Category: Singapore

Arts, Centre 42, Review, Singapore

Are You Game, Sau(dara)?: An Interview with Creators Fasyali Fadzly and Soultari Amin Farid, and Dramaturg Grace Lee-Khoo

KUALA LUMPUR – Last weekend, we travelled up to Five Arts Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to catch the cross-Causeway double bill presentation Are You Game, Sau(dara)? Comprising two brand new works created in response to Malaysian playwright Leow Puay Tin’s seminal play 3 Children, we sat down with creators Fasyali Fadzly and Soultari Amin Farid, as well as dramaturg Grace Lee-Khoo, before we caught the show to find out a … Continue reading Are You Game, Sau(dara)?: An Interview with Creators Fasyali Fadzly and Soultari Amin Farid, and Dramaturg Grace Lee-Khoo

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Food, Sands Theatre, Sands Theatre Highlights, Singapore

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 Set to Take Place at Marina Bay Sands This June

The venue of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 awards ceremony has officially been announced – the Sands Theatre within the iconic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on Tuesday 25th June. The world-renowned celebration recognises the top gastronomical institutions and establishments in the world and will be preceded by a full programme of associated events and activities for both international culinary professionals and food lovers. … Continue reading The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 Set to Take Place at Marina Bay Sands This June

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Fashion, Singapore

Design Orchard: Jewels Rock Sugar X Ying the Label POP-UP CAFÉ

The all new Design Orchard is getting going with a series of exciting pop-ups and events. This March, local label Ying the Label is having their very first collaboration with homegrown sweets brand Jewels Rock Sugar by Cheng as they launch a pop-up cafe at Design Orchard. Promising an experiential concoction of food, fashion and art, where visitors can enjoy and learn about brand stories … Continue reading Design Orchard: Jewels Rock Sugar X Ying the Label POP-UP CAFÉ

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Art What!, Arts, Singapore

Museum Musings: Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry by Yanyun Chen

Winner of the People’s Choice Award for her work at the President’s Young Talents 2019 (PYT 2019), Yanyun Chen is already back with a new work this March, as Grey Projects presents Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry. Best known for her charcoal-based practices (which also featured prominently in PYT 2019 with her work The scars that write us), this new exhibition deals with the story … Continue reading Museum Musings: Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry by Yanyun Chen

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Arts, Concert, Music, Preview, Singapore

Preview: VCH Excite! My Muse – Rani Singam presented by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Rani Singam, Singapore’s ‘first lady of jazz’, takes to the stage this April as part of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO)’s VCH Excite! series. Taking the form of a music-movie concept, Rani Singam will tell the story of our collective lives through both narration and song, inspired particularly by “Remember”, the love theme from the movie Cinema Paradiso which forms part of the programme. During the programme, audiences are … Continue reading Preview: VCH Excite! My Muse – Rani Singam presented by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

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Arts, Asian Civilisations Museum, Museums, Singapore

Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum to Celebrate A Year Of Chinese Art

Following last year’s focus on Southeast Asia, Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) has announced a brand new Season of Chinese Art set to run from June 2019 to mid-2020. A total of three blockbuster exhibitions in collaboration with leading Chinese institutions and artists will spotlight the best of Chinese art, from masterpieces of art, heritage, culture to even fashion from China and Singapore, as ancient Chinese traditions … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum to Celebrate A Year Of Chinese Art

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Art What!, Arts, party, Preview, Singapore

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf Goes To Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

HONG KONG – Sullivan+Strumpf is set to present at premiere art fair Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, this March, bringing in a selection of works by artists with diverse practices in both two and three dimensions, including Tony Albert, Sydney Ball, Lindy Lee, Sam Leach, I Nyoman Masriadi, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Alex Seton and Yang Yongliang, many of whom have been exhibited at their galleries across Sydney … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf Goes To Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

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

Dealing with the Devil: An Interview with Performer Mia Chee and Director Cherilyn Woo of Nine Years Theatre’s FAUST/US (浮世/德)

This March, Nine Years Theatre (NYT) opens their 2019 season with what is now their signature style of adapting a Western text into Mandarin, this time around having selected Goethe’s Faustus, the quintessential ‘deal with a devil’ story of a scholar who sells his soul in exchange for his wildest dreams. But in Nine Years Theatre’s FAUST/US, not only will protagonist Faust be receiving a gender swap; for … Continue reading Dealing with the Devil: An Interview with Performer Mia Chee and Director Cherilyn Woo of Nine Years Theatre’s FAUST/US (浮世/德)

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Arts, Dance with Me, London, Preview, Singapore, travel, travelXculture

Touring The UK 2019: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes (Preview)

LONDON – Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as well as the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of the same name, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes returns for a UK tour this November, with dates set for Plymouth, Salford and Sadler’s Wells in London for a seven week Christmas season.  The double Olivier award-winning production was a sell-out before it even hit its world … Continue reading Touring The UK 2019: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes (Preview)

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Arts, Review, Sands Theatre, Sands Theatre Highlights, Singapore, Theatre

Review: Matilda the Musical by Base Entertainment Asia

A celebration of the magic of childhood in musical form.  British author Roald Dahl remains one of the world’s most beloved authors, with countless children around the world having read his novels, each one etched into their childhood. It stands to reason then that one of the most successful adaptations of one of his works concerns a little girl who loves to read, with the … Continue reading Review: Matilda the Musical by Base Entertainment Asia

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