i am not here is designed as an eight-step guide in how to censor women’s writing, which plays out in a boxing ring. In parts dark, funny, and brutal, this dance-theatre production looks at the subtle and insidious ways in which women’s writing gets flicked to the fringes. Women sit uncomfortably just out of the history…
I know we’ve barely even met, and I hope you’ll forgive me for saying this. Because I want to say… it’s terrifying—to live. That we’re expected to imagine how we are to go on living, when we know what we know. About the world. About the way we’re going, about how little control we really…
Dick Lee returns to the stage in an intimate performance of storytelling and song. Where his earlier productions have taken us from his humble beginnings as a teen talent in the 1970s (Wonder Boy) to his road to Japan in the 80s (The Adventures of the Mad Chinaman), we now go headlong into his Asian…
Kick off 2021 with something different and most refreshing – a “Grand Tour” of wind quintet music, with celebrated quintets by Franz Danzi, Jacques Ibert and Carl Nielsen. The wind players will be joined by Concordia Quartet in two masterpieces for wind and strings – the Mozart quartet for oboe and strings and Brahms’ quintet…
The Singapore Lyric Opera is proud to present an evening of rare Baroque operatic jewels with some of the most talented local singers supported by the SLO Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joshua Kangming Tan. Baroque operas date back to the 16th century, the plots of which are usually based on classical Greek and Roman mythology.…
#THEATRE is a site-specific conversation between design collective INDEX and the Esplanade Theatre. The stories and memories of the theatre space drift invisibly within the room—hanging in the air, lingering on the walls and settling in the crevices. Seeking to unravel these hidden textures, #THEATRE is a personal dialogue with the theatre itself, made with…
In a Singapore where dialects have been losing relevance for generations, Grandmother Tongue traces a young man’s struggle to connect with his 84-year-old Teochew-speaking grandmother. He teaches her to use a mobile phone. He helps her buy her favourite brand of soya sauce. He visits her in hospital after a fall. Along the way, he begins to…
Cuturi Gallery is delighted to usher in the New Year with Flowa Powa, a solo exhibition by Julien des Monstiers’ (b. 1983, France). Embracing an intuitive and liberated approach to painting, des Monstiers presents five new paintings foregrounding floral motifs in his signature style. Born in 1983, des Monstiers graduated from the prestigious École Nationale…
Projection mapping is a fun visual technique that creates depth in the surfaces of objects and buildings to bring them to life. Learn the basics behind projection mapping installations, prepare your own surface using materials provided by the instructor, make your own visuals (or use ones provided), and with the provided projectors, learn how to…
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