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Head Out While Staying Well with Healthy Chinatown 2020 This Weekend

The coronavirus may have you down, but the Chinatown Business Association (CBA) is planning to lift your mood by bettering your health this weekend with a very special ‘Healthy Chinatown’ event, with health talks and activities to encourage locals and visitors to explore the Chinatown precinct whilst taking care of their health. Running on both 21st and 22nd March at Smith Street, the CBA will … Continue reading Head Out While Staying Well with Healthy Chinatown 2020 This Weekend

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Arts, Preview, Singapore

Preview: Chinatown Opera Festival 2019

Chinatown Business Association (CBA) presents the all new Chinatown Opera Festival this November, the first ever opera festival showcasing Singapore’s rich local heritage and culture. Supported by the Singapore Tourism Board, the festival will run from 20th to 24th November 2019 in the bustling Chinatown district, and hopes to take visitors back in time to re-live the nostalgic days of performance art in the 1950s and 60s … Continue reading Preview: Chinatown Opera Festival 2019

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Arts, Review, Singapore

Review: Chinatown Crossings 2019 by Drama Box

A new cast member and a tighter script keeps Chinatown Crossings as rewatchable and poignant as ever. When we watched Chinatown Crossings last year, little did we expect it to end up becoming one of our favourite productions of 2018. With a sold out run, it was heartening to hear that Drama Box had managed to bring it back again this year so more audience … Continue reading Review: Chinatown Crossings 2019 by Drama Box

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Food, Singapore

Singapore Food Festival 2019: The 50 Cents Fest is back, this time focusing on Hokkien cuisine

With the return of the Singapore Food Festival this July, Select Group Pte Ltd and Chinatown Food Street’s ever popular 50 Cents Fest (五毛钱美食荟萃) also comes back to Smith Street in its 4th edition, which, as its name suggests, allows visitors to purchase all manner of food at the low low price of just 50 cents (capping out at a maximum of $3)! Following on from … Continue reading Singapore Food Festival 2019: The 50 Cents Fest is back, this time focusing on Hokkien cuisine

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Review: Chinatown Crossings by Drama Box

A melancholic trip down memory lane that effectively harnesses the history and geography of the place once known as Kreta Ayer. If you had a chance to look at photos of Chinatown in the 70s and 80s, it would virtually be unrecognizable from the same bustling tourist district of today. There are so many aspects of Chinatown that have changed over the years, and with Chinatown … Continue reading Review: Chinatown Crossings by Drama Box

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Taking Back Chinatown: An Interview with Koh Hui Ling and Jean Tay of Drama Box’s Chinatown Crossings

We’re at Drama Box’s home on Trengganu Street in Chinatown, interviewing Drama Box artistic director Koh Hui Ling and writer Jean Tay, when Hui Ling suddenly recalls: “We were talking to the uncles and aunties living in the area, and a common thing we heard from them was how so many of them said ‘Chinatown doesn’t belong to us anymore; it belongs to the tourists.’” … Continue reading Taking Back Chinatown: An Interview with Koh Hui Ling and Jean Tay of Drama Box’s Chinatown Crossings

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Review: MISSING – The City of Lost Things by Drama Box

Busy lives and bustling cities give us very little to no time at all to rest alone with our thoughts, often leaving us exhausted as we rush from one moment to the next. But what if we told you that beneath it all, there was a second, hidden city, one you can only access with a special key and that’s the complete opposite of the … Continue reading Review: MISSING – The City of Lost Things by Drama Box

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Artist Spotlight: Han Xuemei and Jean Tay, Collaborators on Drama Box’s MISSING

New Year’s got you down, feeling a little lost with no direction? Drama Box has just the cure for you, as they present their newest work MISSING: The City of Lost Things this January. Taking on an all new experimental form, each 4 hour session held at Drama Box’s headquarters in Chinatown will see audiences embarking on a personal journey into their past, attempting to reconnect with moment … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Han Xuemei and Jean Tay, Collaborators on Drama Box’s MISSING

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