Growing Home: An Interactive Showcase on Highlights of Our SG Arts Plan (2023 – 2027)

The National Arts Council (NAC) launches a public roadshow, Growing Home: A showcase about The Arts Plan and You, inviting the public to embark on an interactive journey that explores the endless possibilities of the next five-year masterplan for Singapore’s arts, and to share their views. From live silkscreen printing sessions to becoming a curator for a day, visitors will see The Arts Plan (TAP) … Continue reading Growing Home: An Interactive Showcase on Highlights of Our SG Arts Plan (2023 – 2027)

Art What!: Light to Night Festival 2023 – Here & Now

National Gallery Singapore’s Light to Night Festival – a marquee event of Singapore Art Week – makes its post-pandemic return to the Civic District from 6 – 26 January 2023. This edition of the festival features a myriad of art-meets-lifestyle activities, Singapore premiere of artworks by artists from around the world, as well as new immersive day-to-night installations. All happening on-site at the Civic District, … Continue reading Art What!: Light to Night Festival 2023 – Here & Now

Performing Video Games: An Interview with award-winning ‘The Dark Room’ creator John Robertson

What if you could play a video game in real life, making decisions that have actual consequences on how you progress, and even stand to win an attractive reward at the end? That’s kind of what John Robertson does with his award-winning show The Dark Room. Originating as a YouTube series with over 4 million views and counting, and spawning a videogame, 250,000 viewer Twitch … Continue reading Performing Video Games: An Interview with award-winning ‘The Dark Room’ creator John Robertson

★★★☆☆ Review: Tree Confessions by This Is Not A Theatre Company

The hidden life of trees, revealed. Written by Jenny Lyn Bader and directed by Erin B Mee, in This Is Not A Theatre Company’s Tree Confessions, audience members get to hear from a character they’d never have imagined ever hearing the voice of: a tree. The mechanics of the show are simple – audience members are required to find a tree of their choosing, sit … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Tree Confessions by This Is Not A Theatre Company

★★★★☆ Review: Django In Pain by Por Piedad Teatro & The Play Company

Darkly comic fairytale about seeking help, told through a surreal puppet show. It’s not often a puppet show opens with a scene of its protagonist attempting to hang himself. But that is precisely how homemade puppet theatre show Django In Pain begins, and only goes down an increasingly surreal narrative that will surprise you at every turn. Co-created by husband and wife theatremaking duo Antonio … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Django In Pain by Por Piedad Teatro & The Play Company

Art What!: Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2023

Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL), the Aliwal Urban Art Festival (AUAF) makes its return on 14 January 2023 for its seventh edition to showcase Singapore’s vibrant urban culture scene at the Aliwal Arts Centre (AAC). Taking place on the last weekend of Singapore Art Week 2023, the Festival will feature renowned local artists from different urban art practices in an exciting array of free … Continue reading Art What!: Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2023

Art What!: OH! Open House’s For the House; Against the House 2023 – The Museum is Dead and Desire is Dead

“We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.”- Marc Augé, ‘Oblivion’ For the House; Against the House returns for its third edition with two new motions up for debate. Titled ______ is Dead, the debate-oriented series presents ‘The Museum is Dead’ and ‘Desire is Dead’ conceptualised by Singaporean curators John Tung and Adele Tan respectively. … Continue reading Art What!: OH! Open House’s For the House; Against the House 2023 – The Museum is Dead and Desire is Dead

Art What!: Joo Choon Lin – Dance in the Destruction Dance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will officially open Joo Choon Lin: Dance in the Destruction Dance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark this month, inviting audiences into a sensorially rich landscape that reimagines perceptions of form, reality, and human consciousness through everyday objects. Open to the public from 13 January to 16 April 2023, the exhibition by Singaporean artist Joo Choon Lin is the second solo exhibition under … Continue reading Art What!: Joo Choon Lin – Dance in the Destruction Dance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Art What!: Textures 2023 by Arts House Limited

Organised by Arts House Limited, Textures, the annual literary festival that celebrates Singapore literature (SingLit) makes its comeback from 6 – 15 January 2023, in conjunction with the Light to Night (L2N) Festival and as part of the Singapore Art Week (SAW). After two years of bringing local literary arts to the heartlands, Textures 2023 returns home to where it first began, celebrating the nation’s … Continue reading Art What!: Textures 2023 by Arts House Limited

Art What!: ARTWALK 2023 by LASALLE College of the Arts

The multidisciplinary public arts festival ARTWALK will return to the vibrant streets of Little India and Katong-Joo Chiat for its ninth edition from 6 to 15 January 2023. ARTWALK 2023 explores the theme of Echo—how our culture, heritage and traditions reverberate like sound waves. The metaphor of an echo reminds us that our culture is in constant flux, never stagnant. This year’s ARTWALK calls on … Continue reading Art What!: ARTWALK 2023 by LASALLE College of the Arts