From 31 October 2026, the exhibition opens at the W1 Forum at SIT Punggol Campus, where six interactive stations recreate everyday activities including buttoning a shirt, eating berries and catching an MRT train. Warrior 24/7, a Lien Foundation exhibition opened by American Ninja Warrior competitor Jimmy Choi, runs there until 4 November, then moves to Basement 1 of City Square Mall from 7 to 15 November.
At a Glance
🗓️ Date: 31 October to 4 November 2026 (SIT Punggol Campus); 7 to 15 November 2026 (City Square Mall)
⏰ Time: 10am to 6pm daily; on 31 October, the official launch is at 11.30am and public visitors are encouraged to join from 2pm
📍 Location: SIT Punggol Campus, W1 Forum (Ground Level); City Square Mall, Basement 1, Green Square
👨👩👧 Who: All ages welcome; children and visitors with mobility needs should come with supervision
🎁 Take home: A specially designed keycharm when you finish all the stations
⚠️ Already full: The PD symposium featuring Jimmy and Cherryl Choi is fully subscribed
🔗 Details: Lien Foundation
Six Stations, One Long Day
Warrior 24/7 was conceived and designed by independent creative agency Kinetic Singapore. Input came from Jimmy and his wife Cherryl, Parkinson Society Singapore (PSS), clinicians from NHG Health’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and SingHealth’s National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Lien Foundation describes it as a “first-of-its-kind roving interactive exhibition”, and the people living with the condition are called Parkinson Warriors throughout.
The route is built like a single day in a Warrior’s life, from getting dressed in the morning to lunch, the commute and conversation. Real stories from Warriors and caregivers sit inside the props, showing how medication, rehab and community support help along the way.
Here’s what you’ll try, stop by stop:
1. Getting dressed: Simulated muscle rigidity turns buttoning a shirt into a fine-motor nightmare.
2. Breakfast: Utensils in hand while your hands shake uncontrollably, so feeding yourself stops being automatic.
3. The MRT platform: A mock platform with a shuffling gait, shortened steps and sudden “freezing”, where your feet stop responding mid-stride.
4. The food court: Balance a tray through a mock food court, harder than it sounds when moving and thinking at once both cost extra effort.
5. Writing: A restricted hand recreates micrographia, where handwriting shrinks and crowds until it’s unreadable.
6. Singing: Try to sing while you’re involuntarily muted, mimicking hypophonia (an abnormally soft voice).
Start at the MRT Platform
If you only remember one station, make it Station 3. Every Singaporean knows the panic of the door-closing chime, and imagining your legs refusing to move at that exact second is the kind of detail that changes how you react to the slow commuter in front of you next time.
Station 6 is our second pick because it targets a symptom nobody sees. Someone with a fading voice can easily come across as shy, distracted or rude in a noisy hawker centre.
Don’t rush the first two stations (getting dressed and breakfast) either. Buttons and spoons are tasks you’ve done thousands of times without thinking, which is exactly why struggling with them lands so hard.
The Ninja Warrior Who Once Used a Cane
Jimmy Choi was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD) at 27 in 2003. He has described spending years in denial, and by 2010 he was overweight and walking with a cane. A fall and physical therapy became his turning point, and short walks slowly grew into running, marathons, cycling and triathlon training.
He has since competed on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior seven times and holds three Guinness World Records, including 30 chest-to-ground burpees in one minute, set in 2020. He’s a TEDx speaker too, and he shares his training and management strategies with more than 400,000 followers on his social account, @jcfoxninja.
“I hope to reach beyond the Parkinson’s community to people whose lives haven’t been personally touched by it,” he said. “I believe reducing stigma starts with greater public knowledge and recognition.”
His wife Cherryl Choi, a programme manager at a nonprofit hospital, joins him as his care partner. Her advice to fellow caregivers is refreshingly blunt: “Lean into the help. It doesn’t mean you’re weak.” The couple will be speaking at a PD symposium during the visit, though that one is fully subscribed.
Why This Matters Beyond Punggol
“Many of its early symptoms are mistaken for simply growing older, so they go unrecognised, delaying diagnosis when early intervention matters most,” said Lee Poh Wah, CEO of the Lien Foundation. Spotting those signs early is the first of the campaign’s three goals.
The exhibition feeds into KEEP (Kickstart Exercises and Empower Parkinson’s), a S$4.48 million community rehab programme Lien Foundation launched with PSS, TTSH and NNI in January 2026. It aims to reach 2,000 Warriors in the early to middle stages over five years, with 24 one-hour group rehab sessions offered across 13 Day Rehabilitation Centres islandwide. It all builds on 30 years of work by PSS, which was set up in 1996.
Before You Go
- Pick your venue: Punggol from 31 October to 4 November, or City Square Mall’s Green Square in Basement 1 from 7 to 15 November if Punggol is out of your way.
- Launch day timing: The official launch at SIT is at 11.30am on 31 October; members of the public are encouraged to join from 2pm onwards.
- Bringing kids or someone with mobility needs? All ages are welcome, but plan to supervise.
- Do the full loop: Finish all six stations to collect the specially designed keycharm.
- Post about it: Share what you learn with #Warrior247 and tag the organisers.
Most of us will never know what it feels like when your own feet ignore you at an MRT door. Warrior 24/7 offers a small, deliberate taste of it, and the best way to make that count is to bring someone along who might need the conversation afterwards. Follow Lien Foundation for updates through the two-venue run, and point any Warrior in your family towards KEEP while you’re at it.
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Lien Foundation.
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