Shopping Time: Experience art while shopping with Funan’s inaugural art-meets-retail programme
At Singapore’s first mall-wide art activation, taste a mouthful of happiness with a “Misty morning at Clementi Forest” gelato; colour your living room with a groovy rug that takes you on a trip down memory lane; join an edgy sneaker art workshop, or celebrate native mushrooms under the glow of neon lights. Curated by Neighborhood and presented by Funan, Creative Unions is a major month-long … Continue reading Shopping Time: Experience art while shopping with Funan’s inaugural art-meets-retail programme
Arts of the UK 2021: Bush Theatre announces two new online masterclasses
LONDON – The Bush Theatre has announced two new masterclasses, which will offer an insight into theatre by leading practitioners Trish Cooke, Nathan Bryon (11th February), and Katie Mitchell (25th February). Participants will be able to attend the online masterclasses from the comfort of their home via Zoom. The sessions will develop skills in writing and directing for all levels and will be interactive. Trish … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Bush Theatre announces two new online masterclasses
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Hazwan Norly and Rizman Putra sink their teeth into ‘Pandan’
After making a splash with their debut production back in 2019, local theatre company Rupa co.lab is stepping up their game with their second production this January. Directed by seasoned theatremaker Rizman Putra, and a script by Rupa co.lab founding member Hazwan Norly, Pandan is set to premiere at the 2021 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, as four characters come together when an old public swimming … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Hazwan Norly and Rizman Putra sink their teeth into ‘Pandan’
★★★☆☆ Review: Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys by Brian Gothong Tan and NAFA
The youth of today grapple with difficult world issues. Are the youth of today as ‘woke’ as they think they are? Directed by Brian Gothong Tan and written by Nabilah Said, Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys features the BA (Hons) Theatre Arts students from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) as they perform in this show exploring some of the world’s most significant social and political … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Havoc Girls & Kamikaze Boys by Brian Gothong Tan and NAFA
Review: i am not here by The Lost Post Initiative
Heartbreak interwoven with humour in examining the suppression of the female voice across time. When one steps into a theatre space, one of the last things one might expect to find is a literal boxing ring. Just as you’re getting used to the idea of this strange set-piece, two women dressed in exercise gear and carrying gym bags arrive and enter the ring, and we … Continue reading Review: i am not here by The Lost Post Initiative
Singapore Art Week 2021: Free Jazz III at NTU CCA
Collaborative and experimental by nature, Free Jazz III builds upon its past iterations by activating and challenging common understandings of exhibition-making and the use of space. Sound walks. Machines listen. We are living through unusual times. As the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore approaches a major transformation away from a permanent exhibition space in early 2021, Free Jazz III continues to explore the possibilities of an international research … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2021: Free Jazz III at NTU CCA
Singapore Art Week 2021: State of Motion 2021 -[Alternate / Opt] Realities
The Asian Film Archive’s annual State of Motion multidisciplinary art exhibition is back for its sixth edition, this time centering on the theme of [Alternate / Opt] Realities. As its title suggests, the exhibition aims to conjures pathways into multiple worlds by exploring the science-fiction genre through the potency of audio-visual technologies. The title takes its cue from the “Alt / Option” key from the … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2021: State of Motion 2021 -[Alternate / Opt] Realities
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Saiful Amri and Anwar Hadi Ramli find the animal inside us with ‘Wan Belantara’
Anthropomorphic and personified animals have always played a huge role in most people’s childhoods, whether as Disney cartoons or legends passed down from generation to generation. And so it is that this year’s edition of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival would feature at least one show that’s all about animals, with WAN BELANTARA: Enjet-Enjet Semut (KING OF THE JUNGLE: As the Ants Go Marching In) making … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Saiful Amri and Anwar Hadi Ramli find the animal inside us with ‘Wan Belantara’
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Yulissa Campos reflects on being a Latinx migrant in Canada with ‘I, Frida’
Canada is a country well-known for being welcoming to immigrants, and over the years, has developed into a strong multicultural nation with a spectrum of people, each contributing their own unique skills and talents that make it what it is. Perhaps then, there is great value in hearing just what this process of being a foreigner-turned-citizen in Canada is like, and the struggles of identity … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: Yulissa Campos reflects on being a Latinx migrant in Canada with ‘I, Frida’
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: The New Cambodian Artists talk COVID, contemporary arts and ‘Snow Whitening Revisited’
When you think of something that encapsulates Cambodian performing arts, it’s likely more to do with something deeply cultural and traditional, in terms of both form and presentation. But one group has emerged from the masses to stand apart on their own terms, as the New Cambodian Artists make a name for themselves as Cambodia’s first (and probably only) contemporary performing artists in the country. … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2021: The New Cambodian Artists talk COVID, contemporary arts and ‘Snow Whitening Revisited’
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