Theme: ...and beyond.

“...and beyond.” is specifically stylised with a ellipsis before the phrase ‘and beyond’. In doing so, the theme of TEDxYouth@SOTA is an unfinished sentence, that over the course of the talks, the speakers and audience will able to answer in a myriad of different ways. In particular, the focus on the idea of going ‘beyond’ lends itself to our aim of delving deeper into existing ideas, perhaps to reframe our perspectives, seek connections beyond what already exists or cast our eyes towards the future of a practice.

School of the Arts (SOTA)
1 Zubir Said Drive
Singapore, Central Singapore, 227968
Singapore

Inch Chua

Music

Singaporean singer-songwriter and musician Inch Chua has performed in various local and overseas music festivals and events. In recent years, she has published a collection of her writings, sketches and paintings in her book “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”. She has also released well-received EPs such as The Bedroom, Wallflower and Bumfuzzle. Her latest album, “Letters to Ubin”, was inspired by and written during her 4-month stay in Pulau Ubin in 2015. Inch is also the co-founder and COO of Invasion Singapore, a social enterprise dedicated to cultivating our local music scene. Hyder Albar is currently the CEO of Invasion Singapore. Hyder was a drummer in an alternative rock band West Grand Boulevard, and his passion for music fueled his interest in building up a sustainable music culture in Singapore. Therefore, together with Inch Chua, he founded Invasion Singapore. One of Invasion Singapore’s efforts is the *SCAPE Invasion Tour, which aims to bring youths in Singapore closer to the local music scene.

Prachi Saini

Perfume

Prachi Saini started Je T’aime Perfumery with the vision of bringing the mysterious art of perfume design to a wider audience. Prior to following her passion in designing signature scents, she worked in the architecture and infrastructure construction industries in the USA and India. Now based in Singapore, she works together with her team to host fragrance workshops and parties where consumers can discover and create their own signature scents. Aside from leading these intimate workshop sessions, Prachi also works closely with consumers to design their signature fragrances in order for them to achieve their smell of success.

Shannon Lee

Biochemical Sciences

Ask Shannon “What is your passion?” and she will give an answer you would hardly expect. Through her 6 years at National Junior College, she was actively involved in a myriad of activities and spearheaded initiatives across different fields; it could be tricky to pinpoint exactly what her passion was. Shannon did her first science research project at age 14 after wondering if the household detergent her aunts introduced promoted instead of inhibit bacterial growth. As her curiosity piqued, she did a project every subsequent year, working with natto beans, silver nanoparticles and neurons. At 17, she took the bold step of experimenting with eggplants and batteries, an idea still foreign to most then. With faith, perseverance and good mentorship, she eventually published a paper in the Royal Society of Chemistry and became the first Singaporean to be awarded the second highest honor at the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), dubbed the Youth Olympics of Science.

Shubigi Rao

Art and literature

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao’s interests range from archaeology, neuroscience, language, libraries and books, cultural histories, contemporary art theory, and unfashionable branches of knowledge, to natural history and the environment. Her immersive and tongue-in- cheek books, artworks and installations employ puns (textual and visual) and wordplay, from creating archaeological archives of garbage, writing How To manuals for building a nation and a culture from scratch, discovering and diagnosing peculiar forms of urban malaise where digital dandruff and pixel dust accumulate like lint and cloud the contemporary brain, building immortal jellyfish, to a pseudo-museum environment in which issues ranging from the nature of collecting, the mechanisms of knowledge accumulation and storage, to destruction and cultural genocide are referenced.