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Arts, Food, Review, Singapore

Singapore Food Festival 2019: Advanced Dining by Telok Ayer Arts Club & The Picnic (Review)

Expect the unexpected and come away with a new belief in the art of dining. Spoilers ahead Eating is and always will be a part of our daily lives. But get into a routine long enough, and you may just begin to forget just what it was that made food such a magical experience in the first place. Enter Advanced Dining, a curated experiential art … Continue reading Singapore Food Festival 2019: Advanced Dining by Telok Ayer Arts Club & The Picnic (Review)

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Art Therapy Meets: Art Therapy and Mental Health Come Together

MINDSET Care Limited, the registered charity of the Jardine Matheson Group, together with Singapore Association for Mental Health, has unveiled “Art Therapy Meets” – a four part art exhibition at Our Tampines Hub running through the weekend to raise awareness of art therapy and its impact on mental health and well-being. The exhibition, together with guided tours, allows participants to gain awareness about how past … Continue reading Art Therapy Meets: Art Therapy and Mental Health Come Together

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Singapore

One Raffles Place Celebrates The Bicentennial In True Shopping Style

This National Day, shoppers can look forward to celebrating the Singapore Bicentennial at One Raffles Place by sharing kindness. One Raffles Place will be collaborating with Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society over a series of heart-warming activities from 25 July to 20 August 2019. Shoppers, Professionals, Managers, Executives and Businessmen (PMEBS) alike can look forward to a fulfilling experience with some fun post-work activities. Be … Continue reading One Raffles Place Celebrates The Bicentennial In True Shopping Style

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Food, Singapore

Mooncake Season 2019: Mooncakes from Marina Bay Sands

For the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, Marina Bay Sands is presenting their mooncakes in a brand new, stylish celeste blue packaging with a brown leather strap, crafted to resemble a lantern. Adorned with motifs of Marina Bay Sands’ iconic hotel towers, the box opens up to unveil an image of Moon Goddess Chang’e soaring across a moonlit sky, complete with Chinese folk melodies. An ivory four-tiered chest each … Continue reading Mooncake Season 2019: Mooncakes from Marina Bay Sands

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Arts, Concert, Music, Preview, Singapore

Preview: SSO National Day Concert by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

The 1915 Raffles MarchComposed by A. Dietz, former Director of the Orchestra at the Raffles Hotel. Dietz himself is a mystery, with little is known of him, not even his first name. The work is known to have been performed on 13th September 1922 at the hotel, in a special concert reported in The Straits Times the day before. And in 2017, more than a century … Continue reading Preview: SSO National Day Concert by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

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Arts, Preview, Singapore

Preview: LumiNation 2019 at The Arts House

The Arts House’s LumiNation festival is back this August for its second edition! Held in conjunction with National Day, LumiNation is set to celebrate and explore the Singaporean identity in all its facets through performances, talks and more. Audiences are invited to discover and reconnect with the quieter parts of the Singaporean conversation over a single weekend of thoughtfully curated programmes. In this particular edition, LumiNation is going a step further … Continue reading Preview: LumiNation 2019 at The Arts House

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Art What!, Arts, Centre 42, Preview, Singapore, Theatre, travel, travelXculture

Camden Fringe 2019: The Cardboard Kitchen Project by FK Co-Lab

LONDON – After bringing their interactive installation Dear Cardboard Kitchen to Singapore in May, London based Singapore company FK Co-Lab has further developed the installation into a full length theatre production, set to premiere at Camden Fringe this August. Created by FK Co-Lab co-founders Faezah Zulkifli (director) and Nur Khairiyah Ramli (producer), The Cardboard Kitchen Project follows Jennie, as she moves from Singapore to London. She inherits a … Continue reading Camden Fringe 2019: The Cardboard Kitchen Project by FK Co-Lab

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Interview, KC Arts Centre, Nine Years Theatre, Preview, Singapore, Theatre, Theatre Companies

Nine Years Theatre’s First Fleet (第一舰队): An Interview with Director Nelson Chia

Following FAUST/US earlier this year, Nine Years Theatre returns this week for their second production of the year – an original work about the first British fleet to step foot onto what would eventually become Australia, aptly titled First Fleet. Written and directed by Nelson Chia, we posed a number of questions to the Nine Years Theatre Artistic Director to find out a little more about what we … Continue reading Nine Years Theatre’s First Fleet (第一舰队): An Interview with Director Nelson Chia

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72-13, Arts, Music, Review, Singapore, Theatreworks

N.O.W. 2019: Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (Review)

  Almost 30 years on and Ovidia Yu’s classic remains shockingly relevant. One of my earliest memories of coming into contact with local theatre is picking up a copy of Fat Virgins, Fast Cars and Asian Values in the late 2000s, collecting some of the Theatreworks Writers’ Lab’s most seminal plays from the 1990s. Naturally, as its title suggests, this collection contained Ovidia Yu’s Three Fat Virgins Unassembled, a … Continue reading N.O.W. 2019: Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (Review)

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Arts, Capitol Theatre, Comedy, Concert, Dream Academy, Music, Preview, Singapore

Dream Academy’s Broadway Beng: An Interview with Sebastian Tan

In many ways, Broadway Beng seems eternal. Having debuted in 2006, the dapper, Hokkien-spouting, Broadway/West End musical-lovin’ ‘beng’ has become something of a national icon in his own right, winning the hearts of countless aunties, xiao mei meis and men alike with his swagger and charm. But unlike an icon such as say, James Bond and how the character changes actors every few years, Broadway Beng can and will … Continue reading Dream Academy’s Broadway Beng: An Interview with Sebastian Tan

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