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Arts of Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Arts Festival Strengthen Strategic Partnership through signing a Memorandum of Understanding

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking a new chapter in their long-standing partnership. The agreement builds on the two parties’ rich legacy of artistic exchange and collaboration, reinforcing both organisations’ shared vision for the future development of the arts. This MoU establishes a framework for strategic collaboration. By leveraging their complementary strengths, … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Arts Festival Strengthen Strategic Partnership through signing a Memorandum of Understanding

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Arts of Hong Kong: The 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2026 opens, featuring a stellar line-up of more than 1,100 outstanding international and local artists

HONG KONG – The 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) officially opened today (27 February) with a performance by the Ballet Nacional de España. This year, more than 1,100 acclaimed international and local artists will stage more than 180 performances of over 45 programmes during the month-long Festival, including six new works/world premieres, six Asia premieres and six co-productions. As of today (27 February), 80% of the over 100,000 available tickets … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong: The 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2026 opens, featuring a stellar line-up of more than 1,100 outstanding international and local artists

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Art What!, Arts, Preview, Visual Art

Art: Faces & Figures at Mizuma Gallery

If you’re looking for a reason to wander off the beaten track this March, make it a slow afternoon at Gillman Barracks—where art, history, and leafy calm collide. Tucked inside this former military enclave, Mizuma Gallery is staging Faces & Figures, a group exhibition that feels less like a white-cube presentation and more like an intimate peek into the inner lives of six remarkable Indonesian … Continue reading Art: Faces & Figures at Mizuma Gallery

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Arts, Interview, Music

Music: An Interview with American R&B/soul-pop star Tone Stith

Grammy-winning R&B artist Tone Stith is standing at a pivotal moment in his career. With the release of his new single “Fly”: a soaring, funk-laced declaration of self-belief, and his forthcoming album The Edge, the New Jersey–born multi-instrumentalist is entering a new era defined by freedom, intention, and creative trust. For listeners across Asia who may just be discovering his name, Stith’s story runs deeper … Continue reading Music: An Interview with American R&B/soul-pop star Tone Stith

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JUST LIVE Presents National Ballet of China’s ‘A Dream of Red Mansions’ in Singapore

This March, Singapore audiences are invited into a world where love blooms like a fragile flower, memory drifts like mist, and fate dances just out of reach. The National Ballet of China arrives at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay with A Dream of Red Mansions, a ravishing two-act ballet inspired by one of the greatest novels in Chinese literature. A Dream of Red Mansions … Continue reading JUST LIVE Presents National Ballet of China’s ‘A Dream of Red Mansions’ in Singapore

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An Interview with artist Jahan Loh on his debut CASETiFY collection

A cosmic adventure blending mythology, science fiction, and elemental wisdom, Jahan Loh’s debut CASETiFY collection reimagines ancient traditions through a contemporary lens. Known for collapsing the boundaries between street culture, fine art, and pop iconography, the Singapore-born artist transforms the phone case into an intimate, everyday canvas, one that explores ideas of prosperity, abundance, and the rituals we carry with us daily. Unveiled at the … Continue reading An Interview with artist Jahan Loh on his debut CASETiFY collection

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SGIFF 2025: An Interview with the director and cast of ‘This City Is A Battlefield’ (Perang Kota)

In Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s latest film, This City Is a Battlefield reminds us that revolution is never a clean or heroic act. Set in Jakarta in 1946, in the uneasy year following Indonesia’s declaration of independence, the film plunges into a city caught between collapsing empires and fragile new ideals. Amid the charged streets and covert operations, Isa, a former freedom fighter turned schoolteacher, … Continue reading SGIFF 2025: An Interview with the director and cast of ‘This City Is A Battlefield’ (Perang Kota)

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Arts, Preview, Music

Preview: SCO launches 《春乐满狮城》(Spring Melodies of the Lion City), first CNY album in over a decade

If Chinese New Year in Singapore had a soundtrack for 2026, this would be it. After more than a decade, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) is welcoming the festive season with a brand-new Chinese New Year album — one that feels both comfortingly familiar and unmistakably local. Titled 《春乐满狮城》(Spring Melodies of the Lion City), the digital release reimagines traditional New Year tunes through a Singapore … Continue reading Preview: SCO launches 《春乐满狮城》(Spring Melodies of the Lion City), first CNY album in over a decade

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Art What!, Arts, Preview, Singapore, Visual Art

Visual Art: Wan Hai Hotel – Singapore Strait turns the Warehouse Hotel into living art

For twelve days in January, The Warehouse Hotel ceases to function merely as a site of transit and hospitality. Instead, it becomes something more porous, more unstable, and more alive. As part of Singapore Art Week 2026, Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait transforms the hotel lobby into a speculative maritime commons, one in which performance, sound, moving image, and object-based works unfolded not as static … Continue reading Visual Art: Wan Hai Hotel – Singapore Strait turns the Warehouse Hotel into living art

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Preview: Alliance Française de Singapour presents the 2026 French Excellence Programme – À TABLE!

Wine, like art, is never just about what’s in the glass. It carries memory, place, ritual and emotion, ideas that sit at the heart of À TABLE!, the latest edition of the French Excellence Programme by Alliance Française de Singapour. Running from 7 February to 18 April 2026, the sixth instalment of the programme invites audiences to explore French winemaking not only as a craft, … Continue reading Preview: Alliance Française de Singapour presents the 2026 French Excellence Programme – À TABLE!

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