Art What!: Textures 2023 by Arts House Limited

Organised by Arts House Limited, Textures, the annual literary festival that celebrates Singapore literature (SingLit) makes its comeback from 6 – 15 January 2023, in conjunction with the Light to Night (L2N) Festival and as part of the Singapore Art Week (SAW). After two years of bringing local literary arts to the heartlands, Textures 2023 returns home to where it first began, celebrating the nation’s … Continue reading Art What!: Textures 2023 by Arts House Limited

Art What!: ARTWALK 2023 by LASALLE College of the Arts

The multidisciplinary public arts festival ARTWALK will return to the vibrant streets of Little India and Katong-Joo Chiat for its ninth edition from 6 to 15 January 2023. ARTWALK 2023 explores the theme of Echo—how our culture, heritage and traditions reverberate like sound waves. The metaphor of an echo reminds us that our culture is in constant flux, never stagnant. This year’s ARTWALK calls on … Continue reading Art What!: ARTWALK 2023 by LASALLE College of the Arts

Art What!: Singapore Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia returns to Singapore during Singapore Art Week 2023

After its successful seven-month run at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Arte 2022), Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book (Pulp III) by artist Shubigi Rao and curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU ADM), will be one … Continue reading Art What!: Singapore Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia returns to Singapore during Singapore Art Week 2023

Art What!: Singapore Art Week 2023

Helmed by the National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore Art Week (SAW) returns to kickstart the new year with its 11th edition from 6th to 15th January 2023, drawing local and international art enthusiasts, collectors and the curious to congregate at Singapore’s premier visual arts season. An annual pinnacle event in Asia’s visual arts calendar, SAW 2023 will see over 700 artists and curators from Singapore … Continue reading Art What!: Singapore Art Week 2023

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with Birds Migrant Theatre members Wiwi Tri and Ak Zilani, co-devisors and performers of ‘Foreign Bodies’

Singapore has about 1 million migrant workers. But at what point do we think of migrant workers beyond their jobs, and see them as full-fledged human beings with their own lives and desires? Birds Migrant Theatre, a group of migrant workers from Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines united by their love for theatre, are here to deepen that understanding, and show that migrant workers can … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with Birds Migrant Theatre members Wiwi Tri and Ak Zilani, co-devisors and performers of ‘Foreign Bodies’

Review: RATA – new grounds, new sounds by RATA Orkestra and Esplanade – Theatres on The Bay

New forms of composition for a new year. In a year that has seen the world emerge from the wake of a global pandemic, lies an opportunity to reimagine our practices and interactions. In many ways, the RATA Orkestra is a group that represents that first step into a new future, with an eclectic band of musicians led by Safuan Johari presenting new music through … Continue reading Review: RATA – new grounds, new sounds by RATA Orkestra and Esplanade – Theatres on The Bay

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Kafka’s Ape’ performer Tony Bonani Miyambo

What does a 20th century Czech writer’s short story about an ape in captivity have to do with post-apartheid South Africa? As it turns out, a surprisingly powerful parallel that leads to questions of identity, otherness and humanity, as presented in Phala O. Phala and Tony Bonani Miyambo’s Kafka’s Ape. Adapted from Franz Kafka’s A Report to an Academy, Kafka’s Ape makes its Singapore debut at the 2023 M1 … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Kafka’s Ape’ performer Tony Bonani Miyambo

Bakchormeeboy Awards 2022: The Year of Resilience and Resurgence

2022 was a milestone year for theatre, in the sense that at long last, after over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic shutting doors on indoor venues, a slow but sure trickle of audiences began to fill seats again. Starting with limited trial audience numbers, to a full fledged re-opening in the second half of the year, the arts saw a massive resurgence in programming, … Continue reading Bakchormeeboy Awards 2022: The Year of Resilience and Resurgence

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Tree Confessions’ director Erin B Mee and writer Jenny Lyn Bader

The idea that trees can talk may not be as far-fetched an idea as it may seem – Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard has spent most of her life dedicated to the study of trees, and discovered that they may in fact, possess their own form of communication and society. What if we could hear what they said? That’s the basis for Tree Confessions, the world’s … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Tree Confessions’ director Erin B Mee and writer Jenny Lyn Bader

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Django In Pain’ creator Antonio Vega

Puppetry is often thought of as a child-focused art form, often bringing to mind magic, whimsy and happy endings. But in Por Piedad Teatro & The Play Company’s Django In Pain, its title alone already suggests a degree of suffering that will be experienced upon viewing, with a character struggling with depression and suicide ideation. Created by Mexican theatremaker Antonio Vega, Django In Pain is … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023: An Interview with ‘Django In Pain’ creator Antonio Vega