| FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7 ARTS Akshita Nanda Arts Correspondent recommends BOOKS Lee’s Lieutenants – Picks Meet The Editors Kevin Tan and Lam Peng Er, editors of the book Lee’s Lieutenants, will be in Arts conversation with Ms Lydia Lim, head of The Straits Times’ training and development. They will discuss the new edition of this classic that rediscovers the roles and contributions of Singapore’s founding fathers in nation-building. WHERE: Programme Zone, B1-01 Central Public Library, 100 Victoria Street MRT: City Hall/Bugis WHEN: April 25, 7 - 8.30pm ADMISSION/INFO: Free, sign up at str.sg/oq5g Singapore Art Book Fair This year’s fair will feature up to 74 vendors, including local exhibitors such as The Book Show and regional ones such as twelvebooks of Japan, as well as host bigger presses such as Germany’s Edition Nord. WHERE: NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts Singapore, Gillman Barracks, 43 Malan Road MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: June 29 - July 1, noon - 8pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: singaporeartbookfair.com & facebook.com/singaporeartbookfair CONCERTS Celebrating Unesco International Jazz Day Jazz Association (Singapore), otherwise known as Jass, and its youth orchestra, JassYO!, commemorate Unesco International Jazz Day with a concert at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, a Unesco World Heritage Site. It will feature Jass executive and music director YOU’VE GOT MAIL ARMENIAN STREET PARTY Jeremy Monteiro and veteran jazz Send a postcard to someone after viewing these Armenian Street will be closed today musician Louis Soliano. exhibitions at the Singapore Philatelic Museum, which and tomorrow evening for a street WHERE: Shaw Foundation Symphony show why writing letters is a feast for the eyes and the party celebrating the 10th birthday of Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens, soul. the Peranakan Museum (left) as well 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens See canine-themed stamps in All About Dogs and as the Singapore Heritage Festival’s WHEN: April 29, 6 - 7.15pm stamps that smell of chocolate (above) or are made of closing weekend. ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail beads in Seeing Is Believing! Unusual Stamps. Apart from performances nparks_sbg_visitor_services@ Art On Envelope features exquisite envelope designs celebrating kebayas and the power of nparks.gov.sg from the Washington Calligraphers Guild. heritage, keep an eye out for art The museum is open late this weekend for the Singapore installations such as We Stop To DANCE Heritage Festival. Watch The World Go By by artists WHERE: Singapore Philatelic Museum, 23B Coleman Street Sarah Choo and Larry Kwa. MRT: City Hall WHEN: Today and tomorrow, 7 to 11pm; WHERE: Armenian Street MRT: Bras Foreground otherwise, 10am to 7pm daily. Exhibitions run till December Basah WHEN: Today and tomorrow, Foreground is a new platform by ADMISSION: Free for Singaporeans and permanent 7 to 11pm ADMISSION: Free dance initiative Soul Signature for residents, otherwise $8 for adults and $6 for children aged INFO: peranakanmuseum.org.sg/ young, driven artists to create new three to 12. INFO: www.heritagefestival.sg/programmes/ programmes/festivals/armenian- works, perform and explore the youve-got-mail street-party-2018 possibilities of a professional production under the mentorship of Soul Signature’s artists. This year’s edition includes a work called Decipher that was presented THE STUDIOS X F.Y.I. internationally and claimed three HOW DID THE CAT GET SO FAT? awards at the 31st International This ground-breaking one-actor Competition of Choreography in drama written by Zizi Azah Abdul Hannover, Germany, last year. Majid is a biting dissection of class WHERE: The Substation Theatre, and race in Singapore, performed by 45 Armenian Street MRT: City Hall/ well-known actress Siti Khalijah Bras Basah WHEN: May 5, 8pm; May 6, Zainal (right). The original production 3pm ADMISSION: $25 ($22 for was staged in 2006 by Teater students & full-time national Ekamatra and this reworking is servicemen), tickets from presented under Esplanade – ssforeground.peatix.com Theatres On The Bay’s Studios season TEL: 9066-2358 INFO: E-mail and its Feed Your Imagination (F.Y.I.) [email protected] series for younger viewers. THICK BEATS FOR GOOD GIRLS WHERE: Esplanade Theatre Studio, Do not miss the closing weekend of Thick Beats For Good 1 Esplanade Drive Girls, presented by Checkpoint Theatre. Singaporean EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUM) MRT: City Hall/Esplanade poet-performer Pooja Nansi (right) and Australian WHEN: Today, 3 and 8pm; tomorrow, playwright Jessica Bellamy (left) explore womanhood and The More We Get Together: 8pm; Sunday, 3pm (expect large growing pains while celebrating a mutual love of hip-hop. Singapore’s Playgrounds school groups at the 3pm show WHERE: Drama Centre Black Box, Level 5 National Library 1930 – 2030 today) ADMISSION: $35 from Sistic (go Building, 100 Victoria Street MRT: City Hall/Bugis From the iconic dragon playgrounds to sistic.com.sg or call 6348-5555) WHEN: Today, 8pm; tomorrow, 3 and 8pm; Sunday, 3pm of the 1970s to today’s modern, INFO: In Malay, with English captions ADMISSION: $45 from Sistic inclusive and community-built versions, these spaces have played a part in our collective experience of growing up. Singaporeans can relive those memories at this exhibition by the National Museum of Singapore, which opens today. WHERE: Stamford Gallery, Level 1 National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road MRT: Bras Basah/ PHOTOS: CRISPIAN CHAN, ESPLANADE – THEATRES ON THE BAY, Dhoby Ghaut WHEN: Till Sept 30, PERANAKAN MUSEUM, SINGAPORE PHILATELIC MUSEUM 10am - 7pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: nationalmuseum.sg EXHIBITIONS (GALLERIES) College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street As part of the innovation project showcases. stage production set in the 1980s. Its One With Nature – MRT: Rochor WHEN: Today, 6.30 - WHERE: Suntec City North Atrium title means Singapore groom. The Landscapes By Xu Zhiguang exhibition The 8.30pm; tomorrow - May 6, More We Get (between Towers 1 & 2), 3 Temasek drama, presented with English Xu Zhiguang’s paintings do not noon - 7pm ADMISSION: Free Together: Boulevard MRT: Promenade surtitles, contains issues that conform to the classic Western TEL: 6496-5000 Singapore’s WHEN: Tomorrow & Sun & April 28 resonate with other communities and still-life format or the flowers INFO: www.lasalle.edu.sg & 29: 11am - 10pm; Mon - April 27: 11am is part of the current Tamil A-level presented in traditional art albums. Playgrounds 1930 – 2030, - 9pm ADMISSION: Free syllabus. His huge canvas works are at times Encounter – A Selection INFO: www.smw.sg WHERE: Goodman Arts Centre filled with explosive movements and Of Artworks which opens today at Blackbox, 90 Goodman Road at times as gentle as a reflective In conjunction with the opening of its the National National Institute Of Education MRT: Mountbatten WHEN: Today, pond. new showroom, Goshen Art Gallery is Museum of Postgraduate Fair 8pm; tomorrow, 2 & 7pm; Sun, 2pm WHERE: 04-07 Interlocal Centre holding an exhibition showcasing a Singapore, the The fair will feature informative ADMISSION: $15, free for students & Singapore, 100G Pasir Panjang Road selection of artworks by Choo Keng activities on the National Institute of teachers with registration MRT: Pasir Panjang WHEN: Tomorrow Kwang, Lim Tze Peng, Chua Mia Tee, museum has Education’s higher degree and TEL: 8268-6481/9336-4278 - May 5, by appointment Liu Kang and Sun Yee – five collaborated professional development INFO: E-mail sitfexplorers@ TEL: 9634-5504 INFO: Email pioneer-generation artists who with renowned programmes and courses that are gmail.com [email protected] or contributed largely to Singapore’s art French artist [email protected] Matali Crasset to suitable for both teachers and scene. The Consultant WHERE: Goshen Art Gallery, 01-04 launch its first working professionals who are In Heidi Schreck’s play, presented by Brian Gothong Tan: Lost Cinema Duo Galleria, 7 Fraser Street toddler play passionate about lifelong learning. Wag the Dog Theatre, a firm has fallen Singapore artist Brian Gothong Tan MRT: Bugis WHEN: May 1, 3 - 6pm (by space. ST PHOTO: WHERE: Level 3, Summit 2, Suntec on hard times and employees know deconstructs tropes found in Asian invitation only); May 2 - 20, 11am - 8pm GAVIN FOO Singapore Convention & Exhibition that their heads are on the chopping filmography and looks at three iconic ADMISSION: Free TEL: 9742-3621 Centre, 1 Raffles Boulevard films in particular: Eric Khoo’s 12 INFO: E-mail info@ MRT: Promenade/Esplanade block. After a series of brutal lay-offs, Storeys (Singapore, 1997), Wong goshenartgallery.com WHEN: May 13, 10am - 4pm a precocious young consultant is Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love (Hong ADMISSION: Free brought in to save one adman’s job. Kong, 2000) and Apichatpong INFO: www.nie.edu.sg/postgradfair The play takes an intimate look at Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady EXHIBITIONS (SHOWS) what we owe others when everything around us is falling apart. (Thailand, 2004). The experimental THEATRE two-week project combines a layered Singapore Maritime Week WHERE: Drama Centre Black Box, multi-channel video installation with Exhibition Level 5 National Library Building, repeated live performances by actors The exhibition, a key feature of Tamil Drama: Singapoor 100 Victoria Street MRT: City Hall/ Ma Yanling and Sun Phittaya Singapore Maritime Week, centres on Maapilai Bugis WHEN: May 17 & 18, 22 - 25, 8pm; Phaefuang. the theme Maritime Singapore – As part of the Tamil Language May 19 & 26, 3 & 8pm; May 20 & 27, WHERE: Earl Lu Gallery, Institute of Future Ready. There will be Festival, the Singapore Indian Theatre 2 & 7pm ADMISSION: $20 - $40 Contemporary Arts Singapore, LaSalle interactive exhibits and various & Film Explorers presents a Tamil TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg.