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Japanese Woodblock Printing Workshop | Geometric Impressions
2025-04-12 10:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | STPI, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore 238236, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Ever wanted to try your hand at woodblock printing? Our introductory workshop is perfect for you!
Our friendly instructors will guide you through the meticulous process of mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock printing). Take inspiration from Tobias Rehberger’s and Angela Bulloch’s striking artworks, created at STPI. Learn to carve unique compositions, layering colours and geometric shapes to create your prints.
Participants are kindly requested to prepare a 3-layered image featuring simple geometric shapes. Recommended for ages 16 and above.

Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
2025-04-08 19:30 - 2025-05-13 22:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
This is not your average documentary workshop. It’s not about the latest gear, or the trendiest topic, or how to make your video go viral. This is about how life is often stranger than fiction, what the functions and techniques of documentary are, and how to tell a compelling non-fiction story for the screen.
The process of ideating, producing, filming, editing your own documentary, plus overcoming the various challenges that will come along with making a documentary, will be the craft journey you will embark upon as a class across the 6 sessions.
By the end of the workshop, you will have made a documentary that you can truly call your own, and present it to the class in a film screening.
There will also be a screening of films by the class which is open to friends and family at the end of the workshop.
Workshop Fee: $950 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit)
Instructor: Jessica Lee
Please register via the form on our website.

The Forest Listens, Their Spirits Cry
2025-04-04 12:00 - 2025-05-18 16:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Featuring works by Gab Mejia (Philippines)
Recipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award, Open Category
Curated by Goh Sze Ying
4 Apr to 18 May 2025
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs
Free admission
Opening | 4 Apr 2025, 12pm – 7pm
Nature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia
Sat 5 Apr 2025, 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here)

Revered as healers, warriors, and teachers, the Baylans of the Talaandig-Manobo have long been guardians of the sacred forests of Mount Kaluntungan in the southern Philippine province of Bukidnon, threatened by an encroaching industrial pace since the Spanish and American colonial period. For the Baylans, the forest is a sacred site—a portal, a threshold. Nature and spirit abide in the Talaandig-Manobo narrative.
Gab Mejia pays homage to this verdant landscape and its people by directing our attention to the queer kinship of two central figures: a head spiritual leader Datu Arayan, and a Baylan initiate and youth leader Krystahl Guina. A new generation of Baylans, they are also members of the Kulahi Pangantucan Performing Arts Group—storytellers, performers, protectors of indigenous heritage. Mejia’s dreamlike portraits animate Datu and Krystal’s deep, unspoken spiritual connection with their land, home, and family amidst the quiet domesticity of their daily rhythms.
The Forest Listens, Their Spirits Cry speaks of a desire to pollinate a dream of a future belonging otherwise.
Presented by Objectifs and supported by the Truthseeker Foundation.

About the Artist
Gab Mejia (he/they) is a queer Filipino photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and environmental engineer. Born and raised in the Philippine archipelago, his work unveils the threads of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, ancestral knowledge, cosmologies, and cultural interconnections to confront our socio-political and ecological crises.
Mejia is a National Geographic Explorer, Climate Pledge Global Storyteller, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers and 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. His work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, ArtPartner, Vogue, United Nations, Manila Times, Fotografiska Shanghai, Photo London and TEDx talks amongst other publications and platforms. He is a Board of Trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines.
About the Curator
Goh Sze Ying is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. At the Gallery, she contributes to the UOB Southeast Asia Gallery long-term display, Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th century. More recently, she worked on exhibitions including Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (2022), Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia (2022), and Something New Must Turn Up (2020). In 2019, she co-curated the sixth edition of the Singapore Biennale, Every Step in the Right Direction.
About the Objectifs Documentary Award
The Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments.
About the Truthseeker Foundation
The Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography.

Join us at our related exhibitions and events:
Exhibition: Mattude by Aziziah Diah Aprilya
Collecting the Clams: An Artist Talk with Aziziah Diah Aprilya – | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 1pm – 2pm (register here)
Exhibition: Tubig Alat (Salt Water) by Geela Garcia
All life depends on Salt: An Artist Talk with Geela Garcia | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 4pm – 5pm (register here)

Tubig Alat (Salt Water)
2025-04-04 12:00 - 2025-05-18 16:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Featuring works by Geela Garcia (Philippines)
Recipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award, Emerging Category
Mentored by Jessica Lim
4 April to 18 May 2025
Lower Gallery 1, Objectifs
Free admission
Opening | 4 Apr 2025, 12pm – 7pm
All life depends on Salt: An Artist talk with Geela Garcia
Sat 5 Apr 2025, 4pm – 5pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (register here)
Smoke blankets the room where Emma Ganila has been scooping brine into an assembly line of tin cans. As salt water boils and evaporates in the tins, blocks of white salt form. Emma has been making Tultul, an artisanal salt only found on Guimaras island.
On Iloilo, an island right across Emma’s, Lorlie Noblezada watches her son, John, face strong breaking waves as he collects seawater with a bamboo pole to start the process of making Budbud salt.
Emma and Lorlie are some of the last artisanal saltmakers in the Philippines. Both have been safekeeping traditional saltmaking processes for decades. However, this craft is in fast decline.
Despite a long history of saltmaking, the Philippines, an archipelago with the fifth-longest coastline in the world, has not produced enough salt for its own needs for the past 15 years. The country has some of the rarest salts in the world, including Tultul and Budbud, and it only needs to ultilise six percent of its coastline to be self-sufficient in salt. But local salts are on the brink of extinction due to unsupportive policies, industry neglect, and climate change.
The process of making artisanal salt is time-consuming and laborious, but still, Emma, at 74, spends her day inside the warm and smoky production house to cook blocks of Tultul salt; Lorlie assesses the seasons and checks if the skies are clear to schedule production of Budbud salt. For these matriarchs, this craft, as much as it is a livelihood, is what binds their families’ day-to-day living.
All life depends on salt.
Presented by Objectifs
Supported by the Truthseeker Foundation
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About the artist
Geela Garcia is a Filipino photographer and multimedia journalist based in Manila, Philippines. Her photographic work, which documents stories of women, food sovereignty, and the environment, aims to write history from the experience of its makers.
She received the Seed Award from the Prince Claus Fund in 2023 for her photojournalism work, and is currently a Shifting Democracies Fellow at Global Press.
Geela’s writing and photography appear on the Thomson Reuters Foundation – Context News, South China Morning Post, and Rappler among others. She is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo Up Next.
About the Mentor
Jessica Lim is currently the director of Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW), a non-profit association based in Cambodia. For most of her professional life, she has worked to provide support and opportunities to visual storytellers in the majority world. Her move to Cambodia built on her previous experience with Drik Picture Library in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a media organisation dedicated to advocating for social equality, where she served as a news and photo editor and photographer liaison. She majored in journalism and graduated from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2006.
Jessica is currently based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where on any given day there is a good chance of meeting water buffalos.
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About the Objectifs Documentary Award
The Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments.
About the Truthseeker Foundation
The Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography.
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Join us at our related events
Exhibition: The Forests Listen, Their Spirits Cry by Gab Mejia
Nature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 2.30pm – 3.30pm at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here)
Exhibition: Mattude by Aziziah Diah Aprilya
Collecting the Clams: An Artist Talk with Aziziah Diah Aprilya – | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 1pm – 2pm (register here)

Mattude
2025-04-04 12:00 - 2025-05-18 16:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Featuring works by Aziziah Diah Aprilya (Indonesia)
Recipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award, Emerging Category
Mentored by Jessica Lim
4 April to 18 May 2025
Lower Gallery 2, Objectifs
Free admission
Opening | 4 Apr 2025, 12pm – 7pm
Artist Talk: Aziziah Diah Aprilya – Collecting the Clams
Sat 5 Apr 2025, 1pm – 2pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (register here)
Mattude is a project where I document the effects of reclamation projects along the coast of Makassar, my hometown in South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Mattude – a local term which means “collecting the clams” – has also come to represent my way of collecting and sharing stories about the resilience of the coastal women of Makassar.
The Makassar city government’s reclamation plans echoes similar developments throughout Indonesia. Reclamation in Makassar started in the late 1990s with road construction, then housing areas, flats, hotels, malls, a new port, and more. To date, 209 hectares of land have been reclaimed, and it is expected that thousands more hectares will be created along the west and north of Makassar’s coastline. The Makassar City Spatial Plan anticipates that reclamation will expand 26% of the city area.
Before reclamation began, the coast of Makassar was a lively fishing community where people could get various types of fish, clams and crabs. For the coastal women, the sea was a means of livelihood, a shared social space, a playground for their children, and a sacred place for rituals.
According to indigenous coastal beliefs, ancestors are thought to live in the water in various forms. There are crocodiles, snakes, dolphins, fish, centipedes, they say. In Bugis and Makassar culture, many still believe that each person has twin crocodiles. We call these ancestors ‘Nene’ or grandmother. During certain celebrations, offerings must be lowered into the sea or river as a sign of gratitude to the grandmother, ancestors, and nature. These rituals are said to prevent bad luck and disaster, and are led by women.
As reclamation continues, the livelihoods and practices of coastal communities have come increasingly under threat. They have lost touch with coastal creatures and tide changes. They are losing their physical and spiritual relationship to the sea.
Since 2017, the coastal women of Makassar have gathered as a means of survival and resistance. They organize protests against the reclamation, and find other ways of making a living. As the excavators reclaim the coast, these women seek to reclaim their own narratives.
Presented by Objectifs
Supported by the Truthseeker Foundation
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About the Artist
Aziziah Diah Aprilya (b.1997), also known as Zizi, is an Indonesian photographer, writer, and art and cultural practitioner based in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Her works often explore environmental, social-cultural, and women issues, and she is also interested in stories about food, rituals, and mythologies. Zizi’s work has been exhibited in Jakarta, Solo, Yogyakarta, and Makassar, and she recently published her first photobook, Got Your Back (SOKONG! Publisher, 2024).
In Makassar, she works closely with urban studies collective, art communities, and literacy groups. Zizi is part of Diversify Photo and Women Photograph and is frequently involved in film production as a still and behind-the-scenes photographer.
About the Mentor
Jessica Lim is currently the director of Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW), a non-profit association based in Cambodia. For most of her professional life, she has worked to provide support and opportunities to visual storytellers in the majority world. Her move to Cambodia built on her previous experience with Drik Picture Library in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a media organisation dedicated to advocating for social equality, where she served as a news and photo editor and photographer liaison. She majored in journalism and graduated from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2006.
Jessica is currently based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where on any given day there is a good chance of meeting water buffalos.
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About the Objectifs Documentary Award
The Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments.
About the Truthseeker Foundation
The Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography.
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Join us at our related exhibitions and events:
Exhibition: The Forests Listen, Their Spirits Cry by Gab Mejia
Nature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 2.30pm – 3.30pm at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here)
Exhibition: Tubig Alat (Salt Water) by Geela Garcia
Artist talk: Geela Garcia – All life depends on Salt | Sat 5 Apr 2025, 4pm – 5pm (register here)

Tapestry 2025
2025-04-04 - 2025-04-06 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
A Tapestry of Sacred Music was launched by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in 2009. The festival offers the rare opportunity for everyone to encounter the beauty of these varied cultural expressions practised by communities all over the world, in a secular setting. Over the years, we have presented more than 36 religious denominations, as well as the sacred art forms of 56 different communities, creating a rich tapestry of some of humanity’s most affecting and powerful musical expressions.

re: intertwining
2025-04-04 - 2025-04-06 | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
re: intertwining dissolves boundaries between dance, sound, light, and voice in a space where creation is alive. Directed and choreographed by Kuik Swee Boon, this exploratory work gathers T.H.E’s dance artists with a cross-disciplinary team, each stepping beyond traditional roles to explore identity and connection.

Audiences are invited to navigate the space freely, encountering individual expressions that clash and coexist. Sound artist Kent Lee shapes the soundscape in real-time, responding to shifts in energy. Lighting designer Adrian Tan sculpts the atmosphere with light and shadow. Theatre practitioners Neo Haibin and Seren Chen layer text and voice, adding resonance to the work’s themes.

This is more than a performance—it is the beginning of a journey—one that raises more questions than answers. re: intertwining asks: How do we co-exist, create, and shape one another in shared time and space? Does coexistence defuse tension, or will the search for harmony reveal deeper uncertainties?

Guided Tours | New Releases Old Friends (Weekday, English Language)
2025-04-03 18:00 - 2025-05-04 19:00, 2025-04-03 14:00 - 2025-05-04 15:00, 2025-04-03 11:30 - 2025-05-04 12:30 | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Join our expert docents for a guided tour to uncover the intricacies of Angela Bulloch, Richard Deacon, Janice Kerbel, Tobias Rehberger and Pae White’s works. Discover how these celebrated artists have continued to push boundaries and redefine their art through their individual residencies with our Creative Workshop.
The tour will include a glimpse into the Creative Workshop, where each artist worked with our expert print and papermakers to create the works on show at New Releases Old Friends.
Guided tours at STPI are free of charge. Drop-in guests are welcome.

Guided Tours | New Releases Old Friends (Weekend, English Language)
2025-04-03 18:00 - 2025-05-04 19:00, 2025-04-03 14:00 - 2025-05-04 15:00, 2025-04-03 11:30 - 2025-05-04 12:30 | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore

STATEMENT PIECE
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-13 | Drama Centre Black Box, Singapore, Select a Country:
Two weeks after a loss that reverberates through the nation, a young gallerist prepares for her first exhibition. Lily has endured constant pressure from her formidable boss, spent countless hours on research, revved up the public for a buzzworthy show – everything for the perfect opening that will cement her name in the art world. The months of suffering are about to pay off at last. But when the final painting arrives, hand-delivered by the reclusive Gopal Rangaraj himself, she is horrified. With the entire exhibition – and her fledgling career – on the line, even the surprise visit from her artist girlfriend Marjia can’t cushion the gravity of the situation. As three different worldviews collide, how much should be sacrificed in the name of Art?
Following the sold-out success of Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes (2023), critically acclaimed playwright Myle Yan Tay returns with Statement Piece, a new play that continually shifts the lens on how the beliefs and choices that push us apart are often born from a yearning for acceptance and community. His signature blend of sharp humour and acute insight is dexterously brought to the stage by director Claire Wong with nuance, elegance, and a sure hand.
Huzir Sulaiman ably takes on dual roles as dramaturg and performer, starring alongside Rusydina Afiqah and Tricia Tan in this powerfully vivid work. Statement Piece interrogates the purpose of art in this country, the limits of our ambitions, and the legacies we leave.

Checkpoint Theatre presents STATEMENT PIECE by Myle Yan Tay
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-13 | Drama Centre Black Box, Singapore, Select a Country:

From Forum Theatre to Devising Theatre
2025-04-01 | The Necessary Stage, 180 Paya Lebar Road, #10-06 Yi Guang Building, Singapore, Singapore, 409032, Singapore
Description of Workshop:
Led by Artistic Director Alvin Tan, and assisted by Associate Artist A Yagnya, the From Forum Theatre to Devising Theatre will see 20 emerging theatre-makers undergo an intensive training programme that journeys from the creative techniques of forum theatre to TNS’ unique devising methodology

Selected participants will have the opportunity to learn from other established theatre practitioners—from directors to playwrights, dramaturgs to designers—through guest lectures and clinics, and will apply their understanding and individual practices in groups to devise new work. Sessions will run for an eight-month period from April to December 2025 and will culminate in public showcases for the participants’ works-in-progress.
Venue for Workshop:

The Necessary Stage
(180 Paya Lebar Road, #10-06, Yi Guang Factory Building, Singapore 409032)

Venue for Final Production:
Drama Centre Black Box

Workshop Fee:
$650 (eligible for payment using SkillsFuture credit. Please note that the SkillsFuture credit is only eligible for Singapore citizens aged 25 and above.)

Entry Requirements:

No strict educational qualifications are required.
Participants are required to have some prior experience in doing professional theatre work and need to be able to show their interest in devised theatre.
Participants need to presently be based in Singapore.

Materials to submit:

A written statement of up to 500 words on why you would like to participate in this workshop.
A recent CV detailing your experience in theatre-making.

Call for applications close on Friday, 14 February 2025, 12pm

PORTALS | cmd.exe
2025-03-29 08:00 - 2025-05-21 17:00 | Battlebox, 2 Cox Terrace, Singapore, Singapore, 179622, Singapore
Produced by Global Cultural Alliance, Portals is an innovative visual art exhibition bridging Singapore’s wartime history with creative technology. Set within the Battlebox, a former WWII command centre, Portals is an exploration of technologies and systems as agents of change to reclaim power and place.
Curated by Jonathan Liu and Shireen Marican, Portals showcases works by seven Singapore-based artists –
Anthony Chin, Dongyan Chen, Ernest Wu, Jake Tan, Huijun Lu, Victoria Hertel, and Zul Mahmod – transforming the historical space into a site of contemporary artistic expression. Through immersive visuals, soundscapes, and sensory experiences, Portals explores themes of power, surveillance, conflict, and time, and the intersection of nature and defence.

SAM Access Showcase 2025: common languages
2025-03-27 - 2025-03-30 | Singapore Art Museum, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065, Singapore, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Join Singapore Art Museum (SAM) for its inaugural Access Showcase that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, where art is a language of care and empowerment! Organised by the SAM Access team, this showcase explores how art can break social barriers, fostering understanding, connection and participation for people of all abilities.
The theme ‘common languages’ highlights the many ways we can communicate and connect, emphasising the power of art as a shared language in bridging differences. Over four days, join SAM as you get to experience thought-provoking talks, interactive workshops, immersive performances, and a hands-on hackathon – all designed to spark new ways of engaging with art.
Be part of this meaningful movement towards a more inclusive art scene and discover how art can create shared experiences.

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

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

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!

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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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/
