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Olivia Ho recommends Picks Arts

KINKY BOOTS The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical (above) by UNTIL THE LIONS actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein and singer Cyndi Lauper This da:ns festival headliner by comes to . celebrated British choreographer Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s Akram Khan is inspired by poet expectations and save his family’s shoe factory from going Karthika Nair’s book of the same bust when he meets Lola, a drag queen in need of better name, based on the Indian epic heels who may be the spark to revive the dying business. Mahabharata. Together, they start a radical new product line. The princess Amba is abducted WHERE: Sands Theatre, , 10 Bayfront by the warrior Bheeshma on her Avenue MRT: Bayfront WHEN: Today to Oct 14, Tuesdays to wedding day. She kills herself and Fridays, 8pm; Saturdays, 2 and 8pm; Sundays, 1 and 6pm is reborn as the gender-bending ADMISSION: $65 to $185 INFO: Advisory 16 (some mature warrior Shikhandi, who defeats content), go to www.marinabaysands.com Bheeshma on the battlefield. Dancers (from far left) Rianto from Indonesia, Berlin-based Joy Alpuerto Ritter and Chien Ching-Ying from Taiwan perform on a stage shaped like a giant, cracked tree trunk created by Oscar-winning designer Tim Yip. WHERE: Esplanade Theatre, SINGAPORE GIRL, trials to see if they have what it takes 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: City Hall/ OR HERITAGE DEPLOYED to be a Singapore Girl; and theatre Esplanade WHEN: Tuesday and The iconic Singapore Girl, Singapore variety show She’s A Great Way To Fly. Wednesday, 8pm ADMISSION: $40 Airlines’ sarong kebaya-clad The programme is part of The to $80 from Sistic (call 6348-5555 stewardess (left), takes centre Substation’s year-long exploration of or go to www.sistic.com.sg) stage in this programme by heritage called Cities Change. People INFO: www.esplanade.com/ The Substation. Die. Everything You Know Goes Away. festivals-and-series/dans- Events include an outdoor WHERE: 45 Armenian Street festival/2018 installation of photographer John MRT: City Hall/Bras Basah Clang’s The Land Of My Heart series; WHEN: Tomorrow to Nov 4, various Singapore Girl And The Chamber Of dates and timings Trials And Tribulations, in which ADMISSION: Various prices from visitors go through tongue-in-cheek peatix.com INFO: citieschange.sg

PERSONALLY SPEAKING: on film how he befriended them, 21 Jurong East Central 1 (Jurong THE ART OF CAREGIVING using their favourite activities, such East); Objectifs Centre for Eight visual artists create work as buying 4D or singing karaoke, as a Photography and Film, 155 Middle inspired by caregivers who look after starting point. Road (Bugis/Bras Basah) people with special needs, mental Members of the public can take WHEN: : Monday to Oct 14, illness and the elderly in this home free comic books such as 10am to 9pm daily; exhibition commissioned by the Lien James Teo’s You Can Take A Break, Jurong: Oct 15 to Nov 18, 10am to 9pm Foundation, in partnership with Ngee about caregiver guilt, and Gwee Li daily, closed on public holidays; Ann Polytechnic and Objectifs Centre Sui’s Old Heroes Solve Mystery, in Objectifs: Nov 22 to Dec 16, Tuesdays for Photography and Film. which a group of elderly friends to Saturdays, noon to 7pm; Sundays, Alecia Neo worked with caregivers unravel the mysteries of their noon to 4pm; closed on Mondays and for people with mental illness to Housing Board block. public holidays devise performance art, while Kray WHERE/MRT: Community Plaza, ADMISSION: Free Chen made weekly visits to three Oasis Terraces, 681 Punggol Drive INFO: www.objectifs.com.sg/ people with dementia, documenting (Cove LRT); Jurong Regional Library, personallyspeaking PHOTOS: ALECIA NEO, JEAN LOUIS FERNANDEZ, NATIONAL TOUR OF KINKY BOOTS, THE SUBSTATION

ARTS Gladwell. Intended as a meeting place Liquid Interface for orchestra and WHERE: 02-07 Great World City, 1 Kim of ideas and sharing for international electronica by Mason Bates, Musical EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUMS) Seng Promenade MRT: Free shuttle AUDITIONS non-fiction writing, each IMHO America’s Composer of the Year this bus to/from Orchard ( bus session examines one seminal year, alongside Rachmaninov’s final Magic And Menace stop), Chinatown (Block 34 bus stop), SSO Pops: Video Games Classics non-fiction work and is moderated composition. At the newly refreshed Goh Seng Redhill (Exit A bus stop) WHEN: Till The Singapore Symphony Orchestra by author Cheong Suk-Wai. WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, Choo gallery, explore the world of Tue, 11am - 7pm (Mon - Fri), 11am - 6pm (SSO) is looking for singers aged 16 to WHERE: The Arts House, 1 Old 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ magic and supernatural beliefs as (Sat & Sun) ADMISSION: Free 35 for its Video Games Concert that Parliament Lane MRT: Raffles Place/ City Hall WHEN: Thu, 7.30pm practised by traditional South-east INFO: E-mail mmtous@ will be held at the Esplanade Concert City Hall WHEN: Oct 25, 7 - 8.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.30pm, Asian societies and experience a singnet.com.sg Hall in April next year. Auditions will be ADMISSION: Free library@esplanade) ADMISSION: $15 - multi-sensory discovery of plants conducted next month. The concert INFO: theartshouse.sg $88, tickets at ticketing.sso.org.sg and animals prized by traditional Fisherman And The Woodcutter: will feature conductor Eimear Noone, INFO: sso.org.sg healers. Solo Exhibition By WHERE: Level 2 National Museum of soprano Victoria Songwei Li (soprano), CONCERTS Tay Bak Chiang mezzo-soprano Jade Tan and the Liu Sha Returns For SCO Concert Singapore, 93 Stamford Road Tay Bak Chiang presents intimate, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir. Liu Sha, the youngest of China’s Top MRT: Bras Basah/Dhoby Ghaut unseen layers of meanings within the Ecuadorian Band Sangre Criolla WHERE: Participants will be notified 10 Chinese Orchestral Music WHEN: 10am - 7pm daily age-old Oriental instrument guqin in At Gardens By The Bay WHEN: Closing date: Oct 21 Conductors of Excellence, returns ADMISSION: Singaporeans, his paintings. The winner of several In conjunction with the Orchids of the ADMISSION: $50 refundable with a selection of Chinese works permanent residents: free; awards, including the 2002 Young Andes display, Ecuadorian band Foreigners: $10 - $15 (free for children deposit; sign up at sso.org.sg/ such as Zhang Chao’s major work, Artist Award from the National Arts Sangre Criolla will perform using up to six years old) ssycvideogames TEL: 6602-4215/ Variations Of Harmony Between Council, he also explores mineral-rich instruments such as the charango INFO: nationalmuseum.sg 4241 INFO: E-mail [email protected] Different Races, which incorporates tones from brilliant blues to calming (a small lute-like instrument), quena elements from various ethnic groups. earthy shades in some of his latest (traditional flute of the Andes) and The concert also features Singapore creations. BOOKS zampona (a series of flutes bound Chinese Orchestra (SCO) dizi principal EXHIBITIONS (GALLERIES) WHERE: 01-01 HPL House, together) at Gardens by the Bay. Yin Zhi Yang and Shen Qin. 50 Cuscaden Road MRT: Orchard The Great Singapore Poo Sale WHERE: Gardens by the Bay, 18 WHERE: SCO Concert Hall, Singapore Victor Ang Chinese Ink Solo Art WHEN: Oct 19 - Nov 3, 10am - 7pm And Other Beastly Business Marina Gardens Drive MRT: Bayfront Conference Hall, 7 Shenton Way Exhibition Author Maureen Yeo will launch her WHEN: Tomorrow & Sunday, 11am - MRT: Tanjong Pagar WHEN: Oct 13, This exhibition features Chinese (Mon - Fri), 11am - 6pm (Sat) book, The Great Singapore Poo Sale 11.30am & 2.30 - 3pm (Cloud Forest); 8pm ADMISSION: $38 - $88 calligraphy with a twist. Instead of TEL: 6339-0678 And Other Beastly Business, with a 6 - 6.30pm (The Canopy, outside TEL: 6557-4034 brushes, Victor Ang uses rice paper INFO: ipreciation.com storytelling and craft session. The Flower Dome entrance) INFO: E-mail [email protected] to create ink splashes on rice paper, event is suitable for children aged ADMISSION: Cloud Forest: Gardens a technique he calls “paper- THEATRE eight to 12 and will be a good by the Bay admission fees apply; supplanting-brushes”. opportunity to educate young readers adults, $12; seniors & children, $8; DANCE WHERE: Ion Art Gallery, Level 4 Ion about wildlife and conservation. The Canopy: free Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn MRT: Orchard Because It’s Fun WHERE: Kinokuniya Singapore Main INFO: gardensbythebay.com.sg Introduction To WHEN: Till Mon, 10am - 10pm The inaugural production of The Fool Store, 04-20/21 Sleeping Beauty ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail Theatre explores how bullying is (Takashimaya Shopping Centre), Milos: Spanish Romance As a lead-up to its performance of [email protected] omnipresent in society and how it 391 Orchard Road MRT: Orchard Catch award-winning guitarist Milos Sleeping Beauty, the Singapore affects mental well-being. WHEN: Oct 14, 2pm ADMISSION: Free Karadaglic’s Singapore Symphony Dance Theatre has condensed the Art Trek WHERE: Drama Centre Black Box, TEL: 6737-5021 Orchestra (SSO) debut in this classic ballet into an hour-long Presented by The Philippine Embassy, 03-01 National Library Building, 100 INFO: kinokuniya.com.sg programme of soulful guitar classics, special for young audiences (from the 12th edition of this exhibition Victoria Sreet MRT: City Hall/Bugis which will be led by Taiwanese- two years old). WHERE: Esplanade features a series of visual, literary and WHEN: Oct 12, 15 - 19 (8pm), Oct 13 & 20 IMHO: In My Humble Opinion American conductor Carolyn Kuan, Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Drive performing artworks by 24 Filipino (3 & 8pm), Oct 14 & 21 (3pm) This first edition of the IMHO series the first woman to be awarded the MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: artists. Since its inception, Art Trek ADMISSION: $38, tickets from will feature a discussion on the book, Herbert von Karajan Conducting Tomorrow, 1 & 4pm ADMISSION: $14 has showcased the works of more sistic.com.sg TEL: 6348-5555 The Tipping Point by Malcolm Fellowship. The SSO will also present TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg than 200 Filipino artists. INFO: thefooltheatre.com