| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5

Singtel-Singapore Cancer GIGS Anjali Raguraman recommends Society Race Against Cancer It is the 10th anniversary of the Cantopop With Alex Chia annual run and this year’s event will

The home-grown singer performs Picks feature the 10km and 15km classics of the 1970s and 1980s made competitive runs and a 5km fun run. popular by Cantopop legends Sam The race raises funds for cancer Hui, Alan Tam, The Wynners, Beyond Gigs treatment subsidies, welfare and Leslie Cheung. Chia, signed to assistance, cancer rehabilitation, Hong Kong’s Sun Entertainment hospice care, cancer screenings, Culture, was invited in 2015 to sing research, public education and the theme song of Hong Kong movie cancer support group initiatives. SPL 2 in Mandarin and Cantonese. The WHERE: Angsana Green, East Coast film stars Louis Koo and Simon Yam. Park MRT: Bedok WHEN: July 22, WHERE: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, 7 - 10am ADMISSION: Past 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ participants $39 - $51; first-timers City Hall WHEN: Tomorrow, 7.15, 8.30 & $48 - $62 ($43 - $56 for early birds 9.45pm ADMISSION: Free who register by June 10); INFO: esplanade.com students $34 - $39 ($30 - $35) INFO: Register at Cheryl Fong: Songs We raceagainstcancer.org.sg by July 9 Grew Up With Cheryl Fong and her acoustic trio revisit some of the songs they heard growing up by adding their own jazzy TALKS swing and bossa nova twist. She will also sing some of her favourite tunes, Taming Cancer Naturally Forum including Night In Shanghai and Little Can cancer survivors have longevity, Umbrella. The multilingual singer, who good quality lives and peace of mind? is versed in Mandarin, English, What are the side effects of Cantonese, Hokkien and Korean chemotherapy, what is chemo brain songs, has performed in Singapore, and can these be overcome? Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Malaysia. These questions will be tackled in WHERE: Esplanade Concourse, this forum conducted by Dr David Tan 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ and featuring cancer survivors. City Hall WHEN: Sun, 5, 6 & 7pm WHERE: Event Hall 801, L8 NTUC ADMISSION: Free Centre, One Marina Boulevard INFO: esplanade.com MRT: Raffles Place LIVE IN SINGAPORE At her concert, expect to hear WHEN: Tomorrow, 9.45am - 1pm Valentina Lisitsa Live In Californian R&B singer Kehlani tracks such as Distraction, which was ADMISSION: Free, register at Singapore (above) brings her swagger and slow nominated for a Grammy this year. cancer.org.sg/biodynelabs Aureus Productions’ third instalment jams to Singapore for the first time WHERE: Zepp@Big Box Singapore, TEL: 9091-8108/6455-6787 of the Aureus Great Artists Series next week. 1 Venture Avenue MRT: Jurong East INFO: E-mail [email protected] features Valentina Lisitsa, whose Starting her career as a teenager in WHEN: May 23 , 8pm ADMISSION: $118 YouTube channel has more than cover band PopLyfe, she went on to (free standing tickets). Add on $20 for South-east Asia & China: 160 million views and some release mixtapes Cloud 19 and You priority entry, and/or $160 for VIP Historical Reflections & 400,000 subscribers. She made her Should Be Here, before dropping her Meet & Greet. Available via Current Dangers New York debut at the Mostly Mozart debut full-length album www.sistic.com.sg, all Sistic This lecture by Emeritus Professor Festival in Lincoln Centre in 1995 and SweetSexySavage last year. authorised agents or call 6348 5555 Anthony Reid from the Australian has performed at venues such as New National University will argue that York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s while South-east Asians have had Musikverein and London’s Royal their own ethnocentric world views, as Albert Hall. SUNSET DISCO WITH PETE have the Chinese, this is a time when a WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, HERBERT more even-handed common 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ Enjoy panoramic views of Singapore discourse is both possible and City Hall WHEN: Sun, 7.30pm as DJ Pete Herbert (right), the new necessary. ADMISSION: $48 - $88 resident DJ at Bali’s Potato Head WHERE: Executive Seminar Room, L3 TEL: 6348-5555 Beach Club, spins disco, balearic and Block B Faculty of Law, NUS Bukit INFO: sistic.com.sg house music at Bar Rouge, perched 71 Timah Campus, 469 Bukit Timah Road floors above the city. He will be MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: May 21, supported by home-grown DJ Aurora. 4.30 - 6pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: research.nus.edu.sg/eai CHARITY WHERE: Bar Rouge, Levels 71 & 72, PHOTOS: Equinox Complex, Swissotel The ALEXANDER Stamford, 2 Stamford Road MRT: City YWCA Flag Day SCHNEIDER, Hall WHEN: May 25, 6 to 10pm The Young Women’s Christian KHRUANGBIN/ CLASSES ADMISSION: Complimentary entry FACEBOOK, LAMC Association (YWCA) of Singapore is before 10.30pm. For table looking for volunteers for its annual PRODUCTIONS, Juicing & Parfait Making reservations e-mail BAR ROUGE Flag Day. Proceeds will go to the In this interactive workshop, find out NILS FRAHM [email protected] organisation’s community services German musician and composer Nils if juicing is a fad diet or magic elixir. and programmes. Participants can also sample more Frahm (above) makes his debut here WHERE: Operation centres: YWCA Fort as part of the Esplanade’s Mosaic than eight different juice recipes, Canning Lodge, Toa Payoh MRT create juice recipes and their own Music Series. station, Bedok MRT station, Clementi Frahm’s neo-classical sensibilities parfait, and learn how to properly Bus Interchange, Punggol Bus wash fruit and vegetables. manifest via instruments such as a Interchange, Velocity@ Novena & classical piano, a synthesizer and WHERE: MoCA Cafe, 27A Loewen Road, 206 Kovan Hub WHEN: May 26, 8am - Dempsey Hill MRT: Botanic Gardens even silence, as he traverses tradition 5pm TEL: 6223-1227 and experimentation in his music. WHEN: Tomorrow, 8.45am - noon INFO: ywca.org.sg ADMISSION: $60 a person ($100 for Frahm, who has extended his Singapore show by half an hour, will two) for two workshops (includes Shop@RedCross Sunday Sales lunch and goody bag) also hold a post-show dialogue where New and pre-loved apparel, participants can get insights into his TEL: 9859-1504 (Deb) accessories, handbags, footwear, INFO: E-mail creative process. [email protected] toys, books, DVDs, gifts and WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall , household items will be on sale at 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ Writing Contemporary bargain prices. Proceeds will go City Hall WHEN: Tonight, 7.30 to 9pm towards the Singapore Red Cross’ Haiku And Haibun ADMISSION: $45, $65 and $85, with local humanitarian services. limited concessions for students, KHRUANGBIN – LIVE IN SINGAPORE The haibun, which combines haiku WHERE: Red Cross Campsite, 62 Jalan and creative non-fiction, has a national serviemen and seniors at Thai funk and surf rock come together in a psychedelic Khairuddin MRT: Bedok $39. Limited $10 School Special haze by way of Khruangbin, a Texas band made up of dedicated following of writers in WHEN: May 27, 10.30am - 3.30pm many languages. Conducted by tickets for bookings of 10 students or (from left) drummer Donald Johnson, bassist Laura Lee ADMISSION: Free more, applicable to all schools and guitarist Mark Speer. Dr Chris Mooney-Singh, this INFO: redcross.sg workshop includes guided including international schools and The first show at 7.30pm is sold out, so organisers private institutions. Book via have added a second show at 10pm. centring and relaxation exercises, technical knowledge of the two www.esplanade.com, or for more WHERE: The Projector, 05-00 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 details, call the Esplanade box office Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Monday, 10pm forms in their Japanese context, audio and video presentations, and on 6828-8389 or e-mail ADMISSION: $75 via https://ticketing.igo.events/e/ [email protected] 197/khruangbin-live-in-singapore-2nd-show tips on starting a haiku-haibun journal. WHERE: 03-32 Block E, Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road MRT: Mountbatten WHEN: May 26, 9.30am - 12.30pm ADMISSION: $40 INFO: register at goo.gl/2UZwnn