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Our Hawker Centres – A Heritage & Art Project

THEN & NOW – A ONE AMOYACS SG50 ACtS Initiative Street Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) Food Centre Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) Anglo-Chinese School (International)

Our Hawker Centres – A Heritage & Art Project The ACS (Barker Road), ACS Amoy Street) and food stalls. The (International) and ACS (Primary) composition for each wall is kept artwork aims to recognise, and draw simple, as this is a student-led project on, the history of Amoy Street. With from start to finish. They attended a its fusion of traders, merchants, number of workshops with the artist to religions and food, it is at the very facilitate this. The students responded centre of how Singapore’s Peranakan to Amoy Street, and its history, by culture developed. The Anglo-Chinese developing a series of sketches in School’s connection to Amoy Street is response to their experiences there. represented in the artwork. These sketches form the composition, and are all designed by the students. The five-wall composition, made by This five-wall composition is made the students and staff from the three possible by the collective effort of 8 ACS schools in collaboration with the students & 1 teacher from ACS (Barker Singaporean street artist CEN02, is a Road), 12 students, 2 teachers from mixture of both new and old. Each of ACS (International) and 8 students & 4 the five walls is a mixture of colour, teachers from ACS (Primary). and black and white. The designs show: hawkers, Peranakan patterns, The Best Is Yet To Be. old shop houses (in particular 70

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Our Hawker Centres – A Heritage & Art Project Recollections From 23-26 Feb 2015, students and staff from 3 ACS schools –ACS (Barker Road), ACS (International) and ACS(Primary came together to work on a 5-wall mural project that meaningfully represented the Anglo-Chinese School’s heritage and its connection to Amoy Street. Many people took photos of the artworks when the students were painting.

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Our Hawker Centres – A Heritage & Art ProjectTHEN & NOW – A ONEACS SG50 ACtS Initiative Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) “I had to do some preparatory work first,like googling for picturesof MBS, Art Science Museum and even Ah Meng the orang-utan. I then made sketches of the things I wanted to draw, on my sketchbook. It was agood experience because I had never observed such details especially of the MBS and the Art Science Museum.” Matthew’s thoughts behind his creation Singapore has progressed from where Sands, Gardens by the Bay, the Merlion, she was in 1965 to become a global state-of-the-art facilities as well as the player in the 21st Century. The design ICT tools Singaporeans adopt to enable by artist Matthew Hubert Tang (Class us to enhance our global position. of 2015) seeks to depict Singapore in the 21st Century, with her unique landmarks such as the Marina Bay

THEN & NOW – A ONE 9ACS SG50 ACtS Initiative Participating in the SG50 Heritage & Art Project for Amoy Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Street Food Centre was especially significant for us. It was at Amoy Street where our school first started withAMOY STREET reflects the rich 13 students in 1886. It has been an honour to participate inheritage of Singapore through the this SG50 project to commemorate our nation’s heritageunique colonial-inspired style of its and during the course of the artwork, we learnt morearchitecture. This digitally-craftedmural by Leong Chee Weng Michael about the history of the area and our school. If art(Year 5/2015) and M. Deepaydira can help to make the intangible past more tangible, we(Year 5/2015) merges these elements hope our artwork will encourage many more people toconsistently preserved from then andnow into a unified, integrated row of appreciate the vibrancy and history of this area.”shophouses like a graphic timeline of Quote from the studentsthe area itself. Featured prominentlyare the traditional merchants ontrishaws, progressively juxtaposed withelements of the modern world, such asmotorcars. This represents a continuedeffort to preserve the socio-culturalhistory of the Chinatown area withthe passing of time. Presented as a“reflection” of the present day street,this banner showcases both the pastand the present.