D4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 |

GIGS Anjali Raguraman recommends Best Of Liza Wang & Paula Tsui By Carina Tien Singaporean soulful vocalist Carina Picks SIN CITY PRESENTS 16 BARIS Tien will sing hits from the YouTube series 16 Baris – which 1970s and 1980s made popular by features rap battles, or cyphers – legendary divas Liza Gigs comes to life in the Zouk main room, Wang and Paula Tsui, including as fresh-faced and legendary MCs Yesterday’s Glitter, Steal The Heart and rappers alike take to the stage to With Love and Time And Tide. drop 16-bar verses. WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, Among the contenders are Joe 1 Esplanade Drive Flizzow (right), DJ CZA, Airliftz and MRT: Esplanade/City Hall Zamaera. Zouk’s resident hip-hop DJ, WHEN: Mon, 10.30am & 3pm Nashd, will be on the decks. ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6348-5555 WHERE: Zouk, The Cannery, 3C River INFO: sistic.com.sg Valley Road MRT: Clarke Quay John Mayer Asia Tour WHEN: Tomorrow, 10pm to 4am Seven-time Grammy winner John ADMISSION: Free for Mayer is known for hits such as New members; $35 (women) Light, Gravity, Love On The Weekend, and $45 (men) for Heartbreak Warfare and Waiting On non-members. E-mail The World To Change. His debut [email protected] arena show in Singapore will feature or WhatsApp songs spanning his recording career. 9006 -8793 for WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, table reservations 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium WHEN: Mon, 8pm ADMISSION: $108- $248 from www.sportshubtix.sg, Singapore Indoor Stadium Box Office & SingPost outlets TEL: 3158-7888

Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses 30th Anniversary Tour American singer Belinda Carlisle celebrates her multi-platinum third album Runaway Horses, which turns 30 this year, with a world tour. WHERE: Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green MRT: Buona Vista WHEN: April 6, 8pm EARTH HOUR 2019 ADMISSION: $108 – $188 Count down to Earth Hour and watch the Singapore TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg skyline go dim at the Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza this weekend. Besides workshops and activities centred on Crystal By Tama & Ai Ming reusability and zero-waste practices, home-grown music Tamagoh and Khor Ai Ming celebrate acts like Tabitha Nauser (above), Preetipls, Subsonic Eye, their 15th wedding anniversary by Subhas, Sezairi and 53A will also be taking to the stage at sharing the joy of their music life over the three-day festival. the past 15 years. They will perform WHERE: Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza, 10 Bayfront with Tony Makarome (bass), Avenue MRT: Bayfront WHEN: 5 to 10pm (today), 10am to Sebastian Ho (guitar), Rit Xu (flute) 10pm (tomorrow and Sunday) ADMISSION: Free (excluding and Bertrand Lee (piano). workshops and classes) INFO: wwf.sg/earthhour WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: April 7, 5pm ADMISSION: $25 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg CE LA VI PRESENTS CLAPTONE Spanning the worlds of deep house and indie dance music, ALUNAGEORGE Namewee 4896 enigmatic German DJ and producer Claptone (below) is PRESENTED BY World Tour Encore no stranger to dance music festivals such as COLLECTIVE MINDS Malaysian hip-hop singer Namewee Tomorrowland and renowned clubs like Amnesia Ibiza. & KILO LOUNGE brought his world tour to Singapore The anonymous DJ will hit Singapore complete with his British duo AlunaGeorge are last February. The tour’s title 4896, signature golden-bird mask. known for fusing electronic pop when pronounced in , WHERE: Ce La Vi Club Lounge, Marina Bay Sands Tower 3, and R&B in their tunes. Making describes a very strong and powerful 1 Bayfront Avenue MRT: Bayfront her Singapore debut, singer person. WHEN: April 27, 10pm till late Aluna Francis (left) will be WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts ADMISSION: $38 for advance admission with guaranteed performing alone, sans World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa entry from igo.events, same price at the door. Entry producer George Reid, who Gateway MRT: HarbourFront includes one premium pour. For table reservations, call stopped touring in 2013. WHEN: April 27, 8pm ADMISSION: $28 6508-2188 or e-mail [email protected]. Expect songs like You Know You – $178 TEL: 6348-5555 Only guests aged 21 and above are allowed to enter the Like It, which gained popularity INFO: sistic.com.sg Club Lounge after 10pm after Frenchman DJ Snake remixed it in 2014, and newer material off the duo’s latest CHARITY album, Champagne Eyes, which was released last year. Noah’s Ark Natural Animal WHERE: Kilo Lounge, 01-02/04, Shelter Thanksgiving Dinner 21 Tanjong Pagar Road Non-profit organisation Noah’s Ark MRT: Telok Ayer Natural Animal Shelter (Nanas) WHEN: April 17, 8 to 10.30pm has organised this charity dinner ADMISSION: $78 for advance to raise funds for its operational tickets from bitly.com/ costs – mainly food and medical AlunaGeorgeSGTix or $90 at the expenses – of running a 4ha door. For ages 13 and above sanctuary with more than 1,000 only animals. WHERE: Marina Mandarin Singapore Ballroom, 6 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade WHEN: April 5, 7.30 - 10.30pm ADMISSION: $188 a person; $1,888 - $2,588 a table; tickets from PHOTOS: KARTEL RECORDS, WWF-SINGAPORE, COLLECTIVE MINDS, bit.ly/2YtTDbN INFO: E-mail [email protected] CE LA VI SINGAPORE

Soles4Souls Shoe Drive WHERE: Programme Zone, Pasir Ris Urban Farm School: Library talks by seasoned journalists Soles4Souls has collected over Public Library, 04-01/06 White Sands, Edible Gardening At Home 350,000 pairs of shoes since 2017. 1 Pasir Ris Central Street 3 The workshop covers horticulture CO-ORGANISED BY THE STRAITS TIMES In its fifth shoe drive, hosted by MRT: Pasir Ris WHEN: Sun, 2 - 5pm basics, care and culture, soil and AND NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD Million Lighting, it is calling for ADMISSION: Free, register at fertility, pest and disease donations of all kinds of footwear – nlb.gov.sg/golibrary2 management and designing an edible new or gently worn. garden. It is suitable for beginners WHERE: Level 1, Loading Bay, Million Personal Data Protection looking to establish solid Building, 203 Kallang Bahru This talk provides an overview of the fundamentals as well as home MRT: Boon Keng WHEN: April 5 - 14, data protection provisions present in gardeners who wish to troubleshoot 7am - 7pm ADMISSION: Free the Personal Data Protection Act or deepen their knowledge. you ask, we answer, come listen INFO: E-mail soles4souls@ (PDPA) and, more recently, the WHERE: Citizen Farm, 60 Jalan millionlighting.com or go to developments in the collection of Penjara MRT: Queenstown soles4souls.org NRICs and NRIC numbers. Hear true WHEN: April 6, 9.30am - 4.30pm; Making sense of the stories from a practising lawyer and April 13, 9.30am - 5.30pm TALKS learn about the objectives of the ADMISSION: April 6, $140; April 13, Merdeka Generation package PDPA, provisions of the Act to take $170; both sessions, $250; includes note of and the latest guidelines from materials & lunch for all sessions Islanders: Our Treasure Trove the Personal Data Protection INFO: E-mail learn@ The Panellists Moderator By Sentosa Development Corp Commission on NRIC collection. ediblegardencity.com Meet and chat with people who lived, WHERE: Programme Zone, Yishun worked and did their national service Public Library, 04-01 North Wing, SPORTS on the island of Sentosa when it used Northpoint City, 930 Yishun Avenue 2 to be known as Pulau Blakang Mati. MRT: Yishun WHEN: Tue, 3pm WHERE: Level 1 Sentosa Nature ADMISSION: Free, register at HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens Discovery, Imbiah Road, Sentosa nlb.gov.sg/golibrary2 New Zealand has by far been the MRT: HarbourFront (Sentosa Express dominant force in the HSBC World Imbiah Station) WHEN: Tomorrow Rugby Sevens Series, winning 12 out & every last Saturday of the month, CLASSES of the 19 seasons. But other teams, 11am - noon ADMISSION: Sentosa such as Fiji, Australia, the United Dr Amy Khor Mr Chan Heng Kee Zakir Hussain admission charges apply Digital Clinic For Seniors States and defending champions Senior Minister of State for Permanent Secretary News Editor, INFO: bit.ly/2TBpmE1 In this session, volunteers will share South Africa, have emerged as forces Health, co-chair of Merdeka for Health The Straits Times tips on how to make your smartphone to be reckoned with. Generation Communications Financial Planning Begins Now work better for you, such as through WHERE: National Stadium, and Engagement Taskforce In this talk organised by the phone and Wireless@SG settings, and 1 Stadium Drive MRT: Stadium MoneySense-Singapore Polytechnic help with questions about Facebook WHEN: April 13 & 14, various times B1-01 Programme Zone, Central Public Library, 100 Victoria Street Institute for Financial Literacy, learn and WhatsApp. ADMISSION: $19 - $320, tickets from to build a plan to meet your financial WHERE: Programme Zone, Woodlands Sports Hub Tix Box Office at Friday, March 29, 2019 | 7 to 8.30pm needs and goals; assess your Regional Library, 900 South Singapore Indoor Stadium & SingPost financial situation using financial Woodlands Drive MRT: Woodlands outlets TEL: 3158-7888 (Registration starts at 6pm) calculators and ratios, as well as WHEN: Tue, 2 - 5pm; 20 minutes for INFO: singapore7s.sg Register at http://str.sg/askZakir manage your resources and each participant ADMISSION: Free, implement a financial plan to reach for seniors from age 50; no your goals. registration required For more information, go to www.straitstimes.com/askst INFO: nlb.gov.sg/golibrary2