13 Jul 2019, Sat Presented by Managed by 1pm till 10pm Aliwal Arts Centre & Kampong Glam Free Admission 13 Jul 2019, Sat 1pm till 10pm Aliwal Arts Centre Kampong Glam Free Admission
Presented by Managed by Aliwal Arts Night Crawl, the annual multi- disciplinary arts festival held in the heart of Kampong Glam, returns Supported by for its seventh edition.
The signature event by Aliwal Arts Centre pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of this historic district, through a curated programme with a nostalgic or contemporary take on tradition. From storytelling tours, performances, exhibitions, workshops and a night market, join us in a multi-sensory evening and discover new interpretations of Kampong Glam’s past and present.
AliwalArtsCentre #AliwalANC19 | aliwalartscentre.sg Schedule
TIME PROGRAMME LOCATION GENRE
1pm–10pm A1 B1 9 Lives Show Multi-purpose Exhibition by 9 Lives Hall (Aliwal Art Centre)and Malay Heritage Centre Gallery
1pm–10pm A2 D1 LAPIS by RSCLS Multi-purpose Exhibition Hall (Aliwal Art Centre) and 113 Arab Street
1pm–10pm A3 R for Resonance Music Studio, Video by Ho Tzu Nyen Aliwal Arts Installation Centre
1pm–10pm A4 as:similation Multi-purpose Interactive by Evanturetime Room B, Aliwal Installation Arts Centre
1pm–10pm A5 9 Lives Mini- Multi-purpose Workshop Cats by 9 Lives Hall, Aliwal Adopt a Cat: $15 Arts Centre
3pm–10pm A6 So Gelam Market Aliwal Street & Lifestyle Aliwal Street Carpark
4.30pm A7 The Story Tree Multi-purpose Workshop –5.30pm by Moonshadow Studio A, Aliwal Stories Arts Centre
5pm–6pm A8 D’Tour by RSCLS Meeting Point: Tour Aliwal Arts Centre Info Booth
5pm–6.30pm A9 In Search of Meeting Point: Tour the Gelam Tree Aliwal Arts $20 by Moonshadow Centre Info Booth Stories
Pre-registration is required. Visit aliwalartscentre.sg to register. TIME PROGRAMME LOCATION GENRE
6pm-10pm B2 A Crop of Names Carpark, Malay Video by Teater Ekamatra Heritage Centre Installation
6.30pm A7 The Story Tree Multi-purpose Workshop –7.3 0 p m by Moonshadow Studio A, Aliwal Stories Arts Centre
6.30pm–7pm C1 Rentak Kita Sultan Gate Park Performance by NADI Singapura
7pm–10pm A10 Kampong Glam: #02-05, Aliwal Performance Past, Present Arts Centre and Virtual by Word Forward
7pm–8pm A8 D’Tour by RSCLS Meeting Point: Tour Aliwal Arts Centre Info Booth
7.30pm-8pm B2 A Crop of Names Carpark, Malay Performance Performance 1 by Heritage Centre Teater Ekamatra
7.3 0 p m – 9 p m A9 In Search of Meeting Point: Tour the Gelam Tree Aliwal Arts $20 by Moonshadow Centre Info Booth Stories
7.3 0 p m – 8 p m C2 Wanton by Sultan Gate Park Performance Singapore I-Lien Drama Society
7.3 0 p m – 8 p m E1 New Opera Recital Bussorah Street Performance by New Opera Singapore
8pm–8.30pm C3 Chance by Odyssey Sultan Gate Park Performance Dance Theatre Schedule
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8.30pm–9pm B2 A Crop of Names Carpark, Malay Performance Performance 2 by Heritage Centre Teater Ekamatra
8.30pm–9pm E1 New Opera Recital Bussorah Street Opera by New Opera Performance Singapore
9 p m –9.3 0 p m C4 Kalau Datang Sultan Gate Park Performance Ke Singapura (When Coming to Singapore) by Projek Ujong Tanjong
Tour 9pm–10pm A8 D’Tour by RSCLS Meeting Point: Aliwal Arts Centre Info Booth
9pm–10pm A11 Let the Cards Multi-purpose Workshop Speak* by Studio A, Aliwal Moonshadow Arts Centre Stories
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Getting here Bus Aliwal Arts Centre is located at North Bridge Rd Bus numbers 7, 32, 51, 28 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199918 63, 80, 145, and 197. Victoria St Bus numbers 2, 7, 12, 32, MRT 33, 51, 63, 80, 130, 133, 145, and 197. Circle Line Nicoll Highway MRT (CC5) Beach Rd Bus numbers 10, 14, 16, 70, East West Line Lavender MRT (EW11) 100, 107, 196, and 401. Downtown Line Bugis (DT14) Aliwal Street and Aliwal Arts Centre
R for Resonance A3 by Ho Tzu Nyen
1pm–10pm Music Studio, Aliwal Arts Centre Free Admission
R for Resonance uses the latest – as its starting motif. We begin imaging technologies of the Digital with the discovery of copper, then Age to evoke another technological the refinement of the metallurgical breakthrough some 5,000 years – arts, leading to the perfection of the Bronze Age in Southeast Asia. bronze casting and the birth of the Through this motif, we seek to tell bronze Dong Son drum – ancestor of a story of the region through its the Gong, emerging at a time when climate, music, minerals, technology social hierarchies first emerged and histories of social control. in the prehistoric landscape of the region. Through the Gong’s Spanning more than 5,000 years of passage across time and space, is histor y, R for Resonance takes as woven a story of technological the Gong – a ubiquitous musical (and progress and its relationship to ritual) object in Southeast Asia techniques of social stratification. as:similation A4 by Evanturetime
1pm–10pm | Multi-Purpose Studio B, Aliwal Arts Centre Free Admission | Guided Workshop between 4pm– 6pm & 7pm–9pm
Image by Axel Serik
Come listen to contemporary songs transformation first-hand, with as if they had been accompanied computers and samples available with traditional Malay instruments. for you to experiment with your This audible interactive exhibition own approach to audible cultural and workshop is a commentary on assimilation. There will also how native cultures are often be guided workshops where you’ll assimilated and gentrified in a get to meet the curators. commercial form. Experience that 9 Lives Mini-Cats A5 by 9 Lives 1pm–10pm Multi-Purpose Studio A, Aliwal Arts Centre Free Admission To adopt a Mini-Cat: $15
Come and adopt one of the 9 Lives mini-cats! Let your imaginative and creative self be inspired by the 9 Lives art pieces and transform the wooden blocks to one of life and colour using the brushes and accessories available to create that unique mini-cat. So Gelam Market A6
3pm–10pm Aliwal Street & Aliwal Street Carpark Free admission
For one night only, So Gelam Market acrylic signages from The Good will be joining Aliwal Arts Centre Makers Company and portraits and for the annual Aliwal Arts Night illustrations from Lightlines.co Crawl. Our passionate vendors will be there. You can look forward will be showcasing their products to satay from The Brown Pallet and made with love and care. Locally artisanal coffee and cakes from produced apparels from Pakem MB, Good Coffee Please. Come join us Sunday Shirt and Pixaluna to custom for artisanal crafts and eats.
D’Tour by RSCLS A8
5pm–6pm, 7pm–8pm & 9pm–10pm See Kampong Glam through different Free admission eyes. This alternative walking tour Register at aancdtour.peatix.com tells a de-facto parallel history of Meeting point: this rich and vibrant neighbourhood Aliwal Arts Centre info booth through its murals and street art. In Search of the Gelam Tree by Moonshadow Stories A9
5pm–6.30pm & 7.30pm–9pm $20 per pax Register at gelamtree.peatix.com Meeting point: Aliwal Arts Centre info booth
Image by The Storytelling Centre Limited
Healing cajeput trees once shaded and ethnic communities. This walking the village homes of Kampong Gelam. trail goes in search of clues Are all of them gone now? What with stories from folklore and shadows of their former selves history. Join a traditional feast can still be found? Experience in a secret location and take part Kampong Gelam as storyteller in a communal meal as you listen Kamini Ramachandran reimagines the to music and exchange stories in precinct’s aristocracy, merchants the company of a storyteller.
Kampong Glam: Celebrate the past and present Past, Present of Kampong Glam with works and Virtual A10 from internationally-based by Word Forward poets, singers and musicians. Join us for a live spoken word and music event at The Writers 7pm–10pm | #02-05, Aliwal Arts Centre, along with a simultaneous Centre | Free admission event in an online virtual world known as the Merlion Island. The Story Tree A7 by Moonshadow Stories
4.30pm–5.30pm & 6.30pm–7.30pm Multi-Purpose Studio, Aliwal Arts Centre Free admission Register at thestorytree.peatix.com
Step into the realm of folktales and travel to a time when animals could talk to each other. Listen to our Young Storytellers delight you with their interactive storytelling.
Bond with your child through a simple colouring activity to create a memento of the story to take home with you.
Suitable for children aged 4 to 8 years old. All children must be accompanied by an adult throughout the session. Parent–Child package: Each ticket admits one parent and one child Let the Cards Speak A11 by Moonshadow Stories
9pm–10pm Multi-Purpose Studio A, Aliwal Arts Centre Free Admission
Sit down at a table with our storytellers and select a card from the deck. Share your immediate thoughts and feelings through the images revealed by the story cards. What do the cards show? What does your heart say? Tell us your story.
A guided storytelling session mini-workshop based on story cards.
Suitable for adult audiences ages 16 years and above. Sultan Gate Park
Rentak Kita C1 by NADI Singapura
6.30pm–7pm Sultan Gate Park Free admission
Experience the spirit of being in different types of Malay drums, a “community”. Join us in making the percussions and Malay rhythms, rhythms of the Malayan Archipelago including the kompang, hadrah, jidur, come alive, as Rentak Kita presents marwas, gendang sunda, caklempong, an exciting performance featuring gong and rebana.
Wanton C2 by Singapore I-Lien Drama Society
7.30pm–8pm Sultan Gate Park Free admission
Like a wise sage, Kampong Glam sits offers a fugitive a bowl of wanton quietly in a corner of Singapore, soup. This small act transforms the silently speaking to us about its confused fugitive, helping him find unique human stories. Set in Kampong courage and salvation. Come listen Glam in 1964, in Wanton, an elderly to this story about questing and man narrates to his two children destiny, escaping and facing reality. the story of a wanton soup lady who Chance C3 by Odyssey Dance Theatre
8pm–8.30pm Sultan Gate Park Free admission
A chance to meet; a chance to grow. together with an open heart to There is something special brewing share their positive attitudes, an as the search slowly continues. epitome of the rich communal spirit Chance reflects the precious encapsulated in Kampong Glam. qualities of individuals coming
Kalau Datang Ke Singapura C4 by Projek Ujong Tanjong
9pm–9.30pm | Sultan Gate Park Free admission
Inspired by R. Azmi’s popular song, Singapore and decides to venture Kalau Datang Ke Singapura (When here. After roaming around Singapore, Coming to Singapore), from the 1950s, he meets Miss Hasnah, a local singer, this performance takes audiences who gives Hassan the opportunity he on a nostalgic trip back in time. was looking for. Join them as they Hassan, a Penang-born musician, serenade you with tunes and stories learns about the opportunities in about Singapore back in the 50s.
Performed by Fadhli Ramlee and Sueryana Norddin, backed with live music from Azrin Abdullah, Alhafiz Jamat, Rudee Oma, Nazri Johar, Syarfa Shahiran and Jack Mataxatu. Malay Heritage Centre
A Crop of Names B2 by Teater Ekamatra
6pm–10pm | Performance: 7pm–7.30pm & 8.30pm–9pm Malay Heritage Centre carpark (facing North Bridge Road) Free admission
A crop that yields no fruit should out fleeting symbols of proof of make way for a mausoleum of the existence, this multidisciplinary living. No stone should be left installation overlaps two unturned. A Crop of Names is a speculative timelines, the past and commentary about balancing the the future. weight of history against the prospect of progress. Using multi-media projections to carve Bussorah Street
New Opera Recital E1 by New Opera Singapore
7.30pm–8pm & 8.30pm–9pm Bussorah Street Free admission
Join New Opera Singapore’s singers as they croon and swoon against the beautiful backdrop of Kampong Glam’s bright lights and rich heritage. Multiple Locations 9 Lives Show A1 B1 by 9 Lives
1pm–10pm | Multi-purpose Hall (Aliwal Art Centre) and Malay Heritage Centre Gallery Free admission
Cats have always been a part of explores how urbanisation impacts our ecosystem; however, urban community cats. Together with nine development has inevitably created local artists and designers, they tension between us and our furry present their points-of-view and friends. As part of the 9 Lives Show, stories, with artworks ranging from which uses art and design to invoke fibre art, mixed-media installation conversations about co-existence to literary art and other forms. and animal empathy, this edition LAPIS by RSCLS A2 D1
1pm–10pm | Multi-purpose Hall (Aliwal Art Centre) and 113 Arab Street | Free admission
Bali, Haji, Arab, Muscat, Bussorah, Kandahar, Pahang and Aliwal: what are the stories surrounding these familiar names? Inspired by the idea of lapis, or layers, this exhibition explores the multi-faceted layers of Kampong Glam through the eyes of various personalities whose lives – both historically, economically, and emotionally – are connected to the legacy of this neighbourhood. Graffiti writer and photographer Jufri Hazhar presents nuanced portraits of these individuals, while excerpts of their interviews create a multi- sensory visual art experience delving into the lapisan (multiple layers) of this historical place. KawKawSG’s Night Crawl Pack
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