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Useful Links
If you need to know more about customs and cultures in Singapore to help with your creative process, check out some of these resources from the National Library and the National Archives:
“Customs and Cultures,” LearnX, accessed 23 May 2025.
“Scenes at Singapore Botanic Gardens During Hari Raya Puasa, 1965,” National Archives of Singapore, published 17 July 2015.
“Singapore Traditions,” LearnX, accessed 23 May 2025.
Asrina Tanuri and Nadya Suradi, “Malay Muslim Weddings: Keeping Up with the Times,” BiblioAsia 17, no. 2 (Jun-Sep 2021).
Communities of Singapore (Part 1): Chap Goh Mei. Betty Seow Guat Beng @ Lim Koon Teck, oral history interview by Ooi Yu-Lin, 10 July 1989, transcript and MP3 audio, 31:04. National Archives of Singapore (accession no. 001048).
Communities of Singapore (Part 2): History of Thaipusam. Pakriswamy Naidu Ramoo, oral history interview by Kartini Lim Chiwen, 22 October 1987, transcript and MP3 audio, 29:33. National Archives of Singapore (accession no. 000827).
Nalina Gopal, “The Divine Lance: Thaipusam and Murugan Worship in Singapore,” BiblioAsia 18, no. 4 (Jan-Mar 2023).
Nalina Gopal, “Theemithi: A Look at the Full Cycle of Rituals Behind the Festival of Firewalking,” BiblioAsia 18, no. 3 (Oct-Dec 2022).
National Archives of Singapore, “Celebrating Together,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s [video]. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
National Archives of Singapore, “Chinese New Year,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s [video]. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
National Archives of Singapore, “Selamat Hari Raya Puasa,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s [video]. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
Timothy Pwee, “Chingay in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Community Procession in Time,” BiblioAsia 20, no. 4 (Jan-Mar 2025).