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HAPPENING NOW JULY Celebrating Radio: Hari Raya Open House AROUND THE JULY— 6 July ACM, IHC, MHC, NMS, Sounds from the Past RBC, SPM, SYSNMH, TPM Until 17 July NMS CIVIC DISTRICT SEPTEMBER Straits Family Sunday: So Sedap! Masak Masak 2016 10 July TPM 2016 MUSEUMS Until 31 July NMS 1 National Museum I LOVE 16 of CultureFest 2016 Pusåkå: Heritage and Culture of the 2 22, 23, 29 & 30 July IHC BRAS BASAH RD 3 SAM at 8Q Javanese in Singapore 4 CC1/NE6/NS24 5 Singapore Philatelic EVENTS Until 28 August MHC Monumental Walking Tour – Dhoby Ghaut

JUL—SEP Charming Churches of Rochor Museum 6 Asian Civilisations MUSEUMS 23 July PSM Christianity In Asia: Museum GUIDE TO HERITAGE HAPPENINGS AND MUSEUMS IN SINGAPORE Sacred Art and Visual Splendour 2 Hari Raya Open House @ MHC VICTORIA ST FORT CANNING TUNNEL 3 MONUMENTS Until 11 September ACM CC2 Bras Basah 30 July MHC 7 Cathedral of the

STAMFORD RD Good Shepherd 18 Once Upon a Time in Asia: 1 BRAS BASAH RD 8 Chijmes AUGUST 9 Raffles Hotel The Missing Mouse 17 10 Armenian Church Until 11 September ACM Neighbourhood Sketches 11 Central Fire Station

6 August IHC STAMFORD RD 7 12 St Andrew’s Cathedral 19 21 Early Chinese Newspapers in 13 National Gallery Saturdays@ACM: Red and White Singapore Singapore (1881–1942) 6 August ACM VICTORIA ST 14 Parliament House STAMFORD RD20 9 Until 9 October SYSNMH 8 15 National Day Open House 4 LANDMARKS The Singapore Journey: 50 Years 9 August ACM, IHC, MHC, NMS, 16 The Cathay RBC, SPM, SYSNMH, TPM Through Stamps NORTH BRIDGE RD 17 SMU Li Ka Shing Library Until 16 October SPM 18 NTUC Income Centre Power & Ritual: 19 SMU School of Batik in Javanese Society 22 Accountancy-Law Shaking It With Shakespeare 13 August MHC STAMFORD RD 20 SMU Lee Kong Chian HILL ST 23 Exhibition School of Business National Stamp Collecting 10 EW13/NS25 21 Carlton Hotel Until 15 January 2017 SPM City Hall 22 Raffles City 24 Competition 2016 Shopping Centre 19, 20, 21 August SPM 5 Nyonya Needlework: 23 Capitol Building 24 Singapore Chinese Embroidery and Beadwork in the Singapore Night Festival 12 Chamber of Commerce 11 25 Peranakan World 19, 20, 26 & 27 August NMS Building Until 26 March 2017 TPM 25 Peninsula Plaza 26 Funan DigitaLife Mall SEPTEMBER 27 Supreme Court

HILL ST 26 Family Workshop — Make your own mini drive-in cinema! RIVER VALLEY RD To learn more about 3 September NMS 27 ST ANDREWS ROAD NHB museums and Love, Light, Living Festival monuments, visit: 3 & 4 September ACM roots.sg 13 Wan Qing Mid-Autumn ACM — Asian Civilisations Museum Festival 2016 14 CONNAUGHT DRIVE IHC — Indian Heritage Centre 9–18 September SYSNMH MHC — EU TONG SEN ST NHB — National Heritage Board Straits Family Sunday: Family Tree 15 NMS — National Museum of Singapore 11 September TPM TPM — Peranakan Museum Disclaimer: All rights reserved. To get the PSM — Preservation of Sites and Monuments Singapore Tamil Theatre Materials in this publication full events may not be reproduced in part RBC — Reflections @ Bukit Chandu and Film Explorers (S.T.T.F.E.) or in whole without written listing, visit SPM — Singapore Philatelic Museum Short Films Screening consent of National Heritage A wayang kulit piece depicting a gunungan roots.sg SYSNMH — Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall 24 September IHC Board (NHB), the publisher. c. 2000s | On loan from the Javanese Information is correct at the Association of Singapore time of printing. Copyright 2016. 6 (INSIDE) FRONT COVER (INSIDE) BACK COVER (INSIDE) FRONT FOLD

To learn more about these exhibitions and other events, visit roots.sg JUL—SEP HIGHLIGHTS

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ASIA: SINGAPORE NIGHT FESTIVAL EARLY CHINESE NEWSPAPERS IN SINGAPORE (1881–1942) THE MISSING MOUSE 19, 20, 26 & 27 AUGUST ENDS 11 SEPTEMBER ENDS 9 OCTOBER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM The iconic Singapore Night Festival celebrates the SUN YAT SEN NANYANG MEMORIAL HALL Experience a story about friendship and adventure in passion of creation with this year’s theme, Inventions and This special exhibition offers insights into the past where the museum as you join Ganesha on his hunt for his Innovation, returning to the Bras Basah.Bugis precinct newspapers played a crucial role in connecting the best friend, Mr Mouse! Explore meandering mazes, for a spectacular ninth edition. Join the revelry as science overseas Chinese to their homeland. It showcases more paths, and passages to track him down. Create your fiction and fantasy intertwine in performances and light art, than 100 images and artefacts associated with early own adventure in the museum. Through hands-on inspired by the zeal that drove inventors to discover the new Chinese newspapers, prominent individuals who shaped activities, workshops, programmes, and tours, you can and unconventional. Visitors can look forward to an exciting the newspaper industry, and the early printing industry learn more about animals—both real and mythical—in line-up of immersive activities and performances from local in Singapore. Asian art. For children ages 7 to 12. and international acts. Visit nightfest.sg for details. 12 Tai Gin Road, Singapore 327874 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897 sysnmh.org.sg acm.org.sg nightfest.sg • nationalmuseum.sg MONUMENTAL WALKING TOUR — INDIAN HERITAGE CENTRE STRAITS FAMILY SUNDAY: LANDMARKS OF COMMUNITIES CULTUREFEST 2016 FAMILY TREE 30 JULY 22, 23, 29 & 30 JULY 11 SEPTEMBER Understand how the Armenians, British and Scots made PERANAKAN MUSEUM INDIAN HERITAGE CENTRE their mark and established their roots in 19th century Learn the importance of family ties in the Peranakan Join us this July at the second Indian Heritage Centre Singapore through religion, commerce and community. world through a tour in the galleries. Play dress up in a CultureFest! Immerse in Indian art and culture through Do not miss the opportunity to get up close to the nyonya kebaya or baba batik shirt and capture a fun family an array of cultural activities, crafts, music and dance Armenian Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator – the portrait. Design and create your own family tree artwork performances suitable for everyone. oldest church in Singapore! to take home. 5 Campbell Lane, Singapore 209924 Register via monumental-walking-tours.peatix.com/ 39 Armenian Street, Singapore 179941 indianheritage.org.sg peranakanmuseum.org.sg BUKIT TIMAH HARI RAYA OPEN HOUSE AT MHC SHAKING IT WITH SHAKESPEARE HERITAGE TRAIL 30 JULY EXHIBITION From nature reserves to war zones, the Bukit Timah area has an immensely rich natural and historical heritage MALAY HERITAGE CENTRE ENDS 15 JANUARY 2017 Celebrate Hari Raya at Malay Heritage Centre’s annual waiting to be discovered. With a string of schools along SINGAPORE PHILATELIC MUSEUM Bukit Timah Road, this is an area many remember from Open House. In the day, learn about Singapore’s history Celebrate the life and times, and the enduring legacy of through dramatized and interactive tours in the Centre’s their younger days, while others know it for its many food the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare. This and entertainment spots. So bring along your friends and permanent galleries. When dusk falls, soak in the festive activity-based and fun-filled exhibition invites families to atmosphere under a canopy of twinkling lampu lap-lip – family to experience the highlights of Bukit Timah through uncover nuggets of information about the literary giant. this heritage trail. decorative fairy lights – as you clap along to song, dance View over 400 stamps and philatelic materials issued by and comedic performances at the Raya Concert Gemilang. 70 countries, century-old picture postcards, books from Download the trail booklet at Explore the Raya Flea Market and the Aliwal Arts Night Shakespeare’s time, historical Tudor era replicas and roots.sg/Roots/visit/trails/bukit-timah-heritage-trail Crawl that has an array of traditional and contemporary animal specimens. Read, watch and listen to the music and arts activities and programmes organised by the Aliwal songs of his plays. Explore the cabinet of curiosities filled Arts Centre. with exotic and everyday objects!

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