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The Shape of Things to Come: SWF Opening Night 
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Lerraine Neo (26A01A)

On the 7th of November, Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) 2025 commenced with its opening night programme. Held at the Victoria Theatre, the programme was attended by local writers, teachers, youth contributors, and more. The 2025 festival centres around the theme “Shape of Things to Come”, inviting festival-goers to reflect on the past, present, and consider the future. 

“At the heart of SWF is our commitment to uplifting Singaporean writers,” Festival Director Yong Shu Hoong noted in his opening speech. “We believe that global conversations should be a platform to uplift local creators.” 

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Commentary, Features, Go Where?, Raffles Reviews

The City Of Others: Asian Artists in Paris
Reading Time: 10 minutes

By Ariann Khoo (26S06B) and Jaden Lum (26S05A)

Walking into City of Others, City of Migrants: Art in Paris, 1920-1940s at our National Gallery feels less like entering the closed doors of a museum, and more like stepping into the hidden alleys of history, a world of intricacies of its own. The exhibition, which was held from April to August, turned our gaze toward the quiet sufferings faced by Asian immigrants as they explored the city of love—a city sadly not their own. Their stories reflected here are fragments of their memory: faded photographs, sculptures and landscapes, like whispered recollections of their lives. To walk through City of Others, City of Migrants: Art in Paris, 1920-1940s is to be confronted with the idea of remembering Paris through the eyes of Asian migrant artists. 

“The speakers will examine how artistic consciousness shifts when Asian artists encounter a new city and culture while rediscovering the cultures of their origins.”

National Gallery Singapore
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Commentary, Op-Eds, Opinion

Signing Off: Graduation ‘25 
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Betty Ding (25A01B), Cayla Goh (25A01B), Isaac Chan (25A01B)

Everything about this article feels a little messy. At this point, most of us Y6s would have already hung up our signed shirts from graduation, yet we’re still hung up on it, trying to find the words to wrap up two years that were anything but tidy. 

Maybe that’s what makes this article so hard to write: JC life was never built for clean conclusions. Between the chaos of orientation, the blur of CCA activities, and the endless rhythm of lectures, there was always another moment, another memory, another deadline. So how do we even begin to say goodbye to something that never really paused long enough to be captured?

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Commentary, School Life, Student Issues, Subjects

The Absolute Definitive Objective Guide to File Colours 
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Georgia Ong (26S03O) and Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

The Catalyst 

It all started when Bharat and Georgia got into a debate over what colour English was. Bharat claimed it was red, but Georgia insisted that it was yellow, since the file she used for English in primary school was yellow. 

This triggered some questions for us: How do we form these colour associations? Are there any links between the subjects we take and the colours we associate with them? 

Being bored (read: deciding to procrastinate on Promos revision), we decided to find some answers to our questions. 

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CCA Events, Commentary, School Life, Sports

Team Raffles Games 2025: The Winner Takes It All
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Christian Adriel Tan (26S07B), Georgia Ong (26S03O), Looi Ee Xin (26S03M)

Special thanks to Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

Photographs courtesy of Chew Rui-Yan (26S03N), Fang Rui Shan (26S06R), Kylie Chong (26S03E) and Zhu Taiwu (26S06K) from RIAC unless otherwise stated. 

“Did you sign up for TRG?”

The hottest question of the past month. Sign-up links were flying around in every chat, and it seemed like every conversation ended with someone asking, “You going for TRG?”

Some just wanted the house points. Others were dead set on winning medals. But everyone seemed to be caught up in the same excitement. And on game day, the kaleidoscope of colourful house shirts, the cheers echoing down the field, and the collective determination that made even the most casual players look like seasoned athletes all made it feel like nothing else mattered—except giving your house everything you had.

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