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ST/LIFE/PAGE<LIF-004> D4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2018 | Boon Chan Media Correspondent recommends IN::MUSIC – MARY WONG & Picks ARIANE GOH: PEOPLE & STORIES Local singer-songwriters Mary Wong (far left) and Ariane Goh Gigs present original music inspired by their daily lives at this showcase. They have also teamed up to create a new work, a duet titled Ren Shi Wu (People Happenings Things). WHERE: Esplanade Annexe Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade WHEN: Today, 8pm ADMISSION: $20 from esplanade.com and Sistic (call 6348-5555 or go to www.sistic.com.sg) or cash at the door PHOTOS: 20SIX PRODUCTIONS, CHANCETHERAPPER/ FACEBOOK, ESPLANADE, TIMOTHY DAVID CHANCE THE RAPPER – LIVE IN SINGAPORE American artist Chance The Rapper (left) made history with his 2016 mixtape Coloring Book, which featured collaborations with the likes of Kanye West and Justin Bieber. It was the first streaming-only album to earn a Grammy nomination. He won three, including for Best Rap Album. This is his first concert in Singapore. WHERE: Zepp @ Big Box, 1 Venture Avenue MRT: Jurong East WHEN: Tomorrow, 8pm ADMISSION: $158 via Sistic , $168 at the door; add $20 for priority entry; add $150 for VIP hospitality JOHNNY IP GLORIOUS 50 CONCERT Hong Kong-based singer Johnny Ip (left) is the original king of television theme songs, with tracks dating back to the 1980s, such as Dramatic Life for Gone With The Wind (1980). Fun facts: He recorded an English- language album in Singapore in 1975 and has been here more than 30 times over the years. WHERE: Resorts World Theatre, SINGAPOPERA – A CELEBRATION Forbidden City: Portrait Of An Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa OF THE MUSICALS OF DICK LEE Empress (2002). The songs will be Gateway MRT: HarbourFront Beauty World – one of the earliest performed by local musical actors WHEN: Sunday, 8pm Singapore English-language including Sebastian Tan and Alemay ADMISSION: $48 to $158 from musicals – marks its 30th anniversary Fernandez. Sistic this year, while hit Hong Kong musical WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, Snow.Wolf.Lake turns 21. 1 Esplanade Drive What they have in common is MRT: Esplanade WHEN:Tomorrow, veteran musician Dick Lee (above), 7.30pm; Sunday, 5pm who also penned the music in works ADMISSION: $58 to $138 from from Fried Rice Paradise (1991) to esplanade.com and Sistic GIGS Music and NBC News and played because of the absence of the main INFO: E-mail admin@ common language errors, composing hundreds of sold-out shows globally. opposition party, as well as guidedogs.org.sg e-mail messages to get things done WHERE: Kallang Theatre, 1 Stadium international pressures and and how to get your message through Hacken Lee 30th-Anniversary Walk MRT: Stadium WHEN: Sept 18, sanctions from some Western Love In The Moonlight – to your reader. It will be conducted by Concert In Singapore 8pm ADMISSION: $98 - $158, VIP $228 countries, particularly the United Together For All The Straits Times journalist Angelina Fans will get to see the different sides - $298 TEL: 6348-5555 States and those in the European Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival at Choy, who has more than 30 years of of Hacken Lee, one of Cantopop’s INFO: sistic.com.sg Union. The seminar will review key S.E.A. Aquarium and The Coliseum, experience in editing, writing, visual most influential singers – from mega trends of Cambodian politics where there will be a carnival with food, journalism and training. energetic and groovy to soulful and TALKS after the first general elections in games and performances. The WHERE: SPH News Centre, 1000 Toa emotional. There will also be an 1993, analyse key socio-political community and fund-raising event is Payoh North MRT: Braddell acoustic guitar set. The Hong Kong actors and factors that have shaped organised by social service WHEN: Wed, Sept 11, 19 & 26 (10am - singer will belt out hits like Gao Mei, Flirtology and will continue to influence the organisation Shan You. All funds raised 6pm) ADMISSION: $499 a person House Of Cards, In The City, Jiu Huan Organised by Times Reads and The political landscape, the political will go towards the organisation’s (lunch & tea breaks included); sign up Ru Meng and the theme song for the Working Capitol, this talk explores if implications of the recent general programmes and services that at stskill.sg at least 10 working days in concert 30, Ke. social media makes users feel more election and outline the foreign advocate for good mental health and advance TEL: 6319-5076 INFO: E-mail WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts isolated. Drawing from her new book policy orientation of the new provide social care for the elderly and [email protected] World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa Flirtology: Stop Swiping, Start Talking government. less privileged families. Gateway MRT: HarbourFront And Find Love, social and cultural WHERE: Iseas Seminar Room 2, WHERE: S.E.A. Aquarium and The 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace FESTIVALS WHEN: Sept 1, 8pm anthropologist Jean Smith will Coliseum, Resorts World Sentosa, MRT: Kent Ridge WHEN: Thu, ADMISSION: $108 - $268 challenge participants’ reliance on 8 Sentosa Gateway 3 - 4.30pm ADMISSION: Free, register TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg interacting digitally and their ability MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Sept 16, Bites & Vibes At Amoy Street at goo.gl/6aSQq5 TEL: 6778-0955 to get back to the joy of real human 5.30 - 9.30pm PRICE: Adult $30, child This pop-up block party – organised INFO: iseas.edu.sg by Foodpanda in partnership with Unforgettable Country Greats connection. $20 (family package available), Sunshine Nation and lifestyle brand With Matthew And WHERE: The Workshop, The Working tickets from goo.gl/EV1KHN The Little Red Dot Bites & Vibes – will see Amoy Street The Mandarins Capitol on Keong Saik, 1 Keong Saik TEL: 6741-9293 Through The Ages filled with pop-up food stalls and bars, Singapore country band Matthew and Road MRT: Outram Park WHEN: Tue, INFO: E-mail [email protected] This talk is about old maps dating live bands, DJs and wellness The Mandarins return for a special 7 - 8pm ADMISSION/INFO: Free, from the 1400s to the 1600s and their edition of the Esplanade’s concert e-mail events@theworkingcapitol. activities. Among the participating connections with the early history of eateries are Alati, Vatos Urban Tacos, series, Coffee Morning & Afternoon com to book your spot CLASSES Singapore. The speaker, Associate Park Bench Deli, Ben & Jerry’s and Tea. This upsized concert will see the Professor Tan Howe Siang from Proof & Company. Interactive fitness group performing classic country hits Great Masters Series: Cultural Cooking Class Nanyang Technological University’s classes will be hosted by the likes of by legends such as Merle Haggard, Velazquez, Goya, Delacroix, Dive into Singapore’s food culture as School of Physical and Mathematical F45, WeBarre and Pure Yoga. John Denver, Conway Twitty and Turner & Constable well as get a hands-on experience to Sciences, will also tell stories of WHERE: Amoy Street MRT: Telok Ayer Johnny Cash. Coffee and tea will be Corcovado Arts’ new lecture series cook up family recipes. Featured piracy, espionage and romance. WHEN: Sept 9, noon - 10pm provided at the Concert Hall Foyer will review the lives and works of four dishes are nasi lemak, prawn sambal WHERE: Ngee Ann Auditorium, ADMISSION: Free INFO: goo.gl/Eez55v before the performance. European masters – Spanish artists B1 Asian Civilisations Museum, and curry puffs/hoon kueh (Monday); WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, Velazquez (Tuesday) and Goya 1 Empress Place MRT: Raffles Place chicken curry, roti jala and ang ku 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ (Sept 4), British landscape painters WHEN: Sept 3, 11am ADMISSION: Free kueh/ondeh ondeh (Tuesday); SPORTS City Hall WHEN: Sept 3, 3pm Turner & Constable (Sept 18), and TEL: 6337-3685 INFO: www.fom.sg Hainanese chicken rice, homemade ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6828-8389 (for French artist Delacroix (Sept 25) – chilli sauce and wonton soup M1 Asian Netball group booking of more than 20 and provide a broad understanding CHARITY (Wednesday); chicken satay, Championships tickets) INFO: www.esplanade.com of the development of Western art homemade peanut sauce and char The M1 Asian Netball Championships history over more than 300 years. White Cane Community Day kway teow (Thursday); and laksa, fried 2018, the region’s most prestigious Postmodern Jukebox – WHERE: The Arts House, 1 Old At this event by Guide Dogs spring rolls and kueh dadar/hoon netball championship, promises to be Live In Singapore Parliament Lane MRT: City Hall/ Singapore, meet guide dogs, kueh (Fridays). the most competitive yet as, for the Viral vintage pop sensations Raffles Place WHEN: Tue, Sept 4, celebrate the abilities and successes WHERE: 24A Sago Street first time, 12 Asian nations will be Postmodern Jukebox, or PMJ, Sept 18, Sept 25, 7 - 9pm of people with visual impairment, and MRT: Chinatown WHEN: Weekdays, competing. originally blew up online. Since ADMISSION: $100 ($25 a session), take part in fun activities such as 9.30am - 12.30pm ADMISSION: $119, WHERE: OCBC Arena Hall 2, Singapore arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee sign up at corcovadoarts.com obstacle-course blindfolded walks, a sign up at foodplayground.com.sg Sports Hub, 5 Stadium Drive created the musical collective in INFO: E-mail courses@ bouncing castle and carnival-style TEL: 9452-3669 INFO: E-mail MRT: Stadium WHEN: Sept 1 - 9, 2009, it has amassed more than 925 corcovadoarts.com games. [email protected] various times ADMISSION: Season: million YouTube views and 3.2 million WHERE: Toa Payoh Hub Atrium, 480 $65 adult/$18 child (aged five - 12), subscribers, and more than 1.3 million Cambodia’s Political And Lorong 6 Toa Payoh MRT: Toa Payoh ST English MasterClass $35 students & seniors; daily tickets likes on Facebook.
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