​We sing it. We hear it every year.

​But have we ever really asked — Majulah Singapura for who?

​As Singapore gears up for NDP 2025 under the theme “Majulah Singapura,” we’re flipping the script.

​Who defines progress?

​Who gets left behind?

​What gets bulldozed to move forward?

​This National Day, join a 2-hour workshop that’s anything but business-as-usual. Through interactive activities, we’ll question, create, and imagine the future of Singapore — the one we want, and the one we fear.

​Inspired by artist Heman Chong’s Abstracts from The Straits Times series. Come for the workshop, and enjoy a visit to  his exhibition at Singapore Art Museum (SAM).

​We’ll rip up headlines, remix realities, and speak truths — raw, hopeful, uncomfortable, honest.

​Open to all: Singaporeans, friends, skeptics, and loving critics.

​This programme is held in conjunction with the exhibition This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy any particular standard for completeness.

​About the Facilitator

​Lewis Liu has over a decade of experience spanning the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He specializes in helping organizations engage stakeholders, identify emerging trends, and develop long-term strategies.

​He spent half his career in the Public Service (PMO, MCCY), working on futures thinking and citizen engagement projects. At Grab, he worked closely with policymakers and regulators to improve the lives and livelihoods of gig workers, consumers and businesses.

​Today, he leads Crowdsense, a consultancy dedicated to bringing diverse stakeholders together to work toward shared goals. He is also an Executive Education Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.

​About the exhibition and the work that inspired this workshop 

​This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness reads as a survey of artworks by Heman Chong. From artworks first made in 2003 to new works, the exhibition charts his prolific conceptual practice over the last two decades. An invitation into Chong’s incisive use of words, objects, situations, logics and affinities, the exhibition presents his critical and affective interrogation of our shared human condition in the 21st century.

​Abstracts From The Straits Times is a series based on journalistic headlines and accompanying photo documentation from The Straits Times, Singapore’s daily newspaper. Through repetition and overlap, Chong effectively “submerges” and “blacks out” their messages, mirroring the glitch that enabled and was introduced during the making of the work.

​Venue sponsored by Singapore Art Museum (SAM)