SINGAPORE - As a graphic designer, Mr Pow Jun Yang's lifelong dream was to stage his own art exhibition. This became an item on his bucket list, when the 31-year-old bachelor was told recently by doctors that he has about three months left to live. Diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in early 2023, he has since exhausted all...
Mr Pow Jun Yang’s exhibition includes his blue and white series of iconic scenes and places in Singapore.SINGAPORE - As a graphic designer, Mr Pow Jun Yang's lifelong dream was to stage his own art exhibition.
Around November, his doctors gave him a three-month prognosis. That spurred him into action - to try to turn his dream of holding an art exhibition into reality. Mr Pow has enjoyed drawing and art since he was a child, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in design and visual communications from the Glasgow School of Art Singapore, in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Technology.
For example, the charity arranged for a 69-year-old bedridden man to go on a yacht cruise with his family around Singapore. He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which causes loss of muscle control over time. Some AWS beneficiaries have met celebrities such as actress Zoe Tay, actor Marcus Chin and football icon Fandi Ahmad.
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