When Frederic Coiffe joined So France as executive chef one month ago, he noticed the many restaurants focusing on gastronomic, complicated cuisine, and had only one thing on his mind: to bring simple but authentic French food to Singapore. Only a month old, So France is located in the brand new Duo Galleria at Bugis, and was set up by a team of enthusiastic French … Continue reading Voilah! 2018: So France, So Good
Level up your drinking game with the 2018 Singapore Cocktail Festival as it returns from 4th – 13th May! Over the 10 Day festival, celebrate cocktails fully, and expect to see some of the very best local and international bartenders in attendance, with over twenty five local bars, twenty artisanal spirit brands and twelve celebrity guest bartenders taking part in the festivities. Opening the entire … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Cocktail Fest 2018
Omigod you guys! Legally Blonde The Musical is on tour and guess who’s on the pink circuit in summer 2018 – wait for it – Singapore!!! (cue high pitched screams of delight.) Adapted from the 2001 hit rom-com film starring Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde tells the story of SoCal sorority queen and fashionista Elle Woods (Maris Fernandes), a girl who has it all – money, a following of … Continue reading Preview: Legally Blonde presented by BASE Entertainment Asia
If you’re scratching your head as to what gift to get for mum this Mother’s Day, then consider bringing her out on a date with Ding Yi Music Company’s A Getai Date With Mum. After their Lunar New Year celebration in February, Ding Yi will be returning with a concert featuring a stellar lineup of some of the best local Getai singers in the business, and … Continue reading Preview: A Getai Date with Mum 《歌台妈妈 善友之约》by Ding Yi Music Company
Enter the world of Israel based L-E-V Dance Company’s OCD Love. Based off Neil Hilborn’s famous viral spoken word poem about love lost to the speaker’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD Love interprets the poem with a fierce viscerality, as dancers move to DJ Ori Lichtik’s techno beats to present an epic struggle between the head and the heart. Stylistically abstract, watch as bodies move completely in sync with each other, orbiting and … Continue reading SIFA 2018: OCD Love by L-E-V Dance Company (Preview)
Considered one of the foremost pioneers of the Afro-futurism movement, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sowerfollowers is a sprawling, epic tale of the spiritual awakening of young Lauren Olamina, amidst a dystopian America wracked by the violence brought on by climate change, unrelenting greed, and systemic injustice. Known for her keen ear for sonic Americana, musician Toshi Reagon has been celebrated for … Continue reading SIFA 2018: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Preview)
Born in a village in Galilee in 1931,Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali has been through many things – he fled with his family to a refugee camp in Lebanon in 1948 before returning to Nazareth where he ran a souvenir shop and taught himself classical Arabic literature and learnt English. But through it all, he remained an unerring optimist, and in his works, celebrated the … Continue reading SIFA 2018: TAHA by Amer Hlehel (Preview)
Who were the people who were here before us, and what were they seeking? Were they travellers, lovers, heroes or villains? Kamini Ramachandran, Singapore’s number one storyteller and a fierce proponent for the oral tradition, is here to answer that. Besides organising Storyfest, she’s managed to make time to take part in SIFA 2018, bringing a touch of oral magic to the festival with her … Continue reading SIFA 2018: The Hidden by Kamini Ramachandran (Preview)
The Belle Epoque was the pinnacle of arts in Europe, literally the ‘Golden Age’. With a name like that, Bellepoque of course, strives for excellence in their productions, and to showcase just what is it that made the era such a fascinating and innovative time. In Roots, the team quite literally takes its audience back in time, presenting a series of pieces and works from famous composers … Continue reading Voilah! 2018: Roots by Bellepoque (Review)
Silence is power in this immersive tour that summons the ghosts of the past to the National Gallery. It’s 10pm at the National Gallery, long after opening hours have ceased, and all is quiet. It’s a little nervewracking; one becomes keenly aware of each step you take, echoing through the walls of the former Supreme Court with its high ceilings and expansive corridors. And that’s … Continue reading SIFA 2018: 0600 by Ground Z-0 (Review)
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