★★★☆☆ Review: The Butterfly Lovers by Wild Rice and Victorian Opera

The classic Chinese tragedy of love that never quite takes flight. Category Score (out of 10) Direction (Ivan Heng) 6 Libretto (Joel Tan) 6 Composition (Richard Mills) 6 Performance (Cathy-Di Zhang, Austin Haynes, Haotian Qi, Michael Dimovski, Adrian Poon, Zachary Dominguez, Cindy Honanta, Zoe Hong Yee Huay, Alice Cahya Putri, David Tao Chen Ming, Jonathan Charles Tay, Teng Xiang Ting) 7 Live Music (Conducted by … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: The Butterfly Lovers by Wild Rice and Victorian Opera

Performing Video Games: An Interview with award-winning ‘The Dark Room’ creator John Robertson

What if you could play a video game in real life, making decisions that have actual consequences on how you progress, and even stand to win an attractive reward at the end? That’s kind of what John Robertson does with his award-winning show The Dark Room. Originating as a YouTube series with over 4 million views and counting, and spawning a videogame, 250,000 viewer Twitch … Continue reading Performing Video Games: An Interview with award-winning ‘The Dark Room’ creator John Robertson

Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival celebrates 66,000 opening week attendances including 25,000 at Moon Lantern Trail

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival is celebrating attendances of 66,000 across the first four days of performances and community events across the Riverbank precinct. Families and fans flocked to the popular Moon Lantern Trail as it lit up Tarntanya Wama/Pinky Flat with more than a dozen giant lanterns, including the 40-metre-long Hong Kong Dragon and the new lantern designed by local artist Michelle Lee, depicting … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival celebrates 66,000 opening week attendances including 25,000 at Moon Lantern Trail

Arts Down Under 2022: Adelaide Festival Centre lights up for the opening of the 15th OzAsia Festival

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – OzAsia Festival, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, returns tonight with its 15th anniversary program showcasing the best of Asian and Asian Australian performance at Adelaide Festival Centre and the riverbank precinct until 6th November. This year’s program, under the artistic direction of Annette Shun Wah, features more than 500 community, national and international artists from 8 countries, and includes 10 world … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2022: Adelaide Festival Centre lights up for the opening of the 15th OzAsia Festival

Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival’s writing and idea’s program In Other Words is back and bigger than ever before

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – OzAsia Festival’s In Other Words is today revealing the full line-up of speakers and sessions coming to Adelaide Festival Centre this November 4-6 including celebrated authors, media personalities, and a famous chef. In Other Words will bring together more than 60 writers and thinkers from diverse backgrounds over three stages around Adelaide Festival Centre as they engage in important conversations from politics to pop culture. … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival’s writing and idea’s program In Other Words is back and bigger than ever before

Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival 2022 releases programme

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival proudly presents three fabulous weeks of the best contemporary Asian and Asian Australian performance, art, literature, cuisine, and culture when the 2022 event returns, taking place from 20th October to 6th November. This year’s program features more than 500 community, national and international artists from more than 8 countries, and includes 10 world premieres, one Australian premiere … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2022: OzAsia Festival 2022 releases programme

Art What!: Ever Present – First Peoples Art of Australia at National Gallery Singapore

Art as a concept has existed since time immemorial around the world, across various cultures and civilisations, even if left unrecorded in history. For the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia, art has always been an important part of their culture, with artefacts and artwork found to date as far back as 1890 and beyond. Across the past and present, such art has been … Continue reading Art What!: Ever Present – First Peoples Art of Australia at National Gallery Singapore

Arts Down Under 2021: OzAsia Festival lights up tonight with lanterns, performances and more

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – The Adelaide Festival Centre and riverbank precincts will come alive with stunning performances, giant lanterns and much more for the official opening of OzAsia Festival 2021. With more than 50 events across 18 days, the festival has a range of experiences to offer audiences of all ages – everything from dance, theatre, music and comedy through to community events, visual art, literature and … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2021: OzAsia Festival lights up tonight with lanterns, performances and more

Arts Down Under 2021: Participants announced for CAAP Artist Lab at OzAsia Festival

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – OzAsia Festival and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) have announced the 12 South Australian artists who will participate in a five-day Artist Lab from 1st to 5th November. CAAP Artist Lab x South Australia will provide a fertile environment for experimentation, peer-to-peer learning and collaboration in a program that aims to expand and deepen the practices of SA-based Asian Australian artists working with performance. CAAP … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2021: Participants announced for CAAP Artist Lab at OzAsia Festival

Arts Down Under 2021: OzAsia Festival reveals full line-up and revised format for new writing and ideas program In Other Words

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – OzAsia Festival’s new writing and ideas program In Other Words is today revealing the full line-up of speakers and sessions at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse from 5th to 7th November. In Other Words will bring together more than 40 of Asia and Australia’s most inspiring contemporary writers and thinkers as they engage in vital conversations about our past, present and future. … Continue reading Arts Down Under 2021: OzAsia Festival reveals full line-up and revised format for new writing and ideas program In Other Words