Category: Singapore

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★★★★☆ Dance Review: BATU by Ayu Permata Sari and Hasyimah Harith

A multisensory fever dream that examines femininity in all its sorcery, esoterica, and erotica through the lens of the humble mortar and pestle, and the stories passed down from woman to woman in the kitchen. Duration: 75 minutes You can watch a dance, or you can feel it take hold of your body. BATU does both, pulling you into its strange, increasingly feverish world through … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Dance Review: BATU by Ayu Permata Sari and Hasyimah Harith

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Film: Singapore International Film Festival Opens New Worlds of Discovery for Young Audiences and Reimagines the Future of Cinema with Parallax

The Singapore International Film Festival’s Junior Explorers programme pairs three films from Chile, Ireland and Japan with sensory-friendly screenings and hands-on activities, while its new Parallax programme looks at how technology is reshaping the future of filmmaking. A first trip to the cinema can be more than an introduction to the big screen. It can open up new worlds, spark questions about growing up and … Continue reading Film: Singapore International Film Festival Opens New Worlds of Discovery for Young Audiences and Reimagines the Future of Cinema with Parallax

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Sounding Light 定光: An interview with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Artistic Director Cheng Tsung-lung on slowing down

It seems like an impossibility to ever ask people who live in bustling metropolitan cities like Taipei or Singapore to slow down. These are places built around movement: trains arriving and departing, traffic flowing through intersections, people crossing streets with somewhere to be, messages arriving before the previous ones have been answered. There is always another email, another meeting, another decision to make. Even our … Continue reading Sounding Light 定光: An interview with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Artistic Director Cheng Tsung-lung on slowing down

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Arts, National Gallery, News, Preview, Singapore, Visual Art

Art: Fan Chang Tien: Rhythm of the Southern Brush | 范昌乾：南方笔韵 at National Gallery Singapore

From expressive bamboo paintings and rarely seen depictions of kampong life to poetic landscapes and the artists he mentored, Fan Chang Tien: Rhythm of the Southern Brush traces the journey of an influential ink master whose legacy extends far beyond the brush. For many familiar with Singapore’s Chinese ink painting tradition, Fan Chang Tien is remembered as the “Gardener”, a master who nurtured generations of … Continue reading Art: Fan Chang Tien: Rhythm of the Southern Brush | 范昌乾：南方笔韵 at National Gallery Singapore

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★★★★★ Film Review: The Violinist 沧海琴声 dir. Ervin Han and Raúl García

An animated triumph of a sweeping, heartfelt love letter to Singapore and her history, and the dreams that take us further. Singaporeans are often a self-deprecating, critical bunch. We rarely think Singapore is worth being the subject of an epic, so seeing the country lovingly rendered on the big screen evokes a particular kind of national pride. This is not merely a recognisable skyline glimpsed … Continue reading ★★★★★ Film Review: The Violinist 沧海琴声 dir. Ervin Han and Raúl García

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Preview: Singapore Clay Festival returns with a celebration of craft, heritage and experimentation

Clay is a material that rewards patience. It can become a vessel shaped by centuries-old traditions, an abstract sculpture that captures the movement of a landscape, or an experimental form that pushes the boundaries of what ceramics can be. At the Singapore Clay Festival, these possibilities come together under one roof, bringing established masters, emerging artists, professional ceramists and enthusiastic hobbyists into conversation. Returning for … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Clay Festival returns with a celebration of craft, heritage and experimentation

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Interview: Drag queen Sammi Zhen talks 27 years in the industry, her first standup comedy show, and why ‘Love Cannot Wait’

For 27 years, Sammi Zhen has made a living knowing what to say. As a drag performer, comedian and host, she has spent much of her career in bars, at dinner-and-dance events, private functions and other spaces where audiences are rarely sitting quietly and waiting to hear a story. A typical performance might last 10 or 15 minutes, with people eating, drinking, talking, standing up … Continue reading Interview: Drag queen Sammi Zhen talks 27 years in the industry, her first standup comedy show, and why ‘Love Cannot Wait’

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Film: SGIFF 2026 Brings Back Its Festival Closing with Asian Premiere of ‘Vintage Violence’

After more than a decade without a dedicated closing event, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is bringing back one final big-screen gathering to round off its 37th edition with a film that promises crime, dark comedy and a distinctly modern kind of chaos. The festival will close on 1 November with the Asian premiere of Vintage Violence, the latest feature from Ukrainian-American filmmaker Eugene … Continue reading Film: SGIFF 2026 Brings Back Its Festival Closing with Asian Premiere of ‘Vintage Violence’

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★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Whale by The Actors’ Studio Seni Teater Rakyat

The Whale carries the weight of everything we cannot say in this emotional adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play. Duration: 120 minutes There is a whale waiting for us when we enter the theatre. Not a living one, but its skeleton: a great, looming reminder of what once was, and of what remains after everything else has been stripped away. The cast is already onstage, … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Whale by The Actors’ Studio Seni Teater Rakyat

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Film: Director/Writer Ervin Han on ‘The Violinist’, Singapore’s past and the long road to the Annecy win

For Ervin Han, The Violinist was never intended to be simply a film about Singapore. It was, more specifically, an attempt to tell a story that could travel beyond Singapore without losing the place that gave it meaning. That balance was something Han was conscious of from the beginning. The Singapore-Spain-Italy co-production, which he co-directed with Spanish animation veteran Raúl García, had to work for … Continue reading Film: Director/Writer Ervin Han on ‘The Violinist’, Singapore’s past and the long road to the Annecy win

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