{"id":8547,"date":"2013-12-21T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2013-12-21T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T03:10:02","slug":"give-us-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2013\/give-us-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"“Give Us a Chance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sharing our feedback on Bukit Brown in the Draft Masterplan. We are grateful to all who wrote and shared your\u00a0 feedback<\/span><\/a> <\/span>with us. Without your support, awareness of Bukit Brown would not\u00a0 be where it is\u00a0 now – not just a talking point but- a rallying point to enrich our identity, a respect for our heritage and a Singapore we can all call home.\u00a0 We are humbled.<\/p>\n

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“We met as volunteers and in response to a groundswell of feedback after the announcement of the plan for Bukit Brown, formed All Things Bukit Brown as a loose group of volunteers to support amateur historian Raymond Goh, people who might want to contribute time, research, translation skills, etc to raise awareness of the value of Bukit Brown. We subsequently created the blog, All Things Bukit Brown, (http:\/\/bukitbrown.com<\/span><\/a>) and started organising social events onsite in December 2011 to gauge interest in Bukit Brown as a destination. We were happily surprised by the enthusiastic turn-out for 3-4 events and started guiding tours onsite with whatever knowledge we received from February 2012. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, we have cobbled together a dozen committed volunteers who research and\/or guide. We are pleased to report that in that time, we have guided 10,000 people to Bukit Brown, including secondary schools and tertiary institutions, overseas academics, and participants from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Civil Service College. Former Foreign Minister George Yeo was an early visitor guided. We have also guided grassroots communities led by their MPs, including DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Sylvia Lim. This weekend, Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee will bring his grassroots community there too. Groups which have come include the elderly Chinese, the hearing impaired and the docents from the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall , National and Peranakan Museums. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bukit Brown has already inspired the students of\u00a0 Pioneer Junior College to co- write the book “1911 Revolution: Singapore Pioneers in Bukit Brown”<\/b> which was\u00a0 launched\u00a0 last Friday at the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall. On our part we have applied for a grant from the National Heritage Board to put together useful information we have gathered over the past two years as a guide book to Bukit Brown.<\/span> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine this, a grassroots effort to bring 10,000 people to a site without any amenities \u2013 no toilets, drinks stalls, resting stations, shelter from the rain, marked trails or trash bins. How much more can we do together when we put our resources together? Give us a chance. <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

As Singaporeans, we are very proud to share what knowledge we have and encourage interest in Bukit Brown. We have met many engaged Singaporeans,\u00a0 academics, students, tourists, photographers, artists, etc \u2013 a diversity of participants who have reinforced the notion that Bukit Brown is more than a cemetery but a public space that draws different communities there for different reasons. We are witness to the grassroots movement which has built up a valuable community with a strong outreach component. We hope that you see this element of a place in fostering communal ties and meaning. These are valuable to building a strong and cohesive society, people rooted to their identities and bringing Singaporeans and residents together in a meaningful way. It is not something that can be easily replicated without the actual space that first drew us together in the first place. <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

It is this community-building effort that also drew the attention of the World Monuments Fund <\/span><\/a><\/span>in awarding <\/em>Bukit Brown World Monuments Watch status<\/span><\/a><\/span>. We are proud of this international recognition and hope that one day, we can twin Bukit Brown with the Botanic Gardens<\/b> for a unique world heritage site unmatched anywhere else in the world<\/b>. That it is set in such lush and spectacular settings makes Bukit Brown all the more special. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

State recognition of Bukit Brown\u2019s intrinsic value will lift tourist awareness of Singapore in a different way, opening up ideas (and revenue streams) for education tourism, battle site tourism, cultural tourism etc in the same way medical tourism has brought international attention (and revenue) to the world-class medical services available in Singapore. Already, heritage associations in the region, specifically Penang<\/span><\/a><\/span> and Malacca, have displayed keen interest in Bukit Brown and we hope there would be attendant tourism effects for the better good of Singapore and her neighbours. Not only would Singapore benefit from state recognition of the heritage value of Bukit Brown, we can work together with tourism agencies around the region and reap the benefits of good neighbourliness and joint tourism campaigns. Indeed, we are not short on ideas. We ask for the state to demonstrate leadership in this.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We hope you will protect Bukit Brown and Singapore\u2019s historical, cultural, wartime and natural heritage for future generations, and will have an open discussion on how best to protect Bukit Brown and other heritage and nature sites affected by the proposals in the URA Draft Master Plan 2013. National development includes supporting our Nation\u2019s sense of identity and belonging across generations in addition to infrastructure.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Claire Leow & Catherine Lim<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(photo Terry Xu)<\/p><\/div>\n

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