Singapore International Festival of Arts will present Three Sisters 三姐妹, a commissioned world premiere from Nine Years Theatre, an award-winning Singapore Mandarin theater company, and SITI Company, a leading New York-based theater ensemble celebrated internationally.
Support for arts and culture groups will be extended as the recent tightening of measures to curb a spike in Covid-19 cases impacts the already beleaguered sector.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
May 24, 2021
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The new phase 2 (heightened alert) regulations might’ve brought most of our social plans to a screeching halt, but that hasn’t put an end to the things to do this week.
With exhibitions and film festivals adopting hybrid and online alternatives, as well as increased safety measures for in-person events, we got you covered.
1. Delve into pluralistic works of the new LASALLE Graduands
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It’s an arts bonanza over at LASALLE, with everything from design, to performance and even art pedagogy on showcase.
The graduates of the MA Fine Arts programme negotiate the “ambivalences, tensions, and paradoxes” in contemporary art in the tongue-in-cheek Beautiful, Nice, and Interesting , while the LASALLE show exhibition presents an extensive body of works from the graduating cohort as their grand finale.
Just when you think you ve checked off all the boxes on your list to rediscover Singapore, the city is peppered with an exciting line-up of exhibitions and events to pique your fancy this month. From a fine jewellery-themed afternoon tea sessions for midweek wind downs to an immersive art experience at the Gardens By The Bay by renowned American artist Dale Chihuly, there s more than meets the eye in May s calendar.
We round up the top events below.
(Image: Charles Lim Yi Yong and STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery)
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Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones
What Featuring six artist-curator pairs, including Heman Chong with Selene Yap, and Debbie Ding with Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, this new exhibition by the Singapore Art Museum explores the ways of collecting contemporary art in the digital age even more so with the array of images and data that increasingly govern our everyday lives.