Barry Yeow – Early Toa Payoh, From a Gang Life to Making Art Part 3 | Chronicles of Old Singapore

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Barry Yeow relates how art and a mentor named Dan Lim finally helped him find a way out of prison to be a truly free man. He explains the creative role of art and the need to hate things like drugs that destroy people’s lives. He reconciled with his mother and set up an art studio in Commonwealth called 5seventeen. The past, he says, is an asset both to himself and people around him. Part 1 | https://youtu.be/_DqoZjb6M3c Part 2 | https://youtu.be/KiBdCGItnsQ Part 3 | https://youtu.be/0Ht6bV6-22c 00:00 Truly Free 09:07 Art in Prison & My Mentor 12:53 My Mother 24:56 Youngsters & Repeat Offenders 31:03 Kpods 34:50 An Enterprising Cellmate 39:20 5seventeen Barry Yeow@ 5seventeen: https://www.facebook.com/5seventeensg/ https://www.instagram.com/barryyeow/?hl=en I’m Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian. I’m interested in the history of Singapore and the lives of its people. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city today. We discuss three topics: 1. People and places. 2. Change and continuity. 3. The importance of heritage. As a historian, I try to stay true to the oral history method on a video format and social media platform. I let the interviewee speak, as the ‘voice of the past’ as Paul Thompson put it. No clickbait, no BS, no posturing. The aim is to canvas a wide range of voices on various aspects of Singapore history and heritage – physical, social, cultural, economic. Do like the video, share your memories below and subscribe to the channel for future episodes. Write to lohkahseng@chroniclesresearch.com if you have any of these stories to share: • Old places or kampongs. • Communities – their way of life & culture. • Childhood & schools. • Work or business. Support Chronicles of Old Singapore on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChroniclesofOldSingapore Follow the channel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551786759344 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loh-ks TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lks992002 Chronicles Research & Education is my research consultancy on the history of Singapore: https://www.chroniclesresearch.com/ Caveat: this is above all a podcast based on personal memory. As has been well-documented in oral history, memory is not always reliable and what is recalled here should not be taken as fact. However, as Alessandro Portelli noted, the subjectivity of oral history is also its great strength, and what is inaccurately remembered may point to how deeply meaningful the past is to people. #singaporehistory #memory #heritage #nostalgia #oralhistory #socialhistory #history #singapore