position of Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2009. She was the first National Director for Health and Work, leading independent reviews in 2008 and with David Frost CBE in 2011 that were presented to UK Parliament.

She has served in leadership roles of numerous charities and foundations throughout her career, including the British Lung Foundation and the UK Health Honours Committee, and is currently Expert Adviser to the UK Department of Health; Chair of the Governance Board, Centre for Workforce Intelligence; Chair of the Health at Work network; and Chair of the Nuffield Trust, which is dedicated to improving healthcare policy. Prof. Dame Black is also a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. In 2013, she was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the UK by Women’s Hour on BBC4.

6 April 2014, Sunday, 7-10pm

2 Goodwood Hill

The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore in collaboration with BNY Mellon invites you to an informal mingle to celebrate the annual Boat Race between the Light Blues and the Dark Blues. As the record stands, Cambridge is leading the way with 81 wins and Oxford at 77 — but let’s leave the quibbling aside and focus on the real objective — enjoying some excellent wine, food and cheese and of course, stellar conversation.

This year, we are doing things a little differently – no formal speeches, ample opportunity for mingling with a buffet spread and the inaugural Oxbridge Pub Quiz.

Recommended attire: Smart Casual Attire (No Black Tie!)

This event is open to non-Oxbridge alums so bring your friends!

All queries should be directed to sg.oxbridge.boat.race.2014@gmail.com. However, sign-ups will only be accepted via http://mellonboatracemingle2014.peatix.com.

Note: We will not screen the actual Boat Race as that will take place at 1am Singapore time. If you are interested in catching the race, please drop us an email to let us know and we reconsider only if there is sufficient interest.

We thank BNY Mellon for their generous support of this event.

Sign up here.