Category: Literary

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Our Guide to the Singapore Writer’s Festival 2012

  Reading expounds our very existence and it is in this search for our being that this year’s Singapore Writer’s Festival is celebrating. This year, the annual SWF takes us back to “being”. A slew of events are put together to contemplate our existence—heritage, globalisation and the very carnal.   Following in the footsteps of its successful predecessor, this year’s festival will once again be a mixture of the light-hearted and the intellectual, featuring a staggering Read more
Posted: 29 October, 2012 Literary Shortlink
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Advanced Studies…. (Ten Lessons for Life)

Advanced Studies…. (Ten Lessons for Life) 25-27 May 2012 SOTA Gallery We’ve been there, done that. Been to school, stared at our teachers blankly, graduated. But what will it feel to be back in class, only that it is now all part of an act, and you are the audience? Consider Advanced Studies… (Ten Lessons for Life), the nebulous experiential work that is part of the Singapore Arts Festival 2012, because it will give you a chance to be an audience-student, for ten nights only. Advanced Read more
Posted: 21 May, 2012 Everything, Literary, Theatre Shortlink
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Murakami’s Theatre of Dreams

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 25-26 May 2012 Esplanade Theatre Murakami fans will be thrilled as the first theatrical staging of a Murakami novel graces our shores as part of the Singapore Arts Festival 2012. Wind Up Bird Chronicle tells the story of unemployed Toru Okada who loses both his cat and wife. His struggles to cope with their disappearances bring him on an eccentric adventure involving a fantasy-line worker, an overbearing prostitute, a death- obsessed teen, a war veteran and a sadistic Read more
Posted: 14 May, 2012 Dance, Film, Literary, Theatre Shortlink
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Body Language

Dance Take-Out Series 1: Arts Fission 10 & 11 Nov @ 7.30pm BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street Local dance company Arts Fission is known for their site-specific works: dancing on top of buildings, heck, on top of a truck - this time, they're moving in between shelves of books at indie bookstore BooksActually at Tiong Bahru. We catch up with dancer Mayu Watanabe in a quick Q&A:   What's your favourite book? MW: I think my favorite books are constantly evolving and popping Read more
Posted: 8 November, 2011 Dance, Literary Shortlink
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Calling All Aspiring Playwrights!

Always had a flair for writing? If you're between 17 and 25 years old, and see yourself as the next Miller, Shakespeare or Harrower, take the first step towards literary stardom with The Young Co. Writing Programme. Helmed by local playwright Jean Tay, the one-year-long workshop will start on 14 Jan 2012. Lessons will be conducted every Saturday morning with "writing weekends" over the March and June holidays. Simply email youth@srt.com.sg with the following: - A piece of prose of at least Read more
Posted: 24 October, 2011 Literary, Theatre Shortlink
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Our Guide To SWF 2011

Unlike the performing arts, the literary arts can be somewhat of a solitary affair. The written word can bring you to new places, wonderful worlds and fascinating people, but it's all in the space of your, well, imagination. So the fun thing about a writers' festival is getting to meet the authors. Coming face-to-face with those who have filled pages with rich stories, piqued curiousities with novel thoughts, or poetic musings. The Singapore Writers' Festival this year is taking this exchange head Read more
Posted: 18 October, 2011 Literary Shortlink