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Clara Cheong

17 – 23 July 2017: Singapore

SPH Gift of Music Series: SSO Lunchtime Concert, 21 July, @ Victoria Concert Hall  Jason Lai, conductor Sponsored by the Singapore Press Holding’s Gift of Music series, liven up your lunch hour with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor Jason Lai. Refresh yourself with the captivating Eastern European dance tunes of Dvořák and Brahms,

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10 – 16 July 2017: Singapore

Talk | Photography and Cold War in Southeast Asia, @ NUS Museum, 11 July, 7 – 8pm Free with registration at http://ptix.co/2rWIVts This is a preliminary presentation, a kind of show-and-tell, based on writer, curator and artist Zhuang Wubin’s recent book, Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016). Zhuang’s primary intention is to share

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3 – 9 July: Singapore 2017

The Suffering Fetus & Female Freedom by Dr Amy Paris Langenberg, 3 July, @ AS8 Level 7, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent  Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, Amy Paris Langenberg’s work describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines,

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Art That Moves: Han Xuemei

Art that Moves is an occasional series where we ask artists and other creative workers to reflect on artworks, performances or events that were personally important to them. Han Xuemei, Dramabox‘s Resident Artist, is one of the main facilitators for Dramabox’s  re-run of the The Lesson (5 – 22 July 2017), a critically-praised work that

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26 June – 2 July: Singapore 2017

Good day art lovers! Here are some fun picks happening this week. Being Haresh Sharma by The Necessary Stage (in collaboration with CAKE theatre), 29 June – 1 July 2017, 8pm & 1 – 2 July 2017, 3pm. @Drama Centre Theatre, National Library Level 3 Being Haresh Sharma is a work helmed by Cake Theatrical Productions’ Natalie Hennedige

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19 – 25 June 2017: Singapore

Showing from 23 June – 22 July @ Victoria Theatre It’s a swinging bachelor’s dream come true: three beautiful air stewardesses, each taking her turn as his girlfriend… and each happily unaware of the others’ existence. Sounds impossible? Not if you’re Bernard, our modern-day Casanova! With careful, down-to-the-minute scheming, he’s managed to keep his hectic

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12 – 18 June: Singapore 2017

YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is The Heart of a Rainbow, 10 – 7pm @ National Gallery Singapore Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most influential artists, and has played a crucial role in key art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. The first major survey of her work in Southeast Asia, this exhibition focuses on

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5 – 11 June 2017: Singapore

Family Ties – till 10 June 3:45pm @ National Gallery, Basement (Image features film “Rice Ball”) From Big Eyes Big Mind: “Family Ties is a collection of wonderful films that we recommend to ages 9 and up. However, at our recent screening, kids as young as 6 years-old appreciated the films and a 7 year-old

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29 May – 4 June 2017: Singapore

You’ve probably seen videos of perfectly drawn alphabets floating around on Facebook / Instagram, here’s a chance to learn how to DIY! Take it as a one-time payment for a life-time skill! Not advisable but –  think of the sarcasm you can convey to your unsuspecting enemies via calligraphic writing. It’s a whole new world

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Photo Essay: “Knives In The Water” a Solo Exhibition by Speak Cryptic

By Clara Cheong (1005 words, 7-minute read) On a blazing hot afternoon last week, I stepped into the welcome cool of one of Gillman Barrack’s newest private art galleries, Chan + Hori Contemporary. The artist behind the iconic illustrations on the walls of BooksActually and The Projector, Speak Cryptic (Farizwan Fajari) was having his first solo exhibition in

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15 – 21 May: Singapore 2017

Saturday, 20 May, 11:00am  @ The Arts House SEMINAR: sgPoems 2015/16 Anthology This seminar discusses the Singapore poetry landscape based on the first publication by the Poetry Festival (Singapore). The anthology showcases poems by finalists in Poetry Festival’s competition over the last two years as well as featured poets during the festival in 2015. The

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8 – 14 May 2017: Singapore

Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legacies, Former Ford Factory, open all week To mark – not commemorate – the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, there’ll be an exhibition set in the Old Ford Factory, which was where the British surrendered to the Japanese forces on February 15, 1942. Spread across four

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1 – 7 May 2017: Singapore

CHAOS MEMO YELLOWING, directed by Chan Tze-Woon, 4 MAY, 7:30pm, National Museum of Singapore In 2014, an umbrella movement took place in Hong Kong, where young people led the ups and downs of the movement, the occupation of streets by civilians, and the fight against democracy in the way of civil disobedience. “Where there is a

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