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Music Is: SSO announces first live concert with A Little Evening Music at Our Tampines Hub

SSO will be holding its first live concert since rules lifted, at the Festive Arts Theatre, Our Tampines Hub (OTH) on Sunday 22nd November, 5pm. This will be the first SSO concert to take place since restrictions were lifted around live performances on 1st November. A group of four musicians from SSO will perform for an audience of 100. The programme will include classical favourites by Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák, plus a work … Continue reading Music Is: SSO announces first live concert with A Little Evening Music at Our Tampines Hub

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Review: Blindspot 观心 by NUS Chinese Drama

NUS Chinese Drama highlights student struggles that may be hiding in plain sight.  Initially meant to have premiered during the 2020 NUS Arts Festival, NUS Chinese Drama’s original production Blindspot finds new life as a Zoom performance uploaded to YouTube. Directed by Judy Ngo, the devised work follows the lives of two students, each one dealing with their own set of adjustment issues as they settle into … Continue reading Review: Blindspot 观心 by NUS Chinese Drama

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Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces newly recorded online concerts, with Chief Conductor Hans Graf

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s digital season SSOPlayOn! continues with a trio of online concerts led by its new Chief Conductor, Hans Graf, taking place in November, December and January and streamed on SISTIC Live. On Friday 6th November at 8pm, Hans Graf directs the SSO in a programme pairing Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss’s monumental work for strings, with Mozart’s “Gran Partita” Serenade. The following month, on Friday 4 December, Hans Graf conducts an … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces newly recorded online concerts, with Chief Conductor Hans Graf

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Arts of Hong Kong 2020: An Interview with Hong Kong Arts Festival Executive Director Tisa Ho

HONG KONG – Originally slated to run in February and March this year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the 48th Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) to a grinding halt, for the sake of public safety. But not all is lost, with a mini version of the festival taking place online this weekend. Relaunched as HKartsFestival@TaiKwun, the two day festival will be presenting digital versions of programmes originally … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: An Interview with Hong Kong Arts Festival Executive Director Tisa Ho

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Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Invisible Men《順風．送水》by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

HONG KONG – As we go about our daily lives, we tend to forget the invisible people who cross our path. In Invisible Men, which premiered at the HKRep Black Box Theatre in 2015, witness an encounter between two men trapped in a lift, providing the audience much room for thought on how the people living in society’s margins eke out a living today. The play … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Invisible Men《順風．送水》by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

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M1 Peer Pleasure Festival 2020: If These Wheels Could Speak and The Other People – Dramatised Readings (Review)

Secondary school students tackle disabilities through Zoom-mediated drama. It’s not often that secondary school students take centrestage and get a chance to perform as part of a national festival. But that is precisely why ArtsWork Collaborative’s focus on giving students a chance to work with arts professionals and devise their own show as part of the annual M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival is so … Continue reading M1 Peer Pleasure Festival 2020: If These Wheels Could Speak and The Other People – Dramatised Readings (Review)

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Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Hong Kong Arts Festival announces HKartsFestival@TaiKwun [go online] this October

HONG KONG – Despite the many setbacks brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) will be proceeding with HKartsFestival@TaiKwun, originally scheduled to run earlier this year. Now, the festival will take place over two days, completely online from 10th to 11th October 2020, and the first of the 48th HKAF programmes to be relaunched, with interactive performances, installations and creative workshops broadcast … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: Hong Kong Arts Festival announces HKartsFestival@TaiKwun [go online] this October

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Arts of Hong Kong 2020: HKRep shifts restaging of Principle to October

HONG KONG – Originally slated to be presented at the end of September, the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s restaging of their acclaimed production Principle will now instead be taking place in October, supported by Panasonic.  Soon after she starts her job, a new principal establishes a host of new rules, upsetting both staff and students. Gossip swirls that the new principal and vice principal are at loggerheads, … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: HKRep shifts restaging of Principle to October

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Music Is: Hitmaker Global Academy launches International Solo & Ensemble Competition 2020

Now in its second year, Hitmaker Global Academy, an advanced teaching methodology contemporary music learning school, has launched the International Solo & Ensemble competition (ISEC) for 2020. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s edition will combine both the Solo and the Ensemble segments and will be conducted online. A total of 750 participants have signed up from the preliminaries organised through online submissions … Continue reading Music Is: Hitmaker Global Academy launches International Solo & Ensemble Competition 2020

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Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra set to return to concert halls with a live audience pilot

On 8th October, the public can enjoy a live performance by musicians of the SSO for the first time since arts venues closed in March. The concert of chamber music will feature Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ String Quartet and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence in front of an audience of 50 at the Victoria Concert Hall, Home of the SSO. The concert, which is part of SSO’s chamber music series VCHpresents, is one of a … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra set to return to concert halls with a live audience pilot

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