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ST/LIFE/PAGE<LIF-006> C6 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 | Ong Sor Fern Senior Culture Correspondent recommends Picks Arts EILEEN CHANG’S AFTERNOON TEA Celebrate pioneer novelist Eileen Chang’s 100th birthday with some of her favourite foods at this tea experience. Sample a nine-course menu (above) of Shanghainese and Western treats which the Shanghai-born author of Lust, Caution would have enjoyed. Besides her childhood favourites like fried meatball wrapped in glutinous rice and Shanghainese sweet smoked fish, the menu also offers sausage rolls, a favourite of Chang’s father who would order the item whenever he EXPLORING SOUTHEAST gently through a series of themes, PHOTOS: NANYANG took her to Shanghai’s famous Cafe Federal ASIA: A JOURNEY THROUGH from landscapes to identities, ACADEMY OF FINE when she was a child. ART AND TIME common to South-east Asian artists. ARTS, OBJECTIFS, Local tea merchant Pek Sin Choon has created a Most museums in Singapore tend to My favourite section is Ladies, which PERCEPTION3, champagne-like cold brew of aged white tea with organic be parsimonious with caption brings together some usual suspects – YAN’S DINING rose, inspired by Chang’s novella Red Rose, White Rose, information, so it is a pleasant Cheong Soo Pieng and Lee Man Fong – especially for this occasion. surprise to see, literally, walls of text with some less often seen artists. This experience is curated by Lianhe Zaobao senior at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ Tay Chee Toh’s batik work Untitled correspondent Lim Fong Wei, Zaobao columnist Yu Yun (Nafa) exhibition. (above), with its almost geometric and Yan’s Dining owner Wang Yanqing. I get a bit cross-eyed from all the presentation of three lolling ladies, is Patrons can scan a QR code at the tea to listen to a reading, but the information is a standout. Look out, too, for Nafa Mandarin podcast about the menu selections. Calligraphy appropriate for the venue’s context alumnus and Cultural Medallion artist Chen Liang’s works, priced between $3,000 and and purpose as an educational recipient Lee Hock Moh’s dreamily $5,000, will also be available for sale. institution. gorgeous Fort Canning, an unusual WHERE: Yan’s Dining, 04-22 Mandarin Gallery, 333A Exploring Southeast Asia landscape which depicts the venue in Orchard Road MRT: Orchard/Somerset WHEN: Sept 18 to cherry-picks from the school’s rich the classic Chinese ink painting style. 20, Sept 25 to 27, 3 to 5pm ADMISSION: $68; Zaobao collection and organises the WHERE: The Ngee Ann Kongsi subscribers get a $10 discount. Log in to the SPH Rewards selection along broad themes for the Galleries 1 & 2, Nafa Campus 1, app for the discount code and quote the code when edification of the student population. 80 Bencoolen Street booking INFO:str.sg/J8s2 But it serves equally well for casual MRT: Bencoolen/Bras Basah gallery visitors who might learn from WHEN: Till Oct 25, 11am to 7pm daily OWN A PIECE this wide-ranging show, which ambles ADMISSION: Free INFO: str.sg/J8eE OF ART Buy a work of art and help three charities. IMMATERIAL BODIES references a Malay proverb, “the body Arts collective If you happen to be in the Waterloo which is contained by land, Perception3 is area, pop by Objectifs’ Chapel Gallery disintegrates to the ground”, and making a limited for this small show which features addresses urban renewal in print run of Still work by four young Singapore artists. Singapore, while Denise Yap’s Building II (right), You can hear Weixin Chong’s larval installation Miss Q reimagines the which was featured limbic before you see it, thanks to the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid in the National soundtrack of burbling, burping as a construct of monitors and wires Gallery Singapore’s Golden Canopy light-up last liquids. in an extension of the artist’s month (above). Her work is partly inspired speculative fiction work. A hundred giclee prints will be available, priced at by science-fiction writer Octavia WHERE: Chapel Gallery at Objectifs, $200 each. Proceeds will go to three organisations: Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy, which 155 Middle Road MRT: Bras Basah/ Aware, ArtsWok Collaborative and The T Project. deals with issues of reproduction Bencoolen WHEN: Till Nov 1, noon to Register your interest at str.sg/J889 before and genetic manipulation. 7pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays), noon to Sept 27, 11.59pm. Registration will close earlier if all Her soundtrack overlaps with 4pm (Sundays); closed on Mondays 100 pieces are reserved. Wayne Lim’s The Hyperrestrained and public holidays; free docent WHERE: str.sg/J889 WHEN: Till Sept 27, 11.59pm Order, a video collage that layers guided tours, capped at five people a PRICE: $200 found and shot footage to explore tour, on a first-come, first-served how bodies move through basis: weekly, 5.30 to 6pm Singapore’s regulated spaces. (Wednesdays) & 2.30 to 3pm Visual artist ila’s video work hancur (Saturdays) ADMISSION: Free badan dikandung tanah (left) INFO: str.sg/J7FR ARTS with a piece titled Jasmine, a flower collaboration among 12 local arts that will take place from Dec 15 to Jan artistic medium (that is, text-based, that represents positivity and purity. institutions, independent art spaces 15 next year. OPEN CALL image-based and so on). WHERE: Deck, 120A Prinsep Street WHEN: Open call closes on Oct 1 BOOKS The concert will end with The Celestial and collectives here. Asia TV Forum Pitches MRT: Bugis WHEN: Till Sept 27, noon - ADMISSION: Send to Web, to show the unity of people in WHERE: Brother Joseph McNally (Advisory: 16 years and above) these trying times. Gallery and Earl Lu Gallery, Institute of 9pm. Closed on Mondays and public [email protected] Singapore Malay Book Fair 2020 The Asia TV Forum (ATF) is calling for WHERE: SCO Concert Hall, Singapore Contemporary Arts Singapore, Lasalle holidays ADMISSION: Free INFO: bit.ly/2GIUAbQ Pesta Buku Melayu Singapura 2020 pitches from Asian content makers to Conference Hall, 7 Shenton Way College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street INFO: artsrepublic.sg (Singapore Malay Book Fair 2020) be developed within or outside of the MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Today, 8pm MRT: Bras Brasah returns for a second year but will go region. Finalists stand to win cash Open Call: Sit With Me (for invited guests only; others can WHEN: Tomorrow till Oct 11, Mon - Sat, online. It is commissioned by DANCE prizes to develop their winning The Tapestry Project SG is to be #BuySingLit with the support of the tune in at SCO’s Facebook page) & noon - 7pm (closed on Sundays & concept or earn opportunities to have commissioned by the National Arts National Arts Council and partnered tomorrow, 3pm (limited tickets are public holidays) ADMISSION: Free Dancers’ Locker 2020 their script scouted and purchased. Council to present the programme with Wisma Geylang Serai. Event available for the public). INFO: lasalle.edu.sg Presented by Frontier Danceland, Sit With Me at this year’s Singapore There are three main pitch highlights include chef Roszilah M. ADMISSION: Free INFO: sco.com.sg Dancers’ Locker returns with a digital Writers Festival. It is looking for programmes – ATF Chinese Pitch, ATF Nor’s kueh-making session to Sandstorm In An Hourglass version featuring six short films by writers who share passion for the Animation Pitch and ATF Formats accompany the storytelling session Just like a sandstorm in an hourglass company artists Ma Yueru literary arts and mental healthcare, Live Stream: SCO Digital Pitch – which are open to individuals, of Apa Nama Kuih Ini?, a children’s might persuade us to shift our (Singapore), Tan Xin Yen (Malaysia), and aims to curate up to 12 stories – Chamber Concert – Nocturne students, freelancers and companies. picture book recently shortlisted for perception of time, the artworks Sammantha Yue (Singapore), prose or poetry – for Sit With Me. Best Picture Book at the Singapore This Singapore Chinese Orchestra by Joo Choon Lin, Jaxton Su and Konrad Plak (Poland), Mark Robles ATF, part of the Singapore Media Each story should be accompanied by Book Awards 2020. Viewers also performance aims to capture the Sebastian Mary Tay invite viewers into (Philippines) and Keigo Nozaki Festival, connects influential players a photograph of a chair or seat that is stand to win #BuySingLit e-vouchers. beauty and serenity of night. Enjoy their “hourglasses”. Lin is a visual (Japan). Themes and topics range in the entertainment content relevant to the story, as well as audio WHERE: Facebook pages of Pesta pieces inspired by ancient poems artist, director, composer and from domestic anxieties and circuit industry across all genres and and video elements for a more Buku Melayu Singapura (all events) such as Moonlit Night On A Spring film-maker. Su works with painting, breaker measures to mortality and platforms. immersive experience. Where and Wisma Geylang Serai (selected River, Carefree and Reminiscence Of installation and video art, while Tay is familial ties. The artists will present WHEN: For ATF Animation & Formats relevant, the curated stories will be events) WHEN: Sun - Sept 18, 8.30 - Qin E, as well as folk melodies like an interdisciplinary artist. Curated by works-in-progress for the screening, Pitches, submit by Sept 30. For ATF paired with published works to show 10pm; Sept 19 & 20, 11am - 9.30pm Ti Or Or (The Darkening Sky), Song Poland-based artist Magdalen Chua followed by a live Q&A session. Chinese Pitch, submit by Sept 28 the parallels between local stories WHERE: Zoom WHEN: Tomorrow, 8pm ADMISSION: Free admission unless Of Night and Night Thoughts. and supported by the National Arts ADMISSION: Free and other literary works.
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