Posted on Fri, 29 Jul 2011
A Little Night Music …
Take a break from the usual routine and make time for the Singapore Museum’s Night Festival 2011 which takes place at the cultural precinct of Bras Basah and Stamford Road over two weekends: 26 – 27 August and 2 – 3 September.
The fourth year running, this vibrant culturefest it’s themed after maritime journeys and heroes – on which Singapore’s history was deeply rooted in – and pays homage to our pioneering forefathers. It also revisits the roots of Bras Basah when it was inhabited by various ethnic groups such as the Eurasians, Armenians and Jews, the Hainanese. The line up promises to be a melting pot of cultural performances from East and West, and definitely worth making time for. Highlights the Museum Night Festival which caught our eye….
Corazon de Angeles in Paradise by Theater TOL
Fri 26 Aug & Sat 27 Aug
10.30pm
Combining music, dance, film, acrobatics, life performance and pyrotechnics, Theater TOL’s outdoor aerial performance will take visitors through a world of voyages and encounters akin to summer night dreams.
Marco Polo by Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company
Fri 26 Aug & Sat 27 Aug
7.15pm & 11.30pm
In Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company’s reinvention of the story of Marco Polo, Taiwanese and Italian puppeteers and musicians collaborate, combining traditional Chinese Nanguan and Beiguan music with Italian opera.
Night Lights 2011
Fri 26 Aug – Sat 3 Sep
7.30pm
Night Lights 2011 stretches over 9 evenings. Start from the Singapore Art Museum and make your way to the School of the Arts (SOTA), National Museum of Singapore (NMS) and Singapore Management University (SMU) to see the “spectacular light installations” from France, in conjunction with Nuit Blanche Paris. Says Tan Boon Hui, Director of the Singapore Art Museum: “Festival-goers will be transported into a different magical realm as they visit the seven light installations that will transform our familiar environments into the whimsical and the unusual.”
Night Ride at Peranakan Museum
Fri 26 Aug & Sat 27 Aug
7pm – 11pm
Let the kids sleep late this weekend and bring them along to the Peranakan Museum for some wholesome evening action. Catch performances by local fusion bands like the Armenian Heritage Ensemble and Ethnic Asia, see the drawings of a sand painter, visit the glow-in-the-dark room, and catch a Chinese shadow puppet show.
Other performers lined up for the Night Festival include Eva Quartet from Bulgaria, The Bigger Bang, a local percussionist group, The Shin, recognised as the most elite composers and musicians in their native country Georgia, Fusion Beats, another local percussion band which uses instruments from all over the world, and Flaming Matrix which performs ‘poi’ (see the picture).
More details on www.nationalmuseum.sg.
