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Art What!: National Gallery Singapore’s Dalam Southeast Asia raises the curtain on less-explored artists in the region

National Gallery Singapore invites visitors to a journey into emerging perspectives in Dalam Southeast Asia, its first-ever Project Space that features under-studied artists from the region, and innovative curatorial approaches in the presentation of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. Open to the public from 29th October, the space will launch with its debut show, The Tailors and the Mannequins: Chen Cheng Mei and You … Continue reading Art What!: National Gallery Singapore’s Dalam Southeast Asia raises the curtain on less-explored artists in the region

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Arts, Film

Film Fanatic: Cartoons Underground 2021

Cartoons Underground, Southeast Asia’s top independent animation festival, is marking 10 years of helping to propel fledgling local film makers towards greater things. The brainchild of Singaporean festival director Vicky Chen and celebrated American animator Patrick Smith, Cartoons Underground showcases new animation from around the world but gives films from Southeast Asia and, especially, from Singapore-based student animators extra exposure. Chen, who launched the event … Continue reading Film Fanatic: Cartoons Underground 2021

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Art What!: Residual Memory at Mizuma Gallery

Mizuma Gallery has announced Residual Memory, a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Budi Agung Kuswara. Budi Agung Kuswara’s paintings celebrate the treasury of aesthetic and cultural influences on the Indonesian archipelago. Trained in kamasan painting, Budi retains the intricacy and delicate linework of this traditional art form in his contemporary works, marrying these baroque sensibilities with observations on social tensions and dynamics. His new body of work continues … Continue reading Art What!: Residual Memory at Mizuma Gallery

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★★★★☆ Review: _____ Can Change by The Necessary Stage

Using theatre as a framework for diversity of thought. As human beings who have evolved and adapted to our environment over millennia, change is a constant in our lives. But as a consequence of that, should minorities then be expected change, to assimilate and bend to the majority’s will? Restaged for the first time since its premiere in 2010, The Necessary Stage’s (TNS) ______ Can … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: _____ Can Change by The Necessary Stage

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Arts, Singapore, Theatre

Preview: The Lobby by Impromptu Meetings

Following their Teachers’ Day special back in September, Singapore based independent theatre collective Impromptu Meetings are back this December, and finally move from the online space to their first full stage production this year. Directed and written by Adeeb Fazah, The Lobby follows two workers at a rundown hostel – Abby and Min Lee (Cheryl Tan Yun Xin and Miriam Cheong). Business seems to be … Continue reading Preview: The Lobby by Impromptu Meetings

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Television Time: BBC curtain-raises COP26 in Glasgow with global premiere of The Green Planet

Due to air in January 2022, the BBC premiered its new ground-breaking natural history series, billed as ‘Planet Earth from the perspective of plants’, in front of an invited audience at Glasgow’s Pacific Quay IMAX, on Sunday, 31st October 2021. The Green Planet is a five-part landmark series from BBC Studios’ world-renowned Natural History Unit, for BBC One and iPlayer in the UK and BBC Earth and BBC … Continue reading Television Time: BBC curtain-raises COP26 in Glasgow with global premiere of The Green Planet

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Art What!: Art Basel announces further highlights of its upcoming show in Miami Beach

The 2021 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach – Art Basel’s first in-person fair in Miami Beach since 2019 – will feature 253 leading galleries from around the globe presenting the highest quality of works across all media, from rare and historical masterpieces to new pieces by today’s emerging artistic voices. In addition to showcasing exceptional art within its Galleries, Positions, Nova, Survey and Edition … Continue reading Art What!: Art Basel announces further highlights of its upcoming show in Miami Beach

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Interview: Erwin Shah Ismail and Daniel Jenkins on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

In a single lifetime, it’s difficult to get a chance to experience all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, whether it’s the most heartbreaking of tragedies, or the most hilarious of comedies. So why not take the prime opportunity the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) has provided now, as they stage The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), in a single night? Directed by Daniel Jenkins, and starring … Continue reading Interview: Erwin Shah Ismail and Daniel Jenkins on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

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Preview: Queers by Pachyderm Theatre

After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new company Pachyderm Theatre are finally ready to present their production of Queers this December. Playing at the Projector from 3rd to 5th December, as its title suggests, the theatre piece is all about LGBTQ people, and charts their lived experience over the last 100 years. Commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the ‘Wolfenden Report’ of 1957, … Continue reading Preview: Queers by Pachyderm Theatre

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Review: Both Sides, Now – Kata-Kata Kita Variety Show by Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative

Learning what it truly means to stay strong in the face of death. For years now, Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative’s Both Sides, Now community programme has been present to reach out to the public, engaging them through the arts as a means of starting a conversation about what it means to live well, and leave well. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, a typical Both … Continue reading Review: Both Sides, Now – Kata-Kata Kita Variety Show by Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative

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