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Arts, Museums, Preview

Museum Musings: Notes From the Ether – From NFTs to AI at the ArtScience Museum

ArtScience Museum’s latest exhibition, Notes From the Ether: From NFTs to AI, offers a gateway into a new frontier of digital art driven by technologies that are shaping artistic expression today. Running from 19 August to 24 September, this show invites both enthusiasts and newcomers to encounter artworks by contemporary artists who are pushing the boundaries of creativity through Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Generative Artificial … Continue reading Museum Musings: Notes From the Ether – From NFTs to AI at the ArtScience Museum

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Arts, festival, Preview, Singapore

Preview: SMU Arts Festival 2023 – POST

Every ending is a new beginning. But what comes after, in the ‘post’? Returning for 6 weeks from 18th August to 24th September, the annual SMU Arts Fest is back to explore the uncertain future with POST. Set against the backdrop of a post-Covid world and what some call the beginning of a post-human era, POST will feature a series of artistic and creative programmes … Continue reading Preview: SMU Arts Festival 2023 – POST

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Arts, Opera, Preview, Singapore

Preview: Dvorak’s Rusalka by New Opera Singapore

“Tell him, silvery moon, that I am embracing him. For at least momentarily let him recall of dreaming of me.” – Rusalka Composed by Antonín Dvořák with its first performance in the Prague National Theatre (1901), Rusalka has become a beloved Czech opera and one of Dvořák’s best works. Rusalka tells the story of how the water nymph Rusalka turns to a witch to help … Continue reading Preview: Dvorak’s Rusalka by New Opera Singapore

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Esplanade’s The Studios 2023: An Interview with director Tan Shou Chen and playwright Joel Tan on ‘Mosaic’

Built in 1979, the iconic Toa Payoh Dragon Playground and its brethren have long been a part of millennials’ memories growing up, eventually becoming key landmarks and cultural symbols in Singapore. Unfortunately, due to safety concerns, many of the other dragons have since been demolished, leaving the Toa Payoh Dragon Playground one of the few still standing, even amidst en bloc redevelopment of the flats … Continue reading Esplanade’s The Studios 2023: An Interview with director Tan Shou Chen and playwright Joel Tan on ‘Mosaic’

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Arts, festival, Preview

Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2023 – Singapore, The Great Port City

700 years ago, the Bugis were among the first settlers to arrive in Singapore to trade which established the street as Bugis Town. Since its founding years, Bugis Town has been extended to the present Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) precinct which will soon come alive with tales and histories of the past at the Singapore Night Festival (SNF) 2023 connecting stories of Singapore’s beginnings as a trading port with contemporary experiences for … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2023 – Singapore, The Great Port City

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Arts, Preview, Singapore, SRT, Theatre

An Interview with director Daniel Jenkins and the cast of ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ by Singapore Repertory Theatre

Fear often gets the better of us, and our imaginations begin to run wild. But what if there’s more evidence than just your thoughts that seems to point to something supernatural happening? In 2:22 – A Ghost Story, that is precisely the conundrum at hand, as a young couple who have just moved into their dream home begin to experience strange occurrences at precisely 2:22am … Continue reading An Interview with director Daniel Jenkins and the cast of ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ by Singapore Repertory Theatre

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Preview: Fat Kids Are Harder To Kidnap 2023 by How Drama

How Drama’s Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap ® is back for its 15th year. As always, the tried and tested format remains blissfully the same, with a marathon 31 plays in an hour, where YOU decide the order of the plays! This edition of Fat Kids features the talented cast of Ross Nasir, Pavan J Singh, Nicholas Bloodworth, Teoh Jun Vinh and Tiara Yap, … Continue reading Preview: Fat Kids Are Harder To Kidnap 2023 by How Drama

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Arts, Interview, Preview, Theatre

Psychobitch: An Interview with playwright Amanda Chong

With a title like ‘Psychobitch’, you can be sure that playwright Amanda Chong has no qualms about turning heads and making a statement when it makes it formal premiere this August. Presented by Wild Rice, Psychobitch is now receiving a full-scale, professional production after a dramatised reading last year, as part of The Necessary Stage’s Playwrights’ Cove developmental playwriting programme, and promises raw emotion, plenty … Continue reading Psychobitch: An Interview with playwright Amanda Chong

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72-13, Arts, Preview, Singapore, Theatre, Theatreworks

T:>Works’ King: An Interview with writer/performer Jo Tan and director Irfan Kasban

Back in 2020, at the height of COVID-19, theatremaker Jo Tan was invited by T:>Works to present a little one-woman show called King, as part of their annual N.O.W. Festival of Women. With pandemic restrictions in place, King, however, was relegated to becoming a live film, streamed online. Now, with the world open again, Jo is taking another stab at the play again, bringing it … Continue reading T:>Works’ King: An Interview with writer/performer Jo Tan and director Irfan Kasban

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Preview: Somewhere… by Curtain Call

Five hundred miles. Four cups of coffee. Two lonely strangers. One hell of a journey. Love is an act of courage. Based on the play “Phoenix”, written by Scott Organ, Somewhere… follows Bruce and Sue, who meet up again four weeks after an uncharacteristic one-night-stand in Singapore. Sue only has this to say to him: “one, I had a great time with you that night” … Continue reading Preview: Somewhere… by Curtain Call

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