Category: Singapore

art, Art What!, china, Preview, Singapore

This Humid House transforms Shanghai’s Rockbund Square into a dreamy floating summer garden with installation The Mirror

A slice of Singapore creativity has landed in the heart of Shanghai, this time in the form of a floating botanical maze that celebrates the sights, scents and rituals of summer. Until 5 July, visitors to Rockbund Square can wander through The Mirror, a large-scale public installation by Singapore botanical design studio This Humid House (THH), created for the launch of Chinese lifestyle brand BEAST’s … Continue reading This Humid House transforms Shanghai’s Rockbund Square into a dreamy floating summer garden with installation The Mirror

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Arts, Pangdemonium, Review, Singapore

★★★★★ Theatre Review: A Mirror by Pangdemonium

Tracie Pang deftly handles Sam Holcroft’s puzzle box of a play-within-a-play with confidence and a stellar team to produce the theatrical event of the year. There are theatre productions you admire and those you enjoy. And then there are productions that leave you walking out of the theatre almost hesitating to speak, not because you have nothing to say, but because you are still trying … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: A Mirror by Pangdemonium

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Theatre Review: A Na 阿奶 ‘Grandma’ by Lim Shien Hian

Disarmingly simple, straightforward and sincere script and staging brings theatre back to basics through reminiscing on patchwork memories with his late Hainanese grandmother. Lim Shien Hian has been in the theatre scene for a while now, wearing various offstage hats ranging from assistant directing to producing, before trying his hand at playwriting. But never has he staged a one-man show before. Originally conceived during a … Continue reading Theatre Review: A Na 阿奶 ‘Grandma’ by Lim Shien Hian

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Art What!, Arts, Preview, Singapore, Visual Art

Visual Art: Hyundai Motor Group Opens Applications for the 7th VH AWARD, Expanding Opportunities for Emerging Media Artists Across Asia

Emerging media artists exploring the complexities, cultures and contemporary realities of Asia now have a new opportunity to bring their ideas to the global stage. Hyundai Motor Group has officially launched the open call for the 7th VH AWARD, inviting artists from across Asia and its diasporas to submit proposals between 26 May and 21 July 2026. Since its inception in 2016, the award has … Continue reading Visual Art: Hyundai Motor Group Opens Applications for the 7th VH AWARD, Expanding Opportunities for Emerging Media Artists Across Asia

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Arts, Film, Singapore

Film: DEAR YOU 《给阿嬷的情书》Returns in Original Teochew for Special Singapore Showcase throughout July

For many Singaporeans, dialect is more than just a language—it is the sound of family gatherings, childhood memories and conversations with grandparents. This July, moviegoers will have a rare opportunity to experience those emotions on the big screen as Dear You returns in its original Teochew language for a special month-long showcase across Singapore. Following approval from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Clover Films … Continue reading Film: DEAR YOU 《给阿嬷的情书》Returns in Original Teochew for Special Singapore Showcase throughout July

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Arts, Film, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Film Review: Sheep in the Box 箱の中の羊 dir. Hirokazu Koreeda

Koreeda’s retreads familiar ground with themes of found family and the process of grief in this futuristic fairy tale with mixed results. Sheep in the Box sees award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda return to his specialty of family, grief, and the fragile systems we build to survive both, but refracts them through a near-future setting that is conceptually rich, emotionally uneven, and structurally overextended. It is … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Film Review: Sheep in the Box 箱の中の羊 dir. Hirokazu Koreeda

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Arts, Film, Singapore

★★★★★ Film Review: DEAR YOU 《给阿嬷的情书》dir. Lam Hongchun

A masterful feat of storytelling drives home the importance of kinship across borders and that to be good, even imperfectly, is still the most enduring form of love. In an era where cinema often leans toward scale, spectacle, or stylistic excess, Dear You succeeds precisely because it does the opposite. Directed by Lam Hongchu, the film builds its emotional weight through restraint, patience, and an … Continue reading ★★★★★ Film Review: DEAR YOU 《给阿嬷的情书》dir. Lam Hongchun

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Arts, Interview, Pangdemonium, Preview, Singapore

Turning Audiences Into Accomplices: An Interview with director Tracie Pang, and cast members Coco Wang Ling and Ghafir Akbar on Pangdemonium’s ‘A Mirror’

“It wasn’t intentional that A Mirror was chosen for our final season,” says director and Pangdemonium founder and co-artistic director Tracie Pang. “We had already programmed the season before the decision was made that it would be Pangdemonium’s last. We had maybe five shows planned and moving forward, and then it became a question of which of those we would keep and which we would … Continue reading Turning Audiences Into Accomplices: An Interview with director Tracie Pang, and cast members Coco Wang Ling and Ghafir Akbar on Pangdemonium’s ‘A Mirror’

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Theatre Review: The Trials by SRT’s The Young Company

Timely dystopian climate-change play sees children inherit a broken planet and the power to decide who pays for it. Dawn King’s The Trials imagines a near future in which the climate crisis has passed the point of no return. The air is barely breathable, natural disasters are commonplace, and resources are increasingly scarce. In response, society has turned to a radical form of justice: children … Continue reading Theatre Review: The Trials by SRT’s The Young Company

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Art What!, Arts, Asian Civilisations Museum, Museums, Preview, Singapore

Museums: ‘Crosscurrents – Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvre’ at the Asian Civilisations Museum

In Singapore’s Civic District, the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) is set to open Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvre, an exhibition that does more than bring together rare objects from one of the world’s greatest museums. It reconstructs a historical world in motion, where empires were less boundaries than bridges, and where art moved as fluidly as the … Continue reading Museums: ‘Crosscurrents – Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvre’ at the Asian Civilisations Museum

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