The EA is looking for people who are interested to contribute or make Eurasian handicrafts to showcase our heritage at the upcoming Heritage Fest 2010 from 20-22 August 2010.

For enquiries, contact Jacqueline Peeris at 6447 1578.

Represent the EA in a mass drumming session on 18 July 2010 in an event to promote racial harmony, and who knows, you might make it in the Singapore Book of Records! We need at least 20 EA representatives to show up, so do make it down to Dhoby Ghaut Green on the day to show your support!

Date: Sunday, 18 July 2010
Time: 8.30am – 2.00pm
Venue: Dhoby Ghaut Green
Charges: Free of charge, just show up!

For more information, contact Daryl Kee from SPOC Solutions at 6796 9338.

Tell Onepeople.sg and the world about your friendships with people of different ethnicities, religions or nationalities in a photo competition. Submit a photograph with a blurb of not more than 50 words, or meaningful exchanges or personal experiences that illustrate racial harmony at its best.

There are 3 categories for Children (age 12 and below), Youth (ages 13-20) and Open (age 21 and above). Prizewinners will take home great prizes like Macbooks, Sony Vaio netbooks, iPods touch, iPhones, cameras, Wiis or Playstation 3.

The contest deadline is on 12 July 2010, so send in your entries soon! Visit www.stomp.com.sg/onepeople to submit your entry.

For more information, contact Angeline Soh at 6253 3297 or angeline@onepeople.sg.

This year, the Council for Third Age is again looking to recognize dynamic seniors for the Active Agers Awards. If you know someone age 60 and above, and bursting with life, nominate them for the 2010 Active Agers Awards!

Who is an Active Ager?
More seniors are staying active and dynamic in mind, body and spirit. They are not only working or looking after grandkids – they also volunteer, travel, go to school, take up hobbies, sports and other leisure pursuits, and so much more.

Nominees may win the following categories:

Active Ager of the Year (5 winners)
This Award recognizes seniors who are role models of active living, and who are enthusiastic about motivating their peers to lead a meaningful, purposeful and vibrant life. They are fabulous active agers who personify the Six Dimensions of Wellness.

Active Agers – Infocomm Champion Award 2010 (Presented by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore)
This Award is for the senior who best embraces mobile and digital technology, integrating it into his or her daily life. Through the active use of information technology, this senior bonds with his or her family and friends, and inspires them to use IT to stay connected with the world.

Active Agers – POSB Active Award 2010 (Presented by POSB)
This Award is for the senior who not only advocates financial literacy, but also walks the talk. He or she has good money management skills, exercises financial prudence, and is unfazed by modern-day conveniences like ATMs, internet banking and credit cards.

Winners of the Active Agers Awards will receive up to $5,000 worth of prizes, and nominators of the winners will receive $500 worth of vouchers. The deadline for nominations is 6 July 2010.

For enquiries and nominations, contact Yvonne Pereira at yvonnemarie29@gmail.com or 9117 8229.

De-stress after a hard day’s work with an exciting game of Balut! Just toss the dice and score as many points as possible in 3 throws. Be a top scorer and stand to win a prize! Bring a friend, or make new friends – newcomers are most welcome! Balut is played on the first Friday of each month.

Date: Friday, 2 July 2010
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Platinum Lounge
Charges: $8.00 (inclusive of light dinner)

For enquiries and registration, contact Therese Thompson at 6348 0327.

Are you and your Eurasian family passionate about cooking and want to be on TV? Join the FairPrice Family Cook-off, a family-centric cooking competition which will be aired on MediaCorp’s Channel 8 in October. Eight families will be shortlisted in July and filming will begin in August. The winning family stands to win an all-expense paid 10-day trip to Tasmania including complimentary lessons at a gourmet cooking school.

Interested parties can register online at www.cookoff.com.sg. Online registration will close at midnight on 30 June 2010 and auditions will be held in July 2010.

Right here at the Eurasian Community House’s 4th floor dance studio is a new Dancercise class for EA members and their friends to keep fit and have fun! The ten classes will be divided into three weeks of Bellyrobics, Salsacise and Bollywood/Bhangrarobics each, followed by a final session of all three dance styles.

Dancercise is a cardio dance workout class incorporating dance moves, aerobics and stretch/flexibility exercises. Priority for classes will be given to EA members.

Dates: 15 or 22 June 2010, subject to response
Day and Time: Every Tuesday, 6.30 – 7.30pm
Venue: 4th floor, Eurasian Community House
Number of Sessions: 10
Fees: EA members receive a 15% discount off the public rate of $130
Max no. of participants: 10

For enquiries and registration, contact Julia Sheikh at 9359 3708 or jdancer1611@yahoo.com.

Have you always wanted to be on TV? Canon is looking for 3 Eurasians to be part of a new TV commercial. They need:
- 1 female Eurasian in her 20s (who ideally knows how to play the piano)
- 1 male Eurasian in his 20s to 30s
- 1 male Eurasian in his 40s to 50s

Talents will be remunerated $800 a day for 10 hours of shooting. The shoot might take a half-day, depending on the director.

For enquiries, contact Kevin Nguyen from The Shooting Gallery at kevinnguyen@shootinggalleryasia.com, 6289 8828 or 8127 0797.

Four-year old Devan has a rare form of high risk leukemia known as APML. His doctors have less than 8 weeks to find a bone marrow or cord blood match, so he can have a life-saving transplant. No match has been found for him yet. Anyone could be the match, but we’re especially interested in individuals who are of mixed South-Asian/European ancestry, like Devan.

Why is Devan so hard to match? Devan’s doctors are looking for a donor that has the same tissue type markers, known as Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA), that he has. We all have 10 HLA markers, 5 from our mother and 5 from our father. Being 1/4 South Indian and 3/4 Northern European, Devan has a 1 in 200,000 chance of finding his match. In general, people with any non-Caucasian blood in their backgrounds are harder to match for a bone marrow or other kind of transplant.

To find out if you are a match you need to be tissue-typed, this can be done by a simple cheek swab. The Singapore Bone Marrow Donor Programme manages this process. Visit http://www.bmdp.org for more details.

To help Devan, visit http://www.matchdevan.com, or contact Karin Schulte at 8195 0103.

Single parents and their children may now seek help from the EA’s Family Support Services. If you are an unemployed single parent or have a household income of less than $1,500, you qualify for assistance.

This assistance programme will provide employment assistance such as basic IT skills, career readiness workshop, transport allowance, grooming voucher, skills training to enter the workforce, financial literacy workshops, and food vouchers. Terms and conditions apply.

Children of single parents will be referred to tuition centres run by Self-Help Groups with continuous assistance for their education, receive childcare administrative fees and school bus fees for the first month.

For more information, contact our Family Support Services Executives, J. Ramakrishnan or Florence Adriano at 6447 1578.