An invitation to Past-Present: Craft Communities in Contemporary India.

Thu, 5 Mar 2009
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Past-Present: Craft Communities in Contemporary India.
From: Thu, 19 February – Sun, 31 May 2009.
Exhibition Opening: Fri, 6 March 2009, 6pm – 8pm

Forming an attempt at understanding modern and contemporary craft practices in the major urban centres of India, the exhibition traces continuity in practices, ideas and concerns surrounding the livelihood of craft communities and the larger postcolonial politics of heritage management. Exhibited artifacts are drawn from the NUS Museum’s South Asian Collection and a recent study trip undertaken by a group of students from the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.

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Dear friends, I am very happy to invite all of you to this exhibition as I am also involved in it; I was one of the students who went for the trip last year. Also, I contributed a grand total of one artefact, which you can see physcially at the exhibition, along with a section of an essay, and a 700-word semi-autobiographical/non-fictional piece of fiction, which is in the very nice and very beautiful brochure.

Best of all – the exhibition is FREE! Do go for it if you can, especially if you’re a fan of India/Indian culture and heritage. Hope to see you there!

Printing from your laptop in the NIE Library.

Wed, 18 Feb 2009
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I know I promised many people I’d put this up, so here it is – the guide to configuring your laptop to send files to the printer in the NIE library, so you don’t have to book a computer just to print that one page of work.

  1. Go to ‘System Preferences’.

  2. Click on ‘Print and Fax’.

  3. Click on the ‘Plus’ sign (+) to add a new printer.

  4. Input the following values:
    • Protocol: Line Printer Daemon – LPD
    • Address: 155.69.86.56
    • Queue: printer_level4
    • Name: printer_level4
    • Print Using: HP LaserJet 8000 Series.

    Click ‘Add’.

  5. Place a check next to the ‘Duplex Unit’ option, and change the Total Printer Memory option to ’36MB or more’. Click ‘Continue’.

  6. Your printer should’ve been added. To confirm, double-click the ‘printer_level4’ icon, click on the blue ‘Info’ button and check to see if the values match what you see in the picture.

  7. To print: Go to File -> Print or hit Cmd-P to send your file to the printer.
  8. Go to the release station, and type in your user name. It’s usually the name which you use to log in to your computer, but without spaces. Mine is Laremy Lee (c.f. Step 1), so the user name I input is ‘laremylee’.

Hope this helps!