Television Time: 2019 Lunar New Year Specials On The BBC (Preview)

This Chinese New Year, huddle up for some festive specials for the whole family, whether you’re going visiting or stowed away at home, with programmes to keep your eyes glued to the television throughout! For the Foodies – BBC Lifestyle (StarHub channel 432) As is tradition, make food your topic of the house with BBC Lifestyle’s various food themed shows as you chow down on … Continue reading Television Time: 2019 Lunar New Year Specials On The BBC (Preview)

Preview: Alice, Bob & Eve by RAW Moves

Moving on from their 2018 theme of Competition, RAW Moves strides in 2019 with their first production of the year. Conceptualized by interdisciplinary artist Teow Yue Han in collaboration with RAW Moves Artistic Director Ricky Sim, Alice, Bob & Eve is a durational movement research ‘living laboratory’ hidden in a gallery space at School of the Arts, probing how digital technologies choreograph our movement in society. … Continue reading Preview: Alice, Bob & Eve by RAW Moves

Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

This year, FOST Gallery starts off 2019 with a brand new exhibition. At In Random Order, works by artists Kray Chen, Heman Chong, Grace Tan and Syagini Ratna Wulan are set to be featured, unified by functioning within a structure, physical or conceptual, in turn determined by a set of rules and a unified composite of interrelated and independent (possibly infinite) modular parts. Yet each … Continue reading Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Of Our Own Making by Something Underground (Preview)

LONDON – Award-winning London theatre company Something Underground launches a brand new play this January, Set against the Syrian refugee crisis, and after years of young people being radicalised into terrorist groups, groomed into drugs gangs in London, or Far Right groups across a post-Brexit Britain, the play, titled Of Our Own Making, asks what role society has in creating “monsters”. Written by Something Underground artistic director Jonathan Brown, … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Of Our Own Making by Something Underground (Preview)

Preview: Off Centre (2019) by The Necessary Stage

26 years since its premiere in 1993, The Necessary Stage (TNS) is once more bringing back one of their most well known plays to the stage in 2019 – Off Centre. Written by TNS Resident Playwright Haresh Sharma and directed by TNS artistic director Alvin Tan, Off Centre was a bold new step forward for Singapore theatre as it cast an honest and unflinching spotlight on the stigma of … Continue reading Preview: Off Centre (2019) by The Necessary Stage

Preview: “The Best Day” with Loco Motive Trio (presented by Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents sunny string ensemble Loco Motive Trio’s first concert of the year – “The Best Day”. Comprising award-winning local violinist and Loco Motive Trio founder Kam Ning, Orchestre de la Monnaie Orchestra principal cellist Sébastien Walnier, and Belgian double bassist Lisa de Boos, watch as the three friends come together to present a lineup of non-traditional music this March! Don’t expect your usual … Continue reading Preview: “The Best Day” with Loco Motive Trio (presented by Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Evolution Festival 2019 by Lyric Hammersmith (Preview)

LONDON – The Lyric Hammersmith’s Evolution Festival returns for its fourth edition this March! Acting as a showcase for young artists aged 18-25, the Evolution Festival celebrates these youths’ groundbreaking work in all forms, shining a spotlight especially on underrepresented artists. This year’s edition especially places women in the spotlight, taking on the theme ‘Who Run The World?’ as its participants are encouraged to be bold, to … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Evolution Festival 2019 by Lyric Hammersmith (Preview)

London’s VAULT Festival 2019: Feed by Theatre Témoin (Preview)

LONDON – As part of the VAULT Festival 2019, the acclaimed Theatre Témoin are bringing in Edinburgh hit Feed to London, combining their signature, vibrant visual style to the world of click-bait culture, fake news and cyber gluttony. Enter the stimulating world of Feed, where emotions are currency and your passions and fantasies will be indulged. For a price that is. A Palestinian woman takes a … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2019: Feed by Theatre Témoin (Preview)

SSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

On 18th January, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) marked its 40th year with a concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall, where Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was guest of honour. The programme was led by Music Director Lan Shui, and recalled the orchestra’s inaugural concert in 1979, with Ives’ The Unanswered Question and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 performed by Singaporean pianist Lim Yan. The SSO also performed Dayong Sampan Overture – … Continue reading SSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

Season in Preview: Drama Box 2019 Season

  In 2018, local theatre company Drama Box has created some of the most poignant productions both in and out of the conventional theatre space. From reflections on death to a self-directed return to one’s past, a collaboration with The Necessary Stage to a  surprisingly powerful theatrical tour of Chinatown,  2019 will see the company continue to develop some of the themes raised in 2018 through brand new … Continue reading Season in Preview: Drama Box 2019 Season