State of the Arts: Aug 22 to 29
SINGAPORE — Another busy week for the arts with three festivals taking place concurrently: The ongoing Singapore International Festival of Arts’ dance marathon series was rolled out along with W!ld Rice’s Hotel and a show by avant garde musician Margaret Leng Tan; the Singapore Night Festival entered its second and final weekend; and The Substation’s annual SeptFest kicked off with an exhibition. Other festival-related events were in the news: Details of this year’s Archifest, which opens next month, were revealed, while the Singapore Writers Festival rolled out its pre-festival event Utter — short-film screenings based on works by Singapore writers. Elsewhere, Toy Factory opened its re-staging of the Mandarin musical December Rains, new arts company The Select Centre unveiled its plans in the field of literary translation, and former Singapore Art Museum director Tan Boon Hui was appointed director of the prestigious Asia Society Museum in New York. MAYO MARTIN
State of the Arts.
SINGAPORE — Another busy week for the arts with three festivals taking place concurrently: The ongoing Singapore International Festival of Arts’ dance marathon series was rolled out along with W!ld Rice’s Hotel and a show by avant garde musician Margaret Leng Tan; the Singapore Night Festival entered its second and final weekend; and The Substation’s annual SeptFest kicked off with an exhibition. Other festival-related events were in the news: Details of this year’s Archifest, which opens next month, were revealed, while the Singapore Writers Festival rolled out its pre-festival event Utter — short-film screenings based on works by Singapore writers. Elsewhere, Toy Factory opened its re-staging of the Mandarin musical December Rains, new arts company The Select Centre unveiled its plans in the field of literary translation, and former Singapore Art Museum director Tan Boon Hui was appointed director of the prestigious Asia Society Museum in New York. MAYO MARTIN
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