If one of your 2019 resolutions is to be immersed in Singapore’s blossoming art and culture scene, the Singapore Art Week 2019 at SAM beginning 18 January is a great place to start.
The Singapore Art Week offers a friendly atmosphere to better understand Singapore’s burgeoning talents through the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition.
Besides the exhibition, you can enjoy free outdoor movie screenings, art workshops, live bands, an artisan market and a community carnival which features a live-sized board game.
Here are some of the highlights.
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The President’s Young Talent is Singapore’s premier and only mentoring and awarding programme which recognises local talent aged 35 and below.
Pictured above is grand prize winner Weixin Quek Chong’s installation sft crsh ctrl. The installation was lauded by the panelists for its command of space and possessing elements of risk.
Catch the thought-provoking work, which challenges viewers to depend less on their rationality through an immersive aesthetic experience, and other prize winners of SAM’s President’s Young Talent 2018.
Date: Till 27 January 2019
Time: Museum opening hours
Location: SAM at 8Q
Admission: Free
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Local art collective Kult creates an immersive community carnival for you and your friends to enjoy. Challenge each other in a life-sized board game based on Emojis, engage with interactive projections and get ready to be surprised by a uniquely crafted theatre performance.
Date: 20 January 2019
Time: 11am to 6pm
Location: SAM at 8Q
Admission: Free
Above: Kult’s concept art for the life-sized Emoji board game and carnival. Image courtesy of Kult
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The Greatest Showman
Relive the emotional melodies Never Enough and A Million Dreams as Hugh Jackman plays circus legend P. T. Barnum. Sing along to your heart’s content because you won’t be trapped in an enclosed cinema this time around.
Date: 19 January 2019
Time: 8pm to 10pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Plaza
Admission: Free
It’s A Great, Great World
By Eating Air director Kelvin Tong, this movie celebrates amusement park Great World where many families frequented in the past. Take a trip down memory lane with your family and experience what life was like in Singapore before the internet.
Date: 25 January 2019
Time: 8pm to 9.30pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Plaza
Admission: Free
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Browse homeware, accessories, crafts and delicious treats at the popular SAM X TLP Community Art Market. Almost all of the wares and food on sale are made by local designers and chefs. There will also be live music to create a relaxing, festive vibe throughout the day.
Date: 27 January 2019
Time: 11am to 6pm
Location: SAM at 8Q
Admission: Free
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Kicking off Singapore Art Week, local bands Mannequins, The Groove Gurus and Bakers In Space will bring their best tunes out for a 3-hour set. Gather your music-loving friends and take a break from your usual Spotify playlist by indulging in live music.
Date: 18 January 2019
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Plaza
Admission: Free for Singaporeans and PR
Participate in this family-friendly workshop that allows you to create realistic wounds and scars. Led by Makeup Maestro’s lead artist, learn how to use household products and special effects modelling wax to create realistic cuts on yourself and impress your friends on Halloween.
Date: 18 and 25 January 2019
Time: 7pm to 8.30pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Workshop Space 2, L2
Admission: $30, booking page
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Experience another dimension of the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition as poets Manickavasagan Ashmita, Christine Chia, Chua Poh Leng, Shivram Gopinath and Charlene Shepherdson bring you on a specially coordinated trail.
There will be live readings of multilingual poetry written in response to the artworks based on the themes of scars, nostalgia and spirituality.
Date: 19 January 2019
Time: 5pm to 6pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Lobby
Admission: Free with registration
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Create your own virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) project based on the Singapore Biennale 2019 theme: An Atlas of Mirrors. Feel free to bring along your child* as this workshop is designed for parent-child bonding. Remember to charge your smartphone as an app is required to participate in the experience.
*Suitable for children aged 6 and above.
Date: 19 January 2019
Time: 5pm to 6pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Plaza
Admission: Free with registration
Image courtesy of Irfan Kasban
Local performance artist Irfan Kasban explores how tourism changes sacred spaces and the faces of the otherworldly beings that inhabit them. The performance involves Irfan inhabiting the spaces of worlds between the hills, land and sea while seeking to find his image on reflective surfaces, including audiences’ eyes.
The performance is in Malay with English and Japanese subtitles.
Date: 25 January 2019
Time: 7.30pm to 8pm or 8.30pm to 9pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, L1 Gallery
Admission: Free with registration
Art jam for free after brunch by dropping by the art workshop running from afternoon till night. Express your appreciation of Singapore’s beautiful landscape as you create your own ‘guardian’ to protect it.
Date: 26 January 2019
Time: 1.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Workshop Space at L2
Admission: Free
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Preview the Singapore Biennale 2019 at the Teaser event, with artists Zai Tang and Arnont Nongyao. They will create an immersive soundscape using field recordings of Singaporean habitats as well as Thailand markets. There will be an improv jamming session at the end, so be sure to stay for that.
Date: 26 January 2019
Time: 7.30pm to 9pm
Location: SAM at 8Q, Plaza
Admission: Free
With the arts made so accessible, be sure to not miss out on the exciting activities available during the Singapore Art Week 2019.
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