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Spotlight On Comic Artist Picks Koh Hong Teng The works of Koh Hong Teng, one of ’s foremost comic artists, Arts are often an ode to places of heritage in Singapore, with storylines weaving together the past and present. In this panel moderated by comic historian Lim Cheng Tju, Koh will be joined by his collaborators, architectural historian Lai Chee Kien and playwright Marc Goldberg, as they discuss the creative process behind his various works. WHERE: Visitors Briefing Room, Level 1 National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street MRT: City Hall/Bugis WHEN: Tomorrow, 4 - 6.30pm ADMISSION: Free, register at www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary INFO: E-mail [email protected]

Does Singapore Literature Have A Place In The World? In his keynote lecture titled Confluences: Connecting Singapore And The World, poet and editor Alvin Pang reflects on two decades of work in trying to connect the Singaporean with the international. He will share the startling resonances he finds in the writing itself as well as in common values and challenges across literary communities everywhere. WHERE: The Pod, Level 16 National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street MRT: City Hall/Bugis WHEN: July 12, 2 - 3.30pm ADMISSION: Free, register at www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary INFO: E-mail [email protected]

CONCERTS L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE: A RECITAL BY BARITONE PACKAGING MATTERS with labourers harvesting the fruit, SPH Gift Of Music: Orchestra Of ZHOU ZHENGZHONG It is easy to overlook this small but moves to Chinese workers (their The Music Makers @ Paragon Opera fans should mark the date. thoughtfully curated show at the hairstyle in the classic queue In a rare performance by a classical Baritone Zhou Zhengzhong (above), National Museum. Tucked into a fashion of the early 20th century) orchestra this large in a mall, the who sang the role of Marcello in the gallery on the ground floor, it is an cutting and packing tins, and ends Orchestra of the Music Makers, Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s eye-opening look at the history of with a European woman daintily featuring 90 musicians led by staging of La Boheme last year, food production in Singapore. unpacking slices onto a china plate conductor Seow Yibin, will perform at returns for a solo recital on Thursday. There are artefacts that will give for consumption. Paragon mall. The programme The rising opera star, praised by visitors from a certain demographic Kids will love the interactive includes Wagner’s Prelude to Act 3 of conductor Antonio Pappano for his flashbacks to their childhood: an element in the family corner, where Lohengrin, Walton’s Crown Imperial exquisite tonality and perfect F&N tin tray graced by the alluring they can spin blocks to match food and John Williams’ Raiders March cantabile, will present a programme face of actress Maria Menado (left), items with their commonly used (from Indiana Jones). The event is ranging from operatic arias to art star of 1950s and 1960s Malay packaging then and now. There is part of the SPH Gift of Music series. songs to folk tunes. movies; retro posters and calendars even a sustainability lesson worked WHERE: Main Atrium, Paragon, WHERE: Victoria Concert Hall, touting Ayam brand sardines and into the show. 290 MRT: Orchard 11 Empress Place WHEN: Thursday, Magnolia drinks; a collectible WHERE: National Museum of WHEN: Tomorrow, 3pm 7.30pm MRT: Raffles Place kamcheng (Peranakan pot) from Singapore, 93 Stamford Road ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6738-5535 ADMISSION: $28, $48, $68 and $78 Amoy Canning. WHEN: Till Sept 15, 10am to 7pm daily INFO: paragon.com.sg INFO: www.altenburg-arts.com Schedule time to watch the MRT: Dhoby Ghaut/Bras Basah astonishing black-and-white silent ADMISSION: Free for Singapore SMU Symphonia – film clip which captured the process citizens and permanent residents, of producing canned sliced $15 for foreigners Photosymphony pineapples in Singapore. It starts INFO: www.nationalmuseum.sg SMU Symphonia will present familiar songs ranging from childhood favourites such as Beauty And The

Beast to modern tunes of the 2016 PHOTOS: ALTENBURG 200: A NATURAL HISTORY known for its wildlife, it has played animated movie Your Name. ARTS, ONG SOR FERN Most museums in Singapore are host to some interesting creatures WHERE: Shaw Foundation Symphony downright cavalier with their as well as famous naturalists such Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens, captions. But this show at the Lee as Alfred Russel Wallace, who came 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens Kong Chian Natural History Museum up with the theory of evolution WHEN: Tomorrow, 5.30 - 6.30pm offers an embarrassment of riches. independent of Charles Darwin. ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail In fact, I dare say, the avalanche of That there are enough moments nparks_sbg_visitor_services@ text could do with a bit of trimming. to fill 200 captions to overflowing is nparks.gov.sg This show, which presents 200 a real education to this city slicker. moments in Singapore’s natural Just make sure you allot enough DRUMatic Fusion history, includes rich pickings for time to do a lot of reading. The concert showcases both natural history buffs and trivia WHERE: Lee Kong Chian Natural internationally renowned musicians junkies. Learn, for instance, that first History Museum, National in collaboration with the Singapore British resident William Farquhar’s University of Singapore, Chinese Orchestra (SCO), conducted dog got eaten by a crocodile and 2 Conservatory Drive that in retaliation, he ordered the WHEN: Till June next year by music director Yeh Tsung. crocodile speared and strung up, MRT: Kent Ridge ADMISSION: $16 for Percussionist Evelyn Glennie – who presumably as a warning to other Singapore citizens and permanent has a hearing disability – will perform crocodiles to not eat any more pets. residents, $21 for foreigners with Chinese percussion twin While Singapore is not usually INFO: lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg brothers Gao Chao and Gao Yue. WHERE: SCO Concert Hall, Singapore Conference Hall, 7 Shenton Way MRT: Tanjong Pagar WHEN: July 12 & 13, 8pm ADMISSION: $20 - $88 4pm ADMISSION: Free for Singapore WHERE: Level 1 (Victoria Street side), City Hall WHEN: July 12, 7.30pm; TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sco.com.sg & DANCE THEATRE sistic.com.sg citizens & permanent residents, Carlton Hotel Singapore, 76 Bras July 14, 5pm ADMISSION: $15 - $45, $10 for foreigners TEL: 6227-5731 Basah Road MRT: City Hall tickets from thedwarf.peatix.com Lunchtime Concert At VCH RedDot Bhangra Competition INFO: babahouse.nus.edu.sg WHEN: Till July 14, noon - 7pm Happy Waiting In celebration of the fifth anniversary Six bhangra teams from Singapore, ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6336-4240 This absurdist play is inspired by SmartyPants And The Swordfish Hong Kong, India and the United Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and of Victoria Concert Hall’s reopening, INFO: artcommune.com.sg Written by Jean Tay, the play revolves States will battle it out. Judges from EXHIBITIONS (GALLERIES) Waiting For Godot. Vicky is trapped in this concert will feature The Barber Of around Nadim, a young kampung boy Australia, Britain and the US will pick Svay Sareth: The Breath a mound, with only her limbs and head Seville Overture, ballet treats from who unexpectedly saves the kingdom the top three winners. The audience Both Sides, Now Finale: Of Change seen, but she is cheerful. She enters a Russian master Shostakovich and from a violent swordfish attack. As a gets to vote for the People’s Choice Public Arts Installation Svay Sareth’s first solo exhibition in series of memories, imaginations and four lively pieces of candied musical group of students explore the pop, including Leroy Andersen’s award. Both Sides, Now, a community Singapore features a single-channel recollections of stories told by her circumstances leading to the boy’s bustling Bugler’s Holiday and the WHERE: Gateway Theatre, 3615 Jalan engagement project by local arts video work and an installation folks when she was young. She speaks death at the hands of the jealous King train-simulating Copenhagen Steam Bukit Merah MRT: Redhill groups ArtsWok Collaborative and comprising about 180 soft-sculpture often to her husband Victor, but is not Raja, they discover there are many Railway Galop. WHEN: July 20, 2 - 5pm Drama Box, concludes its latest series water lilies. He enfolds and acknowledged with any response. ways one can dissect and reimagine WHERE: Victoria Concert Hall, ADMISSION: $23, tickets from this weekend with a public arts interweaves memories and personal She is constantly “visited” by Bobo, 11 Empress Place MRT: Raffles Place bescene.sg/event/RDBC19 installation featuring creations by history with encounters of who dances past her frequently, but a story. WHEN: July 17, 12.30pm TEL: 9029-4913 INFO: E-mail some residents of Block 7 Telok present-day Cambodia and its does not seem to respond to her. WHERE: Gateway Theatre Black Box, ADMISSION: Free, tickets required [email protected] or Blangah Crescent along with artists entanglement with foreign interest. WHERE: Stamford Arts Centre Black 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah MRT: Redhill from sso.org.sg/free-concerts/ go to bit.ly/RDBC19event Alecia Neo, Jasmine Ng, Angie Seah WHERE: Richard Koh Fine Art Box Theatre, 155 Waterloo Street WHEN: July 13, 14 & 20, 3pm lunchtime-concert and Shirley Soh. (Singapore), 01-26 , MRT: Bras Basah/Rochor ADMISSION: $32, tickets from WHERE: Void Deck at Block 7 Telok Block 47 Malan Road MRT: Labrador WHEN: July 12, 8pm; July 13, 3pm smartypants.peatix.com Steven Osborne Plays Mozart EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUMS) Blangah Crescent MRT: Telok Park WHEN: Till July 20; Tue - Sat, 11am ADMISSION: $16 - $20, tickets from INFO: artsfest.gateway.sg Award-winning pianist Steven Blangah/HarbourFront - 7pm ADMISSION: Free happywaiting.peatix.com Osborne, regarded as one of Britain’s Glossaries Of The Straits WHEN: Till Sun, noon - 9pm TEL: 9788-4291 INFO: E-mail HeartStrings most treasured musicians, plays Chinese Homemaking ADMISSION: Free [email protected] Dwarf – Alexander Zemlinsky’s Presented by Five Stones Theatre, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 In This exhibition complements the INFO: dramabox.org Der Zwerg HeartStrings is a quirky dance- interpretative displays on the first A Major with the Singapore Symphony F Klub – Group Exhibition Following the success of last year’s theatre production about play and and second floors of the NUS Baba Wong Keen – Theatre The F Klub, formed in 2007 in Kuala Love And Duty, The Opera People Orchestra, conducted by Carlos the importance of friendship. Kalmar. The programme includes House. It includes artist projects Of Enigmas Lumpur, is a group of Malaysian visual presents Dwarf – Alexander Combining music, physical theatre Rossini’s Overture To The Silken from earlier exhibitions such as Wong Keen’s new solo exhibition, artists linked by a common interest of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg in its and lots of string, it revolves around Ladder, Kernis’ Musica Celestis and Objects & Desire (2007), Theatre Of Enigmas, is held in doing figurative arts or using the South-east Asian premiere. Based on three fun-loving characters who Haydn’s Symphony No.98 In B Flat A Psychotaxonomy Of Home: conjunction with the launch of figure as a main subject in their visual a short story by Oscar Wilde, grapple with the ups and downs of Major. Michael Lee Hong Hwee (2008) and artcommune gallery’s new space at arts practice. Zemlinsky’s searing exploration of WHERE: Victoria Concert Hall, Of Fingerbowls & Hankies: Chris Yap Carlton Hotel Singapore. The WHERE: Chan + Hori Contemporary, self-loathing and unrequited love is being friends. 11 Empress Place MRT: Raffles Place Voyeurs Through The Baba House exhibition features 15 works by the 02-09 Gillman Barracks, 6 Lock Road transformed to shed light on the WHERE: Gateway Theatre Sky Garden, WHEN: July 25 & 26, 7.30pm; (2009). New York-trained artist from 2015 to MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: Till July 21; effects of social inequality in 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah pre-concert talk: 6.30pm at VCH WHERE: NUS Baba House, 157 Neil this year which cover his Tue - Fri, 11am - 7pm; weekends, noon - contemporary society. Performed in MRT: Redhill WHEN: July 14, 20 & 21, Music Studio ADMISSION: $15 - $88, Road MRT: Outram Park wide-ranging themes and 6pm ADMISSION: Free German with English surtitles. 11am ADMISSION: $20, tickets at tickets from ticketing.sso.org.sg WHEN: Tours: Tue - Fri, 10am; techniques across canvas, paper TEL: 6338-1962 WHERE: Esplanade Annexe Studio, heartstrings.peatix.com INFO: sso.org.sg self-guided visits: Sat, 1.30, 2.15, 3.15 & and mixed-media works. INFO: www.chanhori.com 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ INFO: artsfest.gateway.sg