“Chained to Our Roots” is an art protest event by Teresa Teo Guttensohn to present an appeal LTA to re-route the proposed Cross Island MRT Line (CRL) which would otherwise damage some of our oldest forests in Singapore.
Teresa, Vilma D’Rozario and Andrew Tay, all stalwarts of nature education in Singapore, spent 24-hours chained to a tree in Hong Lim Park, from Sat 22 Jun 2013 to Sun 23 Jun 2013.
Teresa also performed a poetry recital, several times and organised a petition, which you can contribute to here: “Save Singapore’s Forest Reserves; Our Natural Heritage“.
Raffles Museum Toddycats went down to support the tireless crew who had spent the weekend making an important statement. When I joined them midday of Sunday, they were cheerful and chatty, although it was hot. I was getting soaked in my perspiration!
The Toddycats who I managed to catch on camera and who came later are pictured here, with the banners designed by Teresa in support of the petition to divert the MRT line to prevent damage to our Central Catchment Nature Reserve.
Toddycats stand up and be counted
Xu Weiting aka Civetgirl
Meryl Theng aka Ottergirl
Germaine Leng
Joys Tan
Gladys Chua
Fung Tze Kwan
Adrian Loo
David Tan
Kelvin Lim
Henrietta Woo
N. Sivasothi aka Otterman
NUS Toddycats! 