| FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2020 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life C5

TALKS WHEN: April 18, 10 - 11.30am Eddino Abdul Hadi Music Correspondent recommends ADMISSION: Free; registration required Histories – Around-The-World INFO: www.myheart.org.sg

Picks Writing: Travel Stories In Jules Verne’s Wake Mindfulness Foundation Course In the 19th century, thousands of Over four sessions, participants will people became circumnavigators. be introduced to the connection

Music The newly popular voyage around the between the mind and body, explore world was expectedly long and the habits of the mind, investigate passengers read and wrote as they stress triggers and one’s reactivity, travelled. In his talk, assistant and understand anxiety and its professor Kevin Riordan from the impact. Nanyang Technological University WHERE: Brahm Centre @ Simei, Block School of Humanities will show how a 227, 01-50 Simei Street 4 generation of travelling readers and MRT: Simei DANCE POP writers lent a new shape to the world. WHEN: Every Thu, April 2 - 23, 7 - 9pm FUTURE WHERE: Possibility Room, Level 5 ADMISSION: $160 ($32 for eligible NOSTALGIA National Library, 100 Victoria Street seniors under the National Silver Dua Lipa MRT: Bugis/City Hall Academy subsidy). SkillsFuture Credit WHEN: April 21, 7.30 - 8.30pm may be applied for this course ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.brahmcentre.com Can’t go out to INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg party now that Coffee Cupping the clubs are closed because of the Duelling Contagions: Discover the endless flavour notes to Covid-19 outbreak? coffee and experience the global You can still put on some party Coronavirus And standard by how it is evaluated by music at home, like blasting and Misinformation In dancing along to British breakout South-east Asia professionals on the different pop star Dua Lipa’s (top) sophomore This seminar looks at the ways aspects of its profile – the body, album Future Nostalgia. Covid-19 misinformation has spread sweetness, acidity, flavour and The album title is almost literal – a online in South-east Asia and the aftertaste. collection of contemporary takes on efforts to counter it. It draws from the WHERE: The Coffee Academics dance-pop genres that date all the work of Kawal Covid-19, a group of Flagship Store, 02-01 6 Scotts Road way back to 1970s disco. Indonesian data scientists and MRT: Orchard The mirror-ball vibes of hit volunteers who aim to provide WHEN: April 25, 7 - 8pm pre-album single Don’t Start Now Indonesians with accurate ADMISSION: $15 were just a teaser. Physical is an information on the pandemic. The INFO: www.facebook.com aerobics class romp, Levitating is a speakers are Dr Quinton Temby, a feel-good funk escapade and visiting fellow with the Regional Get Professional: EQ At Work Hallucinate is an electronic dance Social and Cultural Studies At this workshop, participants will music festival banger. Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak gain an understanding of EQ Institute, and Ms Elina Ciptadi, one of (emotional quotient) and how it the coordinators of Kawal Covid-19. applies to the workplace. They will WHERE: ISEAS Seminar Room 2, also pick up strategies to enhance R&B/ 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace their emotional intelligence. Trainer ELECTRONIC MRT: Kent Ridge WHEN: Tue, 10 - Andrew Parker is the founder of AFTER HOURS 11.30am ADMISSION: Free; Wasabi Consulting, with more than 25 registration required years of experience working with INFO: www.iseas.edu.sg multi-national companies. WHERE: Programme Zone, Woodlands On his fourth National Library Regional Library, 01-03 900 South album, After Prominent Speaker Series – Woodlands Drive Hours, Canadian dark pop prince The Dr Sandhya Sriram MRT: Woodlands Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Dr Sandhya Sriram, chief executive WHEN: April 8, 6.30 - 8.30pm Tesfaye, blurs the line between and co-founder of Shiok Meats, will ADMISSION: Free; registration hedonism and regret. share how she revolutionised the required INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg Amid a captivating blend of R&B and meat and seafood industry and how it electronic sub-genres like YOUTH MUSIC AWARDS 2020 prizes, this year’s event has been has shaped her into the person she is My Digital Life: How To Take synthwave, UK garage and The second edition of the annual moved online due to the coronavirus today. She is also a stem cell scientist Instagram-able Photos With electropop, tracks like and Youth Music Awards by *Scape and pandemic. with more than 10 years of Your Mobile Phone Heartless are vivid references to his Invasion Singapore, which celebrates The nominees include acts such as experience. Learn how to use your mobile phone infamous penchant for substance young home-grown musicians, is electronic/pop band brb. (above), WHERE: The Pod, Level 16 National to take better photos and videos. abuse, the fallout from his sudden back. math rock/emo band Forests and Understand the use of different rise to fame and his careless attitude Unlike last year’s ceremony at rapper Abangsapau. Library, 100 Victoria Street modes and settings, learn basic to relationships. *Scape, which saw rising names such WHERE: www.facebook.com/ MRT: Bugis/City Hall Yet album opener Alone Again sees as rapper Yung Raja perform and win scapeinvasion WHEN: Monday, 9pm WHEN: April 2, 7 - 8.30pm photography and videography him seeking solace from his lover, ADMISSION: Free; guidelines and avoid common while Too Late and the title track read registration required mistakes. like songs of contrition for past INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg WHERE: Programme Zone, Central wrongs. EARTH HOUR 2020 Public Library, 100 Victoria Street WWF Singapore’s Earth Hour The Hidden Superpower MRT: Bugis/City Hall concert moves online this year Of Our Clothes WHEN: April 5, 1 - 2.30pm due to the coronavirus pandemic. The speaker Chu Wong will talk about ADMISSION: Free; ELECTRONIC/ Home-grown artists set to clothes, the materials they are made registration required SOUL/HIP-HOP perform unplugged sets in the of, the people who make them and INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg 3.15.20 three-hour livestream on how everyone can all be more Childish Gambino YouTube include discerning consumers of clothing. Find Sleep, Not Sheep singer-songwriter Benjamin She is the country coordinator of Ms Catherine Tan shares her personal Kheng and pop singer Rriley, both Fashion Revolution Singapore and experiences and discusses insomnia Trust from The Sam Willows; Inch Chua founder of Shop Bettr, a search from a Chinese medicine perspective. multi-hyphenate and Nathan Hartono; rapper and engine for fashion products that Wrap up with a yin yoga practice Donald Glover to not play it straight social media personality empowers consumers to find where participants will be treated to for his fourth and latest album under Preetipls; Singapore Idol winner sustainable alternatives. the healing sounds of singing bowls. his musical nom de plume Childish Sezairi; and rappers Yung Raja WHERE: Programme Area, Ms Tan started teaching yoga in Gambino. On March 15, the singer, (left, standing), Fariz Jabba The LLiBrary, 11 Eunos Road 8 2009 and is currently studying at the actor, rapper and musician (seated) and Subhas. MRT: Paya Lebar WHEN: April 9, 12.30 Singapore College of Traditional mysteriously streamed the new All the acts performing are - 1.30pm ADMISSION: Free; Chinese Medicine. songs on a website, known for raising awareness of registration required WHERE: The Yoga School, donaldgloverpresents.com, before and taking action on INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg 39-01 65 Chulia Street taking it down after 12 hours. environmental issues such as MRT: Raffles Place The album has now been officially sustainable consumption and CLASSES WHEN: April 18, 2.30 - 5.30pm released on streaming sites, titled reducing the use of plastics. ADMISSION: $68 after its original release date. The WHERE: www.earthhour.sg INFO: www.yogaschool.asia fixation with numbers continues WHEN: Tomorrow, 5.30pm Restart A Heart Programme throughout most of the songs, which This is a simplified CPR+AED Yoga Class – Somatic Flow are named according to the time they (non-certification) practical training Through movements of the spine, play in the album’s duration. session which focuses on hands-only yoga instructor Wenlin Tan helps It is Glover’s most experimental, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is participants to relax, destress and enthralling, work to date. The PHOTOS: REUTERS, UMAMI RECORDS, for those who do not require the genre-hopping tunes celebrate life in take control of their bodies. Based at WWF SINGAPORE certification but would like to learn all its complexities – 53.49 is joyously YogaUnion in Turin, Italy, she splits exuberant, 19.10 explores racial basic resuscitation skills and how to her time between Asia and Europe. identity and 47.48 is all about being use an Automated External WHERE: CoSpace Park, 01-11 mindful. Defibrillator. 43 Science Park Road An elegant and finely crafted album WHERE: Singapore Heart Foundation MRT: Kent Ridge that serves as a balm in these @ Multi-purpose room, 9 Bishan WHEN: Mon, 6.30 - 7.30pm uncertain times. Place, 07-01 Junction 8 (Office Tower) ADMISSION: Free; registration MRT: Bishan required INFO: www.facebook.com