Wrap up the year with the festive collection of shows from BBC Studios to put you in the mood for a whole month of merry-making and festivities this December. Meet the real Christmas elves working behind the scenes to bring some of our favourite Christmas items in BBC Earth’s Inside The Christmas Factory. The best part of any holiday is always the food and BBC Lifestyle … Continue reading Television Time: What’s On BBC (December 2022)
Charting the birth of the new queer Singapore through the portrait of a queen. There may be countless jokes around the ever-growing list of letters that make up the LGBTQ+ initialism, but in many ways, that problematisation of clear definition and categories is precisely what makes the queer community so beautiful – the sheer diversity across the rainbow spectrum of identities. And in Singapore, where … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Baby Queen dir. Lei Yuan Bin (SGIFF 2022)
What’s in a photo? When taking a photo, how conscious are we of the way that we pose, of the way the lighting hits our face, or of how much we include or exclude from the frame? When we upload a picture to social media, how are we curating our feed, and what exactly are we trying to subtly hint or imply with that post … Continue reading Art What!: ‘Living Pictures – Photography in Southeast Asia’ at National Gallery Singapore
Spirited political farce about the death of democracy. Category Score (out of 10) Direction (Rizman Putra) 8 Script (Suffian Hakim) 7 Performance (Hafidz Rahman, Munah Bagharib, Azizul ‘Izzy’ Mahathir, Farah Lola, Jamil Schulze, Neo Hai Bin, and Norisham Osman) 7 Sound Design (Safuan Johari) 8 Lighting Design (Ian Pereira) 8 Set Design (Allister Towndrow) 8 Hair/Makeup (Suzana Salleh) 8 Total 54/70 (77%) Final Score: ★★★★☆ … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Make Hantus Great Again by Teater Ekamatra
As much as RuPaul’s Drag Race may have led you to believe otherwise, drag is more than just watching queens lipsync for their lives and donning beautiful, larger than life outfits alone. Drag is the art of self-expression, where the queen becomes the most exaggerated, elevated version of their true self, living loud and proud and strong. And that is a culture that, while still … Continue reading Film Fanatic: An Interview with Opera Tang and Ada Heart, stars of new documentary ‘Baby Queen’ (SGIFF 2022)
Leading actress Hong Huifang has won Best Actress for AJOOMMA at the 8th Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles. This is the first film award for Hong Huifang in her almost 40 years of acting career. The award was announced at the closing ceremony held on 18 November, Friday evening in Los Angeles. “I am very happy for this Best Actress award from the Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles! … Continue reading Film Fanatic: Hong Huifang Wins Best Actress for AJOOMMA at the 2022 Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles
“Content is Still King” at the Asia TV Market & Conference 2022 (ATF). Organised as part of the ninth edition of the Singapore Media Festival (SMF), which runs as a physical event from 24 November to 11 December 2022, the ATF is expected to make a strong comeback with more than 4,000 trade professionals from leading platforms, studios, and agencies from 60 countries and regions, … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Media Festival 2022
If you haven’t heard He Shuming’s name before, you’re about to remember it. With a single, debut feature film, the 37-year old Singaporean director has become the newest darling of the local film scene, with AJOOMMA receiving a whopping four nominations at the prestigious Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards ceremony, and having been selected as Singapore’s submission to the 2023 Academy Awards in the … Continue reading Film Fanatic: An Interview with director He Shuming on debut feature film AJOOMMA
The Sound of Music is set to be the first international musical to take stage in Singapore since the pandemic. This November, the legendary musical, produced by Broadway International Group, Simone Genatt, and Marc Routh and presented by Base Entertainment Asia, will make a triumphant return to Sands Theatre. A casting search is now on in Singapore for 18 children, ages six to 14, to … Continue reading Preview: The Sound of Music by Base Entertainment Asia
#ArtsInYourNeighbourhood and #SilverArts return with programmes that bring the arts to more communities islandwide throughout the year. Presented by the National Arts Council (NAC) in partnership with the arts community and stakeholders from the people, private, and public sectors, these initiatives hope to make the arts accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, in spaces where they live, work and play. For #ArtsInYourNeighbourhood and … Continue reading National Arts Council Strengthens Partnerships To Make The Arts Accessible To More Communities Islandwide
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