Museum Musings: Minimalism – Space.Light.Object at National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum

For the first time ever, National Gallery Singapore has collaborated with the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands to launch a single mega-exhibition. Titled Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, the five month exhibition brings together some of the world’s biggest minimalist artworks, in the first major Minimalism exhibition to include artists from this region as part of an expanded global perspective on the movement. Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. is … Continue reading Museum Musings: Minimalism – Space.Light.Object at National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum

Preview: Charlie by Bhumi Collective

After not one but two successful runs overseas at the On the Rocks Festival and Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (winning the Best Performing Artist Award) in 2017, Bhumi Collective will finally present the Singapore premiere of Charlie, a unique, experimental performance by Victoria Chen. Charlie is unusual in that it takes the form of a 15-minute one-on-one experience in which the audience member enters a room and interacts with the titular … Continue reading Preview: Charlie by Bhumi Collective

Review: Just A Breath Away dir. Daniel Roby (French Film Festival 2018)

Unusual premise couples with family drama to leave viewers breathless Last week, Daniel Roby’s Just A Breath Away opened the 2018 French Film Festival Singapore. The post-apocalyptic thriller film follows separated parents Mathieu (Roman Duris) and Anna (Olga Kurylenko), as they raise an 11 year old daughter, Sarah, with a unique childhood illness. Forced to survive in a hermetic, bubble-like chamber with its own oxygen supply and … Continue reading Review: Just A Breath Away dir. Daniel Roby (French Film Festival 2018)

Preview: Christmas Wonderland 2018 at Gardens By The Bay

Gardens by the Bay’s Christmas Wonderland returns this December for its fifth edition to shine brighter than ever! Inspired by the Christmas fairs and carnivals all over Europe, Christmas Wonderland is set to return with an edition that’s bigger than ever before, with new highlights and attractions to look forward to, including a brand new Garden Rhapsody – The Christmas Special light and sound show, … Continue reading Preview: Christmas Wonderland 2018 at Gardens By The Bay

#PERRIERxWILD: Limited Edition Bottles Designed by Juan Travieso Up For Grabs As Perrier Goes Wild

Hailing from France and used almost universally throughout every bar in the world, PERRIER, the world’s no.1 sparkling bottled water, has launched a brand new campaign: #PERRIERxWILD. The campaign sees the brand collaborating with New York based abstract artist Juan Travieso, creating a series of limited edition bottle labels. On these labels, Travieso applies his signature style of geometrics meets photography and reinterprets portraits of a … Continue reading #PERRIERxWILD: Limited Edition Bottles Designed by Juan Travieso Up For Grabs As Perrier Goes Wild

Preview:《95生活》Blk 95 by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Youth Drama Troupe

Ordinary estate Ordinary HDB block Ordinary people Extraordinary moments The residents of Blk 95 live varied lives, going about their ordinary routines as they live, work and play together. Presented by the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Youth Drama Troupe, watch as this adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town by American playwright Thornton Wilder, is given a local, Hokkien twist as Blk 95 brings audiences on a journey to uncover your … Continue reading Preview:《95生活》Blk 95 by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Youth Drama Troupe

667, Omnibus Film By Local Filmmakers, Screens Again This November at the SCCC

To celebrate the latest win of local filmmaker, Jun Chong, whose debut short film Ke《客》, was awarded the Best Asian Short at the 13th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre will be offering film lovers another chance to catch the widely acclaimed omnibus film 667. Ke《客》 is a 13-minute Hakka short that follows the desperate journey of an elderly woman to find … Continue reading 667, Omnibus Film By Local Filmmakers, Screens Again This November at the SCCC

FINA Swimming World Cup in Singapore Kicks Off To An Exciting Start

The FINA Swimming World Cup Singapore 2018 presented by Yakult kicked off on the morning of 15th November with a series of qualifying heats before the finals in the evening.  The finals started dramatically with the Women’s 400m Freestyle after a miscount of laps at the 350m mark saw Femke Heemskerk drop three places to eventually finish fourth. In the Women’s 100m Individual Medley, World … Continue reading FINA Swimming World Cup in Singapore Kicks Off To An Exciting Start

Preview: A Green Dot by A Little RAW (RAW Moves)

There’s a phenomenon known as guerilla gardening, where people begin gardening on patches of land they do not have the rights to cultivate. Even in a garden city like Singapore, there are times the grey cityscape gets to us, and it can be difficult to find a patch of green, and while guerilla gardening itself may not be necessary, it is the spirit and philosophy of … Continue reading Preview: A Green Dot by A Little RAW (RAW Moves)

Review: Journey To Nowhere (Southernmost – One Table Two Chairs Project 2018)

A well-executed, thought-provoking diatribe on the proposed future of local arts. As an “arts festival for the future”, experimental theatre company Emergency Stairs’ Southernmost – One Table Two Chairs Project 2018 naturally chooses to buck the trend of a typical arts festival, acting a critique of the usual and taking on an artist-driven, process-centric approach, comprising primarily of workshops, demonstrations, open forums, and a single … Continue reading Review: Journey To Nowhere (Southernmost – One Table Two Chairs Project 2018)