30 July to 12 September: The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Singapore Repertory)

Aesop’s classic fairy tale is brought to life by an exciting script and a professional cast of adult actors.

LITTLE Petey is bored, bored, bored. It is really not much fun to sit on a little rock, on a little hill, watching a little flock of sheep all day long.

So little Petey decides to hatch the perfect plan to have some fun and scare the socks off his fellow villagers. But little does poor Petey know that a very tiny lie can lead to a whole lot of trouble…

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a wonderful new production from The Little Company. Based on the classic fairy tale by Aesop, you will be delighted by how it is brought to life by an exciting script and a professional cast of adult actors.

This play is a heart-warming illustration of why it’s important to tell the truth, and how one lie can make a world of difference.

Dramatised by award-winning playwright Jean Tay who is best known for her plays Everything But The Brain (ST Life! Theatre Awards winner for Best Original Script 2006) and Boom.

Directed by Tracie Pang (ST Life! Theatre Award nominee for Best Director in 2007 and 2008) who has directed numerous productions for The Little Company.

This comic twist to a classic tale brings home a familiar lesson in a fun and accessible way.

Recommended for 2 – 6 year olds

About SRT’s The Little Company
The Little Company is a professional theatre company that produces quality plays for children. Since 2001, over 200,000 children and adults have been delighted by our performances. We aim to enthrall children from ages 2-12, with theatre that is written, designed and performed specifically for them by professional adult actors.

We strongly believe that theatre can help children develop socially, mentally and emotionally. The Little Company was founded in 2001 by Singapore Repertory Theatre, based on the belief that children deserve the same quality of theatre as adults.

Past productions include Christmas and the Gargoyle Who Wouldn’t Say Thank You, Little Victories, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Selfish Giant, The Gingerbread Man, Baby Love, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Scrooge – The Musical and most recently The Tooth Fairy and Bear and Chicken Go Camping.

DATES: 30th July to 12th September 2009 – please see SISTIC for performance schedule

PRICES: Mon-Fri $18 – Weekends $20 excluding SISTIC fee (Group Discounts / Family Packages available)

VENUE: DBS Arts Centre – Home of SRT

TICKETING: SISTIC at 6348 5555 or www.sistic.com.sg / www.srt.com.sg

21 to 31 May: Dolores by Andres Barrioquinto (Utterly Art)

OUR LADY OF SORROWS
Andres Barrioquinto paints the many faces of female sadness

DOLORES is a female name from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.” It is usually applied to contexts of mental pain and suffering.

This exhibition which features the moody portraitures of Andres Barrioqunto presents a collection of different women, depicted in either a vast landscape or a lively kaleidoscopic bed of flowers.

According to the artist, the placement of his figures in such vast and remote scenery creates a certain feeling of isolation and loneliness. “I want to emphasize or somehow portray the effects of men, or maybe the backwash of life in general towards women.” Barrioquinto says.

Generally, his concepts for this art show are inspired by all the women around him, from the youngest tramp strewn across the street to his very own birth mother. This is a tribute to them, for the scars and afflictions that life has left them with.

It is highly noticeable that in this present batch of paintings, the figures somehow bleed a certain blanket of mourning for the human soul. “My paintings are usually dark and macabre, and they still are now, only in a different and more subtle sense of expression.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andres Barrioquinto (b. 1975, Philippines) graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Santo Tomas in 2000. A prestigious recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award (2003) bestowed by the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, Dolores is his sixteenth solo art exhibition and fourth in Singapore. The exhibition progresses from the geometricism and detailed realism that he has been developing in the past year.

VENUE: Utterly Art Exhibition Space (diagonally opposite the Sri Mariamman Temple, Pagoda St Exit) 229A South Bridge Road (2nd Level) Singapore 058778
TEL: 6226 2605
EMAIL: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
OPENING HOURS: Mon-Sat 12 noon – 8 pm Sun 12 noon – 5.30 pm
“Dolores” by Andres Barrioquinto ends on 31 May 2009

28 May to 20 June: “Flux Technicolour” by Ian Woo (Fortune Cookie Projects)

“Magic Mountain” by Ian Woo

Steady Flux of Talent
La Salle College lecturer paints his imaginary cinematic experience

FORTUNE Cookie Projects presents an exhibition of new work by Singaporean artist Ian Woo. His seemingly free-form improvisations belie a highly disciplined architectonic. Using pattern and colour he creates a series of imaginary worlds, landscapes and allegories that allow the viewer to make his own choices and his own discoveries.

A lecturer for Postgraduate Studies at Lasalle College of the Arts, Woo has exhibited extensively throughout Asia. His work can be found in corporate, private and institutional art collections around the world.

Artist’s Statement

‘The title Flux Technicolour comes from a reference to the idea of a continuous presence of fluctuating changes in both colour and forms that affects the gravity of the paintings. I think about temperature and quality of light quite a lot when applying colours to a painting.

“I also have this fascination that the painting is an imaginary light box, where structure, substance, colour co-relate to become matter. I like to pretend that the painting is like a film still from some imaginary cinematic experience.’

The Organisers

Fortune Cookie Projects, an international art advisory and curatorial firm with offices in Singapore and New York, has long been active in organising art exhibitions of major artists throughout Asia. Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, the principals of Fortune Cookie Projects, each have over thirty years experience in the international contemporary art market.

Projects featuring prominent artists such as Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Jorg Immendorff, A.R.
Penck, Per Kirkeby and Markus Lupertz have been realized in Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Hong Kong. Most recently Fortune Cookie Projects curated the first major retrospective of art paintings by Julian Schnabel, which traveled throughout China and Korea.

Fortune Cookie Projects has also been instrumental in curating exhibitions and securing platforms for Asian artists at institutional and commercial venues throughout the United States and Europe.

Fortune Cookie Projects is the organiser of Showcase Singapore, Southeast Asia’s first international contemporary art fair, which debuted in September 2008.

Fortune Cookie Projects also curated the first exhibition of paintings by Julian Schnabel in Singapore which will travel to the National Museum of the Philippines in June 2009.

For directions:

Fortune Cookie Projects
39 Keppel Road #02-04
Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065
Tel. No. (65) 9382 1700

Win Fall Out Boy Concert Tickets – Get Emo With 88DB

Join 88DB’s Snap.Post.Vote – Get Emo With Us contest and get a chance to win concert tickets to the Fall Out Boy concert in Singapore this February.

MECHANICS:

Joining the SNAP.POST.VOTE “Get Emo With Us” contest is easy:
1. SNAP a photo or video of yourself in an Emo get-up.
2. POST that in the contest page.
3. VOTE for yourself—and get other members to vote for you.

THE PRIZE:

FOUR PAIRS OF CONCERT TICKETS TO FALL OUT BOY ON 10 FEBRUARY 2009!!!

American band Fall Out Boy, last seen in Singapore in 2007, is back to tour their latest album Folie à Deux (literally, “a madness shared by two”) on 10 February at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Fall Out Boy was formed in 2001 in Chicago and is comprised of Patrick Stump (vocals and guitar), Peter Wentz (bassist), Andrew Hurley (drummer) and Joseph Trohman (guitarist).

In 2003, the band achieved mainstream success with their first record Take This to Your Grave. They went multi-platinum in 2005 with From Under the Cork Tree and in 2007 with Infinity on High.

Join now and win concert tickets!

Click here for more on the contest details and mechanics: Get Emo With Us.

Bashful First Fire of Dawn

An unexpectedly shy and sensible demeanour – could this really be Dawn Kwan, the 11-year-old art prodigy whose paintings have been selling for thousands since she was five?

By Huang Nickmatul / Home Concepts
Photography courtesy of Jonathan Sim Location
Thanks to Praser Place

Dawn Kwan Ning Yu

IN THIS WORLD OF HYPERBOLE, a writer hesitates to use superlatives. Nowadays, saying something is the best, ingenious, fabulous, fantastic and so on seems to automatically heighten people’s scepticism. Yet “prodigy” is the first word that comes to mind when one wants to speak of Dawn Kwan.

Looking at Dawn’s paintings, you get a sense of passion and a huge joy for life in the large brushstrokes and bright colours, but there is also a sense of control in the sophisticated choices and the obvious restraint evident in the strokes that form the shapes and, most importantly, the textures that are fast becoming one of her trademarks.

Yet upon meeting her, there is nary a hint of the fine painter that Dawn is becoming. Instead of the laughing, animated girl one might expect, Dawn is surprisingly reserved. Dressed in black leggings and a loose white tunic, she hovers in the background behind her mother, Swee Lin.

Under Swee Lin’s encouragement, Dawn begins the interview shyly, speaking in monosyllables before gradually opening up, though never quite making it to the pages and pages of chatter that an obviously mistaken writer expected while glancing through the prolific number of paintings by the young artist.

Yet there is something restful and charming in her hesitant smile and quicksilver laugh, gone in a flash; something touching about the way the unassuming and polite young girl shoots occasional fleeting glances at her mother who has retreated a short distance away to give her a measure of space and independence.

Read more about Dawn Kwan Ning Yu, art prodigy.

Three Classic Fairy Tales, Live From Disney

Theatre show in November boasts transforming set, captivating choreography, innovative lighting and breathtaking costumes

Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales

A LAVISH transforming set, captivating choreography, innovative lighting, breathtaking costumes; these are just some of the ingredients that make up Disney LIVE!’s latest theatre show, Three Classic Fairy Tales.

Produced by Feld Entertainment, its the first Disney Live! production to make its debut in Asia before its US and Europe opening. It has played successfully throughout eight cities in China, Seoul, Korea and is now making its way throughout South East Asia with an aim to enthrall audiences here.

Previous Feld Entertainment productions include Disney On Ice, Disney Live!, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® and Doodlebops Live!

Three Classic Fairy Tales will play at the Singapore Indoor Stadium six days starting on 18 th November 2009. Tickets are available at www.sistic.com.sg. You can win any of the three family passes (good for four persons each) by participating in 88DB.com’s Refer-a-friend contest.

Read more about this 88DB contest to win tickets to Three Classic Fairy Tales.

Raise $1 For Every Vote With BEIJING 101

Hair consultants gives back to Society of Physically Disabled with online voting project from 1 October – 15 November

Symphony of Life

SALIMAH Ishak, a client of the Society of Physically Disabled, was first diagnosed with her condition when she lost sensation in her limbs when she was 14. Since then, she has managed to regain some movement. In 2000, she joined SPD as a trainee in the Sheltered Workshop and began therapy twice a week at the SPD Rehabilitation Centre. She also received IT training.

Today, Salimah is a full-fledged web and flash animation designer, with clients like Hill and Knowlton, Tat Lee Holdings and Allianz Insurance Company.

Three of her digital artworks are being featured in BEIJING 101 Hair Consultants’s Christmas fundraising project, where people are asked to vote for their favourite digital artwork on www.beijing101hair.com/charity. BEIJING 101 contributes $1 to SPD for every unique vote that the winning artwork gathers from 1 October to 15 November.

Read more about Beijing 101′s charity project.

Burn, Baby, Burn

Feel how it is to burn in the fires of hell at Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun’s exhibit

Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm

BEIJING-based multidisciplinary artist Miao Xiaochun (b. 1964) will showcase new works in a solo exhibition, entitled “Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm”, which opens at Osage Singapore today.

Osage is an international gallery group with major exhibition spaces in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. It represents some of the most outstanding artists in Asia and works closely with a variety of internationally respected curators, critics and art historians to present and promote exhibitions that address fundamental global issues.

In his newest work, Microcosm Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun re-imagines Hieronymus Bosch’s famous 15th century masterpiece, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”.

Read more about Miao Xiaochun’s art exhibit.

ART Singapore 2008

The 8th ARTSingapore is the Largest Contemporary Asian Art Fair Featuring 110 art galleries from 16 Countries

ART Singapore 2008

Singapore, July 29, 2008 – The most anticipated Asian contemporary art fair will be here once again to set the visual arts scene ablaze over five days from 10 13 October, 2008 at Suntec Singapore, International Convention and Exhibition Centre. About 110 art galleries from 16 countries will be showcasing US$30 million worth of artworks ranging from paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs and digital art done, making this year s ARTSingapore event the biggest one to date. MF Global Singapore is ARTSingapore 2008 s presenting sponsor.

Read more about ART Singapore 2008.

88DB City Events presents: Learn To Belly Dance

Learn one of the oldest social dances in world history with our belly dancing workshop, sponsored by Claribel’s Raks Sharki Studio.

Belly Dancing Workshop

What is belly dance?
Many experts say belly dancing is the oldest form of dance, having roots in all ancient cultures from the orient to India to the mid-East. Probably the greatest misconception about belly dancing is that it is intended to entertain men.

Throughout history, this ritualized expression has usually been performed for other women, generally during fertility rites or parties preparing a young woman for marriage. In most cases, the presence of men is not permitted.*

Read more and register for your spot at 88DB City Events.

*source: BellyDance.org