Art What!: SingaPop! 60 Years of Singapore Pop Culture at ArtScience Museum
From a sleepy fishing village to a thriving metropolis, Singapore’s transformation is the stuff of textbooks. But what about the songs, styles, and slang that tell the nation’s unofficial story? That’s the focus of SingaPop! 60 Years of Singapore Pop Culture, a new multimedia exhibition at the ArtScience Museum that opens on 2 August as the flagship of its SG60 Season. Created by Cultural Medallion … Continue reading Art What!: SingaPop! 60 Years of Singapore Pop Culture at ArtScience Museum
FIND – Design Fair Asia 2025 Welcomes the World Through National Pavilions; Global Summit assembles rockstar speaker line-up
FIND – Design Fair Asia 2025, a key event of the Singapore Design Week, returns 11 – 13 September 2025 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre as the region’s premier platform for design, with a growing international footprint. At the heart of this year’s edition is a dynamic lineup of national pavilions, each offering a window into their countries’ evolving design narratives. … Continue reading FIND – Design Fair Asia 2025 Welcomes the World Through National Pavilions; Global Summit assembles rockstar speaker line-up
The Studios 2025: An Interview with Geoff Sobelle on ‘FOOD’, art, and connection
Do we need what we eat? Do we eat what we need? What does it really cost? In FOOD, American theatremaker Geoff Sobelle returns to Singapore with an invitation to chew on the complexities of consumption, memory, and meaning. Set around an absurdly oversized banquet table, this multi-sensory theatrical experience transforms the act of eating into a ritual of inquiry. Guests are not merely observers … Continue reading The Studios 2025: An Interview with Geoff Sobelle on ‘FOOD’, art, and connection
Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2025 – Island Nights
Surrounded by waters that have long linked us to distant shores, Singapore is defined by the confluence of trade routes, peoples, and cultures. Soon, vibrant tales of connection will ripple across the Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) precinct, as the Singapore Night Festival (SNF) 2025 invites all to dive into our rich island heritage and rediscover the ties that continue to flow through the city. The 16th edition of … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2025 – Island Nights
President*s Design Award 2025 recognises visionary and purposeful design driving positive social and spatial transformation, and technological innovation
Nine recipients were presented the Presidents Design Award (PDA) 2025 today, recognising their exceptional achievements in purposeful design that have positively impacted lives in Singapore and the wider global community. Among them are designers Ar. Alan Tay and Gabriel Tan, who were named Designers of the Year, alongside seven projects that received the Design of the Year award: 21 Carpenter, Bird Paradise, Delta Sport Centre, … Continue reading President*s Design Award 2025 recognises visionary and purposeful design driving positive social and spatial transformation, and technological innovation
★★☆☆☆ Review: Moonlit City 城里的月光 by Toy Factory
Little romance in this historical jukebox musical and SG60 tribute to Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo. We always knew that during SG60, theatre companies would bring on a plethora of restagings and shows celebrating national heroes and historical events. But it takes a very specific kind of bravery to dare to take on the story of our nation’s founding father, something which the … Continue reading ★★☆☆☆ Review: Moonlit City 城里的月光 by Toy Factory
Review: An Alpine Symphony In Images + Korngold Violin Concerto by Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Opening the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s new season, as the lights dimmed in the Esplanade Concert Hall, a hush of anticipation blankets the audience. As SSO CEO Kenneth Kwok delivered his opening address, we were promised a season launch that would go beyond music, and bring with it a sense of reflection, resilience, and renewal, as he reminded us of music’s enduring ability to nourish and … Continue reading Review: An Alpine Symphony In Images + Korngold Violin Concerto by Singapore Symphony Orchestra
★★★☆☆ Review: Scenes From The Climate Era by David Finnigan and Ellison Tan
Myriad views of the climate disaster and the desperation and depression that emerges in its rise. How does one frame a play about climate change and still add to the already burgeoning conversation? Adapted for a Singaporean production, Australian playwright David Finnigan’s Scenes From The Climate Era is keenly aware of the weighty and convoluted nature of the climate crisis, and how difficult it can … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Scenes From The Climate Era by David Finnigan and Ellison Tan
T.H.E Dance Company’s Searching Blue《寻蓝》 Heads to Malaysia and Australia
T.H.E Dance Company is taking its acclaimed site-adaptive work Searching Blue《寻蓝》, choreographed by Founding Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon, on tour again, this time to Malaysia and Australia This next chapter follows a growing international journey for the work. Since premiering in Singapore in 2023 at Goodman Arts Centre, Searching Blue has toured Southeast Asia with performances in Penang, Bandung, and Jakarta. In 2024, an … Continue reading T.H.E Dance Company’s Searching Blue《寻蓝》 Heads to Malaysia and Australia
★★★★☆ Review: DnA Fest – ‘The House of Janus’ and ‘Dido & The Belindas’ by T:>Works
Meditations on grief and love in these contemporary reimaginings and interpretations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. An anniversary is often a cause for raucous celebration, to mark another year well-lived and full of success. But for T:>Works, their 40th anniversary is instead being commemorated by sombre reflection, with the first edition of DnA Fest. Conceived and directed by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, DnA … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: DnA Fest – ‘The House of Janus’ and ‘Dido & The Belindas’ by T:>Works
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