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We Are All Strangers (2026): A Cultivate Culture Review
We Are All Strangers follows one family through the messy, unplanned parts of caregiving and growing up.
- 12 November 2026
Adoption: A Cultivate Commune (September) update
Adoption helps children to find the loving families that they need. At our Commune on 26 September, we heard from social worker Wong Wei Lei from TOUCH Community Services and Jaryl Wee. Their heartfelt perspectives – both professional and personal – moved many of us in the room.
- October 14 2026
Dear You (2026): A Cultivate Culture Review
Dear You is a love letter to the efforts and complexities around caregiving. Though set in the past, caregiving today still asks of people's efforts and love all the same.
- October 12 2026
As Caregiving Needs Grow, Our Perspectives Should Grow Too
Singapore is at a turning point. To sustain our society, we need to go beyond additional resources to a fundamental reframing: caregiving is not just a burden but an act of love.
- October 8 2026
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“Achievement-orientated Values” (Part 1 of 2): This 1971 speech explains why our fertility rates are so low (and hints at how we can raise it)
Singapore’s total fertility rate hit a new record low at 0.87 in 2025, a long consequence of the overwhelming success of the “Stop at Two” population control campaign launched in 1972. Just a year prior, Parliamentary Secretary Inche Sha’ari Bin Tadin gave a speech capturing the heart and motivation of the campaign. Could this speech also contain hints of how we can reverse our low birth rates?
- 22 June 2026
Stay-At-Home Mothers are Becoming Rarer: Gain or Loss?
The number of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) has more than halved over the last seven years. The gains in our economy and to women’s empowerment are clear, but will we miss out on anything? We’re looking out for new gaps in mother-child bonding, declining fertility rate, and loss of social capital that SAHMs help sustain. How do we mind these gaps?
- 12 June 2026
Dream Stall (2026): A Cultivate Culture Review
What lengths will one go to for preserving the memory and work of a family member?
Grief, joys, frustrations and romance - all about Annette Lee’s directorial debut film Dream Stall in our latest post.
- 11 June 2026