Get out and about as we celebrate the 20th edition of Singapore HeritageFest (SHF)! Centred on the themes of sports and public transport, this year’s festival invites everyone to uncover the lesser-known stories about our unique history and heritage with a dynamic line-up of over 80 programmes. Explore the impressive expansion of Singapore's public […]
Red Dot Green Dot, a unique arts event celebrating the cultures of Singapore and Ireland, will return to LASALLE College of the Arts on Friday,12 May 2023 and Saturday, 13 May 2023. First held in 2017, Red Dot Green Dot is an annual arts collaboration organised by LASALLE and The Ireland Funds Singapore, with support […]
Date: 2 June 2023, Friday & 3 June 2023, Saturday Time: 8pm Date: 4 June Sunday Time: 3pm Duration: 1hr 30m, intermission TBC Venue: Drama Centre Theatre Tickets: $38, $48 POMPEII plays out on a live soundstage, in which the lives of an imagined apartment building’s inhabitants materialise before us. Trapped in a bomb-shelter, a […]
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. […]
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 […]
The future is female – and so is the past, as depicted by these portraits of girls as unlikely warriors. Together, they boldly reframe the histories of iconic women through the centuries. WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS is a video and sound installation of seven hanging screens, representing a series of 19th century […]
At Work By The River by Yip Yew Chong 19 May - 2 June 2023 ACM Green Free Immerse yourself in Yip Yew Chong’s nostalgic paintings as bumboats float on the ACM Green, against the backdrop of the river and Singapore’s skyline. Step back in time to see what the bumboats carried during the river’s […]
With soulful and meditative turns, ABYSS forms an ode to the depths of human emotion. Principles of Korean dance meld with the vocabulary of contemporary movement to form a unique vehicle for expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure to mingle. A humble sailing boat becomes a metaphor for the soul, floating alone on the […]
Between 1910 and 1940, as new immigrants flowed through the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants faced massive discrimination because of America’s earliest racist immigration legislations. This captivating one-act music-theatre performance tells their stories. Composed by Huang Ruo, the music of ANGEL ISLAND is inspired by the Chinese poems […]
Date: 20 May Saturday & 21 May Sunday Date: 27 May Saturday & 28 May Sunday Time: 3pm & 8pm Venue: 42 Waterloo Street Tickets: $25 Centre 42 presents a collection of new performances devised by its resident artists and invited guests. Titled “there is no future in nostalgia,” after Arthur Yap's iconic poem about […]
In this remarkable performance of object theatre, Andrea Salustri explores the possibilities of polystyrene, the most common form of plastic. Watch as it comes alive and becomes the protagonist of the events on stage. MATERIA inspires us to consider how we engage with objects, allowing them to perform their own artistry and create their own […]
Discover the intriguing amid the mundane, in this multidisciplinary installation combining performance and video installation, reflecting on the nature of time, space and our everyday relationships. With new discoveries and encounters to engage with on each day, it invites you to wander through doors and liminal spaces to piece together what lies within, and how […]
In this game-inspired immersive and participatory performance, award-winning theatre company Ontroerend Goed invites you to become part of the elite 1% who control the global economy. There may be no time for ethics; you’re in to win. Things get complicated: you can up your risk, trade in debt, make mergers and acquisitions. Taste the heady […]
The 14th Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) returns this year as a fully in-person event, celebrating the theme “Play!” With over 70 programmes featuring more than 100 writers and speakers from Singapore and around the world, AFCC 2023 explores the different dimensions of “Play” through books, stories and performances. Come join our panels, workshops, […]
BLKDOG is street dance as you’ve never seen it before. Hailed by The Guardian as “a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory”, BLKDOG is a delicate and brutal commentary on how today's youth are coping in a world not built for them. Using hip hop in a contemporary style powered by high-energy moves and […]
Date: 26 May Friday & 27 May Saturday Time: 7pm Duration: Durational, free & easy Venue: CÉ LA VI Tickets: $58 Minimum admission age of 18 years CÉ LA VI, Singapore’s iconic club space pinnacling Marina Bay Sands sets the stage for LOVE DIVINE, a SIFA X performance spectacle plunging us into the creative recesses […]
Down the River, Along the Streets of ACM Saturday - Sunday, 27 - 28 May 2023 10am - 7pm Asian Civilisations Museum Free admission to the museum and most activities Journey through time along the iconic Singapore River for this year’s Singapore HeritageFest. Hop on a bumboat or embark on walking tours to witness the […]
Exploring English as the predominant language of political power, LOLLING AND ROLLING is a powerful one-man show that traces the shadow of linguistic imperialism within Korean society, and questions its impact on the “inaudible voice” of the subaltern. Lolling and Rolling takes as a starting point the phenomenon of tongue-tie surgery, an operation performed in […]
ME, YOU, THEN, NOW is a self-portrait in movement, video, and words: a performative archive. We are invited to join artist Muna Tseng on a retrospective journey, from her days of being a young artist weaving her web of identity within the urban mythology of downtown New York City (NYC), through to the present with […]
Step into THE SCHOOL, and join fellow participants on a series of communal assemblies, group lessons, solo journeys, unexpected assignments, and strange encounters across multiple sites in Stamford Arts Centre. Just like school as we think we know it, yet nothing like it at all.
Organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and presented by DBS, i Light Singapore 2023, Asia’s leading sustainable light festival, will return from 1 to 25 June 2023 and transform the Bay into a visual playground replete with new immersive light art installations and programmes that delight the senses. Curated to the theme A New Wave, […]
Date: 2 June Friday & 3 June Saturday Time: 8pm Duration: 1h, no intermission Venue: Drama Centre Black Box Tickets: $38 Performed in Thai with English surtitles Traditional Thai music and contemporary dance practice intertwine to examine the body as a political site and the sociopolitical power of dance. Stuck in the state-enforced past and […]
Date: 3 June Saturday & 4 June Sunday Time: 2pm & 5pm Duration: 1h, no intermission Venue: School of the Arts Studio Theatre Tickets: $38 Performed in Japanese with English surtitles Projected images of a man and a woman begin talking about a play that was performed in the theatre, a play set in the […]
Projected images of a man and a woman begin talking about a play that was performed in the theatre, a play set in the room where they had lived together. But is what the two are talking about fiction or reality? As the fictional, projected space on screen and the real space of the theatre […]
Date: 3 June Saturday Time: 8pm Date: 4 June Sunday Time: 3pm Duration: 1h 10m, no intermission Venue: Esplanade Theatre Tickets: $48 Intimate, joyous and searching, HUMANS 2.0 sees the performers find redemptive power in strength and fiercely celebrate what it means to be human – a message of hope as the world reels from […]
