# Event Details - **Event Name**: Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join author Diana Rahim in a book conversation moderated by Prasanthi Ram.About this EventAbout the programme:One day, a mountain appears.It turns away the intrepid surveyors who show up at its base, until, one day, 9-year-old Aditi finds a path laid down with the greenest leaves.In this season of beginnings, we’re extending an invitation of our own. Join us at Aliwal Arts Centre to celebrate the launch of We Saw Mountains, a short story collection that captures moments of transformations big and small. Follow author Diana Rahim into these fictional worlds as she sits with Prasanthi Ram to ruminate on what it means to imagine new worlds and ways of being. Expect intimate conversation and a chance to engage in collective daydreaming, before re-emerging into new possibilities for your own lived reality.Programme Overview:7:15pm: Doors open7:30-8:00pm: Opening activity: Imagining an Oasis8:00-9:00pm: Book conversation and Q&A9:00-9:30pm: Book signingAbout the author:Diana Rahim is a writer and visual artist whose work circles around the themes of gender justice, the experience of the environment and the politics of public space. Her visual work has been exhibited in National Gallery Singapore and Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan. She is also part of Beyond the Hijab, a collective sharing critical perspectives, personal stories and research on Muslim women in Singapore. We Saw Mountains is her first book.About the speaker:Prasanthi Ram is a writer, editor and lecturer. Her debut short story cycle Nine Yard Sarees (2023) won the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) for English Fiction in 2024, and was also shortlisted for SLP’s “Best Debut” category and Singapore Book Awards’ “Best Literary Work” category in the same year. Her writing has been published in the Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (2022), Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021) and the award-winning Eat Here or Take Away (2022) among others. She also co-founded and is the prose editor of Mahogany Journal, which spotlights South Asian writers born or based in Singapore. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/singapore/imagining-oases-the-launch-of-we-saw-mountains/100001980604347921 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: SGD ## Event venue details - **city**: Singapore - **state**: SG - **country**: Singapore - **location**: Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Studios A & B - **lat**: 1.3025906 - **long**: 103.8611415 - **full address**: Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Studios A & B, 28 Aliwal Street, Singapore, Singapore ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/186bd14a3e97cca7e0d32eaf48ca300690726ed2f13324b2ede8b27901c57d4c-rimg-w1200-h600-dceceadc-gmir.jpg?v=1769065327 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains being held? - **A:** Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains takes place on Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Studios A & B, 28 Aliwal Street, Singapore, Singapore. - **Q**: Who is organizing Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains? - **A:** Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains is organized by Ethos Books. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Imagining Oases: The Launch of We Saw Mountains", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/186bd14a3e97cca7e0d32eaf48ca300690726ed2f13324b2ede8b27901c57d4c-rimg-w1200-h600-dceceadc-gmir.jpg?v=1769065327", "startDate": "2026-02-06", "endDate": "2026-02-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/singapore/imagining-oases-the-launch-of-we-saw-mountains/100001980604347921", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Studios A & B", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "28 Aliwal Street", "postalCode": "199918", "addressLocality": "Singapore", "addressRegion": "SG", "addressCountry": "SG" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "1.3025906", "longitude": "103.8611415" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join author Diana Rahim in a book conversation moderated by Prasanthi Ram.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "SGD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-06", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/singapore/imagining-oases-the-launch-of-we-saw-mountains/100001980604347921" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "SGD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/singapore/imagining-oases-the-launch-of-we-saw-mountains/100001980604347921", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Ethos Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ethos-books/22605343", "description": "Giving voice to emerging and exciting writers from diverse backgrounds, we help foster an environment in which literature and the arts not only survive, but thrive. 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