Art: 10th Singapore Young Photographer Award Showcase – Echoes of Home
What makes a place feel like home? It might be a familiar neighbourhood, the quiet traces of someone who has left, the routines that shape our days or the relationships that continue to anchor us as we grow. For Singapore’s young photographers, these everyday details become ways of exploring a question that is both deeply personal and universally understood. The 10th Singapore Young Photographer Award … Continue reading Art: 10th Singapore Young Photographer Award Showcase – Echoes of Home
Film: SGIFF 2026 Brings Back Its Festival Closing with Asian Premiere of ‘Vintage Violence’
After more than a decade without a dedicated closing event, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is bringing back one final big-screen gathering to round off its 37th edition with a film that promises crime, dark comedy and a distinctly modern kind of chaos. The festival will close on 1 November with the Asian premiere of Vintage Violence, the latest feature from Ukrainian-American filmmaker Eugene … Continue reading Film: SGIFF 2026 Brings Back Its Festival Closing with Asian Premiere of ‘Vintage Violence’
★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Whale by The Actors’ Studio Seni Teater Rakyat
The Whale carries the weight of everything we cannot say in this emotional adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play. Duration: 120 minutes There is a whale waiting for us when we enter the theatre. Not a living one, but its skeleton: a great, looming reminder of what once was, and of what remains after everything else has been stripped away. The cast is already onstage, … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Whale by The Actors’ Studio Seni Teater Rakyat
Preview: Goodman Arts Centre Becomes a Living Arts Village for HOME | GROUND
Goodman Arts Centre has never been just a collection of studios. Long before it became one of Singapore’s most familiar creative enclaves, the grounds were home to schools, students and educators, gathering generations of people whose memories remain woven into the place. This October, those stories come back into focus with HOME | GROUND, a new signature programme by Arts House Group that will transform … Continue reading Preview: Goodman Arts Centre Becomes a Living Arts Village for HOME | GROUND
Preview: Dongpo – Life in Poems 现代舞诗剧《诗忆东坡》by Castiglione Arts and Culture Pty Ltd
What does the soul of a poet who lived nearly a thousand years ago look like in motion? This December, the Esplanade Theatre will offer an answer with Dongpo: Life in Poems, an operatic contemporary dance drama that brings the world of Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo vividly into the present. Directed and choreographed by internationally acclaimed artist Shen Wei, the production is less a … Continue reading Preview: Dongpo – Life in Poems 现代舞诗剧《诗忆东坡》by Castiglione Arts and Culture Pty Ltd
Film: Director/Writer Ervin Han on ‘The Violinist’, Singapore’s past and the long road to the Annecy win
For Ervin Han, The Violinist was never intended to be simply a film about Singapore. It was, more specifically, an attempt to tell a story that could travel beyond Singapore without losing the place that gave it meaning. That balance was something Han was conscious of from the beginning. The Singapore-Spain-Italy co-production, which he co-directed with Spanish animation veteran Raúl García, had to work for … Continue reading Film: Director/Writer Ervin Han on ‘The Violinist’, Singapore’s past and the long road to the Annecy win
Preview: Playwrights’ Cove 2026 – From Page To Stage by The Necessary Stage
What happens when a writer accustomed to the intimacy of the page has to make a story live, breathe and speak in front of an audience? That question is what sits in the centre of Playwrights’ Cove 2026: From Page to Stage, The Necessary Stage’s annual playwriting programme, which this year brings four literary artists into the theatre-making process. Ahmad Syarif, Daryl Qilin Yam, Noonherd … Continue reading Preview: Playwrights’ Cove 2026 – From Page To Stage by The Necessary Stage
Maybank and Stellar Ace turn a Circle Line train into a musical singalong journey about growing up
Have you ever stepped onto an MRT train to go on a journey of adulthood? On 3 October, more than 200 young Singaporeans gathered inside a stationary Circle Line carriage at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station for Adulting Journey. Served Your Way, a new collaboration between Maybank Singapore and Stellar Ace that transformed one of the city’s most familiar spaces into a temporary stage. The idea … Continue reading Maybank and Stellar Ace turn a Circle Line train into a musical singalong journey about growing up
Art: UOL X ART:DIS Art Prize winner – Christian Tan Finds Art in the Everyday in His First Solo Exhibition, ‘Held in the Middle’
A broom, a chair, a cleaning station, a pop star. In the hands of Singaporean artist and printmaker Christian Tan, the familiar becomes something worth pausing over. The autistic artist, overall winner of the UOL X ART:DIS Art Prize 2025, is presenting his first solo exhibition, Held in the Middle, at Objectifs from 1 to 11 October 2026. Bringing together about 30 linocut prints, the … Continue reading Art: UOL X ART:DIS Art Prize winner – Christian Tan Finds Art in the Everyday in His First Solo Exhibition, ‘Held in the Middle’
Music: Milky Chance talk about their first Asian show at F1 Singapore, ‘Stolen Dance’ and discovering magic in the unknown
There is something incredibly poetic about discovering a band for the first time through a song that has already been around for more than a decade. For German indie-pop duo Milky Chance, whose 2013 breakout single “Stolen Dance” has surpassed two billion Spotify streams, music has always had a way of transcending generations and borders. Now, childhood friends Clemens Rehbein and Phillipp Dausch are embarking … Continue reading Music: Milky Chance talk about their first Asian show at F1 Singapore, ‘Stolen Dance’ and discovering magic in the unknown
