Ethel Pang is a Singapore-based cultural worker and community weaver. She shifts between the roles of writer, researcher, facilitator, curator and space-maker. Embedding herself within diverse communities and geographies across Singapore and the wider Southeast Asia, she has worked on issues like environmentalism, women empowerment, alternative education, and migrant worker rights.
In recent years, Ethel has been designing spaces and experiences for collective learning, with her most recent body of work being running an an art collective space and residency project titled ‘A Piece of Peace Centre’.
| Participating in T:>Work’s ‣, a 10-month long fellowship programme. | Wrapping up A Piece of Peace Centre Residency. |
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Ethel holding a plate of freshly harvested flowers and greens from GreenCircle Eco Farm, Singapore’s pioneering Food Forest. The farm has since closed. Photo taken by Marvin Montefrio.
A group of participants decompressing from their walking experience, led by Terence, who uncovered the different historical layers of Sophia Rd. Photo by Mae Hweei, taken at the A Piece of Peace Centre (APPC) studio, in the soon-to-be-demolished Peace Centre Mall.
Students from Yale-NUS preparing a meal at Huay E Khang village, Thailand as part of the Land to Life Experiential Learning Trip
I co-curate immersive learning experiences for people to gather to learn, discuss, and (re)connect with their respective communities and geographies.
Most recently, for the first time I had the opportunity to manage and run my own “community centre” in the form of A Piece of Peace Centre (APPC). In this space, we explored the of urban (re)development and alternative creative spaces in Singapore, as well as how to co-exist and co-create together.
In 2023, I organised the Land to Life Experiential Learning Trip for Yale-NUS students, the latest form of collaboration between myself and My Thailand Network—a team of farmers, women leaders, alternative educators and Indigenous activists.
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For a deeper dive into my work, refer to:
Ethel’s research & writing portfolio
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I use ****storytelling as a tool for advocacy. My writing ‘method’ or practice focuses on ethnographic approaches, where I draw on my personal experiences with communities in Singapore and across Southeast Asia to highlight the work being done on the frontiers of social and environmental change-making.
Layering the tools honed from my social science background, managing communications in a professional institutional context, and writing editorial pieces, I am working to develop into a multidisciplinary writer, researcher and storyteller.
I situate myself within a constellated web of people, places & projects:
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