Warrior 24/7, the Lien Foundation‘s hands-on Parkinson’s exhibition, opens at City Square Mall (CSM), Basement 1, Green Square, on 7 November and runs until 15 November 2026. It’s the final leg of the run, and the closest most of us will get to feeling a shirt button, a spoon or a train platform turn against us.
The exhibition spent its first five days at SIT Punggol Campus, where we first walked through what each station asks of you before it opened. Since then, the campaign has added a perk for the mall leg.
Six Symptoms, Then a Pause
The Lien Foundation commissioned Warrior 24/7, creative agency Kinetic Singapore designed it, and the foundation bills it as Singapore’s first interactive installation dedicated to Parkinson’s disease awareness. Clinicians, people living with Parkinson’s and their caregivers helped shape the stations, and each one carries their real stories. The campaign calls people with the condition “Parkinson Warriors”, which is where the name comes from.
- Station 1, Stresses of Getting Dressed: fastening buttons with simulated muscle rigidity
- Station 2, Every Spoonful Becomes a Handful: feeding yourself with uncontrollable tremors
- Station 3, Stopped in Your Tracks: boarding a mock MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) platform with shuffling steps and “freezing” of movement
- Station 4, A Lunchtime Juggle: crossing a mock food court with a tray of food
- Station 5, Writing Small is No Small Matter: writing with a restrictive apparatus to mimic micrographia, where handwriting shrinks until it’s illegible
- Station 6, Sing Out Loud Yet Go Unheard: singing while involuntarily muted, replicating hypophonia, or abnormally soft speech
- Station 7, Reflection and Redemption Station: leaving messages for Parkinson Warriors and caregivers
The first six simulate symptoms, and the seventh gives you somewhere to put whatever the first six stirred up.
The Stations Worth Lingering On
Stations 1 and 2 draw the crowds. At the launch, according to the Lien Foundation, caregivers Cherryl Choi and Dawn Curreem fumbled buttons in rigidity gloves, chased fruit around a bowl at “breakfast” in tremor gloves, and fought wheeled bowls sliding across a tray at a mock “hawker stall”.
The two to slow down for, though, are Stations 3 and 6. Lien Foundation CEO Lee Poh Wah has said many early Parkinson’s symptoms are “mistaken for simply growing older”, which delays diagnosis. A frozen step on a platform or a voice nobody hears are exactly the signs people around you miss, so these two stations carry the campaign’s message hardest.
The campaign describes Station 6 as a reenactment of how exhausting it is to keep projecting your voice at work and among friends. You’d never pick that up watching someone with Parkinson’s in a queue, which makes it the best argument for doing all seven in order instead of cherry-picking the fun ones.
Station 3 lands closer to home for anyone who’s sighed at a slow walker on an MRT escalator. After a few minutes of simulated freezing on a mock platform, that sigh gets a lot harder to justify.
The Ninja Warrior Behind It
Jimmy Choi was diagnosed with Young-Onset Parkinson’s Disease at 27, in 2003. According to the Lien Foundation, he has since made multiple American Ninja Warrior appearances and shares fitness feats and management strategies with more than 400,000 social media followers.
At the Beyond the Diagnosis symposium on launch day, Jimmy and his wife and care partner Cherryl spoke to a packed auditorium of 350. He described falling down the stairs while carrying his 10-month-old son, the moment that pushed him to change how he managed his condition. “Parkinson’s wasn’t trying to kill me. Hopelessness was. I needed help,” he said, adding: “I couldn’t change the diagnosis, but I could change how I lived with it.”
Local voices joined him on stage, including Parkinson Society Singapore (PSS) board member Edward Pang, Parkinson Warrior Philip Ommen and Philip’s wife and caregiver, Dawn Curreem. Dawn’s advice to fellow caregivers was blunt: “We must allow Parkinson Warriors to do things themselves,” because it gives them “a sense of purpose and independence.”
Why a Mall Visit Matters
The Lien Foundation estimates around 10,000 people in Singapore live with Parkinson’s, with about 400 new cases diagnosed each year, yet it says awareness remains low. The campaign wants visitors to seek medical advice early if symptoms sound familiar, to show more patience in public, and to point Parkinson Warriors towards PSS support.
Lee put the case for the format plainly, saying the exhibition creates understanding “that no brochure can achieve.”
What You Take Home
Finish all seven stations and you can collect a specially designed keycharm, while stocks last, which the foundation describes as a token of respect for the Parkinson’s community.
The mall leg adds a bonus: completing the challenge at CSM earns you a voucher for a bottle of Beutea cold brew tea, redeemable only at the Beutea outlet at #01-12. If you post about your attempt, the organisers ask you to tag @lienfoundation and @parkinsonsocietysingapore with #Warrior247.
The Lien Foundation says all ages are welcome, though children and anyone with mobility needs should take part with supervision since the stations simulate physical difficulty.
🗓️ Date: 7 to 15 November 2026
⏰ Time: 10am to 6pm daily
📍 Location: City Square Mall (CSM), Basement 1, Green Square
🎯 Challenge: Six symptom-simulation stations plus a reflection station
🎁 Keycharm: For visitors who complete all seven stations, while stocks last
🍵 Beutea voucher: For completing the challenge at CSM; one bottle of cold brew tea, redeemable only at Beutea, #01-12, City Square Mall
👨👩👧 Note: All ages welcome; children and those with mobility needs should be supervised
Warrior 24/7 runs at City Square Mall until 15 November, so bring a friend, do every station including the singing one, and leave with a keycharm and a bit more patience for the next person who takes longer at the gantry. If you or someone you know is living with Parkinson’s, the next step after the exhibition is the nationwide KEEP (Kickstart Exercises and Empower Parkinson’s) community rehabilitation programme.
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Kinetic Singapore and Lien Foundation.
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