Tembusu College Student’s Tea with Ms Bertha Henson

7:30pm, Wednesday

25th February 2015

Common Lounge

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About Ms. Bertha Henson

Old habits die hard. Leaving the Singapore Press Holdings after 26 years of wide-raging newsroom work spanning lifestyle, politics, art and photography, Bertha Henson now runs her own media training company, and a socio-political commentary blog, Bertha Harian. She is Journalist-in-residence at Tembusu College, does a seminar series on Good Journalism and Critical Reading.

Highlights

Bertha Shares her take on recent socio-political rumblings that may surfaces as key arenas for contestation in the upcoming General Elections:

– SG50 and official narratives

-Liquor restrictions

-The Central Provident Fund

Selected books at special discount for the session

-Troublemaker, a collection of Bertha’s socio-political commentaries on the Breakfast Networt (S$25 net; usual S$28.89 with GST)

-Priest in Geylang, presented as an alternative account to official narratives (S$20 net; usual S$21.40 with GST)

Riot Recollections, perspective-taking book that considers factors contributing to the outbreak of violence, occluded by the focus on alcohol curbs (S$20 net; usual S$23.79 with GST)

-Essay Booklet on CPF, “Are we adequately prepared for retirement?” (S$5 net)