The Asian Festival of Children's Content
2023-05-25 09:00 - 2023-05-28 19:15 (Asia/Shanghai) | National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore, Singapore, 188064, Singapore
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, public programmes and more, as we showcase Vietnam as our Country of Focus.

£¥€$ (LIES)
2023-05-23 20:30 - 22:30 | SOTA Studio Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Drive, Singapore, 227968, Singapore
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 atmosphere of trading markets, feel the heat of money moving, and get ready to question everything you think you know about the world of high finance.

A DAY, 2023
2023-05-23 - 2023-06-04 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
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 they connect with each other. What different viewers see on different days is just a room, but as we consider what lies behind the other doors, and why they can’t be seen, we experience the same state as in our everyday lives: our anticipation of—and our inability to anticipate—the future.

MATERIA
2023-05-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 | SOTA Studio Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Drive, Singapore, 227968, Singapore
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 magic. MATERIA allows the material to tell its own story, and the audience to project their own interpretations on the performance on stage. Within a set score, objects are free to perform and take initiative.

Images on the Run | Through the Lens of Wawi Navarroza & Miti Ruangkritya
2023-05-21 14:00 - 15:30 | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 2, Singapore Courtyard, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
The early history of photography in Southeast Asia is largely defined by an ethnographic approach that attempted to “fix” the colonised body. In these images, the subject often remained rooted in space and in (developmental) time, while the photographer was highly itinerant. But what happens when the itinerant photographer is also the subject, or when the photographer turns their attention towards a subject matter that is in a highly agitated state of flux? This panel considers the works of artists Wawi Navarroza and Miti Ruangkritya against how photos are created, manipulated and circulated today via social media.

This panel discussion is moderated by Kenneth Tay (Assistant Curator, Singapore Art Museum), and organised in conjunction with the Gallery’s special exhibition “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asian Art”.

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About the Speakers

MITI RUANGKRITYA is a visual artist whose photography practice incorporates video, text, and publishing in examining the notion of the City. Encompassing topics ranging political upheaval, ecological change, dislocation, and economic inequalities, his oeuvre chronicles personal responses to his everyday observations while communicating the urban urgencies of contemporary living. His utilisation of media beyond traditional digital and film photography elucidates the nature of image generation, presentation, and consumption in a world increasingly defined by the visual experience. He is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations, and his art practice and publications are represented in public and private collections and libraries worldwide. He lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

WAWI NAVARROZA is a Filipina contemporary artist with an international art practice known for her works in photography. Her works navigate self and surrounding as seen in her self-portraits, landscapes and installations. She is informed by tropicality within the dynamics of post-colonial dialogue, globalization, and the artist as a transnational agent. As a female artist, Southeast Asian and Filipino, her works transmute lived experience to the symbolic using material and studio techniques; creating images that explore the hybridity of identity, photography and place. Her works are surveyed in books “Photography Today” (Phaidon), “Contemporary Photography in Asia” (Prestel) and is currently nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023. Navarroza is also a speaker on art and visual culture, most recent at UNESCO Dhaka and at the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul. Navarroza was born and raised in Manila, has lived in Spain and is currently based between Manila and Istanbul.

KENNETH TAY is Assistant Curator at Singapore Art Museum. He writes on media histories, global infrastructures and logistics, and is the author of The Sea is All Highway (Temporary Press, 2019). His curatorial project, FLAT.SPACES (2018), examines the infrastructural critique in the work of Singaporean net-art collective tsunamii.net (2001‒2005). Presently, he is working on a curatorial project that looks into postwar Singapore’s relationship to oil and its global networks. He holds a MA in Media Studies from The New School.

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About “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asian Art”

Photographs surround us every day and everywhere. They shape the way we see the world and the way we see ourselves. Explore the changing roles of photography in Southeast Asia—from its beginnings as a tool of European exploration to the “performance” of studio portraits; from the incomplete realities of war to the rise of fine art; and finally to the memes and selfies that saturate social media today.

Click here to find out more about the exhibition and its upcoming programmes: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/livingpictures

The Vault: Past Perfect | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
4 actors gather and they reflect on their journey through Theatre in the 1990s. With 20/20 hindsight, what did it mean to DO theatre in the 1990s? Why did they do what they do and more importantly, how? Without any rose-tinted glass, no misty water-coloured memories, these actors share their thoughts and ruminations. Guiding them is a young actor born in the 1990s, asking questions and also wondering – is the past really so perfect?
Conceptualised by Robin Loon and Casey Lim, and co-created with Nelson Chia, Oniatta Effendi, Serene Chen, Tan Kheng Hua and Lim Shi-An, The Vault: Past Perfect is a performance of pieces that draw on the personal archive, reflecting on the energy and legacy of Singapore theatre-making in the 1990s.

SIFA 2023: THERE IS NO FUTURE IN NOSTALGIA
2023-05-20 15:00 - 2023-05-28 20:00 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
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 the fatigue of urban renewal, we invite artists to consider the tensions between new and old, the technocratic and the civic—and consider how they come to bear on the art of theatre-making.
SIFA X: THERE IS NO FUTURE IN NOSTALGIA comprises: The Vault, with pieces drawn from practitioners’ memories of theatre in the 90s; Studio, a series of staged readings of new short works by our resident playwrights; and Headline Acts, an open-format evening where writers present short dramatic pieces in response to archival headlines.
Image courtesy of Centre 42

ANGEL ISLAND
2023-05-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Singtel Waterfront Theatre at The Esplanade, 8 Raffles Ave., Singapore 039802, Singapore, Singapore, 039802, Singapore
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 carved on the wooden walls of the detention centre on Angel Island, and the events and stories emerging from the era in which the legislations were passed. Tackling perennial and global issues of xenophobia, sexism, and systematic racial and gender discrimination, ANGEL ISLAND weaves a story of immigration, discrimination, and confinement – bringing history into the reality of our current lives. Performed by Del Sol Quartet and Taipei Chamber Singers.

ABYSS
2023-05-19 20:00 - 21:30 | SOTA Drama Theatre, 1 Zubir Said Dr, Singapore 227968, 227968, Singapore
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 open, unpredictable sea of life, with its winds of upheaval, crests of joy and storms of powerful sorrow.
ABYSS invites you to experience the spectrum of human feeling: to laugh, weep and sing along with the dancers, and to move with the waves of the sea, to ultimately make space once again to sail in the boat that is inside of you.

Wind Up Mice
2023-05-19 19:00 - 2023-05-27 21:00 | Java Creative Cafe Toul Tom Poung, 53 Street 468, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
From Khmer playwright and director, Samithi Sok, comes his sophomore play, Wind Up Mice, an original and independent theatre production coming to Java Creative Café, Phnom Penh. Co-directed by Marika Els.
Wind Up Mice follows Reagan and Chang, a couple for whom the end is not the end. Trapped in a never-ending loop, the fated pair find their relationship played out again and again across the entirety of time. Deeply intimate, at times profound, at times horrifying, and above-all unflinchingly honest, Wind Up Mice is an examination of free will, resentment and toxicity, and the undying power of love.

Dates: 19, 20, 26 and 27 May at 7 pm, with an additional matinee at 1 pm on 27 May
Venue: Java Creative Cafe Toul Tom Poung.
Tickets are now available through the link below:
https://forms.gle/THvi8FLsvE2pts6H9

At Work By The River by Yip Yew Chong
2023-05-19 08:00 - 2023-06-02 22:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
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 heyday and snap some pics amid this hand-painted fleet of boats.
About Yip Yew Chong
Yip Yew Chong is a Singaporean visual artist who makes murals, canvas paintings, sketches, and installations. A self-learned artist, Yew Chong draws inspiration from his own childhood and everyday life experiences, telling stories of people and places — especially from the past — on walls and canvases.

SIFA 2023: LIFE PROFUSION
2023-05-19 - 2023-07-19 | www.sifa.sg, Singapore
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 https://www.sifa.sg/life-profusion/lp-privacy
Curated by MOJOKO (@mojokoworld on Instagram & Facebook)

Negotiating between the private and the public is one of the predominant challenges for humanity in the 21stcentury. Staying connected to our digital identities requires us to pay with our private data, leaving us vulnerable to breaches of security and trust. When privacy is fast becoming a disappearing luxury, how do we safeguard our personal rights as people in today’s hyper-connected society? Do we value privacy or take it for granted? What is the impact of shifting boundaries of privacy on the collective mindset?

Curated by MOJOKO, this series of ten short digital works from ten international artists gathers a diverse array of perspectives exploring the meaning of privacy and the cost of surveillance.

Artist names & artwork titles-
Got Hacked by CYC (Chong Yan Chuah)
Malaysia | @chongyanchuah
Security Boundaries by DVDP (Davidope)
Hungary | @dvdp
Private Parts by ABC (Aik Beng Chia)
Singapore | @aikbengchia
Silent Listening by Gilang Kusama
Indonesia | @gilangkussuma
Suspicious Patterns by Vince Fraser
UK | @vincefraser
Veil of Secrecy by Sadiq Mansor
Singapore | @249.png
Privacy Erosion by MOJOKO
Singapore | @Mojokoworld
Personal Space by Barbarian Flower
Malaysia | @barbarianflower

Prompt: Play https://www.sifa.sg/life-profusion/lp-prompt-play
Curated by Hong Xinyi
A series of creative responses, in visuals and text, to programmes at SIFA 2023. Some of the creative responses are authored by writers from Critics Circle Blog @criticscircleblog, a platform that hosts diverse voices responding in multiple ways to the performing arts in Singapore. Each article is accompanied by an illustration by Winnie Wu of studioKALEIDO.

WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS
2023-05-19 - 2023-06-04 | Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Pl, 179556, Singapore, 179556, Singapore
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 imperialistic portraits. An army of young girls aged 8 to 16 each stand in her own frame, in her own regalia and holding her own stance of power. Joanna Dudley is their mentor, encouraging the girls to take autonomy over their own voices and to create the world afresh.

SIFA 2023: POMPEII
2023-05-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Drama Centre Theatre, National Library, Victoria Street, Singapore
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 narrator tells us the story of an apartment block in which the lives of its residents were anything but – until a catastrophe reduced them to the inanimate, their lives existing only as object and memory. Exploring the archaeology of intimacy, POMPEII questions if the objects and spaces that we leave behind in death represent that which we were, or betray the true nature that we ourselves denied in life.
Image courtesy of Joseph Nair

The LASALLE Show 2023: Avant Premiere
2023-05-17 19:00 - 22:00 | project X, 2 Handy Rd, #05-01, Singapore 229233, Singapore, Singapore, 229233, Singapore
This year’s graduating films showcase the best fiction and documentary narratives from LASALLE’s BA(Hons) Film programme. AVANT Premiere is a celebration of a multitude of stories ranging from a wide spectrum of landscapes, people and emotions.

Blank in the City (Exhibition) by Sanuki Daisuke Architects
2023-05-17 09:00 - 2023-05-23 16:00 | TOTO Information Center, Tầng 2, tháp 2, Tòa Capital Place, 29 Liễu Giai, Ba Đình, Hanoi, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam
[+84] introduces the office of Sanuki Daisuke Architects under the theme Blank in the City. The exhibition invites viewers to experience the space authentically designed by the participating architects – the signature of the series [+84].
“We define BLANK as a condition of a space that is free, flexible, and open to all possibilities, and that allows for a variety of people’s activities.”
Event schedule:
– Exhibition: 9:00 – 12:00 & 13:00 – 16:00, May 17th – 23rd, 2023
– Talk: 15:00 – 17:00, May 20th, 2023
Note: Exhibition and Talk’s registration forms will be disclosed on May 5th, 2023

This event is co-hosted by Alab and Toto Information Center (TIC).

The Art of Drag Exhibition
2023-05-17 - 2023-06-04 | Meta House, #48, Street 228, Phnom Penh, 12207, Cambodia
The Art of Drag will showcase five thoughtfully curated photo sequences capturing the essence of drag performance. Beyond the confines of gender roles, drag queens embody a passion that transcends societal norms. This exhibition will celebrate this unique and dynamic community’s artistry and creativity while highlighting the importance of diversity and inclusivity in all forms of artistic expression.
Donor: Diakonia Asia & Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

18th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival: Call for Entry 2023
2023-05-17 - 2023-07-31 | Yayasan Sinema Yogyakarta, Jl. Nyi Pembayun, No. 20 Prenggan, Kotagede, Yogyakarta, 55172, Indonesia
Call for submissions for Asian films- Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF) is a premier Asian film festival in Indonesia focusing on the development of Asian cinema. Films must not be made before January 2022. Feature films (over 45 minutes) and short films (under 45 minutes) in narrative, documentary, experimental or animated form are accepted.
Submissions open until 31/07/23. More at https://jaff-filmfest.org/submission-jaff/
The festival happens November 25 – December 2, 2023 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

European Film Festival 2023
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-31 | The Projector, #05-00 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore, 199589, Singapore
The European Film Festival (EUFF) returns to the big screen at The Projector. Presented by the
European Union (EU) Delegation to Singapore, EUFF runs from 16th to 31 st May bringing the best of
contemporary European cinema to the heart of Singapore’s community of film lovers. This year’s
festival presents over 20 films over a longer period, reflecting on the diversity of perspectives,
histories, languages and cultures from across Europe.
EUFF offers a range of movie genres including drama, historical drama, documentary, musical,
comedy as well as family friendly films from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechia,
Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Norway, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. Films
screened are recent, and have had success in their country of origin and often internationally.

An Evening with Claire Keegan
2023-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Join us for an evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Claire Keegan, where Claire will read from her fiction and answer questions about her work and writing life.
This workshop is kindly supported by NTU’s School of Humanities and the National Arts Council.
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ABOUT CLAIRE KEEGAN:
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.
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ABOUT ACWP:
The Asia Creative Writing Programme is a joint initiative funded by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
Leading international and local writers are appointed as Visiting Writers to teach creative writing workshops and masterclasses, as well as mentor and guide emerging, developing and advanced writers in Singapore.
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For more information on the course: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck3
If you have any queries or have problems registering, email us at: soh-ACWP@ntu.edu.sg
Register here: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck3
Deadline for registration: 28 April 2023, Friday, 5 PM.
Registrations may close earlier if all slots have been taken up.
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WHEN:
14 May 2023, Sunday
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm SGT
WHERE:
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
WHO:
– For Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced Writers, Students & Educators – especially fiction writers
– Limited places available
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FEES:
– $10 per attendee to secure your seat

D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED)
2023-05-14 - 2023-07-16 | Online, Singapore
Our friends from Asia can now catch weekly dance performances on YouTube with English subtitles by D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED). At the start of 2023, D.U.N.K. (DANCE UNIVERSE NEVER KILLED), a large-scale music and dance project was formed in partnership with renowned Japanese rapper and artist, SKY-HI, together with leading multi-platform entertainment powerhouse and ratings champion broadcaster, Nippon TV. D.U.N.K. featured some of the best and brightest talents in Japan’s music and dance industry from SKY-HI, vocal and dance groups &TEAM, BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE, BE:FIRST, BULLET TRAIN, DREAMS COME TRUE, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, and artists, Aile The Shota, Ayumu Imazu, REIKO, as well as dance and performance collectives, s**t kingz, to name a few.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/@dunk-dance/videos

Forever | 人长久 Ink Paintings by Tung Yue Nang
2023-05-13 12:00 - 2023-05-28 19:00 | artcommune gallery, 76 Bras Basah Rd, #01-01, Singapore 189558, Singapore, Singapore, 189558, Singapore
artcommune gallery is pleased to present the latest solo exhibition of veteran artist Tung Yue Nang. The show, which is on view at artcommune gallery from 13 to 28 May 2023, features 24 new ink works by the artist, including a momentous and large-scale ink landscape of Chinatown scene measuring 95 x 548 cm.

Born in Singapore in 1959, Tung Yue Nang (邓汝能) cultivated a keen interest for the arts since young. He delved into the formal arts world at the age of 15, when he began learning Chinese painting, calligraphy, seal carving and engraving under the tutelage of pioneer artist-educator, Shi Xiang Tuo. Over the past three decades, his art practice has evolved to encompass Western mediums such as acrylic and mixed media painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. However, the medium of Chinese brush and ink remains the cornerstone of his practice and his immersion in the art form is guided by the Chinese Tao philosophy, which centres on harmony, tranquility and simplicity.
Over the past decade, Tung Yue Nang has established a dynamic ink repertoire that is recognisable for its dramatic and ornate figurative style. These works combine Western compositional techniques with a delicate Chinese brush-and-ink execution to express the unique beauty and richness of our local cultural landscapes. Architectural environments and human figures are related through tremendous accuracy and detail in these dramatically monochrome paintings.

The exhibition title, ‘Forever’, was translated from the artist’s original Chinese title, ‘⼈长久’. The phrase was taken from a famous Song Chinese poem, Prelude to Water Melody (⽔调歌头- 明⽉⼏时有), which was composed by court-official and literati artist-poet Su Shi (also commonly known as Su Dongbo). The poem was written during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076 while Su Shi was feeling melancholic and missing his brother, who was a court official stationed in another faraway state.
Su Shi points out in the poem that, ‘People have sorrows, joys, partings and reunions/ Just as the moon turns dark or bright, and waxes or wanes during different phases/ This is but a reality since ancient times/ Yet one hopes that every man enjoys longevity/ Even with thousand miles apart, that we may all see and be connected by the moon’s beauty.’
Through his art and in his own way, Tung Yue Nang seeks to immortalise the unique cultural elements and everyday beauty of our local heritage streets. Every painting is a nuanced display of humanity, and through it he connects the audience with the vitality and immediacy of life. Because his sincere being and profound connection with the landscape flow ever so naturally into the composition, the old buildings with their weathered charms, and folks passing by the streets or engrossed in their daily routines, come alive organically in his works. One is easily transfixed by the fascinating atmosphere of his Singapore riverside, Chinatown or Joo Chiat shophouse scene, where the coming and going of people and their myriad interactions amplify the hustle and bustle of daily life.

Le Quốc Thanh: Expert From A Heaven: How to Fly
2023-05-13 11:00 - 2023-06-03 19:00 | Richard Koh Fine Art, Blk 47 Malan Road #01-26 Gillman Barracks Singapore 109444, Singapore, 109444, Singapore
Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore (RKFA) is happy to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of mixed media paintings by the Vietnamese painter, Le Quoc Thanh (b.1975). Titled “Excerpts From A Heaven: How To Fly”, this exhibition is Thanh’s first solo show at the gallery, presented in partnership with Hanoi-based CUC Gallery.
Through his work, Thanh skillfully blends found items with elements of Vietnamese material culture, resulting in paintings that possess a unique style entirely of their own. The use of quotidian icons, including a packet of Craven A cigarettes and black-handled scissors often found in market stalls, further enhances the distinctive cultural significance of Thanh’s work. Throughout the exhibition, Thanh explores the instability of signs and signifiers, often repeatedly painting the numbers “123” and letters “ABC” until their meaning becomes lost. By challenging traditional linguistic and visual regimes, Thanh creates a visual language that is uniquely his own.

Mapping Human Journey (Exhibition)
2023-05-13 10:00 - 2023-06-13 18:00 | Art4C, Gallery and Creative Learning Space, 1553 1555, 1557 Rama 4 Road, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, 10330
This solo art exhibition by Pratchaya Charernsook is presented as part of Art For Air X Art4C. The birth and existence of the human race creates many changes to the world, whether it be from people of various ages, during the process of birth, living and passing, they all have an effect throughout the past, present and the future. This exhibition therefore takes the audience through an explorative journey to find the traces through time of the human race by the exploration of plastic waste that are used and disposed from the past, present and future.

STPI X LKCNHM | Traces of Life (Drypoint Etching Workshop)
2023-05-13 10:00 - 12:30 | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
In this special collaboration, STPI and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum invite you to explore the Museum’s specimens and organic materials, and experiment with the drypoint technique. Observe, scratch on a plate and create your own set of prints!

One ticket to this workshop includes one-time admission for one pax to Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (U.P. SGD 21), valid till 27 May 2023.

This workshop will be conducted at STPI Gallery.
Recommended for ages 7 and above.

Raga 2023: ABHIPSAA – A Seeking
2023-05-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Photo credit to Arun Kumar
“A performer of exquisite grace and technique.” – The New Yorker
“[Satpathy] may be five-foot-two, but she dances like a giant.” Marina Harss, Dance Magazine
Mesmerising and immersive, ABHIPSAA – A Seeking charts a personal journey of discovery in physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. In four choreographic works, revered dance doyen Bijayini Satpathy expands the parameters of the formal and representational norms of the odissi tradition through both narrative and non-narrative dances, reimagining classical odissi forms through her own interpretation.

This work was first premiered in Dec 2021 across two sold-out two evenings at Duke Performances. This critical success, a dramatic exploration and reshaping of an ancient tradition, catapulted Satpathy to the forefront of the field. After decades of performance and study, Satpathy calls upon deep kinetic and emotional insights to evolve a revered cultural art form into an entirely modern expression.
This work was made possible with additional funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This presentation at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay marks its Asian debut.

Considered one of the foremost masters of odissi in the world, Bijayini Satpathy has enjoyed a vast career as principal dancer, master teacher, and respected scholar. Renowned the world over for her grace, Satpathy embodies the spirit and profound storytelling of classical Indian dance in a way few others have achieved.
Satpathy has been hailed by the likes of New Yorker, Dance Magazine and international press around the world for her unparalleled artistic expression. Her passion for odissi was instilled at age seven with teachers at Orissa Dance Academy. She is one of the most recognisable names in Indian dance today in large part due to her 25-year career with the famed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble. She studied and perfected odissi with Nrityagram as performer and principal dancer from 1993 to 2018.

In 2021, she was commissioned by Duke University and the Baryshnikov Arts Center for her solo presentation, ABHIPSAA – a seeking, which premiered in New York across two sold out evenings at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and is currently being toured around the world. She was the Artist-in-Residence with the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2021-22 season.
Website: https://www.bijayinisatpathy.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bijayinisatpathy/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063693040832

Red Dot Green Dot 2023
2023-05-12 19:30 - 2023-05-13 21:30 | Lasalle College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street Singapore 187940, Singapore, Singapore, 187940, Singapore
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 from the Embassy of Ireland. Guests can expect music, singing, poetry and prose, drama, all performed by talented artists and alumni from LASALLE College of the Arts and members of the Irish community in Singapore . Each evening will see a range of performances by both solo artists and ensembles, promising an entertaining and fun night to remember.
The event is in support of The McNally Legacy, an initiative funded by The Ireland Funds Singapore. It commemorates the artistic and educational contributions of the late Brother Joseph McNally, founder of LASALLE, and aims to continue the legacy of an Ireland-Singapore partnership through a range of opportunities for a new generation of artists.

Upclose with Brahmastra ft. Sridhar Sena, Meenakshy Jyothish, Sai Vignesh and Alakananda Giridhar
2023-05-12 18:30 - 22:30 | Arpanam Experiences (L2 above Podi and Poriyal), 486 Serangoon Rd, Singapore 218151, Singapore, Singapore, 218151, Singapore
Arpanam Experiences launches its community platform to celebrate local creators of art & culture, inaugurating with this intimate music experience, ’Up Close with Brahmastra.’ Creative Producer & Music Director Niranjan Pandian, Brahmastra brings together local Singaporean artists and Super Singer 8 Champion, Sridhar Sena from India to kick off the launch of the platform.
Sponsored by Naina Mohamed & Sons, this intimate concert for just 30 people will have Singaporean artists, Sai Vignesh, Meenakshy Jyothish and Alakananda Giridhar alongside Sridhar Sena, performing original music and popular Tamil film songs.
The evening promises a wonderful repertoire of music, intimate exchanges with the performing artists and a range of finger food and cocktails / mocktails from Arpanam’s food & beverage offering, Podi & Poriyal.

Movement and Dance Workshop by Bijayini Satpathy
2023-05-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
With a career than spans more than 25 years, Bijayini Satpathy is one of the world’s foremost practitioners of odissi, renowned for her grace and profound storytelling skills. In this one-time workshop, students of dance and Indian classical dance practitioners ages 13 and above are invited to come learn from this dance doyen.

The workshop will focus on the following movements from the ancient dance treatise, the Natyashastra:

• Alignment and angabheda (isolated limb movement)
• Bhu charis – Movement of the hip and leg joints along the floor
• Akasha charis – Movement of hip and legs above the ground

Participants are advised to wear appropriate outfit, necessary for comfort and flexibility, in view of workshop content.
