D4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 |

GIGS for stray and abandoned dogs. Proceeds from the sale of picnic Boon Chan Media Correspondent recommends TAAC: Live: The Tee Trio baskets (worth $200) at $88 each The Tee Trio – Weng Soon Tee (piano), will go to this cause. YOUTH LIES WHERE: Shaw Foundation Symphony

Laura Armstrong (cello) and Clarissa Picks WITHIN SINGAPORE Lim (violin) – will improvise with Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Less than a month after her fiance, classical music structures and 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens Chinese -songwriter play pieces that look at the WHEN: Sun, 5 - 7.30pm Li Ronghao, performs at the conversational side of music and ADMISSION: Free; picnic basket at Gigs Singapore Indoor Stadium, freeness within structure. $88 and $10 dog meal Taiwan’s Rainie Yang will hold her WHERE: Telok Ayer Arts Club, INFO: Go to asdsingapore.com own show – her first concert here 2 McCallum Street MRT: Telok Ayer/ or facebook.com/asdsingapore in six years. Tanjong Pagar WHEN: Tomorrow, She has since released 5 & 8pm ADMISSION: $20, tickets from Dover Park Hospice well-regarded albums, A Tale Of Two taacteetrio.peatix.com INFO: E-mail Sunflower Gala Ball Rainies (2014) and Traces Of Time [email protected] Dover Park Hospice’s annual In Love (2016), showcasing a more fund-raising gala ball features grown-up brand of pop miles away Hermitude a four-course dinner prepared by the from her early cutesy material. Australia’s electronic duo Hermitude, resident chefs of The Ritz-Carlton, The track Youth Lies Within was who have a new track OneFourThree Millenia Singapore as well as released in 2017 and is also the title (featuring Buddy & BJ the Chicago performances, including one by the of her current world tour. Kid) , will perform in Singapore. Dover Park Hospice Gems Show Choir. WHERE: The Star Theatre, Their tour includes stops in Thailand, WHERE: The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Malaysia, South Korea and Hong Singapore, 7 Raffles Avenue Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green Kong. MRT: Promenade MRT: Buona Vista WHEN: Nov 9, 7pm WHERE: Kilo Lounge, 21 Tanjong Pagar WHEN: Tomorrow, 7 - 10pm ADMISSION: $108 to $198 Road MRT: Tanjong Pagar ADMISSION: $600 - $3,800 a person from Apactix (call 3158-8588 WHEN: Aug 30, 8 - 10pm ($6,000 - $38,000 a table) or go to www.apactix.com) ADMISSION: $35 - 40, tickets TEL: 6500-7354 from bit.ly/2TymwSc INFO: E-mail [email protected] or go to tinyurl.com/dphsgball Nu’est Concert Segno In Singapore TALKS K-pop boy band Nu’est will perform their first solo concert here. The group debuted in 2012 with members JR, Public Forum: Common Aron, Baekho, Minhyun and Ren. Urology Conditions They recently made their comeback Is your sleep interrupted by the urge with their sixth mini album, Happily to urinate? Is intimacy becoming a Ever After. The release dominated problem? Attend Sengkang General a number of music charts, including Hospital’s public forum to learn more Bugs, Mnet, Soribada and Naver in about common urology conditions South Korea. Their current tour also that are often overlooked, such as takes them to Bangkok, Hong Kong, nocturia and erectile dysfunction. Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and WHERE: SKH Auditorium, Level 2 Taiwan. Sengkang Community Hospital, WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, 1 Anchorvale Street MRT: Sengkang 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium (Cheng Lim LRT) WHEN: Tomorrow, WHEN: Aug 24, 6pm ADMISSION: $148 10 - 11am ADMISSION: Free - $268, tickets from Singapore Indoor TEL: 9381-8658 INFO: E-mail Stadium box office & SingPost outlets [email protected] TEL: 3158-7888 INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg Paul Gauguin And Edvard Munch: Colour, Expression Christy Smith Band Of Friends And Symbolism Educator, composer and bassist The revolution that turned its back Christy Smith brings back the original on traditional painting techniques members of ChromaZone, the begun with Manet and the resident jazz band of Harry’s Impressionists, and was followed Quayside Bar in the 1990s, for one through by the Post-Impressionists. last hurrah. The members are Rick Dr Sian Jay talks about Paul Gauguin Smith (guitar), Richard Jackson and the Post-Impressionists on (vocals), Mei Sheum (piano) and Tuesday and Edvard Munch and drummer Eddie Layman, who is expressionism on Aug 27. leaving Singapore for good. WHERE: The Arts House, 1 Old WHERE: Level 3, 40C Harding Road, Parliament Lane MRT: Raffles Place Dempsey Hill MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Tue & Aug 27, 7 - 9pm WHEN: Aug 24, 9pm - midnight ADMISSION: $30 a session ($50 for ADMISSION: $30, includes both) TEL: 6332-6900 house-pour spirit or wine INFO: corcovadoarts.com PHOTOS: EPA-EFE, LIVE NATION SINGAPORE, TEL: 9756-4775 INFO: bit.ly/2OTIGPT UNUSUAL ENTERTAINMENT Off-World: Above And Beyond Remembering The Carpenters In December next year, Dr Adriana With Wendy Chin Marais, a theoretical physicist and THE 1975 - LIVE IN SINGAPORE In this Coffee Morning & Afternoon technologist, and her team will depart English indie pop rock band The Tea series performance, Wendy Chin, for an overwinter, off-world 1975 released their third album, reputedly Singapore’s Karen settlement simulation experiment in A Brief Inquiry Into Online Carpenter, performs hits by Antarctica, one of the harshest and Relationships, last year and The Carpenters. Coffee and tea will most isolated environments on Earth. won British Album of the Year at be provided before the gig . She will introduce the project in this the 2019 Brit Awards. WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, talk. They should be a blast live, with 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ WHERE: Maxwell Auditorium, South Wales’ Buzz Magazine saying City Hall WHEN: Sept 2, 3pm Science Centre Singapore, frontman Matt Healy’s “buoyant ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6348-5555 15 Science Centre Road MRT: Jurong stage presence fizzes with charm INFO: www.sistic.com.sg East WHEN: Wed, 7 - 9pm and zeal”. ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail WHERE: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Feeder [email protected] Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green Welsh rock band Feeder, who are by noon on Mon MRT: Buona Vista releasing their latest album, Tallulah, WHEN: Sept 16, 8pm this month, will regale audiences HDB Heartland Talk: Starting ADMISSION: $88 to $148 from with their snappy and organic songs. A Business In Your HDB Flat Apactix WHERE: The Pavilion @ Far East Learn more about the Housing Square, 01-01 Far East Square, Board’s Home Office Scheme, doing 28 Street MRT: Telok Ayer business in Singapore and the tax WHEN: Sept 14, 8pm ADMISSION: $118 obligations of a self-employed TEL: 6348-5555 person. A home-office entrepreneur INFO: www.sistic.com.sg will also share his experience. WHERE: HDB Auditorium, Basement 1 MY LOVE ANDY LAU WORLD Epik High In Singapore HDB Hub, 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh TOUR – SINGAPORE The Korean hip-hop group will put on MRT: Toa Payoh WHEN: Aug 31, It has been a long wait for fans of their first solo concert here. The trio 2 - 4pm ADMISSION: Free, sign up at Andy Lau the singer as the Hong shot to fame with their 2007 hit hdb.gov.sg/heartlandtalks by Aug 29 Kong entertainer last performed album Remapping The Human Soul, here in 2008, also at the Singapore which cemented their status as CLASSES Indoor Stadium. South Korea’s premier hip-hop act, His new tour kicked off in Hong winning Album of the Year awards Kong in December last year and at the prestigious Mnet Asian Music SG International Film Festival: tickets to all 20 shows were quickly Awards and Golden Disk Awards. Youth Jury & Critics Programme sold out. Expect him to perform WHERE: The Coliseum, Hard Rock Open to post-secondary students in both his Cantonese and Mandarin Hotel Singapore, Resorts World Singapore, the programme aims to hits, including tracks such as You Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway nurture a new generation of critical Are My Woman and Forget Love MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Sept 14, writers on Asian cinema. Participants Potion. 8pm ADMISSION: $148 - $228 will learn the significance of WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, TEL: 6348-5555 South-east Asian works, the benefits 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium INFO: www.sistic.com.sg of film theory and close readings of WHEN: Sept 25 to 28, 8pm films and different interview ADMISSION: $168 to $368 from Dick Lee’s Mad Chinaman approaches as well as write for the Apactix 30th Anniversary Concert festival’s live online film journal, This concert features Dick Lee and Youth Meets Film. This year’s the Braddell Heights Symphony programme will be led by Orchestra, under the baton of music Thai film critic Kong Rithdee. director Adrian Tan. It celebrates WHERE: Online submission form at the 1989 release of Lee’s seminal sgiff.com/yjcp-application-form work The Mad Chinaman. He will be WHEN: Entries close on Mon, 6pm joined by home-grown singer ADMISSION: Free Jacintha Abisheganaden and INFO: sgiff.com/yjcp actress-deejay Denise Tan. 7 - 9.45pm ADMISSION: $6 WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, Soaper Fresh: Flower And Herb ADMISSION: $84 a person, sign up hospitality, as seen in the rise of discover the island’s hidden gems. 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ Soap-Making Workshop at citizenfarm.com.sg/shop TEL: 9762-2951 INFO: E-mail Airbnb? The 3km Family Run makes its debut City Hall WHEN: Sept 15, 7.30pm Learn to make soap bars using INFO: E-mail learn@ [email protected] WHERE: Singapore Book Council this year. ADMISSION: $58 - $118 Himmel Blue’s process that utilises ediblegardencity.com Training Room, 03-32 Block E WHERE: Lagoi Bay, Bintan, Indonesia TEL: 6348-5555 everyday appliances. Create Travel Writing In The Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman WHEN: Sept 7, 4pm (Family Run, INFO: www.sistic.com.sg customised artisan soap bars by Speak With Confidence Digital Age By Shivaji Das Road MRT: Mountbatten 3km); Sept 8, 5.30am (Full Marathon combining skin-aiding ingredients And Competence Travel writing has evolved from WHEN: Sept 14, 9.30am - 5.30pm Elite, 42.195km), 5.45am (Full with herbs and flowers grown by Be more poised, polished and Richard Hakluyt’s 16th-century ADMISSION: $180 INFO: E-mail Marathon, 42.195km), 6am (Half CHARITY Edible Garden City’s farmers. proficient as a speaker. Present compendium of items for a whaling [email protected] Marathon, 21km), 9am (10km Participants can also enjoy your speeches and receive feedback expedition to 280 character tweets run) Jazz For Dogs In Aid Of ASD farm-brewed tea and cakes. in five critical areas. by @twobadtourists. How has travel SPORTS ADMISSION: $58 - $95; $99 for Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD) has WHERE: Citizen Farm, 60 Jalan WHERE: Seminar Room, imPAct@ writing been affected by the Elite Full Marathon; register at organised this concert to raise funds Penjara MRT: Queenstown Hong Lim Green, Upper Pickering Instagram age and the International Bintan Marathon www.bintanmarathon.com/ for its rescue and rehoming efforts WHEN: Aug 25, 10am - noon Street MRT: Clarke Quay WHEN: Mon, commercialisation of traditional Escape to Bintan for a scenic run and register-now