📢 Update on Humanist Society Email Newsletters – Eventbrite

3 September 2026 by

To improve efficiency and make our event communications more reliable, the Humanist Society (Singapore) has moved our email newsletters from our previous WordPress mailing plugin to Eventbrite Email Campaigns.

Members and supporters can now expect to receive upcoming event announcements, Society news and other updates through emails sent via Eventbrite.

New members and supporters can join our mailing list automatically by registering for our events on Eventbrite. You may also continue subscribing through our existing website form — we will periodically update our Eventbrite mailing database with new subscribers from the form.

Thank you for staying connected with us!

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[Members only] Opportunity and invitation on UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

3 September 2026 by

Dear Humanist Society Members,

We have received an invitation from Humanists International (HI) that may allow our Society to address the United Nations on Singapore’s human rights record.

Singapore’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report will be adopted at the UN on or around 24 September 2026. NGOs will have the chance to deliver short statements responding to the State’s human rights commitments. Humanists International is bidding for a two-minute speaking slot and has invited Humanist Society Singapore to deliver a joint video statement with them.

What this involves

  • A two-minute video statement delivered jointly with Humanists International.
  • HI will help edit the text to fit the usual UN style.

Current status & timeline

HI will bid for the slot next week and expects to hear back the week after. Registration will be required at that point. For now, they are simply seeking an expression of interest.

If we proceed:

  • Draft statement needed by 16 September 2026
  • Filming completed by 20 September 2026
  • If anyone has security concerns about appearing on camera, a member of HI staff is willing to deliver the statement on our behalf.

Next steps

If you would like to be involved in drafting or delivering the statement (or simply want to know more), please email us at info@humanist.org.sg as soon as possible so we can coordinate a response to HI.

This is a rare chance for a Singaporean humanist voice to be heard at the United Nations. Please let us know of your interest or any questions.

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Survey for interest on Sunday Assembly

1 May 2024 by

The Sunday Assembly movement was started in London, UK by comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans in 2013. They had both been churchgoers in their youth, stopped going and then realised they missed something; not the religious part, but rather the community, the stimulation, the singing, the being with others, the tea and cake afterwards. So they set up Sunday Assembly to see if a ‘church-like thing without religion’ could be done. And it could!

We at HumanistSG wants to know if you would like to attend and join such a community!

A typical Assembly program consists of (in no particular order) and lasts about 1 hour:

  • Songs – pop songs, or even songs of religious origin if they are lovely to listen and sing to
  • Speakers– on science, history, or current affairs to get you thinking and discussions going
  • Reading – This could be a poem or other short piece, related to the talk or not
  • Doing Your Best – Someone shares a personal story about something going on in their life. It could be something they have been grappling with, striving at, succeeded with, failed but learned from, or are involved with that’s worth sharing. It’s about reminding each other that we’re all trying the best we can.
  • Moment of Reflection – Invite the group to do a short reflection e.g. 2 minutes.
  • Life Happens – Invite the group to share highs and lows in their life.
  • Gratitude – Invite the group to express gratitude to their loved ones and others in life
  • Announcements

Spend a few minutes to fill up the survey here, and even stand a chance to win $10 NTUC e-vouchers!

https://forms.gle/NX7MgWk8L2RyeNDU9

Survey is open between 01 – 30 May 2024.

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Members-only Telegram Chat

27 May 2018 by

Note: Non-current members may join the public chat: https://t.me/chattingwithhumanists

Dear current members of the Humanist Society (Singapore),

We have explored many options to facilitate communicate between members and we will be using Telegram, a features-rich and reliable chat app, for this purpose.

Please fill up the following form to let us know your Telegram username, once we have verified that you are a current member, you will be added to the chat.

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If you are a current paid up member, you can provide your telegram username if you wish to join the members-only chat (periodically updated). You may join our announcement channel https://t.me/humanistsocietysingapore and its public-chat without providing your username.
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