📅 Date: Saturday, 29 August 2026

🕓 Time: 4:00pm–5:30pm

📍 Venue: Art for Good Art Studio

55 Siglap Road, Siglap Centre #02-24, Singapore 455871

 

Admission: Pay As You Wish (Registration Required)​

Join us for an intimate and cosy sharing session with Dr Kai (Qing) Tan, a Singaporean comics and disability researcher currently based in Belgium.

Since her teenage years, Kai has lived with chronic pain, an experience that has deeply shaped how she understands the body, everyday life and the world around her. Through comics and visual storytelling, she explores experiences that can be difficult to put into words, bringing visibility to stories that are often unseen or overlooked.

During this session, Kai will share her personal journey and introduce the field of Graphic Medicine—comics that explore lived experiences of disability, including physical disability, chronic illness, ageing, autism and other forms of neurodivergence, mental health, caregiving and healing.

She will also share selected works from her own practice, reflecting with honesty, openness and humour on her experiences as a person living with chronic pain, a caregiver to a parent with advanced cancer, a lecturer supporting neurodivergent university students, a disability researcher and an urban explorer.

The session will conclude with a hands-on workshop where participants will create their own short comic or visual narrative. Whether your story is personal, imagined or inspired by someone you care about, you will discover how comics can become a powerful tool for communication, advocacy and connection.

No previous drawing or comics experience is required.​ Everyone is welcome!