The finale concert of the 6th WBAS Youth Band Festival showcases young musicians ranging from primary schools to tertiary institutions.  Handpicked via auditions prior to the Festival, these outstanding young talents experience a week of music making in a dynamic and exciting setting where they are mentored by professional musicians and are led by conductors Mr Tay Kai Tze, Mr Adrian Chiang and Mr Masanori Fukuda from Japan.Programme for the evening range from classics such as Music for a Festival, Peterloo Overture, Song without Words, Prokofiev's March to all-time favourite pops Japanese Graffiti XII and Latin Gold.Special appearance by the faculty ensemble performing Persichetti Serenade No. 1.

50 years ago, the visionary writer John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr published A Fortunate Man, a meditation on the role of a doctor that is still widely read by healthcare practitioners today. The book followed the daily life of English country general practitioner John Sassall, witnessing his compassion as well as his practice as a physician through storytelling and photography.15 years after the book’s publication, John Sassall took his own life. Taking this tragic event as a starting point, New Perspectives teams up with acclaimed theatre maker Michael Pinchbeck to create a stage exploration of the book, interposing it with interviews with medical practitioners today.Part theatre-lecture, part expressionistic explosion of the book, A Fortunate Man is a powerful and poignant interrogation about the passions and pressures of being a doctor in the modern world and what that says about the future health of our society.

“And then the fisherman says-… and then the fish… the fi-“A woman stands at a microphone. She can’t remember the punchline.Fusing poetry and song, award-winning UK theatre company Unholy Mess presents a funny, strange and poignant play about growing up and the legacy of abuse.Performance poet Jemima Foxtrot takes you on a powerful journey exploring memory, childhood and what happens when we can’t quite get to the punchline.

In this lecture performance, actress Sharon Frese explores the history and influence of the African diaspora in Singapore. Dredging the archives, she shares images and documents relating to slavery, colonialism, jazz and nationalist struggle, reaffirming the value of black culture as part of our shared heritage.This event is both a history lesson and a theatrical ritual. The creators commemorate the untold numbers of black men and women—enslaved, indentured and expatriate—who crossed the oceans into unknown territory. They draw strength from these tides, which Indian convicts called the “black water”—in Hindi “kala pani”, or in Malay “ayer hitam”.Please note that this venue is not wheelchair accessible.This production is presented with support from Centre 42. 

“Memory capacitors are so limited these days.”“Our reality is what we remember it to be.”What relationship do we share with our possessions?How can we orient ourselves to these things differently?This intimate interactive experience begins in the form of an artist lecture and dialogue where Zihan will share his experiences of staging his installation Queer Objects: An Archive for the Future ​(2016), an assemblage of objects for a hypothetical queer archive in Singapore.Following this, the audience-participants will join Zihan in a series of participatory activities and conversation, to examine the fictional and factual, virtual and actual potential of objects, in a bid to meditate on the contingency of identity and being.Due to the nature of this work, only 20 audience-participants will be admitted per show.Please note that this venue is not wheelchair accessible.Catamite was developed in residence at Centre 42.

Hanane, a fifty-something year old Lebanese actress and citizen, exercises daily to avoid osteoporosis, obesity, and depression.As she takes walks through both secluded and open spaces in Beirut, she revisits dreams, desires, hopes, disillusionments, characters and roles—most of which reveal themselves to be contemporary Medeas with whom she shares some commonalities.The effects of this daily routine of jogging are contradictory. Her body is stimulated through exercise with two hormones, dopamine and adrenaline, both alternating between destruction and construction. Their natural cycles within Hanane—woman, wife and mother—echo that of her city, one that destroys to build and builds to destroy.Winner of the Vertebra Prize for Best Actor at Summerhall/Edinburgh Festival FringeCo-produced by: Heinrich Bol Stiftung Middle East, Embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon and British Council LebanonWith the support of:Arab Fund For Arts and Culture, Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Robert A. Matta Foundation

Can a series of 36 questions make you fall in love with someone you’ve just met?Would you like to be famous?When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?What is your most terrible memory? In 1977, psychologist Arthur Aron, together with a group of research colleagues, published the article The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness. Aron had assembled a series of 36 questions that pairs of strangers would ask each other, with questions that are initially dispassionate and playful, culminating with intimate ones.His belief is that by placing strangers in positions of vulnerability and openness, this exercise fosters openness to another person, leading to them falling in love.Four dancers... 36 questions... Join us for this special experience that reveals personalities, lives and memories.With the support of: Ministry of Sport and Culture (Israel), Embassy of Israel and the Israeli Choreographers Association

In his desperation to save his dying daughter, Abhijeet is lured to the magical paradise of Singaland!Jeet toils under the scorching sun to earn gold coins that he can then send to his beloved child and cure her sickness. However, an unfortunate incident leaves him injured, unable to work.Desperate and alone, Jeet stumbles upon another vagabond, Gloria, who too is in need of help. She tells him of a mythical dragon native to the land, that is said to grant your every wish. But it’s a quest she is afraid to undertake alone. They set off together in hope to find this legendary dragon, ready for whatever dangers they might encounter.So begins the adventures of Abhijheet: a man’s quest to save his family and the search for equality.

precise purpose of being broken is adapted from a collage of texts by playwright and Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma. Each of these texts floats in a particular and specific universe: open, disembodied, yet inexplicably connected.This multi-lingual work features characters that are as broken as they are illuminated, and as doomed as they are hopeful. They revisit faded landscapes of their collective memory, pass through familiar spaces both comforting and contentious, and lose their footing on grounds that seem to provide potent signs of recognition.Directed by Koh Wan Ching, this new presentation of precise purpose of being broken is devised and workshopped over an extended period, and will be performed by Chelsea Crothers, Chng Xin Xuan, Grace Kalaiselvi, Lina Yu and Wendi Wee Hian, with lighting design by Jason Ng, and sound design by Vivian Wang from The Observatory.First presented by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay as a work-in-progress for The Studios: RAW in 2017.With the support of: BinjaiTree

Goodbyes are rarely good.And memories can be tricky things. Azman returns to his island home only to be greeted by new sights and vanishing landmarks. Nothing seems familiar, until it starts to rain.Written by Nabilah Said and choreographed by Norhaizad Adam, yesterday it rained salt combines text, dance and performance to explore the violence of leaving and returning, the comfort one can find in memory and rituals, and the relationships that men have.An early iteration of yesterday it rained salt was presented at Bunker Theatre in London, United Kingdom, in October 2017.

ANGKAT: A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native subverts norms of genre and dramatic form to tell the intertwining histories of a mother and daughter, and a re-imagining of a young Singapura trying to find her footing amidst the rough seas.Salma, an aspiring singer, is an adopted child whose struggle with identity is played out on a national stage.Mak, a former islander, tries to process the loss of her home from the mainland, with a little help from some friends.The play blends fantasy and fact, history and the imagined future, and the national, the personal and the magical to explore and empower hidden narratives of the Singapore story.ANGKAT: A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native was developed in residence at Centre 42’s Boiler Room 2015 and Basement Workshop 2018, and Teater Ekamatra in 2016/2017.Venue support by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

“I want to be someone like somebody else was once.”These words echo in Kaspar’s mouth, as he drowns in his estranged reality.Acclaimed as one of “the plays of the decade”, and as significant as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Edith Podesta directs the NAFA BA (Hons) Theatre Arts students in Peter Handke's Kaspar, where an innocent youth contends with a world intent on regulating every action and thought.When finally Kaspar is drained of all language, he has to confront the greatest terror of his young existence: his humanity.Co-presented with: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Adishakti has evolved into a purely physical craft for the stimulation of emotion and psychological expression. As breathing is the physical expression of thought and emotion, it implies that a particular emotion has a particular pattern of breath. In koodiyattam, an ancient form of Sanskrit theatre from Kerala, there existed the knowledge of eight breath patterns that corresponded to specific emotions as mentioned in the Natya Shastra(Sanskrit text on performing arts). It is apparent that this codification emerged from a study of breathing behaviour in everyday life.In this session, participants will learn about the eight patterns of breath corresponding to the eight emotions of koodiyattam, and explore varying degrees of emotions to communicate even the subtleties of heightened emotions. Participants will begin to discover the movement of the facial muscles, the eyes for different emotions and learn how to naturally shape the face with the breath.The workshop is open to actors and those from other disciplines.Wear comfortable outfit for easy bends and stretching.Recommended for ages 18 & aboveFor more details about Kalaa Utsavam 2018, visit www.esplanade.com/kalaautsavam 

Singapore Chinese Dance Theatre is proud to present you our annual dance showcase “Taking Flight 2018” that will be held on 9 December 2018. This is a platform for our students to unleash their performing potential.Be charmed by our students who dance with joy, with passion, expressing their love for life.

Celebrate with us ! At our 10th anniversary concert , on Sunday 11th November, 2018. An afternoon of spectacular Music and Dance. Presented by our Teachers & Students.

Usher in 2019 with Dato' Zainalabidin and Headwind as they bring you on a musical journey that spans 35 years. Sing along to evergreen favourites such as Hijau, Hanya Di Radio, Segalanya Mungkin, Kita Serupa and many more!Winner of Best Album, Best Vocal and Best Musical Arrangement at Malaysia’s annual Anugerah Industry Muzik (music industry award), Dato’ Zainal Abidin is well known for his unique style and lyrics that often reflect his love for humanity and the environment. He was also awarded the Anugerah Cinta Planet Muzik (Love for the Planet Music Award) at MediaCorp Radio’s annual Anugerah Planet Muzik, for his contributions and efforts in the conservation of the environment.

For the last time in Singapore, Fei Yu Qing 费玉清, the forever favourite Taiwan ballad singer and also Asian most popular evergreen singer will be back to Singapore in 2019 to woo his audiences in this farewell concert held at Resorts World Ballroom. Tickets to his Taiwan farewell concert 2019 held at the Taipei Arena were sold out within 21 minutes. Fei started his singing career in the late 70s, is the younger brother of the veteran host, Chang Fei 张菲, he is also known for his versatility and candidness on stage, and his undoubtedly near flawless singing on stage, also for his jokes. Fei had performed several theme songs for TV drama series, some of which were more successful than the shows themselves. He has a melodious and distinctive voice that elevated him to stardom with his numerous hits such as 《一剪梅》,《晚安曲》,《送你一把泥土》,《万里长城》,《梦驼铃》,《情深往事直到永远》and many more. In 2006, he did a duet song《千里之外》with the popular Taiwan singer, Jay Chou 周杰伦created a stir in the music industry and his involvement in the China variety program 天籁之战 bring his singing career closer to many more youngsters. Fei Yu Qing centers his market primarily now in China, with countless offers to perform and also many sold out concerts in almost every countries he performed. He is also well known for his rendition of golden oldies as well as his humorous and signature jokes on stage. Mark the date on your calendar and do not miss the last chance to catch this songbird in action as he chants you with an unforgettable and enjoyable evening in his farewell concert Singapore.

Three years after the release of his critically-acclaimed debut 'TIME/SPACE', Charlie Lim marks his return with a brand-new album, titled 'CHECK-HOOK'. Gathering prominent international festival slots and accolades along the way, including a successful showcase at Japan's Summer Sonic Festival as well as a central role in writing and performing the theme song for Singapore's National Day this year, Charlie has quickly grown into one of Southeast Asia's most unique voices in modern pop music. Premiering tracks from his new album as well as re-imagined favourites from his past discography, fans will get to experience a fully-fledged headline concert for the first time in 3 years. Together with his superband The Mothership, the show will also feature special guests Weish (.GIF), Yung Raja and Fariz Jabba, as well as backing vocals from Vanessa Fernandez (Vandetta, Octover) and Eugenia Yip (The Steve McQueens, Riot !n Magenta). “CHARLIE LIM - LIVE IN CONCERT” is promoted by Universal Music Singapore and is proudly supported by Singtel Music (Official Mobile Music Partner), FRANK by OCBC (Official Card), AUGUSTMAN Singapore (Official Men’s Magazine), Tiger Beer, and Scotch & Soda.

Maestro Enrico Onofri leads re:Sound in a spectacular musical journey with works by Italian masters Dario Castello, Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, Luigi Boccherini, Gioachino Rossini and Ottorino Respighi.There will also be special performances of Vivaldi's “Winter” featuring Chloe Chua, co-winner of the 2018 Menuhin Competition (Junior Division).Main Concert - 8.15pmYoung Persons’ Matinee Concert - 5.00pm (1 hour)Entry to the Young Persons' Matinee is limited to persons 14 years old and below and accompanying adults.

From the very moment he arrived, Hansel has done nothing but upset the balance of Gretel’s life completely. Then something happened which gave Gretel the opportunity to get rid of her problem once and for all.With themes of sibling rivalry and family love, this exciting twist to the well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale will resonate with children who face the struggle of competing with their siblings for their parents’ attention and affection, learning to love each other and appreciating the importance of family love.