| FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5

GIGS Anjali Raguraman IN FLAMES – LIVE IN recommends SINGAPORE Date Night Friday: Kelvin Kong Metalheads, take note. In Flames, In this Jazz in July performance, Picks the standard bearers for Swedish Kelvin Kong and his band of unusual melodic death metal, are playing in suspects take audiences through the SG LEWIS – LIVE IN SINGAPORE Singapore for the first time. The styles of the male vocal jazz genre. Gigs After gaining attention for his remix band, whose lead singer is Bjorn WHERE: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, of Jessie Ware’s song, You & I Gelotte (below), started their career 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ (Forever), and off the back of his latest in Gothenburg in 1990 and have City Hall WHEN: July 27, 8.30 & EP Dusk, British producer, songwriter released 12 , including their 9.30pm ADMISSION: Free and DJ SG Lewis (right), or Sam Lewis, latest, Battles, in 2016. www.esplanade.com INFO: brings his moody, atmospheric WHERE: Zepp @ Big Box, 1 Venture to Singapore for the Avenue Jurong East Ash – Live In Singapore MRT: first time. WHEN: Tonight, 8pm The Northern Irish trio are inspired by Kilo Lounge, 01-02/04, 21 $118 (free standing grunge pioneers Nirvana, Sonic Youth, WHERE: ADMISSION: Tanjong Pagar Road MRT: Telok Ayer tickets) via Sistic Pixies and alt-rock act Lazer Gun Nun. Tonight, 8.30 to 11.30pm (www.sistic.com.sg, or call The band’s latest , Islands, was WHEN: ADMISSION: $65 via 6348-5555). Add on $200 for VIP released in May this year to rave sglewis.peatix.com, 18 and above only Meet & Greet. reviews. WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe, 04-01 HPL House, 50 Cuscaden Road MRT: Orchard WHEN: July 31, 9pm ADMISSION: $118 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg CHARITY

Art For Hope This charity party by holistic lifestyle centre Levitise raises funds for the Down Syndrome Association of Singapore, primarily through the sale of artwork by people with Down syndrome. Also on sale is organic wine from small boutique farms in Europe provided by Brown Bag Wines and Michelin-starred canapes provided by Tim Meijers Fine Catering. Visitors can also win artwork and Levitise’s PHOTOS: IN FLAMES/ Advanced Holistic Lifestyle FACEBOOK, LEONARD Assessment. SOOSAY, / WHERE: 19-01 SBF Center, 160 FACEBOOK, SG Robinson Road MRT: Tanjong Pagar LEWIS/FACEBOOK WHEN: July 26, 6 - 8.30pm ADMISSION: $49 TEL: 6282-0185 INFO: goo.gl/rKYQch TALKS

In Conversation: Lacquer In Contemporary Art Artist Saeko Ando (Japan/Vietnam) and Phi Phi Oanh, a participating artist (United States/Vietnam) in the exhibition titled Trees Of Life – Knowledge In Material talk about how traditional Vietnamese lacquer has been innovatively adapted in contemporary art. WHERE: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: Tomorrow, 2 - 3.30pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: goo.gl/1f46bx Agnes And Her Amazing Orchid: Writing History For Our Children In the late 19th century, horticulturist Agnes Joaquim created the world’s ODESZA 2018: A MOMENT APART WHERE: The Coliseum, Hard Rock IGNITE! MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 first cultivated orchid hybrid, the TOUR – LIVE IN SINGAPORE Hotel Singapore, Resorts World The 11th edition of Republic Polytechnic’s two-day annual Vanda Miss Joaquim, which was American electronic duo Odesza Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway music festival will see the return of indie rockers Caracal named Singapore’s national flower in (above) makes stadium-filling, MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Tonight, (above) with a new line-up. Other home-grown acts include 1981. Linda Locke, Joaquim’s great- electronic music and 8pm. Doors open at 6pm (priority rappers Yung Raja and Fariz Jabba, synth pop group grandniece and author of Agnes And audiences here will get to experience entry) and 6.30pm (standard entry) Discohue and indie outfit Pleasantry, who will also debut a Her Amazing Orchid: How Vanda Miss Harrison Mills (aka CatacombKid) and ADMISSION: $108 (standard) and new line-up. Joaquim Became Singapore’s Clayton Knight (aka BeachesBeaches) $128 (priority) via www.apactix.com/ WHERE: Republic Polytechnic Lawn, 9 Woodlands Avenue 9 National Flower, and the book’s editor live for the first time. events/detail/odesza-2018 MRT: Woodlands WHEN: July 27 and 28, from 5pm Eldes Tran will share the story behind ADMISSION: Free the orchid. WHERE: The Salon, Level 1, National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road MRT: Bras Basah WHEN: Tomorrow, 2 - 3pm ADMISSION/INFO: Free with WHERE: 06-04 Sunshine Plaza, 91 Singapore Garden Festival WHERE: SCCC Ho Bee Concourse, registration at Bencoolen Street MRT: Rochor/Bras The biennial festival, in its seventh Level 1, Singapore Chinese Cultural agnesorchid.peatix.com Basah/Bencoolen WHEN: Aug 4, 9am edition, is back with more than 70 Centre, 1 Straits Boulevard - 6pm ADMISSION: $180 (claimable garden and floral displays. The MRT: Tanjong Pagar Parenthood – An Amazing through SkillsFuture Credit) displays , conceptualised as a WHEN: Wednesdays (July 25 Journey: Raising Happy And INFO: E-mail josephwong@ tropical rainforest garden, stretch - Sept 26), 6.30 - 7.30pm Healthy Kids delapro.com.sg or go to across The Meadow, Supertree ADMISSION: Free, register at The forum covers common childhood goo.gl/K8GR3A to register Grove and Flower Dome at Gardens goo.gl/dLWxMy – you can also illnesses such as asthma, as well as by the Bay. walk in to the event essential skills to raise a happy and FESTIVALS WHERE: Gardens by the Bay, INFO: singaporeccc.org.sg healthy child and addresses 18 Marina Gardens Drive parenting in the digital age. MRT: Bayfront WHEN: Tomorrow - Walk For Wellness Feel Fab Fest 2018 WHERE: KKH Auditorium (Training Aug 3, 10am - 10pm daily (garden The annual signature fun walk Centre), Level 1 Women’s Tower, KK The inaugural sports, fitness and festival); 9am - 10pm daily organised by NTUC’s U Live Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 100 lifestyle festival by Singapore Press (conservatories) ADMISSION: $12 community encourages adults aged Holdings (SPH) will feature more than Bukit Timah Road MRT: Little India (weekdays), $16 (weekends) for 55 years and above to stay active and WHEN: Aug 4, 11am - 2pm ADMISSION: 50 booths offering popular health, garden festival & Flower Dome; $20 get healthy. The 5km walk will take $15 a person, $25 a couple TEL: lifestyle and food products and all days for garden festival and two participants across Market Square, PANEL DISCUSSION 6394-1268 (Mon - Fri, 9.30am to 4pm) services. Exhibitors include HIC conservatories. Rates apply to D’Resort and Wild Wild Wet in Pasir Ris. INFO: www.kkh.com.sg/events Juice, which will launch its latest adults who are Singapore residents. There are also activities such as a cold-pressed juice range at the mass K-pop fitness workout, a BMI festival, YOLO Food, Optimum Malaysia: 100 days after CLASSES Poetry Festival Singapore and blood pressure health screening, Nutrition, and Core Collective, a The four-year-old festival, a as well as talks on hypertension, co-working space for fitness and platform for rising poets, will offer cholesterol, diabetes and healthy wellness professionals. SPH Radio the general election Poetry MasterClass critical surveys of published verse eating. DJs from ONE FM 91.3 and UFM100.3 Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep and spoken word in Singapore’s Downtown East, 1 Pasir Ris will keep visitors entertained . WHERE: SPEAKERS Tea, named Best Poetry of 2015 by other official languages. This year’s Close and Pasir Ris Park Britain’s Financial Times. He is also Halls 405 & 406, keynote address on WHERE: Pasir Ris July 29, 8am - the founder of Singapore Unbound, Suntec Convention Centre, Chinese-language poetry MRT: WHEN: 1pm $25 a person, $20 for which aims to build understanding by 1 Raffles Boulevard performance in Singapore and ADMISSION: NTUC members, $18 for U-Live facilitating cultural exchange, Esplanade/Promenade Malaysia will be delivered by MRT: member and groups of 10; register at publishing literary works and Tomorrow - Sun, Malaysian poet Chiew Ruoh Peng. WHEN: goo.gl/R1Aqai presenting events. In this workshop, 10am - 8pm ADMISSION: Free The Arts House, 1 Old WHERE: goo.gl/5vVzeH he will give his comments on poems INFO: www.feelfabfest.sg Parliament Lane INFO: submitted by participants. City Hall July 27 - 29 (go MRT: WHEN: Maximise Your Fitness WHERE: Shelford Green, 9 Shelford SkillsFuture Festival@Bedok to poetryfestival.sg/pfs2018 for Road Botanic Gardens/Tan Kah The month-long festival of times of events) Potential ELXR Arena’s MRT: Mobile Container Gym Kee WHEN: July 29, 2 - 5pm workshops, talks, exhibitions, ADMISSION/INFO: Free for most Fitness junkies can test their mettle Dr Joseph Liow Selena Ling Shannon Teoh ADMISSION: $60 experiential learning and lifestyle events, register at Professor of Head of Treasury Malaysia INFO: E-mail activities is going east. poetryfestivalsg.peatix.com at the ELXR Arena, a mobile container gym by Superfit Global. There will be Comparative and Research and Bureau Chief [email protected] to Organised by SkillsFuture International Strategy, The Straits Times register Singapore, the event brings together 10 fitness stations such as battle SPORTS rope, box jump, chin-up bar, rope Politics and Dean, Member of OCBC innovative and experiential learning S. Rajaratnam School Wealth Panel Phonetics Workshop to inspire Singaporeans to develop a climb, skipping rope, slam ball and of International OCBC Bank passion for learning. Energise@SCCC: Zumba Dance wall ball. This workshop, for adults and children Studies aged nine and older, is conducted by WHERE: Bedok Town Square, The workouts – a fusion of Latin, WHERE: Outside SportsHub Library at Joseph Wong, who specialises in 208C New Upper Changi Road Chinese, international music and OCBC Square, National Stadium, communication, with a focus on MRT: Bedok dance themes – feature aerobic and 1 Stadium Drive MRT: Stadium Hear their views at noon on Monday, phonetics. Find out how phonetics WHEN: Sun, 10am - 9pm fitness interval training with a WHEN: Aug 4 - 9, 10am - 7pm can help you speak better and ADMISSION: Free combination of fast and slow ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail: August 13, at OCBC Centre Level 50. communicate more effectively. INFO: Myskillsfuture.sg/festival rhythms. [email protected] To register for the forum, go to str.sg/globaloutlook Limited seats available