Relish.sg’s Relish Talk Series: Gents of Fashion, Life and Glitz & Haute Cuisine
It’s no secret that in recent times, there’s been a steady rise in the number of private dining events in Singapore. While not heavily advertised and mostly spread via word of mouth, these are mostly small, intimate affairs, offering a cosy meal with friends and strangers as hosts throw open their doors and offer up hungry guests a meal to remember at nominal fees. One … Continue reading Relish.sg’s Relish Talk Series: Gents of Fashion, Life and Glitz & Haute Cuisine
Review: Watching by Toy Factory
Apprehension towards NS hints at deeper family matters. Have you ever sat on the couch and gone on a TV marathon that lasts for so long that your vision gets blurry, your body goes limp, and it begins to become hard to tell reality from fiction? Toy Factory’s Watching covers precisely that feeling. Written and directed by Toy Factory associate artistic director Stanley Seah, Watching follows teenaged Tony … Continue reading Review: Watching by Toy Factory
WTA Finals 2018: Naomi Osaka Earns First Ever Qualification at 2018 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global
Japan’s Naomi Osaka has qualified for the 2018 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore, taking place from 21st – 28th October2018. She is now the third player to secure her spot and joins Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber in the singles field, with five spots remaining. Osaka has enjoyed a season of firsts in 2018, highlighted by clinching her maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open, defeating … Continue reading WTA Finals 2018: Naomi Osaka Earns First Ever Qualification at 2018 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global
SSO Marks EU-ASEAN Friendship and 100th Birthday of Goh Keng Swee
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will be playing music fit for kings and queens this Saturday as part of the Baroque Festival, and perhaps, there is no better opportunity than this to celebrate EU-ASEAN friendship as they collaborate with the European Union (EU) and also commemorate the 100th birthday of the SSO’s founding patron, the late and former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Dr Goh Keng … Continue reading SSO Marks EU-ASEAN Friendship and 100th Birthday of Goh Keng Swee
Museum Musings: President’s Young Talents 2018 at Singapore Art Museum
The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) returns this October with the 7th edition of the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition. Held at SAM at 8Q from 4th October 2018 to 27th January 2019, the latest edition of the exhibition features five Singaporean contemporary artists – Yanyun Chen, Weixin Quek Chong, Debbie Ding, Hilmi Johandi and Zarina Muhammad. Inaugurated in 2001 by SAM, the President’s Young Talents … Continue reading Museum Musings: President’s Young Talents 2018 at Singapore Art Museum
Touchdown from Broadway: An Interview with the Fabulous Angels and Female Leads of Kinky Boots
For the first time ever, multi-award winning musical Kinky Boots will be staged in Singapore! Written by theatre veteran Harvey Fierstein with music by the legendary Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots plays at the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands for just two weekends. The raucous but heartwarming musical tells the story of the fictitious Price & Son shoe factory, as newly crowned owner Charlie Price attempts to save it. Little … Continue reading Touchdown from Broadway: An Interview with the Fabulous Angels and Female Leads of Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots: #JustBe Campaign Launches in Singapore
Award-winning musical Kinky Boots flies in straight from Broadway this week for its Singapore debut, and before it opens, they want you to know this: “just be who you want to be”. Fronted by international superstars such as Kelly Osbourne, Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban, James Earl Jones and Martina Navratilova, the campaign spreads Kinky Boots’ central message of loving and accepting one’s self, as each of these representatives pose … Continue reading Kinky Boots: #JustBe Campaign Launches in Singapore
Preview: Olli Mustonen – Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2 presented by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra brings you a high-intensity concert experience this October with the arrival of two of the great Finns of today – conductor Hannu Lintu with a powerful and commanding stage presence, and acclaimed pianist Olli Mustonen. Together, the pair will perform Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2, a complete cycle of Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos which the two have also recently released on record. Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos are … Continue reading Preview: Olli Mustonen – Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2 presented by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Preview: Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents Lars Vogt
This October, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra welcomes German pianist-conductor Lars Vogt as he leads the orchestra in a programme lineup inspired by Europe’s musical capital – Vienna. Vogt will act as both conductor and piano soloist in Mozart’s joyous Piano Concerto No. 21, nicknamed “Elvira Madigan” after the 1967 Swedish classic film of the same name as it features the concerto’s elegant slow movement — music … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents Lars Vogt
Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post dir. Desiree Akhavan (Love and Pride Film Festival 2018)
Gay conversion independent drama leaves audiences on a hopeful note Based off Emily M. Danforth’s novel of the same name, which in turn was based off the 2005 Zach Stark ‘de-gaying’ controversy, The Miseducation of Cameron Post ditches the modernities of the original source to set its tale in 1993, where teenagers lived in a simpler time, devoid of Instagram, blogs and mobile phones, and fully decked … Continue reading Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post dir. Desiree Akhavan (Love and Pride Film Festival 2018)
