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| FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7 FILMS John Lui Film Correspondent recommends The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg (2016, NC16) Picks This documentary is about Swiss entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg and the tense Film socio-political context of China’s transformation since the 1970s. WHERE: Block 7, Gillman Barracks, 7 Lock Road MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: Today, 8pm ADMISSION: $5 from start-ulisigg.peatix.com A Singapore Botanic Gardens Movie: Shorts Under The Stars The Singapore Art Museum presents two nights of award-winning local and international short films curated for the family-friendly exhibition Imaginarium. Fringe activities start from 5pm. WHERE: Eco Lake Lawn (Bukit Timah entrance), Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Today & tomorrow, 5 - 9pm (screening from 7.30pm) ADMISSION: Free (snacks provided) INFO: E-mail nparks_sbg_visitor_ [email protected] Blue (2017, PG) The industrialisation that has occurred in the oceans over the last century mirrors the events that triggered mass extinctions on land. Industrial-scale fishing, habitat destruction, species loss and pollution have placed the ocean in peril. The very nature of the sea is being irretrievably altered. Blue is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine BIRDS OF PASSAGE (M18) native people of Colombia can grow. Rapayet (Jose Acosta, PHOTOS: ANTICIPATE 125 minutes/Now showing/ above left) is a young man looking to make enough to world is on a precipice. PICTURES, GOLDEN marry, but the lure of drug money pushes him – and his WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden VILLAGE, SINGAPORE What happens when a Central American indigenous clan – into a future that will shake their culture to the core. FILM SOCIETY Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road culture, one that has resisted Christianisation and This film was Colombia’s nomination in the Best Foreign MRT: Nicoll Highway Western ways for centuries, gets into the drug trade? Language category at this year’s Oscars. WHEN: Tomorrow, 3.15pm This hypnotic, beautifully photographed crime thriller WHERE:The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 digs into what happens when, beginning in the 1970s, Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Now showing, (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg gringos (Americans) begin arriving with planeloads of various times ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: For schedule and cash, looking to buy as much marijuana as the Wayuu bookings, go to theprojector.sg Amazing Grace (2019, PG) Amazing Grace depicts the 1972 concert when singer Aretha Franklin performed with Reverend James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Director Sydney Pollack forgot to use clapperboards, making it almost impossible to sync sound to image and the film remained unseen for decades. After Pollack died in 2008, director Alan Elliott took over the production. CONTEMPORARY ASIAN WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden CINEMA SERIES Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Thu, July This new project, a partnership 29 - 31: 8.30pm; July 26: 7.50pm; July between the Singapore Film Society 27: 4.40pm; July 28: 2.30pm (SFS) and Filmgarde Cineplexes, will ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 showcase critically acclaimed films (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg from South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Japan and other parts of the region. Downtown East Free Kicking off the series is South Outdoor Movie Screening Korean psychological thriller Clean Up (2018, NC16, 104 minutes), This month’s film, Guang (2018, PG13), winner of the New Currents award at is about autistic Wen Guang (Kyo last year’s Busan International Film Chen), who is sent out to look for work Festival. by his brother (Ernest Chong), but the The debut feature of film-maker attempts fail. Guang is compulsively Kwon Man-ki tells the story of a drawn to objects that produce woman, Jung Ju (Yoon Ji-hye, above), musical notes and he behaves in a way who is mentally tortured by a sin she that causes potential employers to PARASITE (M18) working at odd jobs. Then Ki Woo (Choi Woo-shik, above committed years ago until one day, reject him. His brother, who has raised 131 minutes/Now showing/ right), the eldest son, is asked to fake his credentials to the consequences catch up with her. him since the death of their mother, land a job as a tuition teacher. His student is a girl, Da Hye Clean Up screens on July 26 and 27. resents postponing his ambitions to Social satires rarely come as funny, as unpredictable or as (Jung Ji-so, above left), daughter of a wealthy man, Mr Park WHERE: Filmgarde Cineplex Bugis+, look after his child-like sibling. generous to its characters as this work by South Korean (Lee Sun-kyun). 05-01 Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street WHERE: Outside D’Marquee, film-maker Bong Joon-ho. At the Park mansion, Ki Woo sees the splendour of their MRT: Bugis WHEN: July 26 to Downtown East, 1 Pasir Ris Close His peek into the lives of people from the opposite ends lives compared with the squalor of his own and it sets in November ADMISSION: $13.50 for the MRT: Pasir Ris WHEN: July 27, of the wealth divide makes both parties responsible for motion a string of incidents that will change the fortunes public, $12 for SFS Film Addicts and 7.30 - 10pm ADMISSION: Free their own miseries – but instead of making viewers hate of both families. Filmgarde members TEL: 6589-1688 them for their nasty, selfish behaviour, he elicits pity. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the highest award, at this year’s INFO: For bookings and schedule, The Kim family live in a grubby basement dwelling, Cannes Film Festival. go to fgcineplex.com.sg/movies INFO: downtowneast.com.sg In Fabric (2018, R21) In Fabric, which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film PETS Sept 11 & 25, Oct 9 & 23, 12.30 - 1pm building techniques by transforming how you and your family can Dragonfly Walk At Festival, is a haunting ghost story set ADMISSION: Free, sign up at building blocks into works of art. apply for it. This family-friendly Toa Payoh Town Park against the backdrop of a busy winter bit.ly/31Ipwil INFO: bit.ly/2XgZwqN WHERE: Garden House, Jurong Lake carnival includes educational In this event organised by Nature sales period in a department store, Dog Grooming Certification: Gardens, Yuan Ching Road interactive sessions with health Society (Singapore), join guide Lena and follows the life of a cursed dress Theory Examination CONTESTS MRT: Chinese Garden/Lakeside experts and health talks by Singapore Chow in discovering the beautiful as it passes from person to person, The Singapore Kennel Club (SKC) is WHEN: July 27, 10am - noon Cancer Society and Tan Tock Seng dragonflies of Toa Payoh Town Park. with devastating consequences. holding its 19th SKC Grooming ADMISSION: Free Hospital. The many species found there WHERE: GV Suntec City, 03-373 Examination and 8th SKC Elites UOB Painting Of The Year TEL: 6267-0155/0157 INFO: E-mail WHERE: Toa Payoh HDB Hub Atrium, include Trumpet Tails, Scarlet Suntec City Mall, 3 Temasek Grooming Competition (both on Competition [email protected] or 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh MRT: Toa Adjutants and Common Amberwings. Boulevard MRT: Promenade/ Sept 6 at United Square), preceded by United Overseas Bank is inviting [email protected] Payoh WHEN: July 27 & 28, 9am - 5pm WHERE: Meet at 10am at the side of a written theory examination. Esplanade WHEN: Aug 24, 1pm Singapore citizens and permanent ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.chas.sg the park next to Toa Payoh Swimming ADMISSION: Singapore Film Society WHERE: Theory exam: Pet Lovers residents to enter the 38th UOB Complex MRT: Toa Payoh Centre IHQ, 07-91/92 North Spring OTHERS membership, from $18 a month Painting of the Year Competition. WHEN: Tomorrow, 10 - 11.30am Bizhub, 11 Yishun Industrial Street 1 TEL: 9017-0160 INFO: E-mail Country winners in Indonesia, ADMISSION: Free MRT: Yishun WHEN: Aug 19, 2 - 4pm LAST CALL [email protected] Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand URA Draft Master Plan INFO: www.nss.org.sg ADMISSION: $120 entry fee; will be considered for a month-long Exhibition certification fees (upon passing): residency programme at the Fukuoka The Urban Redevelopment Authority Mr Sign NATURE $150 - $500 TEL: 6469-4821 (URA) is taking its Draft Master Plan INFO: E-mail [email protected] or Asian Art Museum in Japan. Mr Sign by the T.H.E Dance Company 2019 to the heartland. Check out go to skc.org.sg WHERE: ArtSpace@HeluTrans, centres on the subject of thoughts Nature Appreciation Walk At 02-04 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, future plans for your neighbourhood and ideas. Through a performance Windsor Nature Park 39 Keppel Road MRT: Tanjong Pagar/ at the various venues. and post-show dialogue, the Through this guided walk, TOURS Outram Park WHEN: Submissions: WHERE (MRT): Waterway Point production examines the individual’s • The listings on these Happenings participants will gain a greater Aug 16 - 18; awards ceremony in (Punggol), Westgate (Jurong East), place in a hierarchical society and pages are free. Write to Life appreciation of Singapore’s rich Culture City, Culture Scape, November ADMISSION: Free Junction 8 (Bishan), Our Tampines enables the audience to gain an Happenings, Life, The Straits Times, natural heritage and the need to Public Art Trail TEL: 6539-1177 INFO: E-mail Hub (Tampines), Causeway Point understanding and appreciation of 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore 318994 or e-mail [email protected] protect it for future generations. Get inspired by and unwind in the [email protected] (Woodlands) WHEN: Mon - July 28: contemporary dance as well as to at least two weeks ahead.
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  • Singapore Raptor Report March 2019

    Singapore Raptor Report March 2019

    Singapore Raptor Report March 2019 Japanese Sparrowhawk, adult female, at West Coast Park, on 29 March 2019, by Norvin Ng Summary for migrant species: In March, 133 raptors of 9 migrant species were recorded. There were 60 Oriental Honey Buzzards Pernis ptilorhyncus, including 13 at Yishun on the 17th, flying northwesterly. The 30 Black Bazas Aviceda leuphotes included a kettle of 12 at Telok Blangah Hill Park on the 24th. Seventeen Chinese Sparrowhawks Accipiter soloensis were recorded, including six at Sungei Buloh on the 23th, apparently on passage migration to the north. Three Jerdon's Bazas Aviceda jerdoni were still wintering in Singapore on the 10th: two at Pasir Ris and one at Pulau Ubin. One Common Buzzard Buteo buteo was observed at Kent Ridge Park on the 10th, possibly on passage and four Grey-faced Buzzards Butastur indicus, were also recorded over the Southern Ridges: three on the 8th at Kent Ridge Park and one on the 13th at Telok Blangah Hill Park. These were recorded by Keita Sin, who spent a number of days observing raptors at the Southern Ridges. Five Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus were recorded: singles at Satay by the Bay, Bukit Merah, Pulau Ubin, Kranji Marshes and Telok Blangah Hill Park. Ten Japanese Sparrowhawks Accipiter gularis and three Western Ospreys Pandion haliaetus rounded up the migrant raptors for March. Page 1 of 8 Adult male Crested Goshawk eating a Changeable Lizard, Pasir Ris Park, March 2019, by Sheen Taw Lim. Highlights for sedentary species: There were two breeding records in March: two White-bellied Sea Eagles at a nest on Pulau Ubin on the 10th, and a nest with two Brahminy Kite chicks at Turut Track on the 12th.