We still may not be able to travel just yet, but let BBC take you around the world with their lineup of shows this September. Watch Guilt and meet Scottish brothers Max and Jake, whose lives become intertwined thanks to a dark secret they share after a late night out. With this secret threatening both their livelihoods, how far will they go just to keep … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows – September 2020
September and October sees the SSO’s digital season, SSOPlayOn! continue with four concerts to be streamed online via SISTIC Live, with highlights including Debussy and Wagner conducted by the brilliant young conductor Kahchun Wong, and the first-ever marimba soloist, Julia Tan, to star in the President’s Young Performers Concert. In addition, tickets are now on sale for Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air, with the SSO’s new Chief Conductor Hans Graf, … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra back in concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf and Kahchun Wong
What does the perfect family look like? On BBC’s new drama The Nest, Emily and Dan Docherty, seem to have exactly that, as a happy couple living together in a huge house in a beautiful location just outside Glasgow. Except for one thing – a baby, something they’ve tried for years, with no success. When they meet 18-year old Kaya quite by chance though, they … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Sophie Rundle, star of BBC’s The Nest
Riot Games and Spotify today announced a multi-year partnership that names the world’s most popular global audio streaming subscription service as the official audio streaming partner for LoL Esports global events: the World Championship, Mid-Season Invitational, and All-Star Event. The partnership kicks off ahead of this year’s World Championship set to begin 25th September. In this first-of-its-kind collaboration, Spotify and Riot Games will produce a … Continue reading eSports: Riot Games amplifies League of Legends eSports through new partnership with Spotify
Livestreamed on 27th August 2020, the first ever Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) virtual awards ceremony announced a total of 17 winners across its 20 prize categories, marking several firsts for the country’s most prestigious literary awards ceremony. For the first time in its history, two writers shared the top prize in both the Chinese and English Fiction categories; a female writer won the Poetry … Continue reading By The Book: 2020 Singapore Literature Prize goes to 17 writers and marks several firsts for the awards
Finding new avenues for expression in a lockdown. With the circuit breaker and restrictions on performance, staying home has been pretty much all artists can do as they wait for Singapore to open up again. But being cooped up all day can certainly lead to some dangerous mental health issues, from anxiety to cabin fever. Exploring the effects of lockdown on their artists, Maya Dance … Continue reading Dance With Me: Stop & Smell The Roses by Maya Dance Theatre (Review)
The wonderful thing about the Huggs-Epigram Coffee Bookshop, beyond its impressive shelf of books, welcoming atmosphere and author meets, is the fact that they serve coffee. Perfect for spending a chill afternoon at tucked away in a corner with a newly purchased book, the bookshop is now making sure that you have a full meal to go along with it. Now that they’re open again … Continue reading By The Book: Go from Wet Market to Table with new set meal at Huggs-Epigram Coffee Bookshop
Back in February, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning, leading Singaporean theatre companies Pangdemonium!, W!ld Rice and Singapore Repertory Theatre banded together in a show of solidarity by offering discounts to each other’s shows, if audience members held tickets to any one of them. Now, with theatres still shut and the performing arts in difficulty, the three are coming together once again, this time … Continue reading W!ld Rice, SRT and Pangdemonium! unite for short film The Pitch
Queering Malaysian folklore in a fantastical modern day romp. As the youngest, and first non-Singaporean winner of the annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize, Malaysian writer Joshua Kam has a lot of expectations placed upon his debut novel. But as it turns out, How The Man In Green Saved Pahang, And Possibly The World, meets those expectations as one of the most wildly original and entertaining regional works … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Book Review: How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam
Writers from around the world come together to showcase the diversity of the lived Muslim experience. Scoured from just about every corner of the world over a period of over four years, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human is a richly diverse collection of short non-fiction that illustrates what it means to be a modern Muslim. With most stories lasting no longer than 10 pages, each … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Book Review: The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human – Tales from Many Muslim Worlds
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