Humor, Wit, Irony Film. Theatre. Literary Arts. Visual Arts. Four days of Singapore’s quirkiest, most original and inspirational artists all in one space, sharing a facet of Singapore that is rarely seen! The CausewayEXchange Festival (CEX) aims to build a bridge between Singapore and Malaysia through the platform of arts and culture on the theme [...]

In 1983, Stella Kon created Emily of Emerald Hill, one of the first Singaporean works to travel overseas, capturing a Nonya matriarch in all her power and vulnerability. In 1985, Kuo Pao Kun’s The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole captured the disenfranchised Singaporean heartlander in the character of a grandson struggling to honour [...]

5 stories by 5 actors about the 3 things that we all can’t do without! Whether you come from a HDB flat or a PJ terrace house, these stories will undoubtedly be familiar to us even after 46 years of separation. Playwrights Desmond Sim (Singapore) and Nandang Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) explore the appetites, pleasures and [...]

Experience theatre as you have never experienced it before – one actor to two audience members. Meet the Angel of Death. Hide from a scorned lover. Prepare food with the limbs of another. Join us for an intimately interactive theatre experience as T4YP explores the theme of Food, Sex & Death a step further. Directed [...]

LIT UP KL: DRAMALOGUE WORKSHOP: COMMUNICATING THROUGH DRAMA Drama is a form of dialogue, where meaning is generated in the interaction between the audience and the actors. When successful, it is a form of communion that establishes – albeit briefly – a sense of community. In order to write effectively for the stage, the playwright [...]

When Hainan Meets Teochew, directed by the talented Han Yew Kwang (Unarmed Combat; 18 Grams of Love), is a witty anti-romantic romantic comedy in which a manly woman and a womanly man end up together due to the most unusual circumstances.   Hainanese men are said to make the best husbands, while Teochew wives are [...]

“I want to archive these places before they are lost forever.” – Royston Tan   Old Places, a documentary directed by young Singaporean filmmakers Royston Tan, Victric Thng and Eva Tang, features the voices of Singaporeans recalling their memories of disappearing places in Singapore. Nostalgic, sentimental and at times, gently admonishing, this is a film [...]

SINGAPORE GAGA Singapore GaGa is a paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore’s past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, [...]

Intricate layers of drawn meshed lines with delicate markings of motifs and familiar popular symbols exposed on the exterior of carton boxes built to resemble a towering pillar, is an intriguing, interactive 3-dimensional installation by one of Singapore’s Contemporary Pop Artist, Justin Lee.   Entitled, Box the Pop!, Lee explores the notion of how consumerism [...]

In his own inimitable style of caricature, the trailblazing cartoonist Heng Kim Song has been telling stories about the state of our world for close to 30 years.   Heng On The World presents a selection of his works culled from the past two decades. His editorial cartoons have long been a staple of our [...]

Someone, we’re not sure who, said, “The face is the index of the mind.” Likewise, Citizen-Singapore: Time To Shine is a collection of Singaporeans from all walks of life. Each with a different story to tell. Some with happy tales, others with inspiring anecdotes, yet all with a common thread of making a positive contribution [...]

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