| FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7

ARTS DANCE Benson Ang Lifestyle Correspondent recommends BOOKS CAC+US The concert is the NUS Students’ Book Launch – Quantum Shorts: Cultural Activities Club’s largest Picks Collected Flash Fiction annual music and dance concert, Inspired By Quantum Physics featuring 11 of its 12 subsidiary clubs, The 37 whimsical, thought-provoking ranging from traditional to modern Arts stories in this collection range from cultural performing arts. The bold futuristic imaginings to dancers will showcase styles such as contemplation of the everyday. b-boying, hip-hop, Latin, popping and There are also stories of lovers locking, street, jazz and ballroom. beginning their lives together, WHERE: University Cultural Centre families facing crises and Hall, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent superheroes fighting their nemeses. MRT: Kent Ridge WHERE: Library@HarbourFront, WHEN: Feb 15, 8pm; Feb 16, 7pm 03-05, 1 HarbourFront Walk ADMISSION: $23 (Grand Circle), MRT: Harbourfront $25 (stalls) WHEN: Feb 13, 7 - 8.30pm INFO: bit.ly/2tvaVdP ADMISSION: Free. Registration required INFO: bit.ly/31q2pcw EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUMS) SING-NATURE OPEN CALL Celebrate Singapore’s flowers, landscapes and jungles through Curator Open Call 34 paintings by Elvira Byrnes Singapore-based curators are invited dedicated to Singapore’s to submit proposals for an exhibition Bicentennial. at the Chapel Gallery, Objectifs - WHERE: The Arts House, Gallery II, Centre for Photography & Film. 1 Old Parliament Lane This is part of the centre’s effort to MRT: City Hall/Clarke Quay broaden perspectives by supporting WHEN: Today - Sun, 10am - 10pm curatorial research and innovative ADMISSION: Free ways of presenting image-based INFO: theartshouse.sg work. The successful proposal will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a production budget of up to EXHIBITIONS (GALLERIES) $8,000, as well as curatorial and production guidance, and Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) administrative and marketing – Solo Exhibition By Susie Wong support from Objectifs. The show will This is an immersive video installation be presented between July and of solitary women dancing freely, September this year for up to six evoking scenes of dance halls in the weeks. The deadline for submissions is 1950s and 1960s, and references a WILD RICE @ FUNAN – PHOTOS: Feb 14, 11.59pm INFO: bit.ly/31xUYQH line from the 1956 film The King And I: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WILD RICE, “No woman would dance alone while a EARNEST BERNIE NG, man is looking at her.” Through dance, The Importance Of Being Earnest, by KEN CHEONG CONCERTS the woman is both empowered and Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, is one of subjugated. the world’s most popular comedies Happy Chinese New Year WHERE: Objectifs - Centre for and boasts some of the funniest lines Concert Photography & Film, 155 Middle Road in the English language. The concert by Ding Yi Music MRT: Bencoolen/Bras Basah In this production by Wild Rice, theatre and film director Glen Goei Company, in collaboration with the WHEN: Till Sun; noon - 7pm (Tue - Sat), puts a joyous spin on the comic China Cultural Centre, is led by noon - 4pm (Sun) assistant conductor Dedric Wong. masterpiece by casting an all-male ADMISSION: Free ensemble – uncovering new insights It features two Ding Yi musicians: INFO: objectifs.com.sg/dancing-alone percussionist Derek Koh Wen Jun and into the classic tale of courtship, hidden identities and the foibles of huqin musician Chia Wan Hua. Local SUTD Architecture singer-songwriter Nathan Hartono high society. And Sustainable Design The plot follows two friends, Jack will make a special appearance. Graduation Showcase WHERE: China Cultural Centre and Algernon, who bend the truth to This showcase weaves together spice up their respective love lives. Theatre, 217 Queen Street 50 unique projects through the But things spin hilariously out of MRT: Bencoolen/Bras Basah concept of a metropolis. control when their deceptions are WHEN: Tomorrow, 3.30 & 7.30pm WHERE: Deck, 120A Prinsep Street discovered, threatening to spoil their RAILTRACK SONGMAPS existing relations between humans ADMISSION: $28 (free seating) MRT: Rochor WHEN: Till Sun, romantic pursuits. ROOSTING POST 2 and birds along the tracks. INFO: dingyimusic.com/concerts noon - 7pm ADMISSION: Free WHERE: The Ngee Ann Kongsi The Migrant Ecologies Project is a At its heart is a sound-rich and INFO: bit.ly/36YYzbx Theatre, Wild Rice @ Funan, Level 4, collaborative project that brings interactive media installation of 32 Once Upon A Time 107 North Bridge Road together various art practice-led short films, each developed from the By The Teng Ensemble MRT: City Hall inquiries into questions of culture song of a bird species found along the Real estate company Mapletree THEATRE WHEN: Today - March 8, 7.30pm and nature in South-east Asia. tracks, in chorus with human voices. Investments presents the third (Tue - Fri), 2.30 & 7.30pm (Sat), This visual arts exhibition is the WHERE: Jendela (Visual Arts Space), edition of Once Upon A Time by Chit Ya Patt (Heads Or Tails) 2.30pm (Sun) project’s latest iteration, of which the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, The Teng Ensemble. The concert will This local Hindi production by ADMISSION: $35 - $90 from Sistic collaborators are Zachary Chan, Lucy 1 Esplanade Drive feature classic Chinese New Year Noor Productions & Play Acting (go to sistic.com.sg or call Davis, Kee Ya Ting and Zai Tang. MRT: City Hall/Esplanade tunes performed in the ensemble’s Drama Centre features Bollywood 6348-5555) Focusing on a contested WHEN: Until April 5; 11am - 8.30pm signature East-meets-West style. actor Shishir Sharma as a guest star. INFO: wildrice.com.sg “nature-culture” zone along the (Mon - Fri), 10am - 8.30pm Also performing is local singer The story of hope, duty, love and former Malaysian railway tracks at (Sat & Sun) ADMISSION: Free Alfred Sim, winner of the 2014 reality sacrifice centres on whether children Tanglin Halt, the show aims to explore INFO: esplanade.com competition Project Superstar. are duty-bound to look after their WHERE: VivoCity, Level 3 ageing parents while sacrificing their Amphitheatre, 1 Harbourfront Walk own future. MRT: Harbourfront WHERE: Blackbox, Goodman Arts WHEN: Feb 15, 7.30 - 8.30pm Centre, 90 Goodman Road ADMISSION: $4 (adults), MRT: Dakota/Mountbatten $3 (children aged 14 & below), WHEN: Today, 8 - 9.30pm; $12 (family bundle for two adults & tomorrow, 5 - 6.30pm two children), $14 (friends bundle for ADMISSION: $40 four adults) INFO: bit.ly/3bhXXRZ INFO: mapletree15feb.peatix.com Timeless Tales – Eastman Camerata A Family Theatre Fest The Eastman Camerata is a This is one of Singapore’s biggest performing arts ensemble. Its core multi-ethnic theatrical musicians are elite professional extravaganzas, featuring seven musicians who are based in English plays in one show and 60 Singapore and have all attended the artists of 16 nationalities, all residing prestigious Eastman School of Music in Singapore. In its second season, the at the University of Rochester in New festival will feature contemporary York. The Camerata’s inaugural adaptations of all-time family concert will present works by favourites such as Alice In Grieg, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Wonderland, Beauty & The Beast, and Eastman alumni Adeline Wong Sherlock Holmes and Tolstoy’s and David Diamond. Too Dear. WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, WHERE: Goodman Arts Centre, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: City Hall/ 90 Goodman Road Esplanade WHEN: Feb 28, 7.30pm MRT: Dakota/Mountbatten ADMISSION: $25 INFO: bit.ly/2Sitham WHEN: Feb 14, 8pm; Feb 15 & 16, 4 & 8pm ADMISSION: $40 FIRST FLEET It focuses on the First Fleet of the British Empire in 1787. SSO Subscription Concert - Fresh from being nominated for four of The Straits Times The governor instructs one of his lieutenants to rehearse a INFO: bit.ly/2SjFtrp Martin Grubinger: Life Theatre Awards earlier this week, this Mandarin play, play with the convicts, hoping to use the power of theatre The Tears Of Nature about the transportation of a group of convicts to to rehabilitate them. Percussionist Martin Grubinger COMEDY Australia, is being re-staged. WHERE: Far East Organization Auditorium, Level 9, performs Tan Dun’s percussion Jointly presented by Nine Years Theatre and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 1 Straits Boulevard concerto, The Tears Of Nature. RuPaul’s Drag Race Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, the show has received MRT: Tanjong Pagar The work, written for Grubinger, Werq The World Tour nods for Production Of The Year, Best Original Script, WHEN: Feb 14 - 23, 8pm (Thu & Fri), 3 & 8pm (Sat), 3pm (Sun) celebrates the human spirit in living, In a new production, mission leader Best Director and Best Costume. ADMISSION: $42 from Sistic (go to sistic.com.sg or call fighting and dancing with nature. Michelle Visage is on a journey to save This production is inspired by The Playmaker, a novel 6348-5555) INFO: nineyearstheatre.com/en Grubinger possesses a broad the universe with the help of her by Australian author Thomas Keneally, as well as other repertoire ranging from solo works to intergalactic queens, including materials on the transportation of convicts to Australia. [email protected] chamber music, with partners such as Aquaria, Detox, Kim Chi, Monet X his own Percussive Planet Ensemble Change, Plastique Tiara, Sharon and percussion concertos. Needles and Violet Chachki. WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, WHERE: The Star Theatre, 04-01, 1 Esplanade Drive 1 Vista Exchange Green MRT: City Hall/Esplanade MRT: Buona Vista WHEN: Feb 29, 7.30pm WHEN: Feb 27, 8 - 10pm ADMISSION: $15 - $88 ADMISSION: From $108 INFO: sso.org.sg INFO: thestar.sg