SWF PLAYGROUND
SWF Playground brings our programmes for children between the ages of 4 and 10 from our homes to yours. From storytelling, to craft to workshops, we hope to inspire your little ones, spark their creativity and nurture a love for stories.
SWF Playground is now available on the SWF Youtube channel.
Please visit these amazing online bookstores, Closetful of Books, Woods in the Books, and Books Kinokuniya to purchase the books.
Thank you and we hope you enjoy the programmes!
SWF Playground is organised by the National Arts Council and is part of the #SGCultureAnywhere campaign.
PROGRAMMES

Who’s that ninja at the park? Find out with Leila Boukarim and Barbara Moxham, the author and illustrator of Everyday Ninja, as they share the book’s delightful story and lead students in a movement-based activity to find their inner ninjas.

Let Roger Jenkins and Gophi Nathan take you on a wild journey with birds using English and Sign language.

Calling all budding writers! Get inspired with unusual ways to write original stories with author Don Bosco! Join him as he shares the writing process using examples from his published books.

Go on a journey to an imaginary place with Darel Seow. Pick up tips on how to illustrate then recount your trip through a drawing of your own imaginary holiday spot.

Join Aunty Rose as she takes you on a journey to India with stories of the clever and witty Tenali Raman.

Join storyteller Abhi Krish in a session on movement and direction, filled with stories, songs and games.

அசைவுகளையும் திசைகளையும் பற்றிய கதைகள், பாடல்கள், விளையாட்டுகள் நிறைந்த இந்த நிகழ்வில், கதைசொல்லி அபி க்ரிஷுடன் இணைந்திடுங்கள்.

Teman-teman, tahukah anda bahawa siri Taman Mini yang disiarkan di saluran Suria telah diilhamkan dari buku Si Pencuri Ketawa (Siri Mini Mon) yang ditulis oleh Rilla Melati?

Kids, did you know that the series Taman Mini on Suria was inspired by the book Mini Mons: The One Who Stole Laughter (Siri Mini Mon: Si Pencuri Ketawa) by Rilla Melati?

Sam needs to solve her stuffed toys’ squabbles, but what can she do? Author Pippa Chorley will share from her book Stuffed and guide children through making their own playdough pig.
SWF KAYPOHS
In this light-hearted weekly series of meet-the-author interviews, we check in with some of your favourite Singaporean writers and artists! Get ready for an insider's scoop as SWF puts writers on the hot seat to ask them some pretty interesting questions about themselves.
SWF Kaypohs is now available to watch on the SWF IGTV platform.
Please visit BooksActually, localbooks.sg, Books Kinokuniya and other local bookstores to pick up copies of the authors' books.
SWF Kaypoh is organised by the National Arts Council and is part of the #SGCultureAnywhere campaign.
KAYPOH SESSIONS
What superhero power does Cyril Wong wish he had? Will he ever get his hair cut? Cyril Wong answers 30 (possibly more) rapid-fire questions.
Gurmit Singh speaks with SWF Festival Director Pooja Nansi in this live Q&A.
Literary baes Amanda Chong and Daryl Qilin Yam plays a game of How Well Do You Know Each Other. Find out who won, and who ended up reading juvenilia from their younger days.
Arianna Pozzuoli answers 30 (or more) superbly random questions.
Who's better at keeping secrets? Who would win at an argument? This week, we invited Farihan Bahron and Noridah Kamari to play a game of Who's Better At.
Is Amanda a romantic or a cynic? Does she believe in natal chart astrology? Amanda Lee Koe answers some of your burning questions.
SWF CONFESSIONS
We give a new meaning to 'an intimate get-together' as we ask some of your favourite Singaporean writers and artists to talk about their firsts…in their bedroom. Each week, an artist writes a letter about their first music tape, their first rejection, their first crush, etc, and reads it from the privacy of their bedroom to you in yours. (What were you thinking of?)
SWF Confessions is now available on the SWF Youtube channel.
Please visit BooksActually, localbooks.sg, Books Kinokuniya and other local bookstores to pick up copies of the authors' books.
EPISODES

A rider and a writer, Nessa Anwar relates her first escape on a motorcycle.

A rider and a writer, Nessa Anwar relates her first escape on a motorcycle.

This week, Deborah Emmanuel writes a letter to grown-up little girls about the first time she got her period.

Harini V reflects on her first dreams and writes a poem about that sense of wonder.

Neo Hai Bin reads a letter he wrote on facing his first rejection.

Balli Kaur Jaswal reads a letter to her son about the first home she lived in.

Wayne Rée recalls the first film he watched, which made quite an impression on him as a child.

Isa Kamari remembers the first cassette tape he has ever purchased, and a significant person he meets for the first time.

Reading from his letter titled "Islands in Islands", Australian spoken word poet William Beale reflects on shades of loneliness from the womb to the water.

Not quite the first kiss story you might have imagined, Shivram Gopinath reads a letter he wrote to the famous American chocolatier, Milton Hershey. In this recollection, a familiar taste evokes flavours of memory, identity, and culture.
SWF & CHILL
The SWF team has put together a "SWF & CHILL" playlist featuring some of our past lectures and performances to cure your #StayHome boredom. Watch out for other highlights from past festival editions* including SWF lectures, performances, and exclusive meet-the-author sessions.
*Not including 2020's edition.
SWF & Chill is now available on the SWF Youtube channel.