Ang Mo Kio Arts Fest   We sure are enjoying the likes of art galleries like National Gallery Singapore, but there’s no need to venture far from home when we’re already surrounded by the arts. From now to 25 March 2018 , there’ll be a series of artsy events held...

Things to do at Light to Night Festival 2018: Colour Sensations   Image credit: National Gallery Singapore If you’re looking for something to do at night in Singapore that isn’t watching a movie or going out for drinks, National Gallery Singapore’s Light to Night Festival 2018: Colour Sensations ’ art...

Singapore Art Week 2017   Source Some of us are art aficionados, some of us feel clueless around paint brushes. But whatever your artistic inclinations - art enthusiast or just someone curious about art - Singapore Art Week is here again with over 100 different arts offerings, many of them...

Baring it all   Source: TUCKY/Cake Theatrical Productions We’ve been touted as the best city in Asia to live in, and flourished on the global stage with one of the most advanced economies. Yet, we’re still known for playing it too safe and being averse to taboos of any degree....

About Lit Up 2014   It was three days of dramatic performances, comedy, some tears, and a whole lot of friendship in this tiny community. This year’s theme was all about “walking the equator”, but I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant until I was drowning in confessional poetry, deprecatory...

About Lit Up 2014   Self-professed followers of the local indie scene: if you haven’t already been gingerly waiting for this year’s edition of Lit Up - and shame on you if that is the case - this is a friendly reminder for you to show up at Aliwal Arts...

Analogue photography, flash fiction, lettering, improv comedy? Been thinking about it for a while but…just…haven’t…quite…mustered up the gumption…to roll up your sleeves and try it? In his book, Anam Cara , the late John O’Donohue touches on the poetics of growth: “Possibility and change become growth within the shape of...

SEVEN performance poets from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur will stage an hour-long spoken word performance at Lit Up 2013 this coming weekend (19 to 21 July). "Spoken Word" is story-telling, poetry and intelligent thought – in short, words jumping right out from their pages. From birth rates to migration to...

No, this isn’t about music from Motown or WOMAD. It’s about Singapore’s tenacious community of artists, with practices across different genres, including music. Just as surely as Singapore, Inc. continues to push ahead with cries for higher productivity and population growth, the city’s artists strengthen their contributions to nourishing their...