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Symphony In The Park – PHOTOS: OPERA Dance With Me GALLERY SINGAPORE, The NUS Symphony Orchestra PINAREE SANPITAK, celebrates its 40th anniversary with TAPESTRY PLAYBACK familiar lively classical music, THEATRE, ST FILE exhibiting dance-style music from across the world, from Hungarian Dance No. 5 to the exotic Cuban and Mexican themes of Danzon No. 2. WHERE: Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Tomorrow, 6 - 7pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.nparks.gov.sg FRAGMENTED BODIES: (above), transforms STPI’s central Cantonese Opera: Legend Of THE PERSONAL AND gallery space into a labyrinth of The White Snake. Love THE PUBLIC handmade skin-like paper panels. The Singapore Chinese Orchestra Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak presents WHERE: STPI Creative Workshop (SCO) presents this concert featuring a new body of work in this solo and Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay renowned Chinese artists. Conducted exhibition, based on her year-long MRT: Clarke Quay/Fort Canning by SCO music director Yeh Tsung, residency at the Singapore Tyler Print WHEN: Wednesday to Nov 3; the two-night concert will feature Institute (STPI). 10am to 7pm (Mondays to Fridays), Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award Her signature “breast-stupa” motif 9am to 6pm (Saturdays) and 10am to makes a reappearance in etchings 5pm (Sundays), closed on public winner Zeng Xiaomin as Madam White and screen-prints, while her holidays ADMISSION: Free Snake as well as Chinese National maze-like installation, The Walls INFO: www.stpi.com.sg First-grade actors Wen Ruqing and Wang Yanfei. WHERE: SCO Concert Hall (Singapore Conference Hall), 7 Shenton Way MEMORIES MATTER MRT: Tanjong Pagar Witness – and even supply – the WHEN: Thu & Sept 27, 8pm stories of those with dementia in this ADMISSION: $21 - $82 MASTERPIECE COLLECTION work by Tapestry Playback Theatre, TEL: 6348-5555 To mark its 25th anniversary, Opera Gallery has put part of the Forget Us Not initiative by INFO: www.sistic.com.sg together an exhibition of some of the most influential the Lien Foundation and Alzheimer’s modernist artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Disease Association (ADA). Sibelius Complete Symphonies including Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani’s bronze Playback theatre is a form of II: Symphonies 2 & 4 sculpture of model Bice Boralevi. improvisational theatre in which The Philharmonic Orchestra presents Modigliani made an original, smaller mould of this piece audience or group members tell part two of the Sibelius Symphony in 1906, but this is the debut exhibition of the 2.4m-tall stories from their lives and watch Cycle, showcasing the familiar and sculpture of Boralevi’s head (above), emphasising her them enacted on the spot. unfamiliar aspects of his symphonic distinctive long neck. Among the audience at this show language. Symphony 2 is coupled with Other works by renowned artists include Salvador Dali’s will be ADA clients, their caregivers Symphony 4 to bring vastly watercolour Angel In Ecstasy, Joan Miro’s crayon work and people with dementia, as well as contrasting moods and undertones Femme (Woman) and Edgar Degas’ bronze ballerina the public. Two of the actors have had into sharp relief. sculpture, La Petite Danseuse De 14 Ans (The Little personal encounters with dementia, WHERE: Victoria Concert Hall, 14-year-old Dancer). while the cast has also volunteered at 9 Empress Place MRT: City Hall/ WHERE: Opera Gallery, 02-16 Ion Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn ADA. Raffles Place WHEN: Oct 13, 5pm MRT: Orchard WHEN: Today till Oct 20, 11am to 8pm WHERE: Level 5 *Scape Gallery, ADMISSION: $28 (concessions (weekdays); 10am to 8pm (weekends) ADMISSION: Free 2 Orchard Link MRT: Orchard available) TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: operagallery.com WHEN: Tomorrow, 11.30am to 1pm Actress Renee Chua and Tapestry INFO: www.sistic.com.sg ADMISSION: Free with limited spaces, Playback Theatre’s artistic director register at str.sg/Jodo Michael Cheng (both above). Remember Me, Living With Dementia This theatrical music performance by a group of volunteers aims to raise awareness of dementia and reduce the stigma associated with it. Staged in support of the National University of Singapore Mind Science Centre, Saturday. (1965), the exhibition highlights the WHEN: Tomorrow - March 29 next ADMISSION: Free it uses songs, drama and dialogue to WHERE: Hai Hui Art Gallery, experiential processes of travel year, 10am - 7pm daily TEL: 6291-6194 tell the story of a woman struggling 03-33 Tanglin Shopping Centre, as well as past recipients’ reflections ADMISSION: Free for Singapore to come to terms with the illness and INFO: gallery.ultrasupernew.com 19 Tanglin Road MRT: Orchard on their artistic journeys since citizens & permanent residents; its effects on her family. WHEN: Till Mon, noon - 6pm daily receiving the award. $15 for others (concessions available) WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, A Clockwork Orange ADMISSION: Free WHERE: Praxis Space/Project Space/ INFO: www.nationalmuseum.sg 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: City Hall/ Teater Ekamatra presents its take on INFO: E-mail haihuiartgallerysg@ Esplanade WHEN: Oct 28, 7.30pm; Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Anthony Burgess’ 1962 cult classic. gmail.com or call 6235-1566 City Hall: If Walls Could Talk there will be a pre-show exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts Adapted by Zulfadli Rashid and Singapore, Lasalle College of the Arts, City Hall, formerly known as Municipal directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim, 6pm ADMISSION: $21 - $54 David LaChapelle (premium seats available at $500 1 McNally Street MRT: Rochor Building, has a rich and colourful it takes place in a repressive, Mucciaccia Gallery exhibits 27 each) TEL: 6348-5555 WHEN: Till Oct 24, noon - 7pm history since its completion in 1929. totalitarian state where ordinary artworks retracing the artistic INFO: www.sistic.com.sg (Tue - Sun, closed on Mon & public This exhibition is presented in citizens have fallen into a passive production of American artist David holidays) ADMISSION: Free conjunction with the Singapore stupor of complacency, blind to the LaChapelle, from his most recent INFO: str.sg/J4zo Bicentennial celebrations. Through seething discontent among its youth. EXHIBITIONS (GALLERIES) pictures through to the 1980s, when an immersive multimedia experience, The play will be performed by Rizman he stopped working for high-fashion it tells the lesser-known stories of Putra, Elnie S. Mashari, Roslan Kemat, Everything Is Illuminated magazines and other publications to EXHIBITIONS (SHOWS) pivotal moments that took place Shafiqhah Efandi, Suhaili Safari and This exhibition, held during the pursue his interest in contemporary Passing Torches within the walls of this grand dame. Izzul Irfan. In Malay with English Formula One weekend, will showcase art. He recreates Hawaiian WHERE: Level 3 City Hall Wing, surtitles. the illuminated sight of historical As part of the school’s 60th atmospheres, unexpected City Hall Chamber, National Gallery WHERE: Esplanade Theatre Studio, Unesco and contemporary sites in anniversary celebrations, Bukit landscapes, mythological figures and Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road 1 Esplanade Drive Singapore and Italy, through the Panjang Government High School will dreamy suggestions in his pictures. MRT: City Hall WHEN: Ongoing; 10am - MRT: City Hall/Esplanade works of six Italian photographers. The exhibition also includes the be presenting an art exhibition 7pm daily (till 9pm on Fridays) WHEN: Wed - Sept 27, 8pm; Sept 28 Witness the beauty of archaeological Kardashian family’s famous featuring works by alumni, former ADMISSION: Free for Singapore & 29, 3 & 8pm ADMISSION: $38 ruins through the lens of these Christmas picture, Showtime At staff, current teachers and students citizens & permanent residents; TEL: 6348-5555 photographers as they interpret The Apocalypse (2013). from the Art Elective Programme. WHERE: 01-02 Visual Arts Centre, $20 for others (concessions INFO: www.sistic.com.sg history and reveal contemporary WHERE: 02-10 Gillman Barracks, available) TEL: 6271-7000 culture on an artistic level. Green, 10 Penang Road 6 Lock Road MRT: Labrador Park INFO: www.nationalgallery.sg WHERE: Gallery 2, The Arts House, WHEN: Thu - Jan 12 next year; MRT: Dhoby Ghaut WHEN: Tomorrow - Caught 1 Old Parliament Lane noon - 7pm (Tue - Fri), 11am - 7pm (Sat), Mon, 11am - 9pm ADMISSION: Free Chinese visual and performance MRT: City Hall/Raffles Place 11am - 6pm (Sun), closed on Mon & TEL: 6255-0711 THEATRE artist “Lin Bo” became an WHEN: Till Sun, 10am - 10pm public holidays ADMISSION: Free INFO: str.sg/JoA9 international media sensation after ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6694-3777 I Am, But Also his escape from captivity. In honour of TEL: 6332-6900 INFO: www.mucciaccia.com This exhibition follows four women his release, the Singapore Repertory INFO: www.theartshouse.sg EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUMS) as they go beyond the labels they Theatre commissioned One More Folded Sunset: inhabit, overcoming the ways they award-winning director Ed Sylvanus Lunar Serenade Exhibition The Winston Oh Travelogue An Old New World: East Indies have been restricted and seeking Iskandar to create an immersive By Artist Yeo Hoe Koon Award’s 20th Anniversary To Singapore’s Founding ways of empowerment through their evening, featuring an exclusively Singapore artist Yeo Hoe Koon is Exhibition Practising 1600s – 1819 identities. Anna Chan, Dipali Gupta, curated and highly immersive art staging an exhibition of about 20 Innovation: Experiments Explore the 200 years leading up to Fazleen Karlan and Maisarah Kamal exhibition. fresh paintings which blend Chinese For The 21st Century the establishment of an entrepot in look into relationships, family, WHERE: Miaja Gallery, Level 2 APS ink and Western-inspired aesthetics, This exhibition celebrates 20 years of Singapore in 1819, beginning with the marriage, career aspirations and the Building, 9 Muthuraman Chetty as well as works from the 1970s and artists’ travel and research enabled bustling world of trade in the East self through various mediums, Road MRT: Fort Canning 1990s. The 84-year-old held an by the patronage of Dr Winston Oh. Indies that attracted the Dutch and questioning the labelling of women WHEN: Till Oct 6; 7.15pm (weekdays), exhibition at Xiamen’s Tan Kah Kee Together with this year’s recipients of British East India Companies from the and the roles they are expected to 3.15 & 7.15pm (Sat), 2.15 & 6.15pm (Sun) Memorial Museum earlier this month the Winston Oh Travelogue Award, early 17th century. take on within societal norms. ADMISSION: $84 (Sun - Wed), and will stage another show at 12 past awardees will explore their WHERE: Exhibition Galleries, WHERE: UltraSuperNew Gallery, $89 (Thu - Sat), tickets from Gulangyu’s Kulangsu Gallery Of journeys and encounters with place. Basement Level, National Museum 109 Rowell Road MRT: Jalan Besar www.sistic.com.sg Foreign Artefacts From The Palace Borrowing a phrase from Elizabeth of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road WHEN: Till Sept 27, 11am - 7pm TEL: 6348-5555 Museum Collection starting next Bishop’s poem, Questions Of Travel MRT: Bras Basah/Bencoolen (Mon - Fri, closed on weekends) INFO: www.caught.sg