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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.
www.omnitheatre.com.sg
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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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.
www.at-sunrice.com
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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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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Born on 19 June 1954 in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, young Ronald Wigman was fascinated with travelling. As a child, he collected postcards from all around the world, which served as a catalyst for his future travels and creative mind.
Wigman worked as a graphic designer until the early 1990s, where he then went on to dedicate his time to the arts, producing independent artworks, video art, art installations, and every now and then, some graphic design work such as t-shirts and web designs.
Stylistically, Wigman’s works incorporates his experiences and thoughts about travelling. He also has a fascination for maps: city maps, road maps. Just like maps, his works are built structurally based on the arrangement of colour, almost without the illusion of three-dimensional space. Just like maps, Wigman’s paintings display images of reality seen from a certain height, with a ‘bird’s eye view’ perspective.
Wigman paints with the vision of a cartographer who has a strong sense of design. Even so, his paintings show that Wigman does not only work as a designer who serves plans and order. With the eye of a cartographer, Wigman conducted reduction on the complexity of his experiences in three-dimensional space in order to master the two-dimensional space of his canvases. Along with the reduction process, however, Wigman’s creative instincts move his body to enjoy, explore, and articulate various particular sensations that cannot be reduced or mapped.
Now, Wigman resides in Bali, Indonesia where he continues his journey as an artist.
Venue: tcc “The Gallery” @ 51 Circular Road
Time: Sunday – Thursday & Public holidays 11:00am to Midnight. Friday, Saturday & Eve of Public Holidays 11:00am to 02:00am
Ticket Prices: Free to public
Ticket Bookings : Enquiries: email to info@art-management.com Or call Adell Loo @ +65 64792445
Presenter: tcc- the coffee connoisseur |
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The only concerto that Beethoven wrote for more than one solo instrument ranks as one of the finest examples of his ‘middle’ creative period: heroic and heartfelt themes, witty interplay between the soloists and with a Turkish march thrown into the Finale for good measure!
Volker Hartung leads the NAFA Orchestra in a programme featuring the best of the Viennese tradition: Johann Strauss Jr.’s Blue Danube Waltz, Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 and Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto with soloists Jeremiah Chong (violin), Minjin Lee (cello) and Kseniia Vokhmianina (piano).
Programme:
BEETHOVEN – ‘Triple’ Concerto for violin, cello & piano, op.56
JOHANN STRAUSS JR. - Blue Danube Waltz
SCHUBERT - Symphony No.5
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Orchestra
Conductor: Volker Hartung
Violin: Jeremiah Chong
Cello: Minjin Lee
Piano: Kseniia Vokhmianina
Please visit “Events” at www.nafa.edu.sg for programme updates.
Venue: Lee Foundation Theatre, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Campus 3, 151 Bencoolen Street
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $8
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets on www.onetickethub.com or at the door
Presenter: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts |
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Director : Julie Delpy
Cast : Adam Goldberg, Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet
2 Days in Paris follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple; a French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack - as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out, - they both came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English speaking parents, flirtatious ex-boyfriends and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only add fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing?
Rating : M18 – sexual references
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2007, Colour, 96 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level I, Alliance Française, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 8pm sharp
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket.
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets now through 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 Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Lim Yau conductor
The Philharmonic Chamber Choir presents a programme of a cappella choral music, joining choirs worldwide in celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
He is the single most influential early 19th-century personality who connects the splendour of the Baroque period with the apocalyptic Romantic era.
Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn Selections from partsongs for mixed chorus, Op. 41, 48, 59 and 88
Tian Hui Ng Siehe! (world premiere)
Knut Nystedt Immortal Bach
Arvo Pärt Magnificat
Ildebrando Pizzetti Due Composizioni Corali
All ticket proceeds for the 4 September 2009 concert will be donated to the SOTA Education Fund.
Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore 038981
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $25, $20 for Full time student, senior citizen and NSF (Applicable for 5 Sept 2009 only. Schools will be able to use the Tote Board Arts Grant to subsidise 60% (excluding GST) of ticket price for the concert on 5 September 2009 only.)
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555, SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Outlets
Presenter: The Philharmonic Chamber Choir |
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Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Cast (Voice) Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Lopes
Marjane Satrapi grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She wanted to grow up to be a saint. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to enter the school. She had to cover herself with a long dark robe. Grownups around her began to disappear. Marjane has several close encounters with the country's morality police and her teachers at school. Iraqi bombs fall on the street where she lives. Eventually her parents send her abroad to receive a European education, but she is miserable: she loves her family and country, despite their flaws, too much to stay away for long. After a brief return and a failed marriage, Marjane leaves Iran for good.
This is a heartbreaking true story of a childhood coinciding with regime change and war in Iran. It's a story that everyone who counts themselves as a human being should read or watch.
Rating : PG – some drug and sexual references
In English
France, 2007, Colour, Black & White, 105 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level I, Alliance Française, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 8pm sharp
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket.
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets now through 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 5th Singapore Short Film Festival is Singapore’s only dedicated international short film festival that showcases award-winning short films from around the world, including France and UK! Previously a biennial film festival, the programme has grown to become an annual event and will incorporate the long-running Asian Film Symposium (AFS) which examines industry trends and the raising young film talents in Asia through S-Express, the traveling short film programme that reaches Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.
Two films from the festival will walk away with a Voice Award (International) and Voice Award (Singapore)!
www.substation.org/5SSFF/
Venue: The Substation, 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936, Phone: 6337 7535
Time: TBA
Ticket Prices: General screenings: $7 / $5 (concession), Opening / Closing films: $12 / $10 (concession)
Ticket Bookings : Tickets available from The Substation Box Office phone 6337 7800
Presenter: The Substation Moving Images |
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Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin, Hélène Surgère, Firmine Richard, Magali Madison, Bernard Dheran, Alain Sachs
Adapted from Anna Gavalda's bestseller, Ensemble, c'est tout is the story of four destinies at a crossroad, four people who learn each other's ways, come to know one another, love one another and live under a single roof. Camille works evenings as an office cleaning woman, makes graceful drawings in her free time. Philibert is a young, aristocratic history buff. Timid, emotional and solitary, he occupies a spacious apartment owned by his family. Franck is a cook, both virile and tender, who has an undying love for his grandmother, a fragile and funny elderly lady named Paulette.
Together, they learn to ease their doubts and sorrows. Together, they move forward toward making their dreams come true. Through their discovery of one another, they learn that together we are stronger.
Rating: NC16 (Some sexual references and nudity)
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2007, Colour, Mono, 97 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level I, Alliance Française, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 8pm sharp
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket.
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets now through 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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Director: Antony Cordier
Cast: Salome Stevenin, Johan Libereau, Pierre Perrier
“Cold Showers” is set today, in small-town France. It tells the story of three teenagers: a beautiful girl, Vanessa, and two boys, Mickael and Clément, one rich, one poor. The story of Mickael - judo fanatic and doomed lover - and his parents, both convinced that the sky will one day come crashing down on their heads, and both more than able to cope when it does. Of how Mickael has everything he needs to make a go of his life, against all the odds and how he blows it.
Set against a backdrop of punishing physicality, a combat-fuelled world of obsessive training and dieting and intense, illicit sexual adventure, Cold Showers also casts a piercing eye over the crucial problems of adolescence. It’s about happiness and hardship, sex, luck and catastrophe.
This film deserves a chance to be seen. This teenage coming-of-age story from France tells nicely against a backdrop of martial arts (judo), competition, and sex. But it goes beyond to show some nice subtleties where class, success, and desire play out against one another to really give you a sense of what the main character is going through.
Rating: R21 (Sexual Content)
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2001, 1999, Colour, 109 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level I, Alliance Française, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 8pm sharp
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket.
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets now through 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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In 2008, internationally renowned F1 photographer Paul-Henri Cahier attended the first Singapore Grand Prix. Taking it as a new technical and artistic challenge, Paul-Henri came out with amazing pictures. Exhibited for the first time, 40 of these are presented outdoor on large format prints (1.8x1.2m), featuring the Singapore circuit and skyline together with the famous champions and their cars!
Venue: Orchard Road (pavement stretch along Wheelock Place, Liat Towers and Far East Shopping Centre)
Ticket Prices: Free
Ticket Bookings : Enquiry hotline, please call 6344 2953 (9am – 7pm)
Presenter: Presented and organised by Phish Communications, sponsored by Total, Canon and the French Embassy. Venue partner: Orchard Road Business Association. |
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The longest running solo comedy in broadway history
After the sold out March run, we are delighted to bring back this hilarious solo Broadway comedy.
Defending the Caveman is a hilarious play about the ways men and women relate to each other. It mines the common themes in relationships that go straight through the funny bone.
Defending the Caveman will have both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition, affectionately nudging each other as they recognise themselves in the stories being told on the stage.
Caveman makes us laugh at ourselves about all the ways men and women fight, laugh and love. Couples all around the world have already fallen in love with Defending the Caveman and you will too.
This is a play which you can drag either your pals or your partner to and they will actually enjoy it!
Starring Daniel Jenkins (ST Life! Theatre Awards 2008 nominee for Best Actor) and directed by Tracie Pang (ST Life! Theatre Awards 2008 nominee for Best Director).
“A comic phenomenon!” – New York Times
“An outrageously funny and surprisingly sweet exploration of the gender gap…” – Chicago Sun Times
“…so perceptive, so witty, so sweetly understanding, you can’t help feeling exhilarated!” – The Boston Globe
“Hysterically Funny! Couples who were seen arguing before the show, stroll out into the night holding hands.” – Variety
“Men take your woman, women grab your guy!” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Venue: Singapore Repertory Theatre Ltd, DBS Arts Centre, 20 Merbau Road, S239035 www.srt.com.sg
Time: 3pm and 8pm
Ticket Prices: Sat & Sun 3pm $35, Tue – Sun 8pm $40
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC hotline 6348 5555 www.sistic.com.sg
Presenter: Singapore Repertory Theatre |
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Belgium has the most diverse collection of quality beer in the world. From cask conditioned ales to triples and blondes, high fermentation ales to bottom fermented lagers, they are refreshingly different from what we are used to in Asia. The beers are characterized not only by the country they come from, but the culture of the town where they are brewed, the water that flows through the rivers, the Brew Masters’ noses, and the tender passion for a good drink. Learn more about their origins and brewing methods and join in for a tasting of these delicious specialty beers.
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Tel: 6332 3659 / 63325642 http://www.nationalmuseum.sg
Time: 3 – 5pm
Ticket Prices: Adult $35 Concessions apply to National Museum members and volunteers, NHB staff, students, senior citizens and NSF men.
Ticket Bookings : All SISTIC authorized agents island-wide and Stamford Visitor Services Counter at the National Museum of Singapore.
Presenter: National Museum of Singapore |
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Sátántangó is set in a depressed collectivist farm during the tail-end of the Iron Curtain era. The film unfolds in 12 chapters, observing the conflicts and behaviour of the various characters that make up this world during the course of a single day. Conflicts are created over plans to escape, a pile of money, sexual jealousy, and the rumour that one of their own has returned from the dead. Rich in allegory and symbolism, and dark, Eastern European humour, Sátántangó unfolds, as the title suggests, like the drunken, diabolical dance of people, movement and spaces.
Screened for the first time in Singapore, this seven and a half hour long film is definitely the cinematic event of the year.“Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I’d be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life.” Susan Sontag.
Image credit: Film still from Sátántangó
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897, Tel: (65)6332 3659 / (65)6332 5642 www.nationalmuseum.sg
Time: 1pm
Ticket Prices: Adult $14, $11.20 for Seniors and NSF (Exclusive of SISTIC fee)
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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Director : Julian Schnabel
Cast : Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
On December 8, 1995, Bauby, age forty-three, editor-in-chief of the world-famous fashion magazine, Elle, was living the "good life" to the extreme when he became the victim of a devastating cerebro-vascular accident that left him in a state of total paralysis, incapable of any verbal communication, in what is known in the medical community as "locked-in syndrome." His mental faculties totally intact as he laid motionless in his bed at the Marine Hospital of Berck-sur-Mer in northern France, Bauby learned to communicate with the outside world using his left eyelid, the only part of his body over which he still had any control.
Rating : NC16 - Nudity
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2007, Colour, 112 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level I, Alliance Française, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 8pm sharp
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket.
Ticket Bookings : Buy your tickets now through 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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NAFA Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Conductor: Richard Adams
A programme of classic literature is explored by one of Singapore's premier wind ensembles. The colourful soundscape of British composer David Bedford contrasts with Gustav Holst's sketches from the Hammersmith district of London. Our trip to the UK ends with the timeless First Suite in Eb, possibly the most well-loved of all wind band works. Omaggio was commissioned as a tribute to long serving Director of Bands, Robert E. Foster from University of Kansas. Wild Nights! is a joyus, colourful, musical journey inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem. The concert ends with Bernstein's virtuosic Divertimento, written to commemorate the centenial celebration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and skillfully arranged for band by Clare Grundman.
Programme:
DAVID BEDFORD - Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
GUSTAV HOLST - Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo
GUSTAV HOLST - First Suite in E-flat
FRANK TICHELI - Wild Nights
JAMES BARNES - Omaggio
LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Divertimento
Venue: Lee Foundation Theatre,Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Campus 3, 151 Bencoolen Street
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $8
Ticket Bookings : www.onetickethub.com or at the door
Presenter: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts |
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