

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sacred Abject: Pigeons and Keramat Graves
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Can the reviled and abject also be adored and sacred?

Keramat graves may be found in many parts of the Malay world, often Malay or Muslim graves of significant and holy persons which have become shrines. 

There is a long history of the presence of rock pigeons at keramat graves in Singapore where these birds transcend their urban stigma as pests to become integral to a sacred ritual landscape and participants of these traditions, to even validate keramat grave practices and sacredness.

This presentation by Faisal Husni, a researcher with an interest in the art histories of Singapore and Southeast Asia, will also explore how their decline at keramat graves - due to accelerated land development and extermination efforts - may not only mark the loss of urban biodiversity, but a loss of one of Singapore’s markers of sacredness.

? Thursday, 15 January 2026
⏰ 7.00 – 9.00pm (Doors open 6.30pm)
? Wee Cho Yaw Plaza LT8 [ABS LT8], Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
? FREE ENTRY!!!
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- **Event Categories**: art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Jurong
- **state**: SG
- **country**: Singapore
- **location**: Wee Cho Yaw Plaza LT8 [ABS LT8], Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- **lat**: 1.34886
- **long**: 103.67906
- **full address**: Wee Cho Yaw Plaza LT8 [ABS LT8], Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National Institute of Education, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616, Singapore, Jurong

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- **organizer**: Urban Birds Initiative Singapore (https://allevents.in/org/urban-birds-initiative-singapore/27154913)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wee Cho Yaw Plaza LT8 [ABS LT8], Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National Institute of Education, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616, Singapore, Jurong
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Urban Birds Initiative Singapore
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Sacred Abject: Pigeons and Keramat Graves ?
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