An online interactive workshop and theatre performance. Sang Kancil is a small and clever mousedeer who uses its wit and intelligence to triumph over creatures more powerful than itself in the animal kingdom. The Tales of Sang Kancil is a compilation of folktales for children, based on adventures of Sang Kancil in the Malay world. The programme (a performance video and two traditional dance workshop videos), designed for children between 4 to 8 years, touches on various art forms and…
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ArtScience Museum's new VR Gallery is a permanent gallery space that celebrates curiosity, innovation and experimentation through cutting-edge virtual reality artworks. The VR Gallery offers one-of-a-kind immersive experiences from some of the world’s most renowned artists, scientists, museums and film festivals through state-of-the-art VR headsets and controllers, exploring the unlimited possibilities of VR on a cinematic scale by pushing the boundaries of reality and discovering the unexplored. Spacewalkers - which blurs the lines between fairytale and fiction - is a soaring exploration…
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Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger Balm King, offers an after-hours, private tour of his beloved park, starting with his newest pride and joy: the newly refurbished Ten Courts of Hell. This interactive, hybrid tour-performance in Singapore’s oldest theme park unfolds over the course of the walking tour, performed by the tour guide and various other characters appearing throughout the excursion. Members of the audience will be invited to take part in games and activities centered on topics of philosophy, ethics…
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The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of live art created and presented by Singaporean and international artists. Themed differently each year, the Festival aims to bring the best of contemporary, cutting-edge and socially engaged works to the Singapore audience. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ —Fred Rogers The Fringe 2022: The…
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A puppetry production for children, The Universe According to Niu is a SISTIC Live Stream featuring an array of lively characters. There was once a corrupt kingdom where rich fools could become court officials through bribery. An intelligent young man, Niu, encountered this injustice when he failed his exam despite getting all the answers right. When the country was attacked by a neighbouring kingdom, none of the officials had any solutions to thwart this invasion. Would Niu use his intelligence to turn…
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A marquee event of Singapore Art Week, the 6th edition of the Light to Night Festival features a host of innovative digital and on-site art experiences to the theme New Ways of Seeing, Thinking and Being. Taking place over three weeks, Light to Night 2022, with over 60 engaging and multi-sensory installations, focuses on the pursuit of new perspectives and states of mind. Audiences are invited to uncover new ways of seeing, thinking and being as they engage with fresh perspectives…
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The legend of Chinese moon goddess Chang'e is interwoven with the story of a Malay woman and her adopted son. Two seemingly disparate threads : A damsel is stranded on the moon without her memory and with a rabbit who speaks in rhyme, and Mak and her adopted son. Love unites these two narratives. Love comes in many degrees and forms - from outside your family or from a connection between two people not related by blood. Rindu di Bulan marries…
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A one-man movement-based production that draws on Neo Hai Bin's short story Da Hai De Ren (People of the Sea). Actor Neo dons a fish-like costume and explores the relationship between man and nature. Why do we feel rootless? Why do we feel like aliens on our land? We created man-made things to protect ourselves from nature. Yet because of this, we are alienated from nature. How do we find our centre? Through the relationship between man and sea, the production…
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The humorous Norwegian children’s story that teaches children about the importance of good oral care. Two small tooth trolls, Karius (caries) and Baktus (bacteria) live inside cavities in the teeth of a boy named Jens. They have a very good life, especially when Jens eats white bread with syrup and fails to brush his teeth afterwards. Eventually their homes, the cavities, are destroyed by a dentist and they are rinsed out of Jens’ mouth through proper dental care. Written and illustrated…
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