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GIGS www.nebo.sg by today INFO: E-mail rachel.choi@ ntucclub.com.sg Remembering The Carpenters With Wendy Chin Careers Connect On-The-Go In this Coffee Morning & Afternoon The event featuring career coaching Tea series performance, Wendy Chin, and advisory services makes its way who has been called Singapore’s to Yishun South next. Job-matching Karen Carpenter, performs hits by services and job-search workshops The Carpenters. Coffee and tea will be will also be available. provided before the gig. WHERE: Nee Soon South Community WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, Club, 30 Yishun Street 81 MRT: Khatib 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ WHEN: Sept 7, 10.30am - 7pm City Hall WHEN: Mon, 3pm ADMISSION: Free ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6348-5555 TEL: 6883-5885 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg INFO: adaptandgrow.sg/careersconnec Wu Bai And China Blue Rock Star Concert HDB Heartland Talk: Wu Bai, dubbed the king of Chinese Buying Your Next Home rock, has won numerous awards for Find out about housing policies and his albums and his songs have housing options available for topped various music charts. His fan second-time buyers. base spans Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, WHERE: HDB Auditorium, Basement 1 Singapore and Malaysia, as well as the HDB Hub, 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh United States, Japan and Canada. MRT: Toa Payoh WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts WHEN: Sept 21, 2 - 5pm World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa ADMISSION: Free, sign up at Gateway MRT: HarbourFront hdb.gov.sg/heartlandtalks by Sept 19 WHEN: Sept 7, 8pm ADMISSION: $58 - $178 TEL: 6348-5555 CLASSES INFO: www.sistic.com.sg Dining Etiquette And Jimmy Barnes Live In Singapore Professional Image The legendary frontman of Australian Learn proper table manners and how rock band Cold Chisel and to dress for success in this interactive chart-topping solo performer will course conducted by Protocol bring his distinctive and powerful Academy founder Teo Ser Lee, a voice here. He will play favourites former Miss Singapore beauty queen. such as Working Class Man, Flame WHERE: Serangoon Gardens Country Trees, Khe Sanh and hits from his new Club, 22 Kensington Park Road album, My Criminal Record. Eddino Abdul Hadi Music Correspondent recommends MRT: Serangoon/Ang Mo Kio WHEN: WHERE: Capitol Theatre, 17 Stamford Sept 11, 9am - 5pm ADMISSION: Road MRT: City Hall WHEN: Sept 8, $572.45 (includes GST); $72.45 after 8pm ADMISSION: $85 - $135 SNOW PATROL – LIVE AND ACOUSTIC SkillsFuture Credit subsidy TEL: 6348-5555 Picks Snow Patrol (above), the Northern Irish band known the British charts. PHOTOS: INDIGO, LAMC, NUCLEAR BLAST, TEL: 9817-6717 INFO: enquiry@ INFO: www.sistic.com.sg for rock hits such as Chasing Cars (2006) and Run WHERE: University Cultural Centre Theatre, THECOLORFRACTAL/INSTAGRAM protocolacademy.com.sg (2003), will be back for an acoustic set. NUS Centre For the Arts, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent Gigs The Manhattan Transfer The quintet fronted by Gary Lightbody, which MRT: Clementi/Kent Ridge Travel Writing In The The legendary quartet remain a performed at Fort Canning Park in 2012, released WHEN: Sunday, 8pm Digital Age By Shivaji Das cornerstone of great pop and jazz their latest album Wildness last year. ADMISSION: Tickets from $98 to $158 from Sistic Travel writing has evolved from hits, a legacy the group have It topped the Irish charts and reached No. 2 on (go to www.sistic.com.sg or call 6348-5555). Richard Hakluyt’s 16th-century cemented since their first recording compendium of items for a whaling in 1972. They have won 10 Grammy expedition to 280 character tweets Awards and are in the Vocal Group IMMOLATION – by @twobadtourists. How has travel Hall of Fame. LIVE IN SINGAPORE writing been affected by the WHERE: Esplanade Theatre, American metal stalwarts Immolation Instagram age and the 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ have been around for more than commercialisation of traditional City Hall WHEN: Sept 10, 8pm three decades. The New York quartet hospitality, as seen in the rise of ADMISSION: $48 - $108 ($40 - $60 for have released 10 albums, including Airbnb? students, senior citizens & full-time the most recent one, Atonement WHERE: Singapore Book Council national servicemen) (2017), which metal website Training Room, 03-32 Block E INFO: esplanade.com Metalsucks describes as “an album Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman meant to drop musicians’ jaws” and Road MRT: Mountbatten My Songs 7 one in which the band handle their WHEN: Sept 14, 9.30am - 5.30pm This concert brings together instruments “with the utmost ADMISSION: $180 INFO: E-mail Taiwanese singers Zeng Shu-qin, precision and professional acumen”. [email protected] Shi Xiao-rong, Nan Fang-duo, WHERE: The Substation, 45 Armenian Wang Meng-lin and Yin Zheng-yang, Street MRT: City Hall WHEN: Today, SPORTS who will belt out their hit songs. 6.20pm ADMISSION: $78 from WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, immolation.peatix.com, E-sports: Evil Geniuses 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ $88 at the door Meet-And-Greet City Hall WHEN: Sept 14, 7.30pm At the Razer SEA Games E-sports ADMISSION: $48 - $148 Bootcamp on Monday and Tuesday, INFO: esplanade.com PIANOBOTANICA 2019: Evil Geniuses – one of the top A TRIBUTE TO BOSSA NOVA LEGEND JOAO e-sports teams – and their coach, Sam Feeder GILBERTO FEATURING INDIGO Bulba Sosale, will mentor the national Welsh rock band Feeder, who are Singaporean jazz and samba singer Dawn Ho is flying teams who will be taking part in the releasing their latest album, Tallulah, back from Melbourne, where she is based, to reunite December SEA Games in the this month, will regale audiences with her Indigo band members, guitarist Munir Alsagoff, Philippines. Before the boot camp, with their snappy songs. saxophone player Kaye and drummer Mohamed Noor. they will appear in a meet-and-greet WHERE: The Pavilion @ Far East They will be joined by veteran pianist Mario Serio for session for fans, the first to be held in Square, 01-01 Far East Square, this annual Brazilian music gig, PianoBotanica, which South-east Asia. 28 China Street MRT: Telok Ayer will also be a tribute to late bossa nova icon Joao WHERE: *Scape Treetop (Level 5), WHEN: Sept 14, 8pm ADMISSION: $118 Gilberto. 2 Orchard Link MRT: Somerset TEL: 6348-5555 WHERE: Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore WHEN: Sun, 2.30 - 4.30pm INFO: www.sistic.com.sg Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens ADMISSION: Free, register at WHEN: Sept 8, 6pm ADMISSION: Free razer-eg-meetngreet.peatix.com Epik High In Singapore The Korean hip-hop group will put on International Bintan Marathon their first solo concert here. The trio Escape to Bintan for a scenic run and shot to fame with their 2007 hit RED DOT AUGUST discover the island’s hidden gems. album Remapping The Human Soul, The Esplanade’s series of free gigs by WHERE: Lagoi Bay, Bintan, Indonesia which cemented their status as home-grown performers coincides WHEN: Sept 7, 4pm (Family Run, South Korea’s premier hip-hop act, with the National Day month. This 3km); Sept 8, 5.30am (Full Marathon winning Album of the Year awards week will feature shows by acts Elite), 5.45am (Full Marathon), 6am at the prestigious Mnet Asian Music ranging from thecolorfractal, alias (Half Marathon), 9am (10km run) Awards and Golden Disc Awards. singer, songwriter and producer ADMISSION: $58 - $95; $99 for WHERE: The Coliseum, Hard Rock Weiwen Seah (right), who formerly Full Marathon Elite, register at Hotel Singapore, Resorts World made music under the name For This www.bintanmarathon.com/ Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway Cycle; The Fleurist, a duo made up of register-now MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Sept 14, Marcus Tay and Joshua Wee; and 8pm ADMISSION: $148 - $228 singer-songwriter Dansen John. TEL: 6348-5555 WHERE: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, FESTIVALS INFO: www.sistic.com.sg 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade Bites & Vibes, Foodpanda’s Until tomorrow, various times WHEN: Foodie Block Party Exo Planet #5 – ADMISSION: Free The block party will feature more than Exploration In Singapore INFO: For details, go to 10 local establishments, including food South Korean boy band Exo will bring www.esplanade.com/festivals-and- from 25 Degrees, Chico Loco and their fifth world tour to Singapore, series/red-dot-august/2019 marking the fourth consecutive year Babasan. Bartenders from Asia Pacific they are performing here. This time, Brewery and William Grant & Sons will however, they will be without three of also be on hand to shake up refreshing their nine members, as two are cocktails and beverages. Local indie serving national service and the third bands Bakers in Space and Stopgap has other work commitments. and Bari Rumbles Brass provide the WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, entertainment. Other activities include 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium leader in his newly formed band elderly. Activities include a 4km Touch the direction of current debates. TEL: 6778-0955 free fitness classes, Giant Jenga and WHEN: Sept 15, 4pm ADMISSION: $178 Andrew Lim Trio, which consists of Giving Run, where participants can WHERE: Chinese Heritage Centre INFO: E-mail [email protected] doodling on the community Mural Wall. - $298, tickets from Singapore Indoor Christy Smith (bass) and Aaron James choose to support one of four causes. Auditorium, Level 2 Nanyang WHERE: Amoy Street MRT: Telok Ayer Stadium box office & SingPost outlets Lee (drums). WHERE: OCBC Square, Singapore Technological University, 46 Nanyang Youth Entrepreneurship WHEN: Sun, noon - 10pm TEL: 3158-7888 WHERE: UTown Dance Studio, Sports Hub, 1 Stadium Drive Avenue MRT: Pioneer/Boon Lay Symposium ADMISSION: Free entry, food & INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg Stephen Riady Centre, University MRT: Stadium WHEN: Tomorrow, 8am WHEN: Wed, 5.30 - 7pm The symposium – for youth aged 17 to beverages available for purchase Town MRT: Kent Ridge/Clementi - 9pm ADMISSION: Free, $50 coupons ADMISSION: Free, register at 25 – returns for the 12th year. It is INFO: bit.ly/2TwBE2c An Evening With WHEN: Sept 20, 7.30pm available for activities; runners: $30 qrgo.page.link/SXyne organised by Nebo, the junior Devin Townsend ADMISSION: Free, with registration at a person INFO: touch.org.sg TEL: 6592-7832 INFO: E-mail membership arm of NTUC. This year’s Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival The gig will feature a selection of the bit.ly/EMCC-ALim [email protected] theme – Envision The Future, Change This annual cultural event lets the heavy music virtuoso’s tracks, along TALKS The Game – encourages youth to community discover and experience with a Q&A session for fans. Transitional Justice In State Of foresee challenges to prepare the customs and traditions of the WHERE: Gateway Theatre Black Box, CHARITY Impunity In West Papua themselves for their journey in Youth mid-autumn festival. Offerings include 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah MRT: Redhill The May 4th Confucian Junzi Human rights violations continue to Entrepreneurship Symposium. heritage trails around Balestier, guided WHEN: Sept 18, 8pm ADMISSION: $118 Image In The Last Century plague West Papuans. Their plight Participants can win cash prizes of tours of the museum’s galleries, TEL: 6348-5555 Touch Giving Festival & Run Professor Kam Louie will review some highlights the major challenges faced up to $2,000. mooncake tastings, lantern-making INFO: www.sistic.com.sg This charity carnival seeks to raise old and new perceptions and by transitional justice. WHERE: PSB Academy City Campus, workshops and outdoor performances. funds for and highlight the needs of self-perceptions of Chinese men in WHERE: Seminar Room 2, Iseas-Yusof 03-200 Marina Square, 6 Raffles WHERE: Sun Yat Sen Nanyang The Andrew Lim Trio the beneficiaries under Touch’s care. the past 100 years. In terms of Ishak Institute, 30 Heng Mui Keng Boulevard Memorial Hall, 12 Tai Gin Road A familiar name in Singapore’s jazz Touch supports some 200,000 masculinity, the legacy of May Fourth, Terrace MRT: Kent Ridge MRT: Promenade MRT: Toa Payoh scene, Andrew Lim returns to his alma individuals, including children in its liberationist calls for gender WHEN: Thu, 10 - 11.30am WHEN: Sept 7 (8.30am - 6pm), Sept 8 WHEN: Sept 7 & 8, 10am - 9pm mater, the National University of and youth, families, people with equality and more modern and less ADMISSION: Free, register at (8.30am - 9pm) ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6256-7377 Singapore, for the first time as a band special and healthcare needs and the bookish Chinese men, still dictates iseas.edu.sg ADMISSION: $20 - $30, register at INFO: sysnmh.org.sg