The Vault: Past Perfect | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | 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.

LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort School Challenge 2023 Extends to Singapore
2023-05-10 00:00 - 2023-07-07 23:59 | Online
LEGOLAND School Challenge is back in its second iteration. This year, the Competition expands its region to include students from ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Through the Competition aims to unleash students’ imagination to create the worlds of their dreams with LEGO. The theme for this year’s competition is Cities of the Future.
Theme: Cities of the Future
Categories: 7 to 12, and 13 to 17 years old
Registration Period: Now till 26 May 2023
Submission Period: 19 June to 7 July 2023
TO PARTICIPATE

Students must form groups of 5 to 15 accompanied by at least 1 to 3 teachers and register their teams on the LEGOLAND School Challenge by 26 May 2023, 2359hr (GMT+8).
Submit by uploading pictures of models alongside a photo, video, and written description of the design. Submission starts 19 June to 7 July 2023, 2359hr (GMT+8).

PRIZES
There will be five winning teams – Grand Prize, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, 4th Place, and 5th Place, in each category. Schools and winning teams will be credited, and entries will be displayed at LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort. There are prizes worth SGD30,0000 to be won.

Studio | SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia
2023-05-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187951, Singapore
Responding to the rich layers of ambivalence and irony in Arthur Yap’s poem “there is no future in nostalgia,” the four residents of Centre 42’s Playwright’s Professional Development Residency present dramatized readings of new short plays that reflect on the tensions between technocratic and civic visions of life in Singapore.
These four new short plays are presented as double-bill performances over two weekends:
Studio A (Ahmad Musta’ain and Danial Matin), 20 May, 3pm and 21 May, 8pm
The Best of Us by Ahmad Musta’ain
They say you make lifelong friends in NS. For Khai and Taj, their army bestie was the camp canteen lady, Juweeta. Now, in a space beyond living and dying, these two boys must find their way back to save Kak Ju in her time of crisis. Together the three friends embark on a journey of nostalgia saturated with Beyoncé, cackles, and the tragedies of illness, and perhaps the only person who can save Juweeta is herself. By turns raucous and melancholy, Ahmad Musta’ain Bin Khamis’s new play is about unlikely army friendships, queer families, and the healing power of memory.
Asymptote by Danial Matin
A scientist digs up a skull in Antarctica, an exile reunites with his mother in a morgue, two trans-national lovers negotiate the future of their relationship, a pair of Malaysian parents grow apart from their child across the causeway… These are some of the beguiling, lyrical stories in Danial Matin’s new play about how time acts on the heart. Each tender vignette explores the myriad ways ordinary people wrestle with loss, and the restless, unstable nature of home. In the end, what is left to hold on to? And do we hold on to what is left?
Studio B (A Yagnya and Rachel Chin), 27 May, 3pm and 28 May, 8pm
Help! Our Dead have Dementia, and Other Stories by A Yagnya
Queen Elizabeth has just died, sparking the sudden appearance of Dada, who seems to have risen from the dead, for whom memory- in death – is (was?) (what is time?) a tenuous thing. Devan (who’s about to move out of his childhood home) is suddenly launched into the unreliable mind of his late grandfather. But nothing will stop the old man from narrating from beyond the grave at his grandson, who’s just trying to Marie Kondo his dead Dada’s life. Hilarious and poignant, this bold new play by A Yagnya asks: if the world keeps rebuilding itself, what the hell are the dead going to hold on to?
Where the Hantus At? by Rachel Chin
When their dad passes, sisters Lynette and Leia must decide what to do with his estate: to preserve what is there, or to sell their house and move on. But they’ve forgotten how much each gets on the other’s nerves, and as the resentment builds, an ugly battle of wills ensues. Naturally, the dead get involved. Rachel Chin’s whacky and hard-hitting new play is about hantus, family, love and memory. After all, they’re the same thing… right?

I See You | Artists and Curators in Conversation
2023-05-07 14:00 - 15:30 | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, 1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
The exhibition “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia” explores the emergence of video installation art in the region during the 1980s and 1990s through the restaging and reproduction of significant works by ten artists.

Join us for a discussion between artists Dr Baharudin Mohd Arus and Jean Marie Syjuco, and exhibition curators Clarissa Chikiamco and Cheng Jia Yun, where they will delve into curatorial narratives and the dynamic process of collaboration between the artists and curators in the exhibition.

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About the Speakers

BAHARUDIN MOHD ARUS is one of Malaysia’s pioneering media artists. Interested in motors from a young age, Baharudin has been making robotic sculptures and kinetic artworks since 1989. He participated in the Balai Seni Visual Negara’s Young Contemporary Art Exhibition in 1969, 1971, 1975 and 1981. Baharudin is a professor at Universiti Malaysia Sabah and has also written several papers on fine art, art education, the indigenous art of Malaysia, the art of Brunei and Islamic art history. He received his BFA and PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia and his MA from the University of Tulsa, USA. He is currently a lecturer in the Art and Design faculty at City University Malaysia.

JEAN MARIE SYJUCO is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, performance, sculpture, installation and video. She is well known for performance art and the collaborative nature of her works. She won the gold medal for Sculpture in the 1980 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition for her minimal nylon string installation titled Traps: A Spatial Approach to Mass and Insinuation. She is also a recipient of the 1990 Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award. She is the co-founder and chief curator of ART LAB: Atelier Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco, a developmental art facility in Manila focused on multi-media art experimentation.

CLARISSA CHIKIAMCO is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, researching on Philippine art, artists’ moving image practice and post-war art of Southeast Asia. Exhibitions at the Gallery she has worked on include “A Fact Has No Appearance: Art Beyond the Object”, “Chua Mia Tee: Directing the Real” and “Nam June Paik: The Future is Now”. She is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at King’s College London.

CHENG JIA YUN is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she researches post-war art of Southeast Asia. Her projects include “Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s”, “Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia 1969–1989” and “Chng Seok Tin: Drawn Through a Press”.

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About “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia”
Join us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia” exhibition.

Through experimentation, these ten Southeast Asian Artists combined installation, performance, audience participation together with video, leading to a new form of art as a result of their interdisciplinary approach.

For more details and upcoming programmes, please visit nationalgallery.sg/SeeMeSeeYou.

STPI Gallery | Arty Afternoon: Geometric Animal Prints
2023-05-07 11:00 - 16:00 | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Join us for an afternoon of stamping fun, based on tangram puzzles! Take inspiration from the various creatures found throughout Rirkrit Tiravanija’s artworks (now showing at our Gallery). Unleash your imagination and create your very own animal prints using geometric shapes – turtles, rhinoceroses or butterflies, anything is possible!

The Modern In Southeast Asian Art: A Reader | Publication Launch & Symposium
2023-05-06 13:00 - 16:30 | National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing, Level 4M, Supreme Court Terrace, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
This symposium will consider the writing of art in Southeast Asia within and across national boundaries in the region. Speakers will respond to the development of the landmark publication “The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader”, touching on issues of modernism and modernity, regionality, vernacular expression and post-coloniality.

They will discuss the locus and languages of the modern in the region and consider how these writings have been circulated, translated, distilled, interpreted and re-presented. The symposium will also highlight the close collaboration between Southeast Asian institutions, agencies and individuals which has resulted in this research publication.

*Note: Please note that the location of the event has changed to the Supreme Court Terrace.

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The symposium includes two panel discussions:

“Debates and Polemics in Southeast Asian art writing”
One of the key dynamics to emerge from the Reader is the lively back-and-forth of textual polemics on art. Focusing on the idea of polemics, the speakers will pull out key instances from the Reader concerned with opposition and debate within Southeast Asian art writing, as well as its meaning and purpose.

“Language and Translation in Southeast Asian art writing”
What were the languages in which the discourse of Southeast Asian modern art was written? What does this linguistic make-up reveal about the field, and how is it reflected in the kind of terminology and vocabulary that has emerged? Issues of translation within the Reader will also be discussed in this panel.

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About “The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader”

Edited by: T.K. Sabapathy and Patrick Flores
Associate Editors: Phoebe Scott and Julie Ewington
Contributing Editors: Antarika, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Horikawa Lisa, Yin Ker, Manuporn Leungaram, Roger Nelson, Roberto Paulino, Seng Yu Jin, Aminudin T.H. Siregar and Simon Soon

Who spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings together nearly 300 texts that were originally published between the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. The texts were produced chiefly in various locations in the region, by artists, critics, historians and curators in 11 languages, many of which had never before been translated into the English language. Years in the making, this publication is the first to present such breadth and depth of art writing in the region of Southeast Asia, and will be a valuable resource to students, teachers and scholars of Southeast Asian studies and art history.

Co-published by National Gallery Singapore and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Two volumes, approx. 1300 pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-981-14-0664-5
S$120 (before GST), 25% discount on the event day

Realtime Trace | Art Exhibition
2023-05-06 12:00 - 2023-05-27 20:00 | 6060 Arts Space, 27 Pradiphat Soi 21, Saphan-Khwai, Phayathai, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
6060 Arts Space presents: An art exhibition that investigates and conveys the concepts of “Real-time” and “Trace” through the artistic practice of four individuals: Akras Pornkajornkijkul, Rungruang Sittirerk, Supapong Laodheerasiri, and Natthaphon Chaiworawat.

“Real-time” refers to computer systems or processes that can send information to be displayed instantaneously. Real-time systems are essential in many technological fields, including telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, and financial services.

This art exhibition collaborates with a group of students in the Interactive Live Performance class, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) through their Live Art activities. Traces from their actions will be transformed into installation art that will be continuously developed until the end of the exhibition.

Exhibition runs 6-27 May 2023

Live performance Schedule

Sat 06.05.2023 l Vernissage (17.30)

Live Performance l (17.30-19.30)

Sat 13.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)

Sat 20.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)

Sat 27.05.2023 l Live Performance (17.30-19.30)
