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Dive into the heart of Van Gogh’s paintings. For the first time, discover in IMAX the fantastic colors and passionate brushwork of a great genius as they take on a new life before our eyes.
Relive Vincent’s life journey through his letters, see the places that inspired him, and the paintings.
We will meet Vincent. During this journey he will join us, reacting to the pictures, telling us what his is opinion today. He will be looking at Peter Knapp, a man who is working today on a documentary about Van Gogh’s techniques, and at Ellen, a researcher in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. She is studying his notebooks and letters. They give evidence of the fire and passion of a man who painted as he loved, who loved as he painted. And Vincent, as if he were seated next to us, will tell us the truth about his works and life. This is a chance to discover a Van Gogh we’ve never seen before: serene and radiating with love of life.
This passionate voyage, this new closeness to Van Gogh – the masterpieces and the man – open up a world of unexpected, intense emotions on the giant screen. The film offers us the unique joy of seeing and getting to know, with ever increasing admiration, the man whose energy and freedom are intrinsically bound to the great beauty of his work.
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Venue: Omni Theatre, 21 Jurong Town Hall Road
Time: Log on to www.omnitheatre.com.sg for show time
Ticket Prices: $8 (adult), $5 (child 3-12) Info line: 6425 2500
Presenter: Omni-Theatre |
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Direct from Italy, this world acclaimed exhibition produced by Grande Exhibitions, the Il Genio de Leonardo da Vinci Museo and Pascal Cotte brings to life Leonardo's genius as an inventor, artist, scientist, anatomist, engineer and architect. Displaying interactive and life-size machines crafted by Italian Artisans from his codices; studies of his most famous renaissance art; anatomical sketches as well as 3D animations of The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, and Mona Lisa, this last of which now includes new and revealing secrets behind the famous painting. Da Vinci - The Genius is the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled on the greatest mind that ever lived - an amazing experience and inspiration for the whole family.
For more information visit the website at www.davincithegenius.com
Venue: Science Centre Singapore, The Annexe 15 Science Centre Rd Singapore 609081
Time: Operating hours 10 am to 6pm ( closed on Mondays except school and public holidays)
Ticket Prices: $10 child( 3-16 yrs old ), $15 adult
Ticket Bookings : Infoline: 6425 2500
Presenter: Science Centre, Max Entertainment & Mediacorp VizPro. Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute |
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With At-Sunrice tried and tested recipes for successful team building all year round, this programme offers up to the most exotic sensations, lively merriment and glorious outdoor fun. Go for an adrenaline rush and discover exactly what it takes to pool your team resources together to go for a rousing spice hunt right in Singapore’s oldest 1822 Fort Canning Spice Garden. Then, get immersed and relaxed with a delightful tea reception for an enriching experience. And just before you sit down for a delectable alfresco French cuisine dinner, complete the fun and enjoy getting creative as you plate your dishes and submit them for a wildly funny plating competition.
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Venue: At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy, Fort Canning Centre, Fort Canning Park
Time: 4 hours per session
Ticket Prices: $120++ per guest (Minimum 20 guests)
Ticket Bookings : 6877 6990 fenni_wang@at-sunrice.com Advance booking is required, 2 weeks before event date.
Presenter: At-Sunrice GlobalChefAcademy |
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Director: Laurent Tirard
Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier
1644. At the age of 22, after being imprisoned for debt, Molière, a well-born young man who
had abandoned the privileges of his birth for love of a woman and the theatre – disappeared
without a trace for several months. Taking this mystery – which has never been explained, the makers of this film have concocted an elaborate historical fiction, an adventure in which young Molière finds himself caught up, a tale of deceit and disguise, of theatre, danger and passion. Imagine what happened in a period that is : the years between his release from prison in 1645 at age 22 (because his theatre company went bankrupt and he could not pay his debts) and his return to Paris 13 years later after a triumphant career as a traveling playwright and actor. The movie focuses on Molière’s relationship with Monsieur Jourdain, a rich bourgeois who wants to learn how to act. Jourdain’s wife Elmire catches the eye of Molière, while Jourdain himself becomes enamoured of the young Célimène. A story from which Molière would emerge as the greatest author in the history of the French stage.
Rating : NC16 – Scene of intimacy
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2007, Colour, Mono, 120 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing:wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Cathay |
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The concert features excerpts from Offenbach’s Glu, Glu, Glu & Barcarolle (Tales
of Hoffmann), Cavallo’s Bell’s Chorus (Pagliacci), Delibes’ Flower Duet (Lakme),
The Beatles’ medley and other European composers.
Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $18.00 15% discount to SLO Friends, Kinokuniya Privilege card, PAssion card (buy 10 tickets and get 1 FREE - available at SLO office only), Full-time students with student pass, Full-time NSmen and Senior citizens (55 yrs and above)
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC website: www.sistic.com.sg SISTIC hotline: 6348 5555 and all SISTIC authorized agents
Presenter: The Singapore Lyric Opera Ltd |
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A concert featuring classical and contemporary repertoire from Europe to
Asia, which will showcase the versatility of the SLO children’s choir.
Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio
Time: 3.30pm on 7 Aug; 3.30pm and 7.30pm on 8 Aug
Ticket Prices: $18.00 15% discount to SLO Friends, Kinokuniya Privilege card, PAssion card (buy 10 tickets and get 1 FREE - available at SLO office only), Full-time students with student pass, Full-time NSmen and Senior citizens (55 yrs and above)
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC website: www.sistic.com.sg SISTIC hotline: 6348 5555 and all SISTIC authorized agents
Presenter: The Singapore Lyric Opera Ltd |
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The Lisbon Chamber Choir (Coro de Câmara de Lisboa) was founded in 1978 by Prof. Teresita Gutierrez Marques and is formed by twenty young musicians.The Choir has always been very active, maintaining an artistic level which is unanimously applauded by the public and the critics. They have performed all over Portugal and has participated in the most significant cultural exhibitions like Capuchos and Sintra festivals, The Gulbenkian Festival of Ancient Music, Lisbon ´94 – European Capital of Culture, Expo ´98 – World Exposition of Lisbon, the International Festival of Organ in Lisbon, to name a few.
The Lisbon Chamber Choir has also performed all over the world extensively, including Madrid, Cuenca, León, Seville, Sória, Vitoria (Spain), Paris, Strasbourg, Rouen, Caen, Mont. St. Michel (France), Brussels, Malines (Belgium), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Rome, Bergamo, Biella, Bolzano, Novara, Trento, Turin, Verona (Italy), Bonn (Germany, Vienna (Austria), London (UK), Montréal (Canada), New York, Santa Barbara, San Diego, San José (USA), Belo Horizonte, Florianópolis, New Hamburg, Porto Alegre (Brazil), Montevideu (Uruguay), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Puebla (Mexico), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), Macao, and Cape Verde.
This International Choir Competition of Toloso winner has recorded several CD (for the labels EMI, Milan, Movieplay, Numérica and Virgin). They have also participated in recordings, both in Portugal and abroad, for radio, television and cinema.
In this concert, the Choir will perform a variety of program from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and from folksong to some famous musicals like West Side Story and The Phantom of the Opera.
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Place
Time: 5.00pm
Ticket Prices: Circle $35 (free seating), Stalls $28 (free seating)
Ticket Bookings : Tickets.com www.tdc.sg Hotline: 6296 2929
Presenter: DynamicWorkz |
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Director: Pierre-Paul Renders
Cast: Khalid Maadour, Caroline Dhavernas, Chantal Lauby, Gilbert Melki, Thierry Lhermitte
Because he’s just like everyone else, Jalil is exceptional. As he infallibly provides
responses shared by the majority, without his knowing it he’s become the measuring stick
of an imminent marketing institute run by two cynics, Didier and Françoise. Insatiable,
they ‘hack’ into his life, setting up hidden cameras in his apartment and arranging a
pretty girlfriend whose task is to test his tastes. And when the President of the Republic
decides to also base his re-election campaign on Jalil’s opinions, the affair takes on
national proportions. But taking things too much for granted can lead to unexpected
consequences – particularly if the supposed nitwit is smarter than he appears.
Rating : M18 – some sexual references
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2006, Colour, 90 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Cathay |
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The internationally renowned auteur of Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and You, The Living (2007), also brought us En kärlekshistoria, a phenomenally successful film, first shown in Sweden almost four decades ago.
En kärlekshistoria is ostensibly a simple story about an adolescent boy and girl discovering the risk and excitement of first love. Andersson, fueled by the youthful energy and freshness of the French New Wave, located this film firmly within the social context of contemporary Sweden. The ‘love story’ is a soaring vision of purity, set against a darker satire of the Swedish bourgeousie - their petty squabbles and materialistic concerns – pointing in the direction that Andersson would later travel.
It took five years for Andersson to make a second feature, Giliap, and it was castigated by Swedish critics and ignored by audiences. Disheartened, he turned his back on films and embraced advertising, albeit in his own uncompromising way.Possibly screened in Singapore for the first time, En kärlekshistoria is a beautiful but often neglected debut by this Swedish director.
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897, Tel: (65)6332 3659 / (65)6332 5642
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: Adult: $8, $6.40 for Seniors and NSF
Ticket Bookings : Tickets can be purchased online at www.sistic.com.sg and through SISTIC hotline @ (65)6348 5555
Presenter: National Museum of Singapore |
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A Story of the Image: Old and New Masters from Antwerp is an ambitious exhibition which surveys historical and contemporary works of art to explore the evolution of the image and its commercialization. There will be 13 paintings by old Flemish Masters from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp, 25 prints from the Museum of Plantin-Moretus/Printroom, as well as 115 contemporary Flemish artworks from the Museum of Contemporary Art. Masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) will make their debut
appearance in Singapore. In addition, works by significant and influential contemporary masters such as Luc Tuymans and David Claerbout will add to this unique exhibition experience.
Image credit: The Lamentation over Dead Christ
by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), Oil on Panel,
Collection of Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp ©
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road
Time: 10am to 6pm daily
Ticket Prices: Adult $10 (concessions apply for students, senior citizens, NSF men, and group bookings)
Ticket Bookings : National Museum of Singapore, Stamford Visitorship Services Counter
Presenter: National Museum of Singapore |
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Artist statement: The human being is the starting point in my work. I like to imagine the human body as a microcosm, a particular structure, which can be easily manipulated, decomposed into different parts. The relationship between the internal and the external, the form and the space interests me; how they are connected together and the tension that can emerge. The canvas becomes a puzzle in movement, thus creating the visualisation of a personal landscape where restructured and collected forms are entangled with figurative and organic patterns.
Website: www.substation.org
Venue: The Substation Gallery, 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936, Phone: 6337 7535
Time: Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily, closed on public holidays
Ticket Prices: Free admission
Presenter: Natacha Arena and The Substation |
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Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai, Gilles Cohen
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he
follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal,
real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn’t speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques’ bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend’s wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light...
Rating: NC16 – sexual references
In French with English Subtitles
France/UK, 2005, Color, DTS/Dolby Digital, 107 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Cathay |
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This August 2009, T.H.E Dance Company celebrates our first anniversary in grand fashion with Silence – T.H.E First Anniversary at the Esplanade Theatre. Choreographed by artistic director Kuik Swee Boon, former principal dancer of the Compania Nacional de Danza in Spain and the Singapore Dance Theatre, Silence is a moving contemporary dance that deals with the concept of communication breakdown in today’s technologically advanced society. We speak but do not know what we mean; we hear but do not truly listen.
Silence will feature guest dancer Luisa Maria Arias, principal dancer of the Compania Nacional de Danza (Spain) performing a duet with Kuik. Kuik will also be performing a solo in the work. The kinetic presence and sensuality of Arias, Kuik and the rest of the company are definitely not to be missed.
As the highlight of our first anniversary celebration, Silence reflects a year of achievements for T.H.E Dance Company. Past performances at the Singapore Arts Festival and the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival have received rave reviews from both the critics and audiences. Spurred on by such positivity, we challenge ourselves yet again this August by performing Silence, a work that will feature some of the strongest local and international dancers on the Esplanade Theatre stage. For those of you who want to see more of Kuik’s signature emotive lyricism, Silence is definitely a performance you want to look out for.
Set to a sublime soundscape featuring music by Radiohead, Sigur Ros and Philip Glass amongst others, Silence is definitely a performance befitting of an up and coming company’s first anniversary celebration and will be one of the major highlights of our 2009 season. At times fast and frantic, other times poignant and filled with yearning; in spite of its title, Silence is anything but quiet.
Venue: Esplanade Theatre
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $25, $32, $44, $100, 10% discount for full time students. Corporate packages available. 1 FREE tickets for every 10 purchased. Please call Alice Tan at 93898161 for corporate packages.
Ticket Bookings : Tickets available at all sistic outlets
Presenter: T.H.E DANCE COMPANY |
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Director: Zabou Breitman
Cast: Bernard Campan, Charles Berling, Léa Drucker
Every year, Frédéric and his wife Frédérique takes a vacation in their grand summer
home in Drôme, with quite a large part of their families tagging along. One evening,
they invite Hugo, their new neighbour, who shows off his homosexuality. Hugo
and Frédérique ended up discussing the philosophy of love till dawn. They form a
bond that eventually causes trouble in their entourage, and in their hearts.
Rating: R21 – mature theme
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2006, Colour, Mono, 114 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Festive Films |
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The young Gabrielle Chanel is the illegitimate daughter of a traveling salesman who learns to sew in a Catholic orphanage. She earns the nickname 'Coco' at a cabaret club where she is following her singing ambitions and it is also where she catches the eye of several high society gentlemen who would ignite her passion and become instrumental in the development of her remarkable career.
Release date 27 August
Official website www.festivefilms.com/cocobeforechanel
Venue: In cinemas island-wide
Ticket Bookings : Visit www.gv.com.sg for schedule and ticket information
Presenter: Festive Films Pte Ltd and Golden Village |
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Talking across cultures … artistic exchange and knowledge-sharing between artists has always been part of The Substation’s mission; apart from the value of enhancing cultural understanding across different countries, the sharing of ideas and exposure of an artist’s work to a different audience is a strong stimulus for the artist’s creative growth.
This year, The Substation embarks on an exchange with the Pro Rodopi Art Centre from Bulgaria. As part of SeptFest, artistic director of Pro Rodopi, Petar Todorov, and award-winning actress Desislava Mincheva, will be in Singapore during the last week of August. This multi-talented couple has created award-winning theatre productions that incorporate physical theatre, puppet theatre, and dance, and have taken their work all over the world. They will present a workshop for theatre practitioners - Basics of a Physical Action - and a physical theatre performance, Hair. They will also be in dialogue with a group led by The Substation’s Associate Artist Elizabeth de Roza, which have been based at The Substation since November 2008, developing an actors’ training philosophy. The two groups will share their respective training techniques and theatre-making methodologies, and give a presentation to interested practitioners and members of the public.
Pro Rodopi Art Centre is a revolutionary project for Bulgarian cultural infrastructure.
It is an independent cultural centre, first of that kind in a rural area in the country.
It is a crossroad of ideas from South-East, Central, North and West Europe. It is a result of experience, needs and visions of artists and cultural facilitators from Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands that are already forming an informal network.
Website: www.substation.org
Venue: The Substation Theatre, 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936 Phone: 6337 7535
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $20
Ticket Bookings : Tickets available from The Substation Box Office phone 6337 7800
Presenter: The Substation |
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