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17 02 Director’s Message THE CASE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD 03 food-o-philia
13 literary arts
25 FILM
30 MUSIC
35 THEATRE
37 Visual arts
39 About The Arts House 6 31 HERITAGE HAWKER the ALPHABET COMMEMORATIVE series 40 Event Listings BOOK
42 Shop & Dine At The Arts House
43 The Arts House Box office 5 SAM LEONG: THE MAN BEHIND MODERN CHINESE CUISINE
26 WHEN NIGHT FALLS 我还有话要说
18 14 Le Divorce jaishree misra
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Director’s Message
The Arts House is full of pungent flavours this June and July! We are serving up our first-ever food series Food-O-Philia, the Singapore premiere of the critically acclaimed play The Case of Katherine Mansfield, and a retrospective of the late Oscar-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, among other delectable choices. Be prepared to venture in with a strong stomach – and heart.
It is no wonder that food plays a central role in many books that we love. From the madeleine in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past to the gruel in Oliver Twist, and even all the fantastical concoctions in the Harry Potter series, food is often used as a device for evocation, cipher and metaphor. We pride ourselves on being a nation of foodies. Our restaurants are ranked among the best in the world, and we know the locations of the best hawker stalls like the back of our hands. But how well do we know ourselves as a food community? As a community, we have our different narratives, preferences and thoughts, sometimes even competing against each other. Our new food series Food-O-Philia is thus our attempt to burrow deep into our system and understand ourselves better through food. We use art – books, play, films, music, photography – to explore our relationship with food, provoke passionate discussion and ultimately, have a belly good time (pg 3)!
Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) is aN ew Zealand writer who is little-known in Singapore, but she has been hailed as a modernist writer ahead of her times. She was friends with Virginia Woolfe and Oscar Wilde, who were in turn influenced by her writing. The Case of Katherine Mansfield (pg 17) is a powerful one-woman play that distils the essence of the writer, revealing the mercurial charm, talent and truth of the writer. The Arts House is very proud to present this award-winning play by Catherine Downes, the much lauded director/playwright/actress who has performed the play all over the world that is finally making its long overdue premiere now in Singapore.
Cinema lost one of its finest talents when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away this April at age 85. Jhabvala is best known as the writing partner of the film triumvirate Merchant Ivory. She won two Oscars for adapting A Room With A View and Howards End for the screen. We pay tribute to her cinematic acuity and literary prowess with a six-film retrospective (pg 18).
So come dig in at The Arts House!
William Phuan Director, The Arts House
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FOOD- O-PHILIA 2013 food-o-philia FOOD-O-PHILIA 2013: LET’S MAKANISE The Arts House
19 Jun – 31 Jul 2013
Food is undoubtedly our national obsession. From what we’re going to eat next to concerns over our favourite hawkers closing down, why does food dominate most of our conversations and define our daily actions? Beyond filling our bellies, what does the obsession say about us as a nation and can we better understand who we are as a nation through our food propensities? Food-O-Philia is a new programme curated by The Arts House which seeks to explore these questions and more about food through the arts. This year we will focus on the relationship between food and our national identity. We have also decided to coin a new term 'makanise' to best express this exploration of food through the arts. So let's makanise!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Join us for the opening of Food-O-Philia with panel discussions to explore our relationship with food on a deeper level. The panel discussions are held in conjunction with Singapore Food Festival 2013.
The Arts House Living Room \ 28 Jun, 7.30pm – 8.30pm Food & Us: Makanising Our Identity Living Room & Play Den Singapore is a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of cultures. The 28 Jun, 7.30pm recipes for many of our favourite dishes travelled with our forefathers 29 Jun, 4pm & 6pm from their native lands, so can we really claim a dish as our own when its roots come from somewhere else? This panel explores how we define Free admission what it means to be Singaporean through our food.
Play Den \ 29 Jun, 4pm – 5pm Get Involved: Makanising For Change From hawker to fine dining, our national pastime is to eat and talk about food. Beyond just being a topic of dinner conversation, there are those who seek to use food as a means of outreach and provoke social change.
Play Den \ 29 Jun, 6pm – 7pm Hawkers (R)Evolution: Makanising Past & Present We love our hawker food but the face of our hawkers is starting to change. With family businesses folding as their children do not wish to carry on the trade to young hawkers creating fusion dishes to match our changing palates, how will this affect our gasto-future?
37\4 food-o-philia EDIBLE LIT: BOOK LAUNCHES
Be the first to devour the literature that expresses the crème de la crème of our local culinary landscape. From our forefathers’ hawker traditions to a celebrated chef’s rise to the top and a collection of short stories about the widely misunderstood century egg, there is a piece of edible lit for everyone! TWENTY-FOUR FLAVOURS: CENTURY EGG The Arts House and Math Paper Press
Twenty-Four Flavours is a food-themed anthology of flash fiction pieces by 24 local writers, each with a word count limit of not more than 250 words. Published by local publisher Math Paper Press, this series will run for 24 issues.
The launch of its second issue focuses on the utterly challenging and, love it or hate it, Century Egg. Get your preserved ginger slices ready and be converted to the pleasures of this mysterious black pearl of the food world. Featured contributors include Cyril Wong, Verena Tay, Jon Gresham and Alvin Pang.
Blue Room \ 13 Jul, 8pm \ Free admission SAM LEONG: THE MAN BEHIND MODERN CHINESE CUISINE The Arts House and Marshall Cavendish
Sam Leong has had an illustrious career as one of the most forward thinking, talked about, celebrated and controversial chefs of his generation. Written by prolific writer Stephen Lee, this intriguing and often amusing account of Sam’s life and career follows his rise from a boy with a troubled childhood into a modern Chinese culinary maestro and famed celebrity chef. It also examines his place in Singapore’s haute cuisine landscape in the field of local and international gastronomy.
Filled with captivating insights, this biography of his journey through food and cooking will not only engage epicureans, but also anyone interested in the amazing culinary revolution unfolding today.
Blue Room \ 13 Jul, 5.30pm \ Free admission
5\37 food-o-philia HERITAGE HAWKER COMMEMORATIVE BOOK: THE VISUAL NARRATIVE OF A PASSING GENERATION OF STREET HAWKERS The Arts House and The Academy Pte Ltd In conjunction with Singapore Heritagefest 2013 and Singapore Food Festival 2013
Heritage Hawker is a landmark project to preserve our longest-serving food heritage – hawker street food culture.
Food advocate Sinma DaShow and his documentary team offer unprecedented insight and coverage of the local food culture, visiting every hawker centre in Singapore over two years to locate, interview and document the beloved heritage hawkers, a generation of hawkers Singaporeans have fondly grown up with.
The team will share their experiences working with Singapore’s true local street food heroes during the book launch. In addition, historical finds discovered during the project will be displayed. Specially invited heritage hawkers and their children will also be present at the unveiling of the new book.
Chamber \ 18 Jul, 5pm \ Free admission
37\6 food-o-philia VISUAL FEAST: EXHIBITIONS
Savour a platter of exhibitions that will whet your visual senses – and your appetite! Start your visual feast with an auditory installation and photography exhibition based on stories and interviews with our beloved hawkers, and then end it off with a food literature and photography exhibition that will leave you salivating. NINE HUNDRED DAYS 九百天的人事: HERITAGE HAWKER AUDITORY ART INSTALLATION & EXHIBITION The Arts House and The Academy Pte Ltd In conjunction with Singapore Heritagefest 2013 and Singapore Food Festival 2013
Through this exhibition and audio art installation, we invite you to take a closer and intimate look at the people and places of our beloved street food culture. The show offers a rare first-hand actual auditory and visual account of the inspirational interviews and quotes direct from Singapore’s beloved hawkers.
The soundbites of the hawkers are presented through digital playback of live interview recordings and a moving montage. The exhibition showcases an exclusive collection of photographs on the vanishing craft of handmade hawker fare, as well as rare family portraitures of first and multi-generational heritage hawkers taken onsite at their stalls.
Proudly curated and compiled by the Heritage Hawker documentary team over two-and-a-half years, this show is a glowing tribute to the resilience of an entire generation of street food vendors and their contribution to our street food culture.
Film Gallery \ 19 Jun – 31 Jul, 10am – 10pm \ Free admission EDIBLE LIT: THE EXHIBITION The Arts House
As part of Food-O-Philia 2013, we sent out an open call to the public to re-create their favourite food scenes from books and literary texts through photographs. Edible Lit: The Exhibition showases 30 of the most creative and original entries that evoked a powerful connection between food, photography and literature. Come down to The Arts House to view and vote for your favourite submissions by scanning the QR code attached to each photograph. The photographer that garners the most votes at the end of the exhibition will receive $100 worth of Kinokuniya vouchers!
Print Gallery \ 19 Jun – 31 Jul, 10am – 10pm \ Free admission
7\37 food-o-philia DELECTABLE ACTS: PERFORMANCES
A sumptuous buffet of original music, storytelling and theatre acts await the audience during Food-O- Philia! Help yourself to large servings of laksa, rojak and Hokkien mee as the performances use these local delicacies as the prism through which to see and understand ourselves. ROJAK The Arts House, Wecandoit and Theatrix Ltd
Directed by: Shalaka Ranadive Writer: Gauri Gupta Cast: Vineet Kumar, Jamie Tan, Hemang Yadav, Aditya Mazumdar, Gillian Tan, Marc Valentino
With delectable references to Singapore’s multicultural culinary landscape, Rojak looks compassionately and sensitively into the lives of foreign workers who leave their shores in search of a living to keep their home fires burning.
The play is set in a workers dormitory in Serangoon Gardens where a group of Bangladeshi workers live alongside their PRC Chinese, Indian and Thai co-workers. Their daily existence is disturbed by a new arrival - Manikandan from Chennai. Unlike the others, Mani is an engineer by training but dismal employment prospects in his own country force him to take up the job of a construction worker in Mr. Yeo’s company in Singapore. Mani’s homesickness and inability to adjust to the new environment forms the base of the story. He experiences hostility from his co-workers who resent the cultural difference there is between them. Greed, hostility, loneliness juxtaposed with humorous situations that the workers find themselves in, create a warm, human interest story.
Tragic and comic at the same time, Rojak forces the viewer to look at a section of society that often goes unnoticed.
Play Den \ 20 & 21 Jun, 7.30pm; 22 Jun, 2.30pm & 7.30pm $30; $25 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF and The Arts House members) PAssion Card holders enjoy a 10% discount \ Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
37\8 food-o-philia PROJECT LAKSA The Arts House and Song Ziliang
What does Singaporean food have in common with Western classical music?
Singaporean musician Song Ziliang presents an evening of classical music infused with local culinary flavours, featuring a specially commissioned work by local composer Chen Zhangyi. Entitled Laksa Cantata, the work finds its idea in Bach’s Coffee Cantata written to popularise coffee. Translated into Singaporean context, laksa becomes the subject of a squabble between a couple in the buildup to their wedding. Singers Rebecca Li and Kiat Goh take central roles.
Other works on the menu include Milhaud’s exuberant trio for clarinet and Schnittke’s Suite in Old Style featuring Wu Bing Ling on the violin, Colin Tan with his clarinet and Christine Octaviani at the piano.
Join us for a musico-gastronomic journey through time and culture!
Living Room \ 12 - 13 Jul, 8pm $25; $20 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF and The Arts House members) \ Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
SHIOK! – STORIES ABOUT FOOD AND FAMILIES The Arts House and The Storytellers’ Circle of The Society for Reading and Literacy
Is it obsession, bare necessity or pure indulgence? With mouthwatering concoctions and secret recipes for soul food, each story in this storytelling performance reveals a snippet of authentic Singapore history and heritage. Come savour the personal stories and quirky reminiscences of families and their relationships with food. Highly recommended for healthy hearts!
Living Room \ 13 Jul, 3.30pm $10 ; $8 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF and The Arts House members) \ Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
9\37 food-o-philia THREE CHILDREN & HOKKIEN ME – A DOUBLE-BILL Our Company In collaboration with The Arts House
THREE CHILDREN Director: Luke Kwek Writer: Leow Puay Tin Cast: Ling Poh Fong, Darren Guo, Rosemary Chan, Mark Cheng
Join us as we follow three siblings on their journey into memories of their childhood in Kappan Road, Malacca. The tangled web of relationships they navigate is confounding at first, but as the threads unravel, we discern the powerful but subtle effects of lives upon lives. Like the people of Kappan Road, the three children are ordinary and poor, yet they find ways to survive their human sufferings, and surrender only to death.
HOKKIEN ME Director: Luke Kwek Writer: Ovidia Yu Cast: Sophie Khoo
In the monologue Hokkien Me, we meet a young Cantonese working girl who marries into a rich Hokkien family. Her mother-in-law disapproves at first, but when disaster strikes, the young wife proves her mettle, eventually inheriting not just respect, but also the family’s prized recipe for Hokkien mee. Life, as she tells us, is like Hokkien mee. You put in all the right ingredients, but the resulting dish may surprise you…
About Our Company Our Company believes that there are many in Singapore who have day jobs outside the theatre, but who remain passionate and committed to the craft. Our Company is a platform for us and likeminded theatre- lovers to practice and further our art. We aim to produce locally inspired theatre and to explore and present a diverse range of genres and styles so as to remain fresh, surprising and accessible. Three Children & Hokkien Me: A Double-Bill is the inaugural production of Our Company.
Play Den 25 & 26 Jul, 8pm 27 & 28 Jul, 3pm & 8pm $28 (Regular) $25 (Concession for Our Company members, The Arts House members and early bird promotion, by 15 June) $20 (Concession for students, senior citizens and NSF) Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
37\10 food-o-philia EATABLE REEL: FILMS FRAME Frame x Frame is a new film series initiated byT he Arts House to showcase and explore the different dimensions of Singapore cinema. In conjunction with Food-O-Philia 2013, the second season features five Singapore films that explore various issues through food.
Screening Room \ 21 Jun - 14 Jul \ Free admission E AM R F
THE CARROT CAKE CONVERSATIONS
The Carrot Cake Conversations is a story of four strangers who find themselves stranded in Singapore and how they find companionship over a plate of carrot cake. Failed American actress Kate meets three Singaporeans and starts a conversation as they share their view points on love, life, loss and their thoughts on carrot cake and what it means to them. The end of the conversation leads them to emerge as different people, promoting the possibility that sometimes in life; all you need is a conversation.
21 Jun* & 30 Jun, 7.30pm *Post-Show Q&A with Director Michael Wang on 21 Jun Director/Writer: Michael Wang \ Cast: Alaric Tay, Andrea Fonseka, Danielle O’Malley \ 2008 \ 96min \ PG MEE POK MAN
In this feature film debut that launched Eric Khoo’s filmmaking career, a lonely, misunderstood and ridiculed mee pok man runs an all-night fish- ball noodle stall in a notorious part of Singapore. He is obsessed with a disillusioned prostitute named Bunny, who often dreams of escaping her dreary existence. An accident brings them together but just as the two lonely souls begin to connect, fate intervenes and deals them a cruel hand. Cheated of his happiness, the meepok man rejects society and dives headlong into a relationship that is as touching as it is bizarre.
28 Jun & 13 Jul, 7.30pm Director: Eric Khoo \ Cast: Joe Ng, Michelle Goh \ 1996 \ 105min In Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien with English subtitles \ M18
11 \37 food-o-philia SWEET DREAMS AND TURTLE SOUP
The directorial debut of Singaporean filmmaker Mabel Gan, Sweet Dreams and Turtle Soup is a coming-of-age story that follows sixteen- year-old Sarsi who believes doing well in her O-level examinations will lead her to happiness as she is desperate to get away from the grueling hours at the turtle soup store her mother runs. A classic film about pursuing one’s passion and dreams as well as choosing between personal and family needs while growing up, Sweet Dreams and Turtle Soup also features the first English speaking role by local veteran actress Xiang Yun.
22 Jun, 7.30pm & 13 Jul*, 3pm *Post-Show Q&A with Director Mabel Gan on 13 Jul Director/Writer: Mabel Gan \ Cast: Stephanie Loh, Xiang Yun 2004 \ 97min \ PG CHICKEN RICE WAR
Loosely based on one of Shakespeare’s classics Romeo & Juliet, Chicken Rice War is a romantic comedy revolved around two star crossed lovers caught in the tangle of an inter-family feud. Singaporean director Chee Kong Cheah or more commonly known as CheeK, brings to the audience a local adaptation of the classic, with our national food chicken rice used as the main ingredient for conflict. The Montague and Capulet families are represented by Wong and Chan, two families who run chicken rice stalls side by side. Love and conflict fester when Fenson Wong gets the opportunity to play a leading role in the school play with Audrey Chan being the female lead. This local adaptation promises to be hip and fun.
23 Jun & 12 Jul, 7.30pm Director/Writer: Chee Kong Cheah \ Cast: Pierre Png, May Yee Lum, Catherine Sng \ 2000 \ 100min \ PG
RICE RHAPSODY
Winner of the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Director, Kenneth Bi’s Rice Rhapsody is a comedy that explores themes of life, love and food. The film centres around Jen, owner of a successful chicken rice stall in the heart of Singapore’s Chinatown and her struggles to accept her sons and their lifestyles. Of her three sons, two are gay and Jen fears that her third and youngest son Leo will follow in his brothers' footsteps. She enlists the help of her friend and together they hatch a plan involving a French exchange student who ends up teaching the family about life, love and acceptance.
29 Jun, 7.30pm & 14 Jul, 3pm Director/Writer: Kenneth Bi Cast: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Mélanie Laurent 37\12 2004 \ 106min \ TBA
LITERARY ARTS literary arts
WORLD VOICES PRESENTS jaishree misra
The Arts House Jaishree Misra is an Indian author whose semi-autobiographical and Dragon Fly debut novel Ancient Promises (Penguin Books, 1999) became a major Productions bestseller in India. Living Room Her epic historical novel Rani (Penguin Global, 2008), which was based 7 Jun, 7.30pm on Rani Lakshmibai, a leading female figure of Indian nationalism in the 1800s, was deemed as disrespectful and banned by the Uttar Free admission Pradesh state government. Thankfully for us, her several other best- selling works of fiction such as Afterwards, The Little Book of Romance and Accidents Like Love and Marriage have not been outlawed! Join us as she reads from her contribution to A Monsoon Feast, a unique literary collaboration between writers from India and Singapore.
The session is moderated by Verena Tay, a writer, theatre practitioner, storyteller and editor. This edition of World Voices is co-organised with Dragon Fly Productions.
About Jaishree Misra Jaishree Misra grew up between Delhi and Kerala and moved to England in 1990, when she was awarded a Charles Wallace for India scholarship to study at the University of London. Jaishree has written seven novels, published by Penguin and Harper Collins, all of which have been bestsellers in India, including Ancient Promises, Afterwards, and The Little Book of Romance. Her most recent book deal, with Harper Collins in the UK, was to write three commercial fiction novels.
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WORLD VOICES PRESENTS Jasmine Ann Cooray
This month, we welcome the new international writer-in-residence The Arts House for our Singapore Creative Writing Residency, Jasmine Ann Living Room Cooray! Jasmine is an English poet and workshop facilitator who works with young writers to help them build not only writing but 26 Jul, 7.30pm performance skills. Free admission Join us at this session to experience her warm, engaging and impactful performance style that have led her to victory as the winner of the Farrago Summer Slam and being awarded the Farrago Award for Best Feature Debut Performance and the runner-up prize at the Roundhouse Slam in 2007 in London, UK.
About Jasmine Ann Cooray Jasmine Ann Cooray is a poet, workshop facilitator and training psychotherapist. Her work aims to tell the truth, and she has had an interesting journey getting to it. She is known for her vivid images, finely crafted verse and inclusive performance style. Her debut collection Everything We Don’t Say was published in 2009 by Tall Lighthouse Press.
A programme initiated by The Arts House, World Voices features writers from around the world and provides a platform for these talents to discuss their critically acclaimed works and interact with local readers. If you wish to be featured, please email [email protected].
15\37 literary arts Herwanto
THE ARTS HOUSE Award-winning writer, avid photographer and designer Herwanto loves taking pictures as much as he loves writing. Discover how Living Room Herwanto uses both camera and pen as his tools of the trade 17 Jun, 7.30pm in developing his process of thinking and learning, as he works towards the genesis of a clearer and deeper vision of expression. Free admission A double treat awaits both lovers of visual and literary art as Herwanto showcases a mini exhibition of his photographic muses during his session.
The session is moderated by Siti Nurdiana Johar, an avid literary activist and educator who formerly headed the English Language and Literature Club in National Institute of Education.
About Herwanto Herwanto’s literary portfolio encompasses contributions as editor, translator, writer, designer, illustrator, content developer, lyricist and scriptwriter. He is the incumbent editor of Angkatan Sasterawan '50's biannual literary magazine and its Head of Research and Publications Bureau.
A programme initiated by The Arts House, New Word Order seeks to discover emerging talents in the literary arts scene and give a voice to new Singaporean writers and artistes who are exploring new ways of approaching the written word. If you wish to be featured, please email [email protected].
37\16 literary arts THE CASE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD
The internationally lauded, critically acclaimed play The Case of The Arts House Katherine Mansfield comes to Singapore for the first time! This one- Play Den woman play, performed by award-winning New Zealand director/ playwright/actress Catherine Downes, has been praised by critics 18 – 20 Jul, 8pm worldwide for its powerful and witty portrayal of the influential writer Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923). $25; $18 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF Set in the last few years of Katherine Mansfield’s life, the play gives and The Arts House members) an intimate insight into the iconic writer’s mind at work, as well as Tickets are available at her tempestuous life and adventures around Europe. The talented www.bytes.sg Catherine Downes seamlessly weaves her letters, diaries and stories into a tour-de-force, moving monologue.
The Case of Katherine Mansfield is officially sponsored by the New Zealand High Commission. This play has toured six countries and won several awards.
About Katherine Mansfield Best known as a modernist writer, Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, NZ, in 1888. She began a career as a writer in London in 1908, and some of her work over the next few years appeared in the paper, The New Age. Her second book, Bliss, was not published until 1921; and her third and last, The Garden Party, a year later. She died in 1923 at the age of 34.
17\37 literary arts But Is The Book Better? pays tribute to author and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who passed away this April at age 85. A winner of a Booker Prize and two BUT IS Academy Awards for her adapted screenplays, she is best known as the writing member of the Merchant THE BOOK Ivory filmmaking team This six-film retrospective includes both her adaptations of literary classics by BETTER? writers like E.M. Forster and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as her original screenplay for the rarely seen The Guru.
The Arts House Screening Room \ 11 Jun – 20 Jul \ Free admission A ROOM WITH A VIEW
The film adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel earned Jhabvala her first Academy Award in 1986. Set in the Edwardian era, Lucy Honeychurch is a young woman whose visit to Italy is marked by several significant encounters with the Emersons, whom she met at the guesthouse in Florence, as she struggles between strict Victorian values and newer, liberal values.
11 Jun & 20 Jul, 7.30pm \ Director: James Ivory \ Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \ Based on the novel by E. M. Forster \ Cast: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis \ 1995 \ UK \ 117min \ PG THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
Adapted from the novel by Man Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, this film which boasts sterling yet nuanced performances by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, is a 1950s story of regret and loss. Jhabvala received an Oscar nomination for this screenplay as she successfully transformed Ishiguro’s first-person narrative into a drama that addressed English butler Mr Steven’s internal struggles and the socio-political conflict he was facing.
12 Jun & 19 Jul, 7.30pm \ Director: James Ivory \ Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \ Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro \ Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve \ 1993 \ UK \ 134min \ PG MR & MRS BRIDGE
Based on Evan S. Connell’s Mrs Bridge (1959) and Mr Bridge (1969), this film follows a traditional family living in the 1930s and 1940s Missouri as they grapple with changing mores and expectations. Jhabvala’s script brings out the anxiety and confusion the couple faces in an increasingly complex world in this “detailed portrait of upper-middle class, country- club America between the world wars” (Entertainment Weekly).
13 Jun, 7.30pm & 20 Jul, 3pm \ Director: James Ivory \ Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \ Based on the novels by Evan S. Connell \ Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Blythe Danner \ 1990 \ UK \ 126min \ PG
37\18 literary arts HOWARDS END
Howards End was the third E. M. Forster novel to be adapted into film by Merchant Ivory after A Room with a View (1985) and Maurice (1987). Jhabvala adapted both Howards End and Room, winning the Academy Award for her screenplays both times. Set against the backdrop of the estate of Howards End, the film takes place in Edwardian Britain with three families representing the different social classes as they find their lives intertwined.
14 Jun & 17 Jul, 7.30pm Director: James Ivory \ Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \ Based on the novel by E. M. Forster \ Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson \ 1992 \ UK \ 140min \ PG THE GURU
Jhabvala’s screenplay for The Guru is a departure from her usual take on genteel Edwardian era focusing on a Westerner’s view on India and parallels the real-life musical quest of George Harrison. This story chronicles the musical journey of British rock star Tom Pickle (Michael York), who faced various adventures and became enlightened after his encounters with a sitar master guru Ustad Zafar Khan.
15 Jun, 3pm & 18 Jul, 7.30pm \ Director: James Ivory \ Writers: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala & James Ivory \ Cast: Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt 1969 \ In English & Urdu with English subtitles \ US \ 112min \ PG LE DIVORCE
The motifs of cultural clashes, rigid social customs and class get a rare modern and humorous update in Jhabvala's adaptation of Diane Johnson's bestselling novel. Le Divorce follows two American sisters, Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) and Roxy (Naomi Watts), in France who manoeuvre their way around the French society over the ownership rights of a long-lost masterpiece painting.
15 Jun & 16 Jul, 7.30pm \ Director: James Ivory \ Writers: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala & James Ivory \ Based on the novel by Diane Johnson Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close 2003 \ In English & French with English subtitles \ US \ 117min \ PG
19\37 literary arts BOOK LAUNCH: AFRICAN PROVERBS
Madan Rao Get ready to take a trip into the heart of African culture, as writer Madan Rao launches his new book African Proverbs, accompanied Earshot Café by a panel discussion and a djembe musical performance! 18 Jun, 7pm Madan Rao, a prolific writer and founder of the World of Proverbs Free admission project, will read and discuss some of the proverbs from the book, a compilation of over 2,400 witty proverbs gathered from across Africa. These proverbs represent more than 125 categories of languages, countries and ethnic groups of Africa. They cover countries from Acholi and Akamba to Zinza and Zulu, from Tunisia in the north to South Africa, from Senegal in the west to Kenya in the east, and many other countries and cultures in between!
Invited speakers will also provide insights into the use of proverbs in the formation of heritage and culture. This session will conclude with a djembe performance by musicians and vocalists and an introduction to African percussion music.
About Madan Rao Madan Rao, a prolific writer on media, innovation and culture, has published over a dozen books internationally. He is the founder of the World of Proverbs project, and the editor of two other proverbs books that have been released in Singapore, Singapore Proverbs and Indian Proverbs.
37\20 literary arts: talks & workshops COMPLETING THAT NOVEL: FROM PLOT DEVELOPMENT TO PUBLISHING – A WORKHOP BY JAISHREE MISRA
Best-selling Indian author Jaishree Misra will conduct a three-hour The Arts House workshop on creative writing with a focus on plot development. and Dragon Fly Jaishree will also touch on her own writing career and the tricky Productions business of getting published. Jaishree will take aspiring writers Living Room through the various stages required to produce an authentic and resonant novel, adding some practical advice on finding an 8 Jun, 2– 5pm agent and publisher. The workshop will have a special focus on plot development, often derided as the poor cousin of character, $20 \ Tickets are available at dialogue and style, and explore the different techniques employed www.bytes.sg by literary, commercial and genre fiction.
The Arts House TELLING TALES and Dragon Fly MADE EASY – Productions A WORKHOP BY Living Room 8 Jun, 9.30am – 12.30pm JAISHREE MISRA $75 Suitable for youths aged 10 to Bring out the writer in you! Immerse yourself in a morning of story 14 years old. writing with Jaishree in this workshop for young writers. She will help you with your ideas and reveal the hidden secrets of writing a good Tickets are available at story. She will also show you how to bring your characters to life www.bytes.sg using the right style and dialogue. If you think your story is good, she will even tell you how to publish the story! Enrol now as numbers are limited! This workshop is suitable for youths aged 10 to 14 years old.
21\37 literary arts: talks & workshops PUBLISHINK Monsters Under The Bed and The Arts House
You've written the greatest crime fiction story set in Asia the world has ever seen. Now what? If you don't know what to do next, then submit your story or story idea to PublishINK and find out exactly what comes after the writing process is done! Because your duties as an author are only just beginning...
Taught by veteran writers and instructors, including author Adan Jimenez of the Sherlock Sam series of children's books, finance writer Ryan Ong and online magazine writer Melissa Mak, PublishINK is a three-day workshop based on the theme Crime in Asia that teaches young writers the basics of getting published in Singapore and abroad.
Blue Room \ 10 – 12 Jun, 10am – 5pm \ $320 Please register at www.mutb.com.sg/registration.html CAFERATI MEET READ Caferati Singapore Chapter
Need feedback about your writing, but have no one to ask? Then Caferati Singapore Chapter invites you to develop your writing skills! Caferati Meet Read is a forum for adult writers in English, where you are invited to share your original writing (fiction, poetry, essays, scripts, screen scenarios-anything that can be read aloud) in English with the group.
Council Room \ 15 Jun, 3pm Free admission (Write to [email protected] to register.) ANATOMY OF A BOOK Chatsworth Medi@rt Academy and The Arts House
Wordsmiths can be designers. Now that you've penned a book, it's time to design your cover. This 90-minute workshop will help you bring out the spirit of a book to provide engaging experiences for the reader. You'll be ushered through the entire book design process, where you learn the secret to unleashing your creativity in typography and editorial. Start on a new chapter of creative thinking process, and you will end with a book designed by you. This session is facilitated by Cindy Loy, a former Art Director with Singapore Press Holdings.
Living Room \ 15 Jun, 3pm – 4.30pm $55 \ $45 (Concession for students, senior citizens and Chatsworth Medi@rt Academy students) \ Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
37\22 literary arts: talks & workshops NTU EPIPHANY OPEN MIC @ THE ARTS HOUSE Epiphany (NTU English And Drama Society) and The Arts House
National Technological University (NTU) English and Drama society Epiphany aims to promote the literary and theatrical arts beyond the remote island of Pulau NTU.
Epiphany started hosting monthly open mics in 2012 as a platform for anyone to express themselves creatively as well as to share their works in a cosy, welcoming atmosphere. Since the start of open mic sessions, Epiphany has had the pleasure of showcasing many talented budding poets, writers, singers and even comedians, including well-known poets such as Jay Bernard and Pooja Nansi.
Earshot Café \ 22 Jun, 7.30pm Free admission (Register with [email protected]) Tropical Literature & Art Club TALK SERIES 热带雅聚
The Tropical Literature & Art Club invites you to a special screening Tropical Literature of a popular Malaysian film, Great Day. & Art Club and The Arts House Amusing and affectionate, this film explores the topics of conflict, care, filial piety and faith between family members, and seeks to Screening Room invoke in us a sincere and dignified love for our parents. The story 7 July, 2.30pm follows an obstinate, conservative and self-confined old man called Lin Dan, who stays in an old folks' home and is estranged from his Free admission children. Suspecting that he may be suffering from cancer, he travels Great Day 《天天好天》 alone to Kuala Lumpur to bid a final farewell to his children. Director: Chiu Keng Guan 青元 影片以笑着感动的手法，叙述亲情间的冲突，关怀与孝义，唤醒大家 Cast: Jack Lim 林德榮, 对父母厚重的爱。住在老人院的林丹性格顽固，传统，保守，不善与人 Lim Yew Beng 林耀明 沟通，因此与子女关系疏远。由于怀疑自己患上癌症，为与孩子见上 最后一面，独自到吉隆坡，故事自此展开。 2010 \ Malaysia \ 95min \ Rating TBA In Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien with English subtitles
23\37 literary arts: talks & workshops WRITING SINGAPORE LITERAry forum 2013 SERIES Writing Singapore (书写文学) and The Arts House
Blue Room The third instalment of this lecture series will focus on a new novel published in 2012, entitled The Winding Mountain Path by 20 Jul, 2.30pm – 5.30pm Singaporean writer Huai Ying. The lecture will be delivered by poet Free admission Hua Yin.
The novel is the story of a small village in Singapore, which was rocked by the withdrawal of Japanese after the war and the return of the British army. A total of 427 pages, the novel is a long journey through mountain roads, tracks to survival, as well as hope and sceneries of tears and sweat. Hua Yin will be the guide, leading you through all these bends and curves, laughter and sorrow, in the hope that you can also witness the end of the path, what they call “tomorrow”.
《山路弯弯》是新加坡作家怀鹰2012 年的长篇小说，以刚从日 本侵略下解放，重回英国殖民地政府怀抱的新加坡为背景，发生 在一个“加里村”的故事。427 页的的山路，有多少坎坷和激昂 的脚印，有几处希望和堕落的风景。这一天，诗人华英将作为导 游，带领大家穿越时空，翻越作者弯弯的心思，去走这一段崎岖 又惊险的山路，期待你们的同行。
37\24 literary arts: talks & workshops FILM film SFS TALKIES @ THE ARTS HOUSE WHEN NIGHT FALLS 我还有话要说
Singapore This film is based on the tragic real-life story of Yang Jia, a young Film Society and man from the outskirts of Shanghai who was fined for riding an The Arts House unregistered bicycle, reportedly beaten while in police custody, and subsequently harassed. After unsuccessfully petitioning for justice, Screening Room Yang Jia snapped, walked into a local police station and murdered six officers. He was executed for the crime. Widely interpreted as an 1 Jun, 3.30pm extreme act of political resistance, the case enraged Chinese human 2 Jun, 7.30pm rights activists including the artist Ai Weiwei. (Post-show Q&A with director
Ying Liang on both days) The focus of this film, however, is not Yang Jia, but his mother, Wang $12 Jingmei, (a wrenching performance by Nai An, a non-professional $10 (Concession for students, actor and producer of Lou Ye’s films). She was illegally detained in a senior citizens, NSF) mental hospital following her son’s arrest, and prevented from giving $8.50 (Singapore Film Society evidence to mount Yang Jia’s defense. and The Arts House members. Limited to two tickets Present A Story: Workshop by filmmaker Ying Liang per member) Screening Room \ 2 Jun, 3 – 5pm \ $25; $20 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF); $15 (Discount for Singapore Film Society and The Tickets are available at Arts House members) www.bytes.sg Ying Liang (應亮) uses his experience in filmmaking and film education Director/writer: Ying Liang(應亮) to introduce the narrative concept – where do stories come from 2012 \ 70min \ South Korea & and how do we present them? The filmmaker also talks about the China \ In Chinese with English cultivation and discipline of the storyteller, the writer’s technical craft subtitles \ M18 and the “inspiration” that cannot be taught. He will also express his thoughts and opinions on the “anti-narrative’ movement in filmmaking.
37\26 film SFS TALKIES @ THE ARTS HOUSE ARIRANG
SFS Talkies@TAH is proud to present the Singapore premiere Singapore of prolific South Korean auteur Kim Di-duk’s award-winning Film Society and documentary Arirang (2011). Like Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film The Arts House ( 2011), Arirang sees Kim pointing the camera at himself. But unlike Screening Room Panahi’s film, it is no political statement of intent. Rather, Arirang captures the talented filmmaker attempting to find and reconcile with 27 & 28 Jul, 7.30pm himself via the medium that he loves best. $12 The documentary addresses a personal crisis Kim went through. The $10 (Concession for students, title of the film comes from a Korean folk song, and Kim wrote that senior citizens, NSF) it is through Arirang that he could understand human beings, thank $8.50 (Singapore Film Society nature and accept his life as it is now. This self-portrait is an insightful and The Arts House members. look into his mind, heart and occasionally tortured soul. A winner Limited to two tickets of the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. per member) Tickets are available at About Kim Ki-duk www.bytes.sg Since his first film Crocodile (1996), Kim Ki-duk stirred up a sensational response from critics. Kim was evaluated and hailed Director/Writer: Kim Ki-duk by both critics and the audience for his hard-to-express characters, 2011 \ South Korea \ 100min shocking visuals, and unprecedented messages. In Korean with English subtitles PG13 (Some coarse language & nudity) The SFS Talkies @ The Arts House is a new bimonthly film series co-organised by The Arts House and the Singapore Film Society. It aims to showcase independent films from around the world. All screenings will be followed by a post-screening talkback.
27\37 film MANJADIKURU LUCKY RED SEEDS
The Arts House This award-winning Malayalam film is a story of homecoming set in and Dragon Fly the late 1970s, when 10-year-old Vicky arrives at his grandparents’ Productions home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather’s funeral. As his disjointed family gathers around during the funeral period, Vicky Screening Room discovers more about himself, his family and his culture than he ever 6 Jun, 7.30pm & 8 Jun, 3.30pm expected to. After many years, he returns as a young man to visit old grounds, and finds the lucky red seeds scattered away. $12 ; $10 (Concession for students, senior citizens, NSF About Anjali Menon and The Arts House members) Born in India and raised abroad, Anjali Menon has stirred audiences Tickets are available at with her acclaimed short films like Black Nor White, Waiting Women www.bytes.sg and Happy Journey (Kerala Cafe).
Director/Writer: Anjali Menon An alumnus of London Film School, Menon holds post graduate Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, degrees in Film-making as well as Communication Studies. Her films Thilakan, Jagathi Sreekumar have travelled to several international film festivals. Manjadikuru is 2008 \ India \ 120min Anjali Menon's first fiction feature film. In Malayalam with English subtitles \ PG
37\28 film Modern Day Slavery Film Forum EmancipAsia Ltd
Through the powerful films featured in the Modern Day Slavery Film Forum, come learn more about the issues and challenges of human trafficking and the modern day slave trade, a global crime against humanity which generates an annual profit of US$32 billion (SGD40 billion). Some of the films featured in this forum include Not My Life, Ghosts, The Whistleblower, Lilya 4-Ever, Fatal Promises and Sex Slaves.
Screening Room \ 1 Jun – 6 Jul, various timings \ Free admission FILM LITERACY AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE CLASSROOM Asian Film Archive
This workshop, facilitated by educator, film historian and filmmaker Tan Bee Thiam, is catered for educators who wish to or are incorporating film into their classroom teaching and would like to decode the fundamentals of film language, filmic techniques and narratives. The course is particularly relevant for educators teaching English, Literature, Social Studies, National Education, General Paper, and Visual/Media Communication. Through the use of film clips, educators will gain insights on how to effectively utilise film in their area of curricular and will have the opportunity to develop effective lesson plans for use in the classroom.
Living Room \ 4 Jun, 9.30am – 4.30pm To register, please visit www.asianfilmarchive.org Big Eyes, Big Minds Singapore International Children’s Film Festival 2013 Paperbear Productions and The Arts House
This year, Big Eyes, Big Minds presents six collections of over 50 short films for kids, about kids and sometimes, by kids! Schools and families will enjoy interacting with charming characters and stories from around the world.
Screening Room \ 22 – 30 Jun, various timings \ $12.50 Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
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MUSIC 37\30 music THE ALPHABET SERIES: LETTER H – H IS FOR HOURS
The Sing Song Club The Alphabet Series presents a time-traversing trip based on the and The Arts House letter H — a round-the-clock recital of 24 songs, each to represent one hour of the day. Living Room 27 Jul, 8pm Waking up at seven in the morning, this concert will bring you through the day with afternoon walks through the fields, trysts in the $20; $15 gardens, tea time with questionable friends, to evening promenades, (Concession for students, nighttime ghouls of the witching hour, nocturnal activities of animals, senior citizens, NSF and and ending at six the next morning when the sun and the moon share The Arts House members) the same sky for that one brief moment. Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg This musical jaunt will feature a number of local premieres, including the music of Cultural Medallion recipient Kelly Tang.
A collaboration between The Sing Song Club and The Arts House, The Alphabet Series is a showcase of a series of 26 recitals based on every letter of the alphabet to promote the genre of art songs.
31\37 music living with Colour!
The Arts House Come the hottest month of the year, kick off your shoes and enjoy a cool and cosy evening with music performed by six friends. Living Room 3 Jun, 8pm Revel in a rich selection of chamber pieces by musical greats from 60min with no intermission various continents such as Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Jeffrey Aggrell, Paul Schoenfield and Bill Douglas. $10 Tickets available at Indulge your aural senses with a wide palette of tonal colours that The Arts House Box Office hints of jazz, tango, samba and square dances. A fun musical evening not to be missed!
This recital features Cheryl Lim (Flute), Clarence Lee (Piano), Audi Goh (Oboe), Jonathan Lee (Viola), Karen Koh (Harp) and Yap Pei Ying (Bassoon).
Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund.
The longest running series programmed by The Arts House, Living with is a series of one-hour performances held on the first Monday evening of each month centred around the piano or on piano music. Established and aspiring musicians who are looking to perform in an intimate space may email your proposals to [email protected]
37\32 music living with POETRY IN SOUND
Come take pleasure in rhyme, rhythm and flow – commonalities The Arts House shared by poetry and music in this recital performed by Veda Lin Living Room (oboe), Cheryl Lim (flute), Melvin Tan (tenor), Lin Juan (cello), Clement Huang (piano) and Song Ziliang( piano). 1 Jul, 8 pm
Chopin impresses us with newfound lyricism through the voice of the $10 cello, while the little gem of contemporary Japanese composer Yuko Tickets available at Uebayashi pours out with songful emotions in her Flute Sonata. The Arts House Box Office Music inspired from great poets is also on the menu, as we delve into the classic texts of Ovid (Metamorphoses) and William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience) through their musical homages by Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Benjamin Britten.
Come along to the Living Room and make it a different Monday evening with us!
33\37 music LIGNE DU TEMPS Devi Suriani and The Arts House
Alto Devi Suriani, accompanied by pianist Kuroki Natsumi, presents works that have carried her through the turbulent stubborn years of youth right up till the discovery of a surer inner voice.
While the journey never stops, at this recital she takes a breather to share what she has learnt from those years of creative forked roads in the hopes that fellow like-minded listeners will be unafraid to explore those unknown crevices and discover the intense beauty and simplicity that the personal expedition has to offer.
Featuring songs by Wolf, Brahms, Berio and many other prolific composers, the evening’s programme is also a collaboration with home- grown sound artist Hector Lee.
Living Room \ 29 Jun, 8pm \ $20 Tickets available at The Arts House Box Office AMOR: YOUNG LOVE IN OLD VENICE Wendy Woon and Cappella Martialis
Through early chamber and chapel music, Cappella Martialis presents a story of a young Barbara Strozzi, a prolific Venetian composer and poet in early 17th century baroque Italy and her tumultuous journey in love performed by coloratura soprano Wendy Woon.
This concert brings together musicians with a passion for early music to perform on authentic instruments and with historically-informed practice for the first time. Mostly trained overseas, these musicians hope to continue bringing this rich and compelling repertoire to Singapore audiences.
Chamber \ 20 Jul, 8pm \ Tickets are available at www.cappella-martialis.com or via [email protected]
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35\37 theatre SDEA THEATRE ARTS CONFERENCE 2013 Singapore Drama Educators Association
The second Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA) Theatre Arts Conference 2013 will explore the theme Masak Masak: Let’s Play! Discover fresh perspectives on theatre-making with various workshops, presentations, and dialogues centred on the three strands of Education, Community, and Performance.
Various rooms \ 30 May – 2 Jun, 8.30am – 6.30pm Full pass: $600; $480 (SDEA members); $350 (Students) 2-day pass: $470; $400 (SDEA members); $250 (Students) 1-day pass: $270; $200 (SDEA members); $150 (Students) For ticketing enquiries, please email [email protected] FOURLIES Avant Theatre & Language
Fourlies is an experimental and surrealistic play performed in English about a story of four people and their follies. Do all humans want to rewrite their past to remodel people’s perceptions of them? Can history be written the way it was or is it always subject to reinterpretations? The drama will instigate the audience to think about these issues and derive answers for themselves.
Chamber \ 27 & 29 Jun, 8pm $30 \ Tickets are available at www.bytes.sg
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VISUAL ARTS
37\37 visual arts PASSIONISTAS
(COLLAB)² and (COLLAB)² is proud to join forces with our friends to The Arts House collaboratively transform the Gallery at The Arts House into a showcase of living passions. Gallery 24 – 30 Jul, 10am – 8pm Passionistas is a collaborative photography project with aims to raise Talks: 27 & 28 Jul, awareness of our local passionistas. A passionista is someone who 7.30pm – 9.30pm follows his or her passion.
Free admission Passionistas will feature 15 portraits of Singapore’s passionistas, and the space will also be used to provide a platform for them to share their stories of inspiration and motivation on 27 and 28 July.
View previous features of Singapore’s Passionistas and event coverage at: www.collabcollab.com
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SING LIT 101: HOW TO READ A SINGAPOREAN POEM Gwee Li Sui and The Arts House
The Arts House is proud to present an inspiring new literary series that Screening Room celebrates the life and power of Singaporean poetry. Literary critic and poet Dr Gwee Li Sui will give six lectures, each focused on a 17 Aug, 31 Aug, major English poem from Singapore's formative decades including the 14 Sep, 28 Sep, iconic Ulysses By The Merlion by Professor Edwin Thumboo. He will 12 Oct & 26 Oct introduce their writers and the times before unpacking these poems 11am - 1pm for a whole sweep of riveting and hidden meanings and implications. $20 per session, If you find poetry a difficult form to enjoy, or if Singapore's literature $100 per season appears a mystery, this is the place to start! Dr Gwee will take you pass; on a journey packed with thought, passion, and wit that should $10 per session, show you Singaporean writing in a new light. Whatever your age or $50 per season pass background is, you will be charmed and enlightened by the analyses (Student concession) and come to appreciate the value of verse and its inquiry, what poetry does and what can be known through it.
Panel Discussion: Seven Poets Revisited 23 Nov / 3.30pm - 5.30pm / Blue Room / Free admission
Join us as we culminate this new series in a panel discussion with some of our pioneer poets on the landmark publication, Seven Poets, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Event Listings Free admission JUNE 30 May – 2 Jun SDEA Theatre Arts 18 Jun Book Launch: Conference 2013 P36 African Proverbs P20
1 & 2 Jun WHEN NIGHT FALLS 22 Jun NTU Epiphany Open Mic @ 我还有话要说 P26 The Arts House P23
1 Jun – 6 Jul Modern Day Slavery Film Forum P29
3 Jun Living With Colour! P32
4 Jun Film Literacy And Its Application In The Classroom P29 17 Jun Herwanto P16 6 & 8 Jun Manjadikuru Lucky Red 19 Jun – 31 Jul Edible Lit: Seeds P28 The Exhibition P7 7 Jun World Voices Presents 20 & 21 Jun Rojak P8 Jaishree Misra P14 21 Jun & 30 Jun The Carrot Cake 8 Jun Completing That Novel: From Conversations P11 Plot Development To Publishing P21 22 Jun & 13 Jul Sweet Dreams And 8 Jun Telling Tales Made Easy P21 Turtle Soup P12 10 – 12 Jun Publishink P22 22 – 30 Jun Big Eyes, Big Minds P29 11 Jun & 20 Jul A Room With A View P18 23 Jun & 12 Jul Chicken Rice War P12 12 Jun & 19 Jul The Remains Of The Day P18 27 & 29 Jun Fourlies P36
13 Jun & 20 Jul Mr & Mrs Bridge P18 28 Jun Food & Us: Makanising Our Identity P4 13 Jun – 31 Jul Nine Hundred Days 九百天的人事 P7 28 Jun & 13 Jul Mee Pok Man P11
14 Jun & 17 Jul Howards End P19 29 Jun & 14 Jul Rice Rhapsody P12 15 Jun Caferati Meet Read P22 29 Jun Get Involved: Makanising For 15 Jun Anatomy Of A Book P22 Change P4
15 Jun & 16 Jul Le Divorce P19 29 Jun Hawkers (R)Evolution: Makanising Past & Present P4 15 Jun & 18 Jul The Guru P19 29 Jun Ligne Du Temps P34 37\40
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20 Jul Amor: Young Love In JULY Old Venice P34 1 Jul Living With Poetry In Sound P33
7 Jul Tropical Literature & Art Club Talk Series 热带雅聚 P23
12 – 13 Jul Project Laksa P9
13 Jul Shiok! – Stories About Food And Families P9
13 Jul Twenty-Four Flavours: Century Egg P5 24 – 30 Jul Passionistas P38
13 Jul Sam Leong: The Man Behind 25 – 28 Jul Three Children & Hokkien Modern Chinese Cuisine P5 Me – A Double-Bill P10
26 Jul World Voices Presents 18 – 20 Jul The Case Of Jasmine Ann Cooray P15 Katherine MansfieldP17
18 Jul Heritage Hawker 27 Jul Letter H – H Is For Hours P31 Commemorative Book P6 27 & 28 Jul Arirang P27 20 Jul Writing Singapore Literary Forum 2013 Series P24
41\37 Shop & Dine at The Arts House Shop & Dine at The Arts House
THE SHOP Mon – Sat, 11am – 8pm (closed on Sun & PH) With designer items ranging from jewellery to apparels and home décor to paintings, The Shop is the place for you to buy gifts for that special someone.
Enjoy these promotions this June and July! Get your specially designed The Arts House tote bag for only $9.90 (Usual Price: $12). Get a free Singapore Scenery horizontal post card with every $20 purchase. For SDEA Theatre Arts Conference festival pass holders only: ~ Get a 10% discount with every $50 purchase in a single receipt. ~ Purchase of The Arts House tote bag at a special price of $8(Usual Price: $12). EARSHOT CAFÉ Mon – Fri: 11.30am – 6pm (closed on weekends & PH) \ Happy Hour from 3pm – 6pm Earshot Café is a concept space that is fully dedicated to promoting Singapore books, music and films while having a great cup of coffee. We hold book launches, writers’ talks, literary cocktails and music performances here.
Daily set lunches, signature burgers and local menu are available all day. Available for corporate bookings and private parties. OLIVIA CASSIVELAUN FANCOURT (OCF) Lunch: 12pm – 2.30pm, Dinner: 6.30pm – 10.30pm, restaurant is open till late (Mon – Sat), closed for Sat Lunch and on Sun A collaboration between A Thousand Tales and Timbre Group, Restaurant Olivia Cassivelaun Fancourt is a 60-seater restaurant located on the second level, right above Timbre, at The Arts House. This exquisitely designed restaurant serves up a storm of French fare amidst carefully curated playlist of songs.
For the months of June and July, inspired by the colours of our land (Inspiré Par Les Couleurs De Nôtre Terroir), Chef Jonathan presents a menu with one of Nature's humblest gifts – vegetables – as the main lead. Annex Building, 1 Old Parliament Lane #02-02 \ +65 6333 9312 \ www.ocf-singapore.com
37\42 Shop & Dine at The Arts House Shop & Dine at The Arts House Barbershop by Timbré Wed – Sat, from 6pm; closed on Sun - Tue Quality music has a new address. Come down to Barber Shop, the latest addition to Timbre Group's line-up of live music venues, featuring a wide selection of premium whisky paired with a unique repertoire of blues, soul, funk and jazz bands catering to a discerning audience with a taste for the high life. Check out Barber Shop, located indoors next to Timbre@The Arts House, and get ready for a refreshing different live music experience.
Annex Building, 1 Old Parliament Lane #01-03 \ +65 65 6336 3386 \ www.timbregroup.asia VIET LANG Sun – Thu: 11.30am – 10.30pm \ Fri, Sat & PH: 11.30am – 11pm Viet Lang is derived from Vietnam’s present name and its historical name Anh Lang. This restaurant offers a good presentation of authentic Northern, Central and Southern Vietnamese cuisine with a touch of Franco-Asian influence set in a contemporary décor and cosy ambience. This June, celebrate Father’s Day with Viet Lang. Enjoy 1-for-1 main course for up to two orders per table. This promotion is valid from 10 – 16 June 2013. Reservation is recommended. 1 Old Parliament Lane #01-01 \ +65 6337 3379 \ www.vietlang-artshouse.com
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ccupying the almost 200-year-old building that was Singapore’s first Parliament House, The Arts House Osince its opening in 2004 has been offering its visitors a broad spectrum of activities, ranging from contemporary arts and entertainment events to lifestyle options, while at the same time playing an active role in the Singapore arts and creative scene.
Since 2011, The Arts House has been focusing on the development of literary arts, while supporting and presenting programmes and festivals that aim to give our audiences a wide and multidisciplinary experience.
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