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Preview: Singapore Writer’s Fest 2016 Opening Ceremony [4/11/16]

The 19th Singapore Writer’s Fest has officially begun! The opening ceremony was held at the Arts House, with various performances to celebrate the launch! In his opening speech, Festival Director Yeow Kai Chai explained the theme of the festival: Sayang (literally ‘Love’ in Malay, but can also mean regret), which originated from how most of our stories are centered around love and loss. Senior Minister … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Writer’s Fest 2016 Opening Ceremony [4/11/16]

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Arts, Film, LFF 2016, London, London Film Festival 2016, Review, Singapore

Review: Your Name dir. Makoto Shinkai

Hot off the 2016 London Film Festival, Your Name is the latest from director Makoto Shinkai, whose previous works include 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) and Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011). I’ve personally always loved Shinkai’s work ever since catching Voices of A Distant Star ages ago, and it’s incredible how Your Name has become one of the highest grossing anime films in Japan, second only to films by animation giant Studio Ghibli. Your Name brings … Continue reading Review: Your Name dir. Makoto Shinkai

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Review: Best of (His Story) by The Necessary Stage [2/11/16]

In the theatre world, we’re usually hard pressed to find sequels to plays that premiered just a few years ago, and even rarer – a monologue. Best Of (His Story) is a follow up piece to 2013’s Best Of, which featured Siti Khalijah as a Muslim woman undergoing a divorce. Come 2016, this version now features Sani Hussin as a Muslim man going through divorce instead, to see what it’s … Continue reading Review: Best of (His Story) by The Necessary Stage [2/11/16]

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Arts, Esplanade Recital Studio, Music, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre

REVIEW: A Heart That Loves + Poet’s Love by New Opera Singapore (2/11/16)

“ Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton. New Opera Singapore was last seen at the Victoria Theatre with a production of Orpheus In The Underworld. They’re back again, and presenting their very first Youth Opera and Artiste-in-Residence concert series. The Youth Opera was started with the intent to spot and groom youths in Singapore with the talent … Continue reading REVIEW: A Heart That Loves + Poet’s Love by New Opera Singapore (2/11/16)

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Local Event, London, Music, Review, Singapore

Review: Linying @ Camden Assembly [1/11/16]

“my love is a friday pouring and a black wave cresting and crashing down the living room shore” Linying has been blowing up recently. From her surprise hit Sticky Leaves to topping the Singapore iTunes charts with her debut 5-track EP, this girl is really making a name for herself. With her debut non-Singapore gig in London tonight, Linying seems set to take over the world one … Continue reading Review: Linying @ Camden Assembly [1/11/16]

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Arts, Film, Local Event, Preview, SGIFF 2016, Singapore

Preview: Singapore International Film Festival 2016 – Telling Our Stories

The Singapore International Film Festival enters its 27th year, and as always, brings together some of the very best of new independent cinema to our little red dot. This time around, it’s going to have a fiercely Asian theme, courtesy of the team headed by festival Executive Director Yuni Hadi and Programme Director Zhang Wenjie. This year, the festival will screen 161 carefully curated feature length … Continue reading Preview: Singapore International Film Festival 2016 – Telling Our Stories

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Preview: Rant And Rave II by The Finger Players

Watch Singapore’s history come alive as Serene Chen and Jean Ng recap key milestones of Singapore’s literary scene in their captivating performance, Rant and Rave II. Beyond The Bookworm Club, Bonnie Hicks, Flame of the Forest and Borders bookstore, Rant and Rave II presents the various struggles writers have been contending with since the 1950s. Should writers write only what the public wants to read? … Continue reading Preview: Rant And Rave II by The Finger Players

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Arts, Local Event, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre

Review: twentythirty by Dramabox [27/10/16]

twentythirty is a show that’s more community theatre than avant garde. Sitting in the room full of secondary school students, I felt young again surrounded by youth. As the show began, Dramabox introduced the audience the the concept of forum theatre, which if you weren’t already aware, uses theatre as a means to discuss societal issues, allowing audiences to participate and voice their own opinions in … Continue reading Review: twentythirty by Dramabox [27/10/16]

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Preview: twentythirty by DramaBox

By 2030, there will be 6.9 million people in Singapore. How will it affect you? Similar to International Friendship Day, the Singapore Kindness Movement is once again collaborating with a theatre company to produce a new play about our increasingly diverse population, with classmates, neighbors and people on the street from all over the world. Taking on a forum theatre style aimed at teens, the … Continue reading Preview: twentythirty by DramaBox

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Preview: Two great shows to catch this November!

Got your head spinning deciding what shows to catch this school holiday? SRT is here to offer up two tantalising shows this November! Firstly, there’s the Singaporean premiere of Pulitzer-Prize winning play Disgraced, which has also become the most staged play in the US in 2016! Disgraced follows Amir, an American born Muslim who’s achieved the American Dream with a great job and beautiful artist wife (who happens … Continue reading Preview: Two great shows to catch this November!

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