Winning Poems of Migrants
Tags: Migrant Worker Poetry Competition The Straits Times
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Makhampom Theatre Group: Theatre and Empathy
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Freaks and Greeks: Electra by Cake Theatrical Productions
By Matthew Lyon (504 words, 6-minute read) Over the years, my reactions to Natalie Hennedige’s work for Cake Theatrical Productions have ranged from adulation (Nothing, 2007) to anger (Versus, 2015), with her recent productions tending towards the latter. How wonderful, then, to see such an abrupt reversal of this trend in a rough-hewn, sharp-edged version
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Malaysian Funny Man, Now Funniest in the World
Tags: comedy Harith Iskander
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12 – 18 Dec 2016: Indonesia
Meta’s Top Picks in Solo, Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 12 – 18 December Meta is a freelance arts administrator and a traveling yogi. She spent 16 years of her life as an art practitioner and the last few years as an arts administrator. Her first love in the arts is dance. She left her
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12 – 18 Dec 2016: Singapore
In Search of Salt by Passerby Projects at Centre 42, 16 – 17 Dec This original play staged by performance collective Passerby Projects was written to pass the Bechdel Test and will be performed in a theatre-in-the-round setting. It’s a mystery-thriller story revolving around a girl trying to uncover the meaning behind messages she receives from
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Phnom Penh Post reviews Kampot Writers and Readers Festival 2016
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12 – 18 Dec 2016: Malaysia
Axiomatic by Asia Duo Dance Company Damansara Performing Arts Centre, 16 – 18 Dec Two award winning dancer-choreographers Fairul Zahid (from KL, Malaysia) & Yachao Zhu (from Beijing, China) show their work together on this night of contemporary dance. More information. Afterwork, group exhibition at Ilham Gallery 18 Dec 2016 – 16 Apr 2017 Afterwork
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Art and community meet at the cinema
Tags: The Southeast Asian Movie Theater Project
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Interview: Tan Liting, “Pretty Butch” at M1 Fringe Festival 2017
Tags: LGBT M1 Singapore Fringe Festival Tan Liting
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Outside Looking In: “A Yellow Bird”
By Akanksha Raja (810 words, 8-minute read) First screened at the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2016 this summer, A Yellow Bird is K Rajagopal’s first feature film after many acclaimed, award-winning short films. His body of work shows a concern for the lives of Indians in Singapore, drawing from his experience
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Mula Sa Buwan: Cyrano de Bergerac adapted as a sarswela
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Batik: A Cultural Dilemma of Infatuation and Appreciation
Tags: Batik Cultural Appropriation
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5 -11 Dec 2016: Malaysia
5 – 12 Decem Kemandirian Seni Persembahan di Pulau Pinang (Independence of the Performing Arts in Penang), 6 De 2016, George Town, Penang. Culture can be defined from various perspectives: it is a way of life that arises from and is shared by a community, and passed on from one generation to the next. This
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Co-Create Charoenkrung Project: Interview with Charintip Leeyawanich
Tags: ASEF Culture360 Creative Economy
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5 – 11 Dec 2016: Singapore
Cheng Ran: In Course of the Miraculous (Southeast Asian premiere) by Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Sunday 11 Dec 2016, 11am-9pm Following its world premiere at the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015, and screenings at Art Basel, K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong and across China earlier this year, this 9-hour film will have its
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5 – 11 Dec 2016: Indonesia
Meta’s Top Picks in Yogyakarta, Solo, Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 5 – 11 December Meta is a freelance arts administrator and a traveling yogi. She spent 16 years of her life as an art practitioner and the last few years as an arts administrator. Her first love in the arts is dance. She left
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Ownself Check: SWF 2016 Lecture, Unwritten Country
By Pavithra Raja (831 words, 5-minute read) On November 5th, acclaimed literary figures Gwee Li Sui and Boey Kim Cheng both spoke on the topic, Unwritten Country, as part of the Singapore Writers’ Festival Lecture series. The softly lit Chamber Room at the Arts House – formerly the old Parliament house – set a fitting
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Losing My Religion: “Disgraced” by SRT
By Akanksha Raja (1000 words, 8-minute read) When SRT Artistic Director Gaurav Kripalani revealed that the Media Development Authority approved of Disgraced without making any edits to the script, in answer to a question about censorship, there was an audible gasp from the audience at the post-show dialogue on 22 November. Regulatory authorities are known
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Sundance of Southeast Asia: Luang Prabang Film Festival 2 – 7 Dec 2016
If you’re in withdrawal now that the 27th Singapore International Film Festival 2016 has ended, you have two days left to catch the Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF). Founded in 2010 by Gabriel Kuperman, the Luang Prabang Film Festival has been dubbed the Sundance of Southeast Asia. Only minus the sub-zero temperature and celebrities looking
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When Your Privates Become Public: From Synge to M1 Fringe
By Corrie Tan (2043 words, 15-minute read) It was January 26, 1907, a Saturday night in Dublin, Ireland. Audience members, rowdy and revolted, were pouring out of the Abbey Theatre after the premiere of playwright J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. These riots would continue throughout the play’s week-long run, with the
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Production Talk with K Rajagopal on ‘A Yellow Bird’
Tags: A Yellow Bird K Rajagopal Singapore International Film Festival
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NYT: A Malaysian Political Cartoonist on Facing His Fears, and Prison, for Art
Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as Zunar, speaks with the New York Times about the dangers of self-censorship, and continuing make art in the face of possible imprisonment.
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Preview: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions
By Akanksha Raja (530 words, 5-minute read) Blue Bean Productions’ maiden show Dear Jay was spawned from a series of e-mail exchanges between producer and lead actor Benedict Leong and playwright Euginia Tan, about personal experiences coping with mental illness. They had met while working on the Twenty-Something Theatre Festival in June 2016, him as assistant producer of the
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Podcast 7: The Second Breakfast Company’s Family by Leow Puay Tin
Duration: 30 minutes Michael Ng, who reviewed the 20th Anniversary production of Family for bakchormeeboy joins podcast co-hosts Kathy Rowland and Matt Lyon in a discussion about the staging history of Family, and the relevance of the play today. Opening music by Caspar Productions. Stream Podcast 7: To download Podcast 7, right-click here and select ‘Save Link
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