The eighth Student Peace Lecture (SPL), titled “The Boons and Banes of Social Media: Can social media harness the goodness in us?”, was held on December 8 at the Mochtar Riady Auditorium of the Singapore Management University.
Family fun with the community – this aptly describes SSA Family Day 2012 on August 20.
On December 12, members and friends of SSA Student Division (SD) filled the Mochtar Riady Auditorium at the Singapore Management University for the Seventh Student Peace Lecture (SPL). This year’s lecture, themed “Fiction, Imagination and the Surprises They Bring”, was delivered with refreshing passion and humour by distinguished writer and the first recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize in 1992, Ms Suchen Christine Lim. Ms Helen Choo, Principal of Tampines Junior College and long-time friend of Ms Lim, chaired the lecture.
“Life is the way you see it. You are the architect of your reality.” Ms Claire Chiang, Senior Vice President of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited,
For more than a year, SSA Student Division members from Nanyang Polytechnic had been tirelessly sharing about the meaningful and empowering message conveyed through the “Seeds of Hope: Visions of sustainability steps towards change” exhibition amongst student clubs and their lecturers. Their efforts culminated in the holding of the exhibition, which is a joint initiative by the Soka Gakkai International and the Earth Charter International, at the school’s Atrium in conjunction with NYP Friendship Day on 13 July 2011. The exhibition attracted some 250 viewers, many of whom were so inspired that they penned their pledge for peace on a pledge card after learning from the exhibition.
In the spirit of promoting inter-faith learning and sharing, SSA held its first public lecture series under the theme “Living Buddhism” on 2 May at
Singapore Soka Association supported the Asia Humanitarian Forum (AHF) 2010 held at The Plaza, National Library from 15-17 January with the exhibition “Seeds of Change” as well as screening of the videos “Another Way of Seeing Things” and “A Quiet Revolution”.
SGI President Ikeda’s essay titled “A Civilization Predicated on Dialogue” was published in the local main Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao on January 10.
A delegation of 23 Chinese officials from Longgang district, Shenzhen, who are presently on a two week study tour, visited the SSA Headquarters on December 17.
From December 2008 to March 2009, SGI exhibitions “Seeds of Change”, “Dialogue with Nature” photograph exhibition by SGI President Ikeda,
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