ACM Poetry Jam: Clay Artefacts in Verse
📅 When
Sat 14 Nov 2026, 2:00pm
📍 Where
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place, Singapore
💸 Price
Free
🧭 Getting there
- 🚇 Raffles Place MRT, Exit H — about 4 min walk
- 🍜 Hawker food nearby: Hong Lim Market & Food Centre (11 min)
Walking times are estimates from the venue’s location.
Poets compose on the spot against a countdown timer, writing off shipwreck ceramics at ACM — and the audience gets a turn too.
The Asian Civilisations Museum's ceramics collection includes ancient pottery and clay fragments recovered from shipwrecks on the sea floor, and for one hour a panel of poets writes poems in response to those objects, on the spot, with a countdown timer running the whole exercise. The programme picks at how excavated clay carries stories of trade, loss and survival. It is presented by Singapore Writers Festival 2026. This one is for anyone who has ever stood in front of a museum case and felt there was a story in there.
It runs Sat 14 Nov 2026, 2pm to 3pm, at the Asian Civilisations Museum, and entry is free. You are not just watching: audience members can write and share poetry of their own during the session. One hour, no ticket price, and a room full of people making something new out of very old clay.
Details compiled by Onz from public listings — always confirm with the organiser before heading down.
