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s t r a ry ra ite l FROM STAGE TO PRINT WITH HARESH SHARMA ASIAN FESTIVAL FOR LITERARY ARTS AND TAN TARN HOW EPIGRAM BOOKS CHILDREN’S CONTENT CAFETARI MEET READ INVENTING PAPER Living Room \ 18 May \ 7pm \ Free NBDCS AND THE ARTS HOUSE CAFERATI SINGAPORE CHAPTER SPEECH Meet prolific playwrights Haresh Sharma and Tan Tarn How as they jointly launch Model Citizens 26 - 29 May \ Passes available on www.afcc.com.sg Earshot Café \ 21 Apr & 19 May \ 3.30pm - 6pm \ Free Earshot Café \ 26 Apr & 31 May \ 7pm \ Free and Fear of Writing under Epigram Books’ Stage to Print series. Sit back and relax as you watch actors from both plays stage a reading. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the The sky’s the limit when it comes to creating content for Asian children. At AFCC Caferati Singapore Chapter invites you to develop IPS in April features Flirt-Gill, a full-length play playwrights to discover their motivation and inspiration behind the two most talked about plays 2012, get the buzz on an untapped industry for young readers with the big potential as we bring together content makers, international buyers and readers looking for your writing skills! Caferati Meet Read is a forum for about a man destroy by his love for an in recent times. books and related materials for children. adult writers in English. You are invited to join us on imaginary child. When Dave leaves Kelly for a new life in New Zealand, Kelly creates the perfect the third Saturday of every month, when we meet at daughter to bring him home. Dave’s new partner, Melinda, must fight his entrancement and SINGAPORE BOOK CLUB persuade him to love their own child. Earshot Café, to share your original writing in NBDCS AND THE ARTS HOUSE English with the group. Newcomers are welcome! Playwright Helen Banner moved from London to study for a MFA in Dramatic Writing at Tisch Asia, NYU. Her play Tranquility, Serenity, Calm will be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Earshot Café \ 18 May \ 7pm \ Free Festival in August 2012.

For more details on the playwright being featured in May, please log on to our website. Eric Alagan’s Code Shield is a peek into Singapore’s secret services. It is a thriller that explores cross border human and drug-trafficking, international crime syndicates and the complicity and internecine jostling of international security agencies. Join the writer as he discusses the inspiration for writing the book and find out how much is fact or fiction. BOOK ILLUSTRATORS GALLERY CITA: SPEAK OUT Gallery \ 25 - 30 May \ Free MILANI AND THE ARTS HOUSE The skill of an artist in creating illustration for a children's picture book often goes SASTERA & SENI unrecognised. The Book Illustrators Gallery presents the work of picture book illustrators THE ARTS HOUSE AND Earshot Café \ 10 Apr \ 7pm \ Free from around the region, showcasing their talent that crosses genres and borders. THE NUS DEPARTMENT OF MALAY STUDIES NEW WORD ORDER PRESENTS GAVIN LEE Speak Out is an open-mic event for poetry reading THE ARTS HOUSE Living Room \ 14 Apr \ 10am – 1pm; 2pm - 4pm \ Free and sharing for poets, prose writers and arts BOOK AND PRODUCT LAUNCHES 26 - 29 May \ Various Timings \ Free enthusiasts for all ages and all languages. Speak Out Cita’s April 2012 lecture will feature Dr Sa’eda Buang who will deliver a lecture entitled Yang Living Room \ 21 Apr \ 2.30pm \ Free Join local and international authors, illustrators and publishers as they launch their new titles and Indah Itu Sastera (Literature is a Thing of Beauty). The lecture is in Malay, followed by a welcomes both first-time readings and breakthrough performances by experienced readers. e-book products. Please visit www.afcc.com.sg for more details. After winning the 3rd prize at the 2007 ST Life! Elephant & Coral short fiction writing commentary by Mr Mohamed Imran B.Taib in English. Lunch is provided. After lunch join us for competition, Gavin Lee set himself the goal of getting published in 5 years. Last year, he a performance of Malay dancing by Ping Yi Secondary school. left his job to complete his debut work of fiction Tell Me Why The Sea Is Blue. CELEBRATING OUR STARS Chamber \ 19 May \ 10am – 1pm; 2pm - 4pm \ Free MUSE ON MONDAYS Gallery \ 25 May \ 4.30pm \ Free A collection of short stories and poetry, its first part leans towards the fantastical in being VERENA TAY AND THE ARTS HOUSE Celebrating Our Stars is a pre-AFCC event for children’s authors, illustrators and Cita’s May 2012 lecture will feature Encik Nadiputra who will deliver a lecture entitled Teater inspired by the volatile element of fire. The second part follows the fluidity of water to Earshot Café \ Every first Monday (April 2 & May 7) \ 7pm – 9pm \ Free publishers in Singapore to gather and share their latest works. Adeline Foo, Melayu dan Mesej Sosialnya (Malay Theatre and its Social Messages). The lecture is in Malay, touch on more sensitive and emotional societal issues. Rosemarie Somaiah and Er Lai Kuan will kick off things with Fits & Starts, Leaps & followed by a commentary by Mdm Kartini Anwar. Lunch is provided. After lunch join us for You’ve slaved over your fiction and wonder if it is any good. Now you can receive professional Bounds: The Singapore Journey of Writing for Children, a retrospective of local drama performances by students from Bukit Panjang Government High School. Gavin will read from his work as well as discuss the perils of self-publishing. He also feedback on your writing. In Muse on Mondays, submit your text (maximum 2,000 words of children’s books published through the decades. Following this, meet ten recently wants to hear your most creative answer to why the sea is blue. prose) to [email protected] by the Wednesday before, and writers Verena Tay and published children’s book creators in a pitch presentation and get to hear their O Thiam Chin will give their assessment in a group critique of your work. personal journeys in writing for children. FROM STAGE TO PRINT WITH HARESH SHARMA ASIAN FESTIVAL FOR LITERARY ARTS AND TAN TARN HOW EPIGRAM BOOKS CHILDREN’S CONTENT CAFETARI MEET READ INVENTING PAPER Living Room \ 18 May \ 7pm \ Free NBDCS AND THE ARTS HOUSE CAFERATI SINGAPORE CHAPTER SPEECH Meet prolific playwrights Haresh Sharma and Tan Tarn How as they jointly launch Model Citizens 26 - 29 May \ Passes available on www.afcc.com.sg Earshot Café \ 21 Apr & 19 May \ 3.30pm - 6pm \ Free Earshot Café \ 26 Apr & 31 May \ 7pm \ Free and Fear of Writing under Epigram Books’ Stage to Print series. Sit back and relax as you watch actors from both plays stage a reading. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the The sky’s the limit when it comes to creating content for Asian children. At AFCC Caferati Singapore Chapter invites you to develop IPS in April features Flirt-Gill, a full-length play playwrights to discover their motivation and inspiration behind the two most talked about plays 2012, get the buzz on an untapped industry for young readers with the big potential as we bring together content makers, international buyers and readers looking for your writing skills! Caferati Meet Read is a forum for about a man destroy by his love for an in recent times. books and related materials for children. adult writers in English. You are invited to join us on imaginary child. When Dave leaves Kelly for a new life in New Zealand, Kelly creates the perfect the third Saturday of every month, when we meet at daughter to bring him home. Dave’s new partner, Melinda, must fight his entrancement and SINGAPORE BOOK CLUB persuade him to love their own child. Earshot Café, to share your original writing in NBDCS AND THE ARTS HOUSE English with the group. Newcomers are welcome! Playwright Helen Banner moved from London to study for a MFA in Dramatic Writing at Tisch Asia, NYU. Her play Tranquility, Serenity, Calm will be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Earshot Café \ 18 May \ 7pm \ Free Festival in August 2012.

FILM FILM FESTIVAL THE STORYTELLER \ Director: Nandita Jain PAPER PRODUCTIONS A young girl helps her grandfather to remember the stories Screening Room \ 19, 20, 31 May - 2 June \ 10am - 6pm \ $12.50 \ Tickets are on sale at www.bytes.sg he tells her. A young boy goes on amazing trips to exotic BUT IS THE BOOK BETTER? lands with his grandfather. Watch these stories about kids THE ARTS HOUSE Big Eyes, Big Minds - Singapore International Children’s Film Festival is back again! With 5 facing life, love and loss. A great lineup of 7 thought- new lineups of the best short films from around the world, for kids, about kids and by kids. provoking for independent thinkers. Screening Room \ 19 - 29 Apr \ Free (First-come-first-served basis) Don’t miss an extra special treat for the kiddos - exclusive Sesame Street compilations straight For April's But is The Book Better? theme, we pull a Pulitzer Focus. The Pulitzer Prize was from the Jim Henson vault. Look out for our exciting workshops too! established by journalist Joseph Pulitzer who was an indomitable figure in American MUPPETS™, MUSIC & MAGIC: JIM HENSONS journalism. The lasting influence of the Prizes on American journalism, literature, music, ROBOTS & MEATBALLS and drama is to be attributed to his visionary acumen. To celebrate the announcements (RECOMMENDED FOR 2 - 6 YEARS OLD) LEGACY (RECOMMENDED FOR 4 YEARS OLD & ABOVE) of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners this April, we focus on film adaptations of some of the more well-known winning novels. FLUFFY MCCLOUD \ Director: Conor Finnegan SESAME STREET AT 40: GONE WITH THE WIND Watch a well-meaning rain cloud help the creatures MILESTONES ON THE THE MAMBO KINGS Director: Victor Fleming \ Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel on earth, a little meatball make friends with his new Director: Arne Glimcher \ Cast: Antonio Banderas, Armand Assante, Cathy Moriarty 1939 \ 238 Min \ US \ PG \ 21 Apr \ 3pm (Part 1) & 7.30pm (Part 2) toy truck and see how a mischievous pet chicken STREET 1992 \ 104 min \ US \ M18 (Sexual scene) \ 19 & 27 Apr \ 7.30pm gets everyone into trouble. This package of 11 The Mambo Kings tells the passionate story of brothers and aspiring musicians, This sweeping epic Civil War era romance not only won an impressive 10 Academy Awards but has charming animated shorts will delight the little ones. The “best-of” compilation features classic Cesar and Nestor Castillo. They flee from Cuba to American in the hopes of taken its place as one of the greatest movies of all time. It is the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a young moments in the forty-year history of this making it big in the explosive and sexy 1950s New York City music scene. They woman in the Old South who goes from privilege to poverty and her tumultuous love affair with the FUN BEFORE LUNCH well-loved show. Watch excerpts from the eventually achieve the great American Dream of success, fame, and fortune, dashing Rhett Butler. Based on Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. (RECOMMENDED FOR 5 - 10 YEARS OLD) first episode as well as some of the best only to have it fall apart due to their own hubris. Based on Oscar Hijuelo’s 1989 from Ernie and Bert, Big Bird and the rest Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. SOUTH PACIFIC The PRINCESS’ PAINTING \ Director: Klaus Morschheuser of the gang. Director: Joshua Logan \ Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr & Johannes Weiland 1958 \ 171min \ US \ PG \ 22 Apr; 3pm \ 28 Apr; 7.30pm What happens when you tell a little princess the awful truth - that her paintings are terrible? Will On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young Molly get to play at recess or will she finish the big SING! THE MUSIC OF SESAME STREET A joyous salute to forty years of Sesame Street music. This compilation features show nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous lunch her mother gave her? Catch these great stories classics, parodies and special visits from some of the music industry’s biggest names. military mission. Featuring amazing songs by the musical power duo of and more in 11 films that will thrill and stretch the Rogers and Hammerstein, including now classics like ‘Some Enchanted imagination of early thinkers. Evening’ and ‘I Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair’. Based on the James A. Michener’s MUPPET HISTORY 101 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning book Tale of the South Pacific. MY WEIRD & WONDERFUL This unique program of rarities examines the origins of the Muppets. Includes early live TV appearances, unusual commercials, guest spots on the Jimmy Dean and Dick Cavett TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD WORLD Shows, and much more. THE COLOR PURPLE (RECOMMENDED FOR 8 YEARS AND ABOVE) Director: Steven Spielberg \ Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey Director: Robert Mulligan \ Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford 1985 \ 154min \ US \ PG \ 20 Apr \ 7.30pm \ 28 Apr \ 3pm 1962 \ 128min \ US \ PG \ 26 & 29 Apr \ 7.30pm This series is produced by The Jim Henson Legacy and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tour Executive SPECKY FOUR EYES \ Director: Jean-Claude Rozec Producer Irena Kovarova. MUPPET, MUPPETS and the Muppets Characters are registered trademarks The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her Gregory Peck delivers an Academy Award winning performance as Atticus Without his glasses, Arnaud only sees blurry shapes, but out of of Disney. All rights reserved. © Disney Sesame Street ® and associated characters, trademarks and these visions he imagines a fantastical world. Will he be father’s child. Ugly and unloved, separated from her children and her sister, Celie’s only Finch, a lawyer in racially divided Alabama during the Depression who design elements are owned and licensed by Sesame Workshop. © Sesame Workshop. All rights allowed to remain in this exciting imaginary world of aliens and option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband. Her life changes forever when defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. In 2003, the reserved. TM and © The Jim Henson Company. JIM HENSON's mark & logo, characters and elements dragons? Watch 9 award-winning films and excellent are trademarks of The Jim Henson Company. All rights reserved. © Photography courtesy of The Jim her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shug into the house. American Film Institute name Gregory Peck the number 1 greatest movie child-produced films, including the winner of 2011 Big Eyes Big Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame Workshop Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. hero of the 20th century. Based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. Minds Filmmaking Competition for Kids. MUSIC THEATRE TRAINSTOPPING: THE YEAR IN REVUE 2011 SIGHT LINES PRODUCTIONS Chamber \ 26 Apr - 3 May \ 8pm 28, 29 Apr & 1 May \ 4pm \ $48 (Standard) Tickets are on sale at www.bytes.sg \ Rating: TBC

Director: Derrick Chew LIVING WITH... EDQ Starring Darius Tan, Celine Rosa Tan & Siti Khalijah EDQ AND THE ARTS HOUSE Living Room \ 2 Apr \ 8pm \ $10 It's the hilarious revue show where craziness reigns and all sense of sanity simply goes out the glass Driven by a common purpose to establish itself as a dynamic, Singaporean wind ensemble, EDQ C.I.N.T.A window (not before shattering it to pieces, of course). was formed in 2012 to share with its audience the colourful genre of wind chamber music. Come TEATER KAMI LIMITED So buckle up and get ready to be taken for a ride, and experience EDQ in its Arts House debut, featuring Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite; Play Den \ 13 & 14 Apr \ 3pm & 8pm \ $23 (Standard) \ Rating: PG because Trainstopping will make you laugh your guts out so much, you'll need cable ties Milhaud’s La Cheminée du Roi René; and Sextuor by Poulenc- joined here by pianist, Nicholas Loh. to hold them back together. C.I.N.T.A is an anthology delving into different aspects of love through five stories involving individuals and their love experiences. From a one-sided love story between a cameraman and a glamorous BROADWAY BOUND 2012 model in CAMERA to a story of peeps and peeks between a Bangladeshi foreign worker and a local A MUSICAL THEATRE RECITAL girl in INTAI – there is bound to be something to tug at your heartstrings. STUDENTS OF VOCALOGY SINGING STUDIO The Hall \ 8 Apr \ 3pm \ $20 Tickets are on sale at www.singaporesingingteacher.com KING SLOTH LABEL ILLUSION AND THE ARTS HOUSE Spend an afternoon of music and theatre with songs from musicals like Play Den \ 18 & 19 Apr \ 8pm Wicked, Seussical and Tangled presented in a cabaret format by the $28 (Standard); $23 (Concession) Tickets are on sale at www.bytes.sg \ Rating: TBC students of Vocalogy Singing Studio. Students have performed in Chingay 2012, Singapore Street Festival, ChildAid 2011 and regularly score distinctions in Musical Theatre examinations. Writer and Actor: Régis Maynard Composer and Musician: Harry R Brown LIVING WITH... NICHOLAS LOH & Performed in French with English surtitles ALPHABET SERIES PRESENTS LETTER B - B IS FRIENDS King Sloth is a hybrid show combining theatre THAT CLOWN CALLED TARTUFFE NICHOLAS LOH AND THE ARTS HOUSE FOR GARDEN and rock'n'roll – like a rock opera in pajamas, Living Room \ 7 May \ 8pm \ $10 WORLD-IN-THEATRE THE SING SONG CLUB AND THE ARTS HOUSE with a musician, an actor and a green plant. Play Den \ 18 - 20 May \ 7.30pm \ 19 & 20 May \ 3pm \ $38 (Standard); $32 (Concession) Living Room \ 19 May \ 8pm \ $20 ; $15 \ Tickets are on sale at www.bytes.sg Featured as the Young Virtuoso for the Singapore Piano Festival Tickets are on sale at www.bytes.sg \ Rating: G It is the story of Charles Simple, a man on the 2009, Nicholas Loh will be joined by cellist, Lin Juan and oboist, And why should B not be for garden? This May, The Sing Song Club invites you to spend the brink of depression, who quits from the world, Based on the classic comedy by French playwright Molière about the machinations of a Veda Lin. Experience lesser-heard gems like Albeniz’s Suite day with them in their garden as they bring you an anthology of songs that explore the flora and locks himself in his home. The result? The house guest and the repercussions on his host and family which created great Espagnole; Debussy’s Cello Sonata; the rhapsodic Duo Concertante of Hungarian composer- and fauna in the beds and borders of their backyard. Featured in this recital will be the world inventory of one man's life, in a musical poem. controversy when it premiered in 1664. World-in-Theatre’s production sets the play in conductor, Dorati; and finally the jazzy Nearly Waltz by Ukrainian Russian, Kapustin. premiere of works by local composer Benjamin Lim. Most suitable, don’t you think? modern times, revealing its relevance and impact to a contemporary audience. BIG EYES, BIG MINDS GROWING UP IS HARD TO DO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S (RECOMMENDED FOR 10 YEARS AND ABOVE)

EXPOSURE PROGRAMME Caters mainly to children with no prior exposure to the arts, the two-year exposure programme at The Little Arts Academy gives them a firm grounding in the appreciation of various art forms and the creative process. This comprises a six-month multidisciplinary arts programme and a 1.5 year programme in an arts discipline of their choice.

ART FOR ART’S SAKE The Little Arts Academy | Every Sat | Please register by 2 Jun 12 for the ART ZONE cohort starting 30 Jun | Free for children aged 7-12 with monthly household Print Gallery \ 6 Apr - 7 May \ 10am - 10pm \ Free Admission income below $1800. Please email [email protected] or call 6513 3013 for The Business Times Budding Artists Fund application form. Art for Art's Sake showcases more than 400 pieces of artworks and 3D collages, joyfully created with the children’s passion for the arts, presenting them to the eyes that appreciate BOOTCAMP! the beauty that art has to offer. Every piece of artwork is their Art for Art's Sake. Are you young enough to stay up for 24 hours straight without getting tired? Are you fearless enough to put up new and exciting work for your peers? Are you creative enough to TIGER TALK make new things out of old things? WORLD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION (WWF) Gallery \ 18 - 24 May \ 10am - 8pm \ Free COME JOIN US! It's a 24hr bootcamp that will cover dance, singing, theatre and graffiti! See tigers through the eyes of the people who devote many years or even a lifetime to keep The Little Arts Academy | 31 Mar (6pm) - 1 Apr (6pm) | $8 for young people tigers in their natural habitat. We hear their (13 – 19yrs old) from families with monthly household income below $1800. Please email [email protected] or call 6513 3013 for The Business stories, follow their adventures, and live their Times Budding Artists Fund (BTBAF) application form. | $50 for youths who dreams. Tiger Talk celebrates these unsung are not eligible for BTBAF. | All prices are inclusive of GST heroes, along with the tigers; brought to you by WWF. THE LITTLE ARTS ACADEMY GENERAL ENQUIRIES PoMo 1 Selegie Road #05-01/02 Singapore 188306 T 65 6513 3013 Tue - Fri 10am - 7.30pm F 65 6337 1200 Sat 9.30am - 7pm [email protected] Sun - Mon & PH Closed www.thelittleartsacademy.com

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The Arts House focuses on the development of Literary Arts, while supporting and presenting programmes and festivals that aim to give a wide and multi-disciplinary experience to our audiences centred on the theme of “Changing Words, Changing World” this year.

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