Saturday, 7 Dec 2013
M’Ode Orchestra
Time: 7.30pm to 8.15pm
Venue: Bandstand at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Admission
A new voice in the orchestral music scene in Singapore, M’Ode is composed of dedicated musicians with many years of performance experience, excellent qualifications and, most importantly, a deep and sincere love of music. M’Ode orchestra’s extensive repertoire ranges from the whimsical to the macabre and even – the avant-garde.
Saturday, 7 Dec 2013
Movies Under the Stars: Avatar
Time: 8.30pm to 10pm
Venue: Lawn E (beside Swan Lake) at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Movie Screening
A must-watch science fiction film, Avatar is set in the year 2154, where humans are engaged in the mining of a precious mineral called unobtanium on ‘Pandora’, a fictional Earth-like planet. The expansion of this mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na’vi – a humanoid species living on Pandora. Will their resistance successfully save the Pandoran ecosystem?
Sunday, 8 Dec 2013
M’Ode Orchestra
Time: 7.30pm to 8.15pm
Venue: Bandstand at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Admission
A new voice in the orchestral music scene in Singapore, M’Ode is composed of dedicated musicians with many years of performance experience, excellent qualifications and, most importantly, a deep and sincere love of music. M’Ode orchestra’s extensive repertoire ranges from the whimsical to the macabre and even – the avant-garde.
Sunday, 8 Dec 2013
Open House at Singapore Philatelic Museum
Venue: 23-B Coleman Street Singapore 179807
Singapore Philatelic Museum is the first of its kind in the region, showcasing Singapore’s philatelic heritage and postal artefacts since the Straits Settlements era. At the museum’s colourful and cosy galleries, families and children can find out how stamps are a window to discover many themes such as nature, culture and heritage.
Monday, 9 Dec 2013
Sounds from the Undergrowth – Shaun Sankaran
Time: 8pm
Venue: Artistry, 17 Jalan Pinang Singapore 199149
Free Entry
Shaun Sankaran is a Singaporean musician, who has presented his brand of experimental sound works across the globe under various incarnations such as Mindfuckingboy, Chöd, Elekore, Wu Wei & Dream State Vision. While mostly based in Singapore, he has also performed in Europe as well as neighbouring Asian countries.
Thursday, 12 Dec 2013
Residue by Marcel Heijnen, book launch & exhibition opening
Time: 7pm
Venue: Artistry, 17 Jalan Pinang Singapore 199149
Free Entry
Residue is a photography series that Marcel Heijnen has been working on and exhibiting for the past 4 years. This year, he will be launching his first Residue book – a stunning 140-page hardcover of new and signature works – as well as his fourth solo exhibition, at Artistry on 12 December.
Even at third glance, Marcel’s surreal, organically detailed images resemble abstract paintings but they are actually photographs of buildings seamlessly reflected into backdrops of weathered walls – singly captured with just a camera and an untreated clear glass panel. No double exposures or digital trickery, just pure photography.
Art writer Bonnie Engel, who wrote the book’s foreword, describes, “Just as Japanese philosophers contemplated that human life is as ephemeral as a drop of dew, Heijnen explores the inevitability of impermanence in Asia’s cities through their residue of history. Many of these cities are centuries old; and yet they are as impermanent, in the end, as that drop of dew.”
Come reflect on the beauty that resides in the residue of life and the impermanence of all things.
The exhibition will run until 19 January 2014
Friday, 13 Dec 2013
MAAD Pyjamas
Time: 5pm to 12 Midnight
Venue: Red Dot Design Museum
Free Entry
The year-end MAAD session strikes again with our beloved artistic and design community gathering at the Red Dot Design Museum with a creative showcase of original works, heartfelt compositions and 100% local creative community spirit.
Expect to find quirky, unique and designer buys for the festive season put together by our local design & artistic community ranging from fashion, plush toys, art, illustrations, craft & accessories, literature, photography, industrial design, creative services, gifts, furniture to even food.
13 December’s 106th session of MAAD promises your monthly dosage of great music, talented artistry, aspects of design and creativity, the irreplaceable booze, not to forget the late night shopping!
OIC- Organisation of Illustrators Council will also be at MAAD with some 50 illustrators, artists, painters and hobbyist with “Portraits After Dark”, an activity that allows visitors to be “posers” for 20 minutes and have their portraits drawn by the community.
Saturday, 14 Dec 2013
The A Capella Society Youth Voices
Time: 7.30pm to 8.15pm
Venue: Bandstand at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Admission
(The A Cappella Society) Youth Voices has been developing young singers in the last decade, and is today the only youth-centred training centre for young A Cappella singers. Youth Voices is made up of a select group of singers who have come together to make joyful music with each other, bringing together their own experiences from a vast variety of musical backgrounds. The Youth Voices training programme has a stellar portfolio of awards and accomplishments and they have recently come in second at the annual A Cappella Championships.
Saturday, 14 Dec 2013
Movies Under the Stars: Wall-E
Time: 8.30pm to 10pm
Venue: Lawn E (beside Swan Lake) at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Movie Screening
Wall-E is a heartwarming science-fiction romantic comedy centred around a robot named WALL-E and another robot, Eve who he falls in love with. Set in the future, Wall-Eis designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth and follows Eve into outer space on an adventure of epic proportions that could possibly change both his destiny as well as ours.
Sunday, 15 Dec 2013
The A Capella Society Youth Voices
Time: 7.30pm to 8.15pm
Venue: Bandstand at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Free Admission
(The A Cappella Society) Youth Voices has been developing young singers in the last decade, and is today the only youth-centred training centre for young A Cappella singers. Youth Voices is made up of a select group of singers who have come together to make joyful music with each other, bringing together their own experiences from a vast variety of musical backgrounds. The Youth Voices training programme has a stellar portfolio of awards and accomplishments and they have recently come in second at the annual A Cappella Championships.
Monday, 16 Dec to Tuesday, 17 Dec 2013
The Legend of Hagoromo by Grigory Novikov
Time: 7.15pm – 7.45pm, 8.15pm – 8.45pm
Venue: Concourse at The Esplanade
Free Admission
Award-winning classical guitarist Grigory Novikov learnt to play the guitar at 16. The Kirov native’s distinctive style of playing sets him apart from the pack, showcasing his mastery of the classical guitar perfectly.
Having pursued music at the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory, Grigory has toured around extensively, most recently having performed at the International Guitar Festival in Malaysia this year.
Join Grigory as he shares with you the compositions that have inspired him throughout his journey in music together with guest guitarist Kevin Loh, a 15-year-old Singaporean student of the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK. Be enchanted by his emotive interpretations of works by composers such as J. K. Mertz, K. Fujii, V. Kozlov and many others.
Sunday, 22 Dec 2013
Latino Dance Fiesta by Los Cucurrus
Time: 6.15pm – 6.45pm, 7.15pm– 7.45pm, 8.15pm – 8.45pm
Venue: Concourse at The Esplanade
Free Entry
Los Cucurrus delights you with a selection of energetic Mexican traditional music given a contemporary twist. This lively band plays a diversity of Latin American and Spanish music such as the Mexican mariachi, rhythmic Cuban music, romantic mellow serenades, rumba Catalan music of Gypsy Kings, as well as popular dance music like salsa.
Saturday, 28 Dec 2013
Sand Artist Lawrence Koh with Tze n Looking Glass Orchestra
Time: 7.30pm – 8.15pm, 8.45pm – 9.30pm, 10pm – 10.45pm
Venue: Outdoor Theatre at The Esplanade
Free Entry
Inspired by their interest in Asian mythology and nature, the artists present a story of hope and celebration. Through their art forms of sand art and music, they bring audiences of all ages on a surreal and imaginative journey. Watch amazing images drawn in sand evolve before your eyes, with original music by composer-pianist Tze Toh, performed by soloists from the Tze n Looking Glass Orchestra.
Lawrence Koh is an international sand artist based in Singapore who has performed widely across TV, theatre, film as well as at local and international corporate events. Enter into Lawrence’s surreal world of sand art where destruction is a way to creation and impermanence becomes a new language of storytelling.
Tze n Looking Glass Orchestra is Singapore’s unique fusion orchestra which plays original music inspired by science, nature, Asian mythology and the simple beautiful stories in life. Described as the sound of contemporary Asia, the music combines film score, jazz, Chinese, Indian and European classical music.
