Immerse Yourself: Around the World in 80 Days by Andsoforth (Preview)
After a trip to the mythical land of the vikings with Valhalla and the Chambers of Asgard, Andsoforth, Singapore’s first and only immersive dining and theatre company, is back with a brand new multi-room experience. This time around, they’ve taken inspiration from French author Jules Verne, and are set to take audience members Around the World in 80 Days. Of course, you won’t really take 80 days to complete … Continue reading Immerse Yourself: Around the World in 80 Days by Andsoforth (Preview)
Open Call: Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2021 needs your scripts!
If you ever thought you were a good writer, now’s the time to show it. Following their second edition of The Wright Stuff in 2019, Toy Factory is ready to return for a third round of showcasing brand new Singaporean scripts come 2021. Budding playwrights are welcome to submit new plays between 24th July to 24th September 2020 to Toy Factory, in the hopes of … Continue reading Open Call: Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2021 needs your scripts!
Food For Thought: 50 Best Releases E-Cookbook Featuring Recipes From Top Chefs and Bartenders For Charity
The organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Restaurants has released its first ever e-cookbook, entitled Home Comforts: simple lockdown recipes from the world’s best chefs and bartenders, featuring the meals that the world’s most revered chefs are cooking for their families at home. Available by donation through the 50 Best Bid for Recovery donation site, the cookbook will raise funds to support the global hospitality … Continue reading Food For Thought: 50 Best Releases E-Cookbook Featuring Recipes From Top Chefs and Bartenders For Charity
Preview: Entr’Acte (Digital) Arts Festival by Republic Polytechnic’s School of Technology for the Arts
Celebrating theatre, visual arts and music, Republic Polytechnic’s School of Technology for the Arts’s inaugural is hosting the very first Entr’acte Arts Festival this July and August! Completely free to attend, the student-managed festival follows the theme of “a break between the acts”, taking inspiration from the moment of pause felt from the current COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at this period as a transition and moment to … Continue reading Preview: Entr’Acte (Digital) Arts Festival by Republic Polytechnic’s School of Technology for the Arts
Arts of the UK 2020: My Darling Christopher by Hot Coals Theatre
LONDON – Created as part of a wider theatre project in association with RADA, the short film My Darling Christopher will be shared as part of HOME Manchester’s Homemakers Festival. My Darling Christopher has been written, cast, shot and edited all during lockdown by Hot Coals Theatre, who create visual theatre accessible to both hearing and d/Deaf audiences in a shared experience. My Darling Christopher … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: My Darling Christopher by Hot Coals Theatre
Arts of the UK 2020: Theatre Support Fund + Raises £250,000 For Charities
LONDON – After phenomenal public demand for ‘The Show Must Go On!’ t-shirts, Theatre Support Fund + has reached an incredible milestone by raising a huge quarter of a million pounds for Acting For Others, The Fleabag Support Fund and NHS COVID-19 Urgent Appeal. Theatre Support Fund + was set up eight weeks ago by theatre industry workers Chris Marcus and Damien Stanton who wanted to form an initiative … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Theatre Support Fund + Raises £250,000 For Charities
Preview: M1 Patch! A (Live) Theatre Festival of Play by The Theatre Practice
Seeing performances live may be on hold, but theatre certainly isn’t dead. After a stellar new staging of Four Horse Road earlier this year, The Theatre Practice (TTP) is back this July with a brand new edition of M1 Patch! A (Live) Theatre Festival of Play. Taking place from 18th July to 30th August 2020, M1 Patch! continues to champion the power of play, showcasing a … Continue reading Preview: M1 Patch! A (Live) Theatre Festival of Play by The Theatre Practice
eSports: Team Tempest from Taiwan emerge as champions of VALORANT SEA Invitational
Over the past weekend, the VALORANT SEA Invitational successfully concluded, which saw 6 teams battle it out for a US $10,000 total prize pool. Team Tempest from Taiwan, emerged as the victors of the showmatch, winning a total of US$3,200. Each Team Tempest member will also be receiving a customised rig powered by Intel 10th Gen Gaming CPUs (Core i7-10700K). Team Tempest, consisting of Hehe, … Continue reading eSports: Team Tempest from Taiwan emerge as champions of VALORANT SEA Invitational
The Banter: Kamini Ramachandran gets to The Heart of Story as StoryFest 2020 goes digital
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have begun to ease in Singapore, it’s still hard to imagine planning for a performing arts festival in these extraordinary circumstances, let alone putting those plans into action. But if it’s one person who can do it, it’s almost certainly storyteller Kamini Ramachandran, creative producer of the annual StoryFest, which returns for its 4th edition this July. Co-presented … Continue reading The Banter: Kamini Ramachandran gets to The Heart of Story as StoryFest 2020 goes digital
★★★☆☆ Book Review: 18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen
Seeing conscription through the lens of a world at war with monsters. In the increasingly bleak world we live in, the most terrifying thing is that a dystopia is far closer to reality than it is fiction. Yet somehow, the YA dystopia novel has become one of the most popular genres to emerge in recent years, with some of the most well-known series including The … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Book Review: 18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen
