Pagoda Odyssey Weekend Festival: East-Meets-West
2025-02-22 11:00 - 2025-02-23 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Embark on an East-meets-West cultural odyssey! Experience the blending of cultural traditions through mesmerising performances, engaging hands-on activities, and interactive exhibits.
Enjoy giveaways* with discounted admission to Pagoda Odyssey 1915: From Shanghai to San Francisco during programme hours ($10 for Singapore citizens/PRs; $20 for foreign residents/tourists).
*While supplies last.

TOOLS: A Workshop Series for Playwrights Exploring Theatricality - Magic Props
2025-02-22 13:00 - 16:00 | 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore, S187951, Singapore
This workshop investigates the remapping process, where one thing stands in for another and real-world elements correspond with their stage-space equivalents. What happens when a stick becomes a gun or a house is described as an imaginary zone? We’ll examine the audience’s role in recognizing these substitutions and experiment with how to teach them to understand the play.
This is part of a workshop series by our visiting resident playwright Sean Dunnington. It invites playwrights to be curious about theatricality. Each session dives into a specific element of this conceptual spell, blending discussion, hands-on activities, performance, and experimentation.

The Singapore Mo Yuan Tang Collection Exhibition SG60: The Timeless Lim Tze Peng and Modern Chinese Art Paintings in Singapore
2025-02-23 - 2025-03-09 | ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore, 089065
To commemorate Singapore’s 60 years of nation building, Singapore Mo Yuan Tang Collection is proud to present 2 breathtaking showcases, SG60: The Timeless Lim Tze Peng and Modern Chinese Art Paintings in Singapore at ArtSpace@Helutrans from 23 February to 9 March 2025.

Singapore Mo Yuan Tang (星洲墨缘堂), founded by Mr. Melvin Poh, Founder and Managing Director of homegrown property developer of the Fission Group, holds one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Lim Tze Peng’s work. This exhibition features over 80 paintings and calligraphy pieces by Lim spanning the period of 1960s to the present, including recently completed works by the now 104-year-old artist.
Through this landmark exhibition, Singapore Mo Yuan Tang aims to commemorate SG60 together with the public and recognise Lim’s contribution to the Singapore’s art scene since her post-independence years to the present. As highlighted by Mr. Poh:
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“Singapore’s transition to a modern economy did not wane Mr. Lim’s continued dedication to the arts. In fact, it has strengthened his resolve to continue to innovate in his pursuit for breakthrough in his craft, just like Singapore’s pursuit for excellence in our nation building journey. Mr. Lim’s artistry has left an indelible mark on Singapore’s cultural landscape as Singapore’s urban and economic transformation has on the world.”
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In addition to SG60: The Timeless Lim Tze Peng, Mr. Poh will showcase around 20 Chinese ink pieces drawn from his Singapore Mo Yuan Tang’s significant collection of Modern Chinese Art. The selection includes the works of renowned Chinese masters like Qi Baishi, Fu Baoshi, Wu Guanzhong, Xie Zhiliu, Zhang Daqian, and Xu Beihong. In fact, some of these Chinese artists were known to have frequented and contributed to the Singapore art scene in our early nation building years. The inclusion of these paintings provides visitors a rare opportunity to view these precious historical works and an important window into understanding the rich history and connections that Singapore’s art scene had always had with Chinese artists.
The Singapore Mo Yuan Tang Collection Exhibition – SG60: The Timeless Lim Tze Peng and Modern Chinese Art Paintings in Singapore will be officially opened by distinguished Guest-of-Honour, Ms. Jane Ittogi on Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3pm (Private opening, by invitation only).

Queering the Play: A Very Specific Timeline from One Gay Jew
2025-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore, S187951, Singapore
What makes a play queer? Must it feature primarily queer characters? Does it necessarily centre on timeless queer narratives— coming out, oppression, political change? Or is it enough that the play, like all queers, tries to find a new way of seeing and being in the world— a play that builds theatrical worlds that resist orthodoxy, authority, and received binaries? Join visiting Writer in Residence Sean Dunnington in conversation with playwright Joel Tan as they pry open these questions, featuring readings from Sean’s plays that reflect the shifting sensibilities and approaches to queerness in his work over the years.

PLAYtime: The Bird Who Was Afraid of Heights
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-16 | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Being afraid of heights isn’t such a big deal—unless you’re a bird! Meet Eddie, a mynah, who lives behind an abandoned old house with Matt the rat, his best and only friend. One day, Matt is captured by the big, black crow! What does Eddie have to do to save his best friend? Will he have the courage to do it?
Flutter, flap and fly with Eddie as he attempts the bravest rescue ever in the history of bird-kind! Watch the magic of theatre and music unfold right before your eyes in this delightful performance.
Adapted from the book The Bird Who Was Afraid of Heights by Farah Bagharib-Kaltz, illustrated by Eeshaun, published by Straits Times Press.
A programme of 60 Connections – At Home and Afar, a year-long season of Singapore stories and international collaborations in celebration of SG60.
PIP Says
This is a text-based performance that encourages children to believe in themselves. Through Eddie’s journey, children explore how understanding emotions builds confidence, resilience and hope.
Production Credits
Director: Deonn Yang
Playwright: Zizi Majid
Composer and Sound Designer: Stan
Set Designer: Grace Lin
Lighting Designer: Emanorwatty Saleh
Costume Designer: Theresa Chan
Puppet maker and Consultant: Ang Hui Bin
Performers: Clement Yeo, Dalifah Shahril, Jodi Chan, Marcus Cheong
Production Manager: Marilyn Chew
Stage Manager: Benjamin Lye
Assistant Stage Manager: Jasmine Khaliesah

Objectifs Film Club X Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance Of A Humble Atheist
2025-02-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance of a Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping x One Way Street by Walter Benjamin
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 | 7.30pm – 9pm
Venue: Objectifs Workshop Space
Organised in collaboration with the NUS Malay Studies Department
Free admission, please RSVP here.
Please note that as this is a film screening x reading group, participants will be required to finish the reading beforehand in order to partake in the programme. You may access the reading at this link.

Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street is an essayistic voyage of leaps, disjuncture, misleads, and occasional dead-ends. A bewildering read, likely to be influenced by Surrealism in the 1920s, it comprises meditative fragments of extreme brevity, cryptic ellipses, and satisfying length on a range of subjects and formats – dreams, cities, childhood, diary, writing advice. One can start reading back to front, from the middle then either way, it doesn’t matter. The fragments of prose hang together like a collage, which may only make ‘sense’ if we appreciate what collage does and the effect it creates. Headings with the name of a city do not tell us much about the place, upsetting the relationship between ‘title’ and ‘content’.
We may find similar experimentations with form and content in the film Dance of the Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping, in which the filmmaker meditates on ‘death, faith, the possibility of the afterlife, the natural world, consciousness, and time.’ A larger question we will explore in our discussion is: Where, when, why, and how do we make space for and embrace incoherence, absences, empty spaces, non-linearity, nonsense, and irrationality? Engaging the essay and film as companion pieces, this Film Club x Reading Group session invites readers to unpick and unravel our taken-for-granted notions of ‘form’ that structure our experience of art and culture.
The discussion will focus on the following ‘fragments’ from One-Way Street: No. 113, Chinese curios, Gloves, Mexican embassy, Construction site, Teaching aid, Post no bills, No. 13, Arc lamp, Loggia, Travel souvenirs, Polyclinic, Legal Protection of the needy, To the Planetarium. Access the reading here.
The session will be led by Alicia Izharuddin.

Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish writer and philosopher whose influential work on art, history, modernity, and capitalism has become a protean and prophetic lens for our collective past, present and future. Although he wrote mainly about the ruins and emerging cultures of Paris and Berlin, the essence of his arguments about how we write and experience the historical present, how we experience art, and how we must engage with the relentless onslaught of capitalism are relevant to us living at a time defined by both ruin and perpetual states of emergence.
Key themes that animate Walter Benjamin’s well-known writings can be appreciated in Southeast Asian filmmaking. The Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group is a space for re-reading Benjamin’s work through Southeast Asian films about cultural memory, collective pasts and futures, post-colonialism legacies, and affect in an age of information overload.

About Dance of a Humble Atheist
An existential journey of semi-abstract imagery inspired by the filmmaker’s personal ruminations on death, spiritual faith, nature and the cosmos. From the funeral of a dying being, a wondrous cornucopia after life, to a phosphoric revolt of consciousness. This silent film is created entirely via frame-by-frame animation, using digital scans of over six hundred individually sculpted ceramic reliefs. With production support from Pinch Ceramics Studio (Singapore).
About the facilitator
Alicia Izharuddin is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in Gender and Sexuality at the National University of Singapore where she teaches courses on film and gender in Southeast Asia. She is committed to the public engagement of academia through organising reading groups in bookshops and women’s rights organisations. An interdisciplinary scholar in gender studies by training, she has taught at the University of Malaya, Harvard University, and held prestigious fellowships at the Harvard Divinity School and Leiden University.
About the filmmaker
Toh Hun Ping is a video artist, experimental filmmaker and film researcher. His video works explore and express themes of mental instability, alternate realities, resistance and existence. He employs experimental moving image-making methods from film-scratching, bleaching photographs, merging materials (mud, meat, nails) with video stills, to stop-motion animation with ceramic reliefs. The works have been presented in exhibitions and film festivals in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Boston and Bangkok. As a film researcher, he is investigating the history of filmmaking in early-mid 20th century Singapore, and has served as researcher-writer and video editor for projects organised by The National Museum of Singapore and Asian Film Archive (‘State of Motion’). He also started the Singapore Film Locations Archive, a private video collection of films made in and about Singapore, and runs a website about the intrigues of old Singapore film locations (sgfilmlocations.com).
About the NUS Malay Studies Department
The NUS Malay Studies department aims to promote intellectual awareness to the concerns of the globalised Malay world through world-class teaching and research. It is home to the interdisciplinary synthesis of local, decolonial, and western approaches to Malay cultures of Southeast Asia and beyond. The department also maintains strong links with the local community in terms of policy studies, public intellectual engagement and social service.
About the Objectifs Film Library
The Objectifs Film Library is an initiative by Objectifs that aims to be a resource for film lovers in Singapore and the region. Currently, the collection is focused on short films from Southeast Asia.
Users will be able to rent some of these films to watch in the comfort of their homes, and a wider selection is available exclusively at our centre.
Access the Objectifs Film Library here.

YSDAF 2025: Pitch Start
2025-03-01 08:00 - 2025-03-30 23:59
The Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival (YSDAF) celebrates a decade of arts and community. Since 2014, Pitch Start has been an integral component of YSDAF and is an avenue for artistes or arts groups to pitch their ideas based on a given theme.

For YSDAF 2025, themed “Community: Side by Side”, Pitch Start is calling for creative and meaningful ideas to engage Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) through the arts and encourage collaboration between people of all abilities.

Successful applicants stand a chance to win a grant of up to RM30,000. The project team is expected to run a 6 to 8-week programme to conceptualise, train and / or devise a presentation or performance with participants comprising PWDs to be premiered at YSDAF 2025 Urban Tour’s Community Stage.

Deadline for all entries is 30 March 2025, 11.59pm Malaysian time.

For guidelines and application forms, visit ysdartsfestival.com.my/pitch-start/.

For more details about YSDAF, check out ysdartsfestival.com.my.

Arts@SBG: NAC-ExxonMobil Concert in the Gardens presents Budak Pantai
2025-03-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569, Singapore, 259569, Singapore
Let homegrown a cappella mavericks Budak Pantai take you on a musical joyride filled with smooth harmonies, cheeky twists, and songs you know and love—some given a fresh (and possibly irreverent) spin. From soulful ballads to bopping tunes, expect an evening where anything can happen, and probably will.
So spread out your picnic mats, warm up your vocal cords, and get ready to laugh, sing, and maybe even join in the fun—because with Budak Pantai, the music isn’t just on stage, it’s everywhere.

Golden Point Award 2025 is now open for submissions
2025-03-03 - 2025-05-12
Singapore’s premier creative writing competition, the Golden Point Award (GPA), returns with its 17th edition this year. Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL) in collaboration with Singapore Book Council (SBC), GPA is a significant platform for uncovering literary talents while nurturing a thriving community of writers and providing fertile ground for literary innovation and expression in Singapore. GPA will be accepting online submissions from 3 March 2025 – 12 May 2025, 6pm (SGT), in the Short Story and Poetry categories in Singapore’s four official languages: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, and the Translation: Short Story category in English. This year’s winners will receive a cash prize of up to $6,000, trophies, and access to a mentorship programme. Interested participants can submit their entries on https://artshouselimited.sg/gpa.

Monstress – The Reclaiming of Medea and Medusa
2025-03-06 15:00 - 2025-03-09 21:00 | ART:DIS Bukit Merah, 3779 Jalan Bukit Merah, #03-02 Community Hub, Singapore 159462., Singapore, 159462., Singapore
Can we create a community that is ready to offer support, before it’s too late?
Mei, a young blind girl who has recently moved into a new neighbourhood finds solace in an unlikely friendship with Melissa, a mother struggling to protect and care for her son with high support needs. As their lives intertwine, they instinctively recognize the hidden wounds each carries, navigating a world that often silences the most vulnerable. From playwrights Jean Tay and Claire Teo, who stars with main cast Oon Shu An and Syarifuddin Sahari, under director Yvan Karlsson and choreographer Zhuo Zi Hao, this play challenges audiences to rethink justice, compassion and what it truly means to see and be seen in a fractured world.
Presented as part of ART:DIS Emerging Artist programme that supports the professional development of disabled artists, made possible through the Enabling Lives Initiative grant, come experience this development showcase made for and with the disabled community. It features embedded accessibility such as Creative Captions and Creative Narration for the neurodiverse, D/deaf, hard-of-hearing and visually-impaired. The venue is also wheelchair and guide dog-friendly. With themes of sexual violence and abuse, which may be distressing to some audience members, viewer discretion is advised (suitable for ages 18+).

Hope you are keeping well! | In Dialogue with Hu Rui and Huijun Lu
2025-03-06 17:00 - 18:00
Hope you are keeping well! | In Dialogue with Hu Rui and Huijun Lu
Thursday 6 March 2025, 5pm to 6pm
Held online via Zoom
Register here
Hu Rui and Huijun Lu explore the implications of emergent technologies, raising ethical and environmental concerns. In the fast-paced capitalism-driven AI development, might we ever predict and prevent financial crises? How can we balance technological progress with environmental care? Join Rui and Huijun in this online conversation, as they share their creative processes, recent reflections, and explore the roles and responsibilities of artists in navigating these complex issues.
This conversation will be moderated by curator Lenette Lua.
*Please note that conversation will be hosted in English.
Part of Curator Open Call
Presented by Objectifs
Supported by Cultural Matching Fund
Graphic Identity: Studio Vanessa Ban
About Hu Rui
Hu Rui works with videos, installations, and computer simulation. His practice engages with issues around temporality from a multitude of variables, including causality, prediction, choice, and language. He is the recipient of the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival and a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival Croatia. He is an Assistant Professor in Computation and Design at Duke Kunshan University.
About Huijun Lu
Huijun Lu works at the intersections of art, music, engineering and computing. Lu’s practice culminates in kinetic installations, sculptures, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that examine the function of objects, observations about the unnoticed in our environments, and technology’s role in mediating relationships with our surroundings.
About the curator
Lenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political, economic, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative,’ exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops. She was the recipient of the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2024 Award.

March On: A Drop in the Ocean
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-09 | Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
A drop falls into the ocean—wondrous and free, with a vast unknown ahead. The still waters are teeming with life: whales call, fishes leap, and new experiences await!
Specially designed for pre-walking babies, crawlers and early walkers aged 3 to 15 months, this immersive, non-verbal, theatrical experience explores the magic and mysteries of the ocean. Through music, sounds and movement, babies will engage in a sensory-rich journey that nurtures their imagination and curiosity.
First developed by Ian Loy in 2019, in collaboration with Ellison Tan, Myra Loke, and Serene Tan (Stan) under Esplanade’s Theatre for Young Audiences Associate Artist programme, this work is co-produced by The Artground and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.
In December 2024, the production had a work-in-development season at the Sydney Opera House, with six sold-out showcases.
Performers: Ian Loy, Ellison Tan, Myra Loke, Chew Shaw En
Sound Design and Live Music: Serene Tan (Stan)
Co-Produced by: The Artground

Open call for Singapore Fringe Festival 2026
2025-03-07 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
OPEN CALL FOR SINGAPORE FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026

Be part of Singapore Fringe Festival 2026!
In our increasingly connected, complex and often conflicted world, the Fringe seeks to present meaningful, socially engaged and provocative art to encourage civil and open dialogue and collaboration. Through our programming, we hope to collectively dream and create a more inclusive and compassionate future.
Apply by 7 March 2025, 12 noon Singapore time
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/sgfringe2026

Open call for Singapore Fringe Festival 2026
2025-03-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
Be part of Singapore Fringe Festival 2026!
In our increasingly connected, complex and often conflicted world, the Fringe seeks to present meaningful, socially engaged and provocative art to encourage civil and open dialogue and collaboration. Through our programming, we hope to collectively dream and create a more inclusive and compassionate future.
Apply by 7 March 2025, 12 noon Singapore time
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/sgfringe2026

Crossing Cultures at ACM: Storytelling Through Time
2025-03-07 19:00 - 2025-03-09 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
This March at ACM, explore Asian storytelling through a showcase of ancient traditions and modern forms. Performances, workshops, and tours bring oral traditions, the power of the written word, and digital narratives to life.
Get free popcorn and a frozen drink*! Collect your redemption tickets from the Foyer, Level 2.
*Limited to one redemption per person. While supplies last.

Learn Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
2025-03-10 09:00 - 2025-03-11 17:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Adobe Premiere Pro is an industry-standard software used by professional video editors.
In this two-day video editing workshop suitable for beginners, participants will learn how to combine and edit video, audio, effects, animation, titles and other elements to build a completed video project.
At the end of this workshop, participants will feel comfortable working in the Premiere environment to assemble and edit video projects.
This course assumes little to no prior knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro.
The course will be broadly useful to not only those working in film but also those who have to edit and produce good quality videos in the course of their work, such as marketers, educators, non-profit staff, artists and students, or for personal use such as home movies and videos to document holidays or special family occasions.
Dates: 10 to 11 Mar 2025
1. Mon 10 Mar, 9am – 5pm
2. Tue 11 Mar, 9am – 5pm
Workshop Fee
$680.00
This workshop is eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit.
Please register via the form on our website.

Kian Soltani and Amsterdam Sinfonietta
2025-03-11 19:30 - 21:10 | Esplanade Concert Hall, Esplanade Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Dr., Singapore, 038981, Singapore, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
“Soltani fills gracefully shaped phrases with eloquent, butterscotch-tinted cello sound. He crafts a lucid, clearly defined and distinctly classical reading, not without humour”
–Gramophone on Soltani’s performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
“…Amsterdam Sinfonietta clearly demonstrated why it is considered to be one of the Netherland’s top orchestras…the musicians breathed in unison as one woman (the majority wins), presenting a truly convincing interpretation packed with excitement and intensity.”
– Dagblad de Limburger by Maurice Wiche
Praised for his “sheer perfection” by The Times, virtuoso cellist Kian Soltani joins the acclaimed Amsterdam Sinfonietta for their highly anticipated Singapore debut at Esplanade.
Under the direction of visionary violinist Candida Thompson, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta has earned international recognition for its bold, genre-defying collaborations and its commitment to innovative programming and unparalleled artistry. Together with Soltani—winner of the prestigious International Paulo Cello Competition and recipient of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award at the Lucerne Festival in 2017—they will present a mesmerising programme that spans the works of Schubert, Mendelssohn, and the iconic Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. This celebrated concerto, a masterpiece of symphonic elegance, is a favourite among cellists and a testament to Haydn’s genius.

Scriptwriting Workshop
2025-03-12 19:30 - 2025-04-16 22:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
A good story and script form the foundation of all successful films. Designed for the beginner screenwriter or filmmaker with little or no film or television experience, this workshop aims to build a solid foundation in screenwriting through a blend of lectures and writing exercises.
Taking the short film as a starting point, participants will learn how to craft stories from experienced Singaporean practitioners, and turn their ideas into screenplays with interesting characters and compelling plots. Participants will learn the fundamentals of the 3-act narrative structure, visual storytelling, and how to craft dialogue and characters for the screen. The learning experience will be enhanced by online critique and discussions of writing exercises in-between class sessions. At the end of the workshop, each participant will have a completed first draft for a short film (up to 10 pages).
Workshop Fee: $480 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit)
Next Dates: 12 Mar to 16 Apr 2025
Please register via the form on our website.

LENScape: Screening
2025-03-13 19:30 - 2025-03-15 21:30 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs
13 to 15 Mar 2025
Ticket prices (per screening programme)
Concession ticket (student) – $8 (please note that ID may be verified at the door)
General ticket – $10
Presenting the selected films from the 2025 edition of LENScape: Documentary Shorts from Southeast Asia, a new short film programme that celebrates the creative spirit of the documentary form. Co-organised by Objectifs and In-Docs, the selected short films will screen in Indonesia within November 2024 to February 2025, and Singapore in March 2025. The programme welcomes films of all topics and themes.
Supported by the Silvana S Foundation.
Thu 13 Mar 2025, 7.30pm – 9.30pm | Programme 1 – Capitalist Dreams: Profit or People?
Rating – NC16 (Some Coarse Language)
Fri 14 Mar 2025, 7.30pm – 9pm | Programme 2 – Remnants of Time
Rating – PG13 (Some Mature Content)
Sat 15 Mar 2025, 7.30pm – 930pm | Programme 3 – Murmurs of Kinship
Rating – PG13 (Brief Coarse Language)
Find out more about the films and get your tickets via: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/lenscapescreenings-2025/

Open Call- ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR – 13TH EDITION
2025-03-14 - 2025-03-27
ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the open call for the 13th edition of ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025, an international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art, which will take place in Rome, at ITSLIQUID Monti – Rome Art Space from March 14 to March 27, 2025.
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2025 provides artists and exhibitors with the unique opportunity to present their works to an international audience of professionals as curators, gallerists, collectors, editors and publishers who seek to acquire, publish and encourage the best contemporary art talents.
Deadline for applications is December 20, 2024 (11.59 PM your local time)
Artists, photographers, video makers, and performers are invited to submit their works. To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video art), links to videos/films/performances and pictures via e-mail to info@itsliquid.com

March On: Goldfish
2025-03-14 - 2025-03-16 | Singtel Waterfront Theatre at The Esplanade, 8 Raffles Ave., Singapore 039802, Singapore, Singapore, 039802, Singapore
The stage is set, and everything begins as it would in any theatre show. But then, chaos ensues—a flood warning is announced and the theatre suddenly transforms into an emergency centre as people rush in.
Amid the turmoil, ordinary objects transform into something entirely unexpected and new—a blue tarp becomes the ocean, canned food turns into walls, and rice bags hold back the rising water. Can we find the key to preventing an impending disaster?
Created by Terrapin in collaboration with Japanese artists Kouhei Narumi and Ayami Sasaki, Goldfish blends stunning design with imaginative puppetry. A unique theatre experience, Goldfish invites families to imagine new possibilities in an uncertain world.

Armenian Street Party: Peranakan Stars
2025-03-14 17:00 - 2025-03-16 22:00 | Peranakan Museum, 39 Armenian St, Singapore, Singapore 179941, Singapore
Get ready for a weekend of star power at the Armenian Street Party as beloved Peranakan culture takes centre stage in a showcase of art, fashion, exciting performances, culinary delights, and more.
Armenian Street Party: Peranakan Stars is presented in partnership with the Peranakan Association Singapore, the Arab Network @ Singapore, the Peranakan Indian (Chitty Melaka) Association Singapore, and Mediacorp Pte Ltd.

Jeremy Monteiro at 65 – The State of My Art
2025-03-14 19:30 - 21:15 | Esplanade Concert Hall, Esplanade Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Dr., Singapore, 038981, Singapore, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Join Jeremy Monteiro as he showcases the breadth of his musical vista. From his virtuosic trio, quartet and quintet to the swinging big band sounds with the Jazz Association Singapore Orchestra, featuring eminent guests, this promises to be an intriguing and entertaining evening.
Jeremy’s latest recordings have reached the Top 50 of the USA National Jazzweek Charts four times in the last four years, including his vocal album Sings, which he will also feature in this concert. Alongside Jeremy and his ensemble, the JASSO big band will host special guests, including renowned bassist Jay Anderson, trumpeter Nicolas Folmer—co-founder of the Paris Big Band, exciting Taiwanese flutist Jenny Tsai, Baritone saxophonist Roxy Modesto holding down the low notes in the big band, as well as his mentor and godfather of Singapore jazz and Cultural Medallion recipient, vocalist and drummer Louis Soliano. Cultural Medallion recipient Violinist Lynnette Seah and the young and exciting Singaporean saxophonist Sean Hong Wei who is making waves in New York as well as many of Jeremy’s regular collaborators from Singapore and the region will also join the performance.
The show will be a musical odyssey exploring the phases of Jeremy’s 48-year career since he began learning the piano. It will offer rare personal glimpses into the life and times of this distinguished Singapore Cultural Medallion recipient.

March On: Biru and the Deep Blue Sea
2025-03-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Esplanade Concert Hall, Esplanade Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Dr., Singapore, 038981, Singapore, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Dive into the magical world of Biru and the Deep Blue Sea, a symphonic journey that transports you to the enchanting depths of the ocean.
Lost in a strange new place, Biru struggles to recall who he is and where home is. On his mesmerising quest to find his way back, he ventures through vibrant coral reefs, mystical underwater caves, and the vast, open sea. Join Biru on a remarkable odyssey, charting the rich cultural landscapes of the oceans, from Southeast Asia to the Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans.
This musical odyssey combines hauntingly beautiful melodies with captivating storytelling, from the grandeur of the whale’s serenade to the thrill of a sunken treasure hunt. Let the symphony’s enchanting music guide you through the ocean’s hidden wonders, deepening your appreciation for its beauty.
Don’t miss this unforgettable performance that will leave you spellbound and eager to explore the mysteries of the deep sea!

Parts of Some Body
2025-03-20 20:00 - 2025-03-21 21:30 | Stamford Arts Centre, 0202, 155 Waterloo Street, Singapore, Singapore, 187962, Singapore
parts of some body
A body of work about its parts
20 & 21 March 2025 @ Stamford Arts Centre Black Box
Directed by Marzipan
Performed by Alton, Din, Jing Wen & Shruthi
Duration: 1hr (inclusive of post show dialogue), no intermission
Rating: to be advised

“parts of some body” is a celebration of the physicality of the dancer through our body parts. We use the body in its entirety, yet our mastery of it is tested through its isolated intricacies and articulation. The body is our tool, our language and our temple. It is made up of body parts, each with its own unique story, performing a function on its own as well as in tandem with others to achieve more than the sum of its parts. This is the deconstruction of the human body – made up of multiple dancers, in a surreal world where body parts float, move on their own and tell of their struggles and triumphs.

It is directed by ‘Marzipan’ aka Marcus Tan (IG: marzipansgd) who is more than just a dancer—he is a seeker, a storyteller, and a bridge between movement and meaning. Constantly developing his craft through the lens of a choreographer, educator, performer and community driver. Marzipan’s style of work often crosses between the boundaries of tradition, heritage and innovation. He uses street dance language layered with contemporary thought and experimentation to create worlds of exploration. His work is performed by a versatile cast, Jing Wen, Alton, Din & Shruthi who have rich backgrounds in street, traditional and contemporary dance styles.

Love Connects: My Life in Dance by Goh Soo Khim
2025-03-21 10:00 - 2025-04-13 17:00 | The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Rd, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 228120, Singapore
The Private Museum is delighted to present Love Connects: My Life in Dance by Goh Soo Khim, a book launch accompanied by a special exhibition that offers a glimpse into her journey in dance, her artistic influences, and her enduring legacy in the cultural landscape in Singapore.
Cultural Medallion recipient Goh Soo Khim is a pioneering figure whose influence extends far beyond the stage. As co-founder of the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT), now known as Singapore Ballet, the doyenne has shaped the landscape of dance in Singapore, nurturing generations of dancers.
Her memoir, as told by Phan Ming Yen, traces a life in motion—chronicling the triumphs, sacrifices, and the devotion that have defined her life in dance and beyond. In dialogue with the book, the exhibition explores vignettes of life-long relationships forged through art and poignant moments from her time with SDT.
The exhibition presents a series of photographs by Robin PE Chee and Tan Ngiap Heng, long-time photographers who have documented SDT’s performances for decades—alongside an intimate selection of works from her private collection, featuring renowned and established artists whose works resonate with her journey. Through the lens of photography and the visual arts, it highlights the artistic collaborations, shared influences, and her enduring love for the arts.
At the heart of both the book and the exhibition is a singular theme—love. Love, in its purest form, is the driving force behind all that Goh Soo Khim has built: the communities she has nurtured, the dancers she has inspired, and the legacy she continues to shape.

Pagoda Odyssey International Conference
2025-03-22 10:00 - 2025-03-23 17:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Faith and Forms
The Visual and Material Legacy of Christianity in China, from the 17th Century to Today
Christianity reached China as early as the seventh century, during the Tang dynasty. However, its presence was limited until the arrival of several Jesuit missions in the sixteenth century, which also brought Western science, mathematics, astronomy, cartography, and art to China.
In this two-day conference, scholars and experts from around the world come together to examine the complex relationship between Christianity and Chinese culture. Speakers will explore how Christian ideas, aesthetics, and religious iconography have been woven into the fabric of Chinese visual art, material culture, and architecture, from the seventeenth century to today.
This conference is held in conjunction with the special exhibition Pagoda Odyssey 1915: From Shanghai to San Francisco (till 1 June 2025).

Book Reading - Our Home, Our Stories
2025-03-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Book Bar, 57 Duxton Road Singapore 089521, Singapore, 089521, Singapore
📖 Book Reading! 📖
Join us for a special reading session of our book ‘Our Home, Our Stories: Voices of Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore’ on 23 March, Sunday, 3PM at Book Bar!
‘Our Home, Our Stories’ offers a look through the eyes of domestic workers as they share real-life stories, from childhoods in mountain villages to rogue agents and difficult employers, and that one thing they all suffer from the most: homesickness, and the pain of leaving their families behind – in Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and India.
Our contributors, Jo Ann Dumlao, Kina Hidayah Kastari, Novia Arluma, and Miriam Escander will be reading their stories at the event. The session will be moderated by the book’s editor Karien van Ditzhuijzen, a long-time HOME volunteer who conducts writing workshops at HOME’s shelter.
Books will be available for sale at $20 each!

Arts & Disability Forum 2025
2025-03-25 09:30 - 2025-03-29 17:00 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
The Arts and Disability Forum (ADF) organised by ART:DIS, and supported by National Arts Council Singapore, returns for its sixth edition in 2025. This year’s forum expands discussions on accessibility from diverse Asian perspectives, bringing together voices from across the region and in Singapore to share their journeys toward a more inclusive future. Attendees will explore key topics such as inclusive programming, professional practice development, and authentic representation, hearing directly from individuals with lived experiences as well as creative practitioners and cultural institutions. With an expected 300 sector professionals, creatives, academics and programmers in attendance, explore key trends and best practices in the field to cultivate more diverse and inclusive audiences.
Supported by the National Arts Council with programme partner Esplanade, knowledge partner Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and University of the Arts Singapore, and programme collaborators National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and National Heritage Board, let’s learn, share and grow together for a better tomorrow that embraces everyone!
Programme Rundown

25 March 2025: Plenary at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
26 March 2025: Behind The Hold Collection by Beyond Vision International and National Gallery Singapore
27 March 2025: Learning Journeys by Museum Roundtable to Children’s Museum
28 March 2025: Access 101 Workshops by ART:DIS Singapore
29 March 2025: Performing Normal at Singapore Art Museum

The Choir of Keble College Oxford in Singapore
2025-03-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore Symphonia Company Limited 11 Empress Place #01-02 Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, 179558, Singapore
The Choir of Keble College is one of Oxford’s leading mixed-voice ensembles. It is made up of undergraduate and postgraduate members of the University of Oxford and is central to the life of the College’s chapel, perhaps the grandest ecclesiastical space in Oxford. Many of our choral scholars go on to pursue careers as professional singers with recent graduates gaining places with top developmental groups including Genesis Sixteen and the Voces8 Scholars. In recent years the choir has performed in Italy, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Czech Republic and Sweden, as well as widely in the UK, and regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio. The choir has made a number of CD recordings, which have received enthusiastic reviews. The latest, ‘Resurrexi! Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers’, with Instruments of Time & Truth, was released on CRD in 2022.

‘…eager and engaging performances… this is an immensely enjoyable recording.’
Gramophone.

Featured Works:
Bach Komm, Jesu Komm (BWV229)
Poulenc Salve Regina
Holst Nunc Dimittis
