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CASUAL POET CULTURE is a label / studio based in Singapore since 2007. We also run a coffee shop on the 3rd floor of an old shophouse. It is filled with laidback people (who are hardworking in a way) in shorts and slippers everyday. We talk and dream and discuss and plot and live and love. Sometimes we organize exhibitions / live shows / readings / travel talks / movie screenings / classes in the store. The space is small and everyone's always cramped up, but it's been fun. In February this year (2009), we managed to get Hasisi Park from Korea over to do the opening night for her exhibition in the store, "Don't let me hit the ground". She's one of the artists we really love so we were really happy to have her around. Sometimes we go traveling and bring back photographs and some thoughts. We wish for the beach everyday, for the gentle waves, for the blue skies, for the hammock under the tree. And we hope, somehow, that our job could always give us that illusion of being free by the sea, doing what we love and having those easy, easy days (and making a living) all at the same time.
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BULLETIN
1. we will be doing an exhibition titled "THE END OF OUR YOUTH" (working title). we welcome all submissions in the form of photographs, mixtapes, letters, essays, made objects, antiques, old cassette tapes, paintings, illustrations, t-shirts, etc. let us know what the end of your youth meant to you. for me, it was knowing that i would never feel pure, unadulterated hope ever again, not in the way i felt it in 1996, when i was little child of six, at least.

please send all submissions to shini[at]casualpoet.com by 6 november 2009, along with your name, age and other information about yourself that you might want us to know.

2. we are starting the online magazine / community SUPER CULTURE CLUB and are looking for writers who enjoying writing about art / culture / design. email us today!
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JOB OPENINGS
if you are interested in joining our family / working with us, please send your CV / portfolio to our email at shini[at]casualpoet.com. we're always excited to hear from talented people, regardless of whether we actually have a job opening! drop us a mail and let's see what happens from there!

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NOTE
i often have no idea what to put in our website. i really don't enjoy those generic, boring websites, so i guess we'll just put this one up. it's filled with bits and pieces of truth, at least.
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NEWS
- Our shopkeeper R writes a regular column in the bi-monthly free newspaper, Good Paper. Just letting you know so you can grab a copy if you see it. The paper is available at train stations nationwide and other places. List of distribution points here.

- shopkeeper R's writing was featured in the latest issue of <Ariettas> 《時間雜字》, an independent publication from Taiwan. you can probably purchase it from our store soon.
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VISIT OUR STORE
if you are interested in visiting us for a hot cup of coffee or a chat, please note our address:
273B New Bridge Road, Singapore 088749
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PHOTOS
sometimes people really want to know how our place looks like before they come down. please go here to check it out.
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PODCAST
this is our untimely music podcast for music freaks. click here.