Arts of the UK 2020: Young Vic celebrates 50th Birthday and launches 50th year programme

LONDON – Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, has announced the start of the Young Vic’s 50th birthday with a year-long programme of work entitled We are the New Tide, dedicated to the theatre’s milestone birthday. Kwame Kwei-Armah said: “We had planned to hold a giant street party celebration to mark the beginning of our 50th birthday year, we had envisioned 50 individual stages in and around … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Young Vic celebrates 50th Birthday and launches 50th year programme

Art What!: Art Basel announces new Online Viewing Rooms with two editions in September and October

Art Basel has announced new Online Viewing Rooms concept, with two freestanding, thematic editions taking place in September and October Featuring no more than 100 galleries in each edition and running over the course of four days, this new format will give Art Basel galleries the opportunity to present tightly curated exhibitions drawn from their programs, showing six works simultaneously. Live from 23rd to 28th … Continue reading Art What!: Art Basel announces new Online Viewing Rooms with two editions in September and October

Art What!: David Zwirner Hong Kong presents William Eggleston

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of the American photographer William Eggleston’s medium and large-format photographs from the 1970s, many of which have never been exhibited before. On view at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, this exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo presentation in Greater China. William Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives today. William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, an exhibition … Continue reading Art What!: David Zwirner Hong Kong presents William Eggleston

Dance With Me: Dancers’ Locker 2020 by Frontier Danceland (Preview)

Frontier Danceland annual Dancers’ Locker programme returns this year with a digital twist. Featuring 6 unique short films by company artists Ma Yue Ru (Singapore), Tan Xin Yen (Malaysia), Sammantha Yue (Singapore), Konrad Plak (Poland), Mark Robles (Philippines), and Keigo Nozaki (Japan) developed with artistic collaborator and film producer Jeremy Chua (Singapore), this year’s Dancers’ Locker is the culmination of a three-month long audio-visual exploration … Continue reading Dance With Me: Dancers’ Locker 2020 by Frontier Danceland (Preview)

Art What!: Sea Currents and Synchronicities 2020 at the Substation (Singapore) and The Lobby (Perth)

Jen Datu⁣. 2020. Lost in translation (detail). Karaoke microphone, iridescent curtain. Dimensions variable The inaugural edition of cross-country arts festival Sea Currents x Synchronicities (ScxS) will take place across Perth and Singapore from 16th to 30th September 2020. ScxS aims to explore and build on connections and synchronicities between the arts communities in Singapore and Perth through a collaborative series of events. Aimed at exploring … Continue reading Art What!: Sea Currents and Synchronicities 2020 at the Substation (Singapore) and The Lobby (Perth)

Art What!: Singaporean-British Artist Kim Lim’s works on display at Tate Britain

“Being ‘female’ and ‘foreign’ was never a problem as a student – later, I realised that there was a difference; but what was important in the end was what I did and not where I came from.” – from Kim Lim, Personal Writings, Jan 1997 Works by Singaporean-British artist Kim Lim (1936-1997) will be on display at Tate Britain from 7th September 2020 to 5th … Continue reading Art What!: Singaporean-British Artist Kim Lim’s works on display at Tate Britain

Music Is: Sing in virtual choirs with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

The Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir (SSCC) and Singapore Symphony Chorus (SSC) have redesigned three annual events to take place online, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir has adapted its annual The SSCC Experience to create a two-day online experience taking place during the school holidays, on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th September. Participants will get a chance to experience a day in the … Continue reading Music Is: Sing in virtual choirs with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

Television Time: BBC Shows – September 2020

We still may not be able to travel just yet, but let BBC take you around the world with their lineup of shows this September. Watch Guilt and meet Scottish brothers Max and Jake, whose lives become intertwined thanks to a dark secret they share after a late night out. With this secret threatening both their livelihoods, how far will they go just to keep … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows – September 2020

Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra back in concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf and Kahchun Wong

September and October sees the SSO’s digital season, SSOPlayOn! continue with four concerts to be streamed online via SISTIC Live, with highlights including Debussy and Wagner conducted by the brilliant young conductor Kahchun Wong, and the first-ever marimba soloist, Julia Tan, to star in the President’s Young Performers Concert. In addition, tickets are now on sale for Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air, with the SSO’s new Chief Conductor Hans Graf, … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra back in concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf and Kahchun Wong

Hong Kong 2020: Winners announced for HKIFF44’s Firebird Awards

HONG KONG – Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud in Her Room and Lemohang Jeremiah Moses’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection have been named best films of the 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Firebird Young Cinema Competitions. Both films also won the Best Actress awards in their respective section, with Mosese’s film notching a third win by capturing the FIPRESCI Prize. The … Continue reading Hong Kong 2020: Winners announced for HKIFF44’s Firebird Awards