Fairy tales are old technology. Long before they were written down, they did one particular job. They carried a child to a threshold: the edge of the forest, the door left open — and let them face what was on the other side, from inside the safety of a family's arms.

A safe flight simulator for the world outside.

Fairy tales survive because each generation retells them. To mark Singapore's first Independent Bookshop Day, Eliko wants to see what stories today's children make, when they're given their own threshold to stand at.

The story prompts they'll be working with are new. Eliko recently ran an open call — Threshold — inviting Singapore illustrators to make images built at exactly that edge between the known and the unknown. Those images will become the starting point for a group of children building a fairy tale of their own — and performing it as an improvised puppet show.

On October 3rd, Threshold comes to Chinatown Complex.

The puppet show will screen on a closed shop shutter in the market corridor. Alongside it, a guerrilla takeover of the same corridor — the selected illustrators' work, framed and hung directly on the market windows, each piece beside the source image it answers.

Come and see what a threshold looks like, held open by a market corridor, a puppet show, and a child's idea of the unknown.

Free with registration, to register at link in Eliko's IG bio, released at later date.