Life Profusion is SIFA’s virtual platform, a portal for creation and discovery. This year, Life Profusion presents Privacy by MOJOKO, a series of eight digital works from eight international artists exploring modern concerns of surveillance and personal data; and Prompt: Play curated by Hong Xinyi, which gathers creative responses to programmes at SIFA 2023. Privacy […]
Experience the Civic District afresh this August 2023 onwards, with Benchmarks, a new public art trail commissioned by the Civic District Alliance (CDA). Designed by six Singapore-based artists, Lua Boon Kai, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Immanuel Koh, Yang Jie, Jeffrey Tan and Jason Wee, the public art initiative features a series of six unconventional artwork benches […]
PJOC is a photography journal exhibition that presents the works of nine participants from the NUS community. This exhibition brings together individuals who use photography as a means of visual research that complements their respective disciplines, as well as those who employ it as a form of artistic research. It encompasses a diverse range of […]
Can landmarks be forgotten? Many landmarks have graced Singapore's soil and skyline, but as they make way in the name of development, their stories slowly fade away with the passage of time. Enter Stories of the Un(forgotten) - Landmarks, a dramatized Podcast by Emerging Playwright gongxin. Through weaving historical facts, anecdotal interviews and a rich, […]
Cambodia is often depicted in the public imagination as either the land of Angkor and Apsaras or the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge. An American writer once referred to the countries of Southeast Asia as “the Lands of Cruelty and Charm”. However, Cambodia is more than death and decoration. It is people who have […]
In partnership with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YST), this series brings classical music to ACM across two seasons every year. Visit the Shaw Foyer on Fridays at 12.30pm in October and November, to enjoy live music performed by the talented students of YST.
BMSG, a trailblazer in Japan’s music industry, has just concluded BMSG FES’23, a two-weekend music extravaganza which took place in Tokyo and Osaka to celebrate its third anniversary. This year's festival expands its horizons, introducing a fresh concept with two venues and two new songs, marking a significant milestone in BMSG's journey. BMSG FES’23 took […]
From 24 March 2023 Daily, 10am - 7pm | Fridays, 10am - 9pm Asian Civilisations Museum, Level 3, Fashion and Textiles Gallery The Asian Civilisations Museum presents Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth with a selection of exquisite garments and textiles at its Fashion and Textiles Gallery. Featuring 27 […]
A new volume edited by Kirstin Pauka, Dennis Gupa, and Catherine Diamond will address the particular contributions made by Southeast Asian live performances of theatre, dance, puppetry, and performance art to further a healthy engagement with nature. Southeast Asian ecology and people’s relations to it are distinctly different from those in secular, modern, scientifically-driven post-Cartesian […]
Hop aboard the National Museum of Singapore’s ‘flight’ to discover Singapore with Now Boarding: Experiencing Singapore through Travel, 1800s-2000s, a travel-themed exhibition that traces the evolution of Singapore’s identity as a popular travel destination, through the eyes of those who arrived at our shores from the past to the present. Set against the backdrop of […]
Ticketing: $15/pax for a single ticket, $28/pax for pair tickets, purchase via https://nowboardingartjam.peatix.com Express your creativity through different forms of art and crafts with a series of art jamming workshops that explore different sections of the Now Boarding exhibition. Time-Traveller: Revisiting Singapore as a Tourist 1800s to 2000s Imagine visiting Singapore in the 1800s 1900s […]
Roving Perspectives brings together four decades of sketches by Singaporean architect Ma Pak Loong and oil paintings by award-winning Chinese artist Miao Yao Sheng. Ma Pak Loong explores the space between work and commute, documenting parts of the city that have transformed or vanished. This never-seen-before collection traces Ma’s search for “an architectural well of […]
Date: Mon 14 Aug – Sat 7 Oct Time: 12:00pm – 7:00pm (Monday – Saturday, closed on Sunday, public holidays and College closures) Venue: Gallery 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts Admission: Free Encounters: Practising Innovation, Shaping Futures explores the expansive nature of design as an experience, process and worldview. […]
Presented by Objectifs Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 14 Sep to 5 Nov 2023 The seventh edition of Objectifs’ Women in Film and Photography explores the theme, Bodies, through the works of artists from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. Seeking to preserve and illuminate, these layered narratives reveal intimate and powerful moments of loss, community, resilience, […]
The pressing urge of humans to leave marks of their existence is attested by direct prints of hands found in pre-historic caves. This desire to be remembered and documented was among the factors that stimulated the development of human intelligence. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, Nature Printing is the practice of taking impressions […]
The Singapore International Foundation’s Arts for Good Fellowship 2023 is back with the sixth edition - exploring the theme of Empowering Meaningful Ageing through the Arts. It is scheduled to take place online from 4 – 6 October, 3 November and 1 December 2023, and in person in Singapore from 22 – 26 January 2024. […]
Duration: 6h over 3 sessions Course Description: Designed with the absolute beginner to photography in mind, Art of Seeing: Photography pares our long-running Basic Photography workshop down to the essentials in three bite-sized sessions, making it especially ideal for those who are pressed for time too. Divided into 'Theory', 'Practical', and 'Post-Production' sessions, participants will get […]
Singapore Flamenco Festival 2023 Get ready for an unforgettable Flamenco Journey 13-15 Oct ! 13 Oct, 8pm: Reflections of Time: Triple Bill A groundbreaking triple bill by the Flamenco Sin Fronteras company, “Reflections of Time” starts with a dance drama of a man tranversing the realms of life and death; then a meditation of the […]
The New Scripts Garage is a regular offer of dramaturgical support for new scripts, convened every other month, with low barriers to entry. On a regular basis, we open our inboxes for script submissions from playwrights seeking dramaturgical support for their work. For the November 2023 cycle, we are collaborating with Teater Ekamatra to offer a […]
Drum Up JB! is a collaboration between KL-based Orang Orang Drum Theatre (OODT) and Johore’s JB Drums, inspired by the multiple facets of the Malaysian identity including diverse musical instruments of Malaysian cultures. The show has been constantly evolving with new ideas and improvements since it was first performed at the magnificent jewel-shaped opera house […]
