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With Joe & The Soul Express Picks Especially for fans of Cliff Richard,

Paul Anka and Tom Jones, this Gig performance features veteran musicians Joe & The Soul Express, who are making their debut at the Esplanade. WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: Mon, 10.30am & 3pm ADMISSION: $15 INFO: www.esplanade.com

Future – Live In This will be hip-hop superstar JEFF CHANG CONTINUUM WORLD CONCERT TOUR Future’s debut performance in IN SINGAPORE Singapore. He has just released his ’s prince of love ballads, Jeff Chang (above), is back seventh album, Future Hndrxx to perform in Singapore after almost four years. Presents: The Wizrd. Continuum is a new world tour and the pristine-voiced WHERE: Zepp@Big Box Singapore, was reportedly involved in every aspect of the 1 Venture Avenue MRT: Jurong East production – from costumes to stage design to effects. WHEN: Thu, 8pm ADMISSION: $148 - Singapore will be the tour’s first stop outside of . $158 TEL: 6348-5555 WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, 2 Stadium Walk INFO: www.sistic.com.sg MRT: Stadium WHEN: May 11, 7.30pm ADMISSION: $118 to $258 (VIP) from www.apactix.com Mosaic Music Series: Japanese Breakfast (USA) Performing for the first time in Singapore, Japanese Breakfast, the musical project of Korean-American singer Michelle Zauner, performs songs from her latest album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, and her acclaimed debut, Psychopomp. WHERE: Esplanade Annexe Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: May 13, 8pm ADMISSION: $50 - $60 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg

HallyuPopFest JACINTHA IS HER NAME CONCERT The most eagerly anticipated K-pop Home-grown singer Jacintha Abisheganaden (above), music festival in the region returns seen on television performing the Merdeka Sayang song for its second edition in Singapore. Showcasing the best of South Korean for the Merdeka Generation campaign, will take on tracks music and culture, it will be headlined from her 2018 Fire & album, as well as much-loved by boyband Super Junior. Other acts standards, including Somewhere Over The Rainbow and include Monsta X, Nu’est and Winner. Moon River. WHERE: WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: WHEN: ADMISSION: 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium Esplanade Tomorrow, 8pm $45 WHEN: May 25 & 26, 8pm from Sistic (call 6348-5555 or go to www.sistic.com.sg) ADMISSION: $98 - $288, tickets via the Singapore Indoor Stadium box office & SingPost outlets TEL: 3158-7888 INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg

Hokkien Hits With Xie Jinshi Singapore veteran singer Xie Jinshi celebrates 40 years of his musical career. He and his daughter, Lindy Chia, will perform favourite Hokkien hits, such as Prince Jiaqing Tours Taiwan and Farewell By The Sea. PHOTOS: LIVE NATION, CMG, GROOVE NOTE, ONEPRODUCTIONSINGAPORE/FACEBOOK WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ THE BLOOM TOUR SINGAPORE City Hall WHEN: June 3, 3pm South Africa-born Australian singer-songwriter ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6348-5555 Troye Sivan (above) has blossomed with his second album, PREMIERE SHOWCASE TOUR INFO: www.esplanade.com Bloom (2018). The lead single, My My My!, hit No. 1 on the IN SINGAPORE Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and the record was Jus2 is the second side project from K-pop boyband Wing & Paul Impulse Concert named on several best-of-2018 lists, including by and comprises (above left) and JB (right). band Beyond’s guitarist and Time magazines. Their first EP, Focus, was released on March 5, Paul and Yip Sai Wing, better AllMusic website said: “At a taut 10 tracks, Bloom is an debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard World Album Chart. known as the drum king of Asia, will unambiguous statement from Sivan, clear in its intent to JB is also involved in the other Got7 splinter unit, rekindle memories with the band’s celebrate the highs and lows of queer love through the JJ Project. classic hits, such as Really Love You, , eyes of a proud pop star in the making.” WHERE: Zepp@Bigbox, 1 Venture Avenue Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies and WHERE: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts MRT: Jurong East WHEN: Tomorrow, 5pm Glorious Years. Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green MRT: Buona Vista ADMISSION: $148 to $248 from www.apactix.com WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts WHEN: Today, 8pm ADMISSION: $98 to $258 (VIP) World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa from www.apactix.com Gateway MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: June 15, 8pm ADMISSION: $48 - $198 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg chronology of events that led to the attractive plant art piece. SPORTS The Ultimate Show ultimate confrontation between the Participants get to take home a two cultures in the 11th century. To celebrate her 25th anniversary terrarium and a container garden. WHERE: Ngee Ann Auditorium, WHERE: June Holidays in show business, Hong Kong diva Classrooms 1 & 2, Level 3 Basement, Asian Civilisations Karen Mok will make her long-awaited Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Table Tennis Camp Museum, 1 Empress Place MRT: return with her new concert tour, Gardens, 1 Cluny Road Botanic This training camp aims to promote What’s MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Mon, 11am Gardens WHEN: May 11, 10am - 5pm and raise the standard of table tennis, The Ultimate Karen Mok. ADMISSION: TEL: WHERE: Free 6337-3685 ADMISSION: $80 a person (includes as well as develop talent from Singapore Indoor Stadium, INFO: 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium www.fom.sg materials), register at a young age. WHERE: LOOKING AT THE UPSIDE WHEN: June 15, 8pm www.nparks.gov.sg Yishun Training Hall, TEL: INFO: ADMISSION: $108 - $228, tickets via Croc Talk: The Estuarine 6471-9961 E-mail Level 3 Block 845 Yishun the Singapore Indoor Stadium box Crocodiles At Main Bridge [email protected] Street 81 MRT: Khatib Learn about the estuarine crocodiles WHEN: Share the upside office & SingPost outlets June 10 & 11, 9am - 4pm of life in ST’s TEL: 3158-7888 that bask in the reserve, as well as Wonders Of The Voice – ADMISSION: $160.50 a person INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg their characteristics and behaviour. Voice Training Course (lunch provided) INFO: Register by Facebook group WHERE: Main Bridge, Wetland Centre Learn to master your vocal cords and noon on May 31 at str.sg/whatsgood (Neo Tiew entrance), Sungei Buloh tap the power of your voice. Learn to bit.ly/2Vat8tG MRT: CHARITY Wetland Reserve Kranji project, pronounce, inflect, emote, Read positive stories WHEN: May 11, 9 - 11am modulate, breathe right for vocal One: Enter The Dragon ADMISSION: Smile Asia Week Free resonance, change your accent Martial arts action returns to at our microsite TEL: INFO: For the sixth consecutive year, 6794-1401 E-mail or neutralise it to sound more Singapore with One: Enter The str.sg/stwhatsgood The Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Resorts, [email protected] international. Bring characters to life, Dragon. As the birthplace of One Asia Pacific team up with Smile Asia, practise script analysis and try Championship, Singapore has World Opportunities Forum . a global alliance of independent voiceovers and voice-acting lines played host to some of the most The forum brings together diplomats, WHERE: Activity Room, 05-02, charities, to raise funds and give unforgettable martial arts events. policy-makers, chief executive Level 5 Changi Simei Community children with clefts and other facial WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, officers, entrepreneurs, innovators, Building, 10 Simei Street 2 deformities a reason to smile again. 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium thought leaders and creative minds. MRT: Simei WHEN: June 2, 10am - Proceeds from the sale of the WHEN: May 17, 7pm Participants will be able to gain 5.30pm ADMISSION: $260 ($250 for handcrafted Valrhona chocolate and ADMISSION: $28 - $1,588, tickets via banana cakes (500g, $38 each) will go information from market leaders and PAssion cardholders), sign up at network with decision-makers and bit.ly/2CSAAP4 the Singapore Indoor Stadium box to The Smile Mission. office & SingPost outlets WHERE: Level 3 Ritz-Carlton Millenia, policy-makers. TEL: 3158-7888 7 Raffles Avenue MRT: Promenade WHERE: Ballroom 1, The Fullerton English Masterclass INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg WHEN: Tomorrow - May 12, 10am - Hotel Singapore, 1 Fullerton Square The Executive Edition: 8pm ADMISSION: $38 a cake MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: May 22, Creative Writing TEL: 6473-3708 INFO: Order online 8.30am - 5pm ADMISSION: $188 Trainer Felix Cheong has published FESTIVALS at saw2019.smileasia.org/sg; a person (includes lunch & two tea 13 books across various genres – e-mail [email protected] breaks), register at bit.ly/2DTYkDd from poetry to short stories. The TEL: 6735-1907 recipient of the Young Artist award in Sprout Farm-To-People INFO: www.sunmediaonline.com 2001 has also worked in the media Festival TALKS industry for more than 20 years. He Visitors can look forward to activities, holds a master’s degree in creative including tea-making and gardening The Crusades CLASSES writing and teaches journalism in workshops, as well as the newly And The Muslim World at the University of introduced Sprout & Learn cooking In the ancient Near East, or the Middle Gardening Workshop: Container Newcastle and Murdoch University. masterclasses led by East as it is known today, the world Garden And Terrarium WHERE: SPH News Centre, Michelin-starred chefs. witnessed the birth and spread of two The art of growing and arranging 1000 Toa Payoh North MRT: Braddell WHERE: Hall 403 Suntec religions – Christianity and Islam. In plants in containers and enclosed WHEN: June 10, 10am - 6pm Singapore Convention & Exhibition the overlap of their territories and the bottles (also known as terrariums) will ADMISSION: $499 a person, sign up at Centre, Raffles Boulevard MRT: City evolution of their cultures, a struggle be explored in this workshop. Learn stskills.sg TEL: 6319-5076 Hall/Esplanade WHEN: May 11 & 12, for supremacy ensued. The speaker, how plants can self-sustain in INFO: E-mail stmasterclass@ 10am - 8pm ADMISSION: Free Aditi Krishnakumar, explores the a terrarium and design your own sph.com.sg INFO: www.visitsprout.sg