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Arts, Concert, Music, Preview, Singapore

Music Is: SSO reveals Feb-May 2021 Digital Season

The SSOPlayOn! digital season continues with a raft of concerts, announced today, taking place from February to May. Highlights include a performance of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto by young virtuoso Chloe Chua alongside SSO First Violinist Ye Lin. Cindy Lim, Head of Marketing Communications for SSG said: “With the gradual resumption of live performances, the SSO will be reducing the frequency of its online concerts … Continue reading Music Is: SSO reveals Feb-May 2021 Digital Season

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Art What!, Arts, Singapore, Singapore Art Week 2021

Singapore Art Week 2021: The Body As A Dream – A Singapore Art Story

Art Agenda, S.E.A. (AASEA) presents The Body as a Dream: A Singapore Art Story, a new thematic exhibition curated by Vivyan Yeo. Featuring works from ten modern and contemporary Singaporean artists spanning 1965 – the year of Singapore’s national independence – to pieces created contemporaneously, the exhibition traces depictions of the human body as a visual marker of perceived identity throughout time. The past is … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2021: The Body As A Dream – A Singapore Art Story

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Arts, Dance with Me, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Preview, Singapore

Preview: SIDES 2020 by Frontier Danceland

Following their exploration of movement on film with Dancers’ Locker 2020, Frontier Danceland returns this January with SIDES 2020, a digital double bill comprising B(_).I(_).O(_) by Zhuo Zihao and Apple Diary by Chiew Peishan, created in collaboration with local filmmaker Koo Chia Meng. An open-ended investigation into the nature of human sentiments through the set-up of a microscope in a laboratory, B(_).I(_).O(_) explores the roots of … Continue reading Preview: SIDES 2020 by Frontier Danceland

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Art What!, Arts, Preview

Art What!: Phoebe Hui Selected to Present the Fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission in Hong Kong in April 2021

From left to right: Portrait of Phoebe Hui in her studio, Ying Kwok and Phoebe Hui in the artist’s Hong Kong studio, studies for The Moon is Leaving Us, all images courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet. Audemars Piguet Contemporary has announced that Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Hui has been selected to realise the fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission, in collaboration with Hong Kong-based … Continue reading Art What!: Phoebe Hui Selected to Present the Fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission in Hong Kong in April 2021

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shopping, Singapore

Shopping Time: Experience art while shopping with Funan’s inaugural art-meets-retail programme

At Singapore’s first mall-wide art activation, taste a mouthful of happiness with a “Misty morning at Clementi Forest” gelato; colour your living room with a groovy rug that takes you on a trip down memory lane; join an edgy sneaker art workshop, or celebrate native mushrooms under the glow of neon lights. Curated by Neighborhood and presented by Funan, Creative Unions is a major month-long … Continue reading Shopping Time: Experience art while shopping with Funan’s inaugural art-meets-retail programme

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Arts, London, Preview, Theatre

Arts of the UK 2021: Bush Theatre announces two new online masterclasses

LONDON – The Bush Theatre has announced two new masterclasses, which will offer an insight into theatre by leading practitioners Trish Cooke, Nathan Bryon (11th February), and Katie Mitchell (25th February). Participants will be able to attend the online masterclasses from the comfort of their home via Zoom. The sessions will develop skills in writing and directing for all levels and will be interactive. Trish … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Bush Theatre announces two new online masterclasses

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Arts, festival, Preview, Singapore, The Banter, Theatre

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Hazwan Norly and Rizman Putra sink their teeth into ‘Pandan’

After making a splash with their debut production back in 2019, local theatre company Rupa co.lab is stepping up their game with their second production this January. Directed by seasoned theatremaker Rizman Putra, and a script by Rupa co.lab founding member Hazwan Norly, Pandan is set to premiere at the 2021 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, as four characters come together when an old public swimming … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Hazwan Norly and Rizman Putra sink their teeth into ‘Pandan’

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★☆☆ Review: Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys by Brian Gothong Tan and NAFA

The youth of today grapple with difficult world issues. Are the youth of today as ‘woke’ as they think they are? Directed by Brian Gothong Tan and written by Nabilah Said, Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys features the BA (Hons) Theatre Arts students from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) as they perform in this show exploring some of the world’s most significant social and political … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys by Brian Gothong Tan and NAFA

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Review: i am not here by The Lost Post Initiative

Heartbreak interwoven with humour in examining the suppression of the female voice across time. When one steps into a theatre space, one of the last things one might expect to find is a literal boxing ring. Just as you’re getting used to the idea of this strange set-piece, two women dressed in exercise gear and carrying gym bags arrive and enter the ring, and we … Continue reading Review: i am not here by The Lost Post Initiative

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Art What!, Arts, Singapore, Singapore Art Week 2021

Singapore Art Week 2021: Free Jazz III at NTU CCA

Collaborative and experimental by nature, Free Jazz III builds upon its past iterations by activating and challenging common understandings of exhibition-making and the use of space. Sound walks. Machines listen. We are living through unusual times.  As the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore approaches a major transformation away from a permanent exhibition space in early 2021, Free Jazz III continues to explore the possibilities of an international research … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2021: Free Jazz III at NTU CCA

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