Reel experience: The Storyteller

By May Ee Wong

Yasmin Ahmad (1959 – 2009)

The news of Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad’s sudden death hit public consciousness late July this year, leaving behind an audience mourning the loss of a remarkable woman. Her body of work had touched local and international audiences, especially in her native country of Malaysia and also, Singapore. Afflicted with a stroke during a meeting on a media project, the filmmaker died at the young age of 51, after undergoing emergency brain surgery.

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Circular Ruins

By Emily Hoe

23 - 25 October, 8pm, The Substation Theatre



Since a trip to Java in 2007, one of The Substation’s Associate Artists, Raka Maitra has been working towards a collaboration with renowned performer and choreographer Sardono W. Kusumo and his student Bambang Besur Suryono. Emily J Hoe talks to Raka about her performance this month called “Circular Ruins”.

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Circular Square: Tabletops in Singapore

Till 31 October, tcc - 'The Gallery'



Ronald Wigman paints bird’s eye views of table-tops, capturing the passing moments of ordinary life and revealing their inadvertent charm and beauty.

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New Artworks by Gee

15 - 21 October, Geeleinan Gallery

By Usha Nathan



New paintings line the walls of the gallery. Gee’s painting and sculpture lessons have ceased for the summer, so she has been devoting more time to her art. She is presently working on a painting that is being re-worked by fluent strokes of colour erupting through strong lines made with a palette knife.

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Dick Lim (Chye) d’Art Studio

Chye, also known as Dick, has been in the advertising/graphic industry since the 70’s. He returns to his first love – fine arts, by setting up shop at Wessex Estate, a studio cum gallery he can call his own.

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tcc presents ~ “Concerto Nos. 2009” – the symphony of taste

Get ready to embark on a new culinary adventure with tcc’s newly revamped menu bringing you over 45 new menu creations, all exquisitely designed by the dedicated tcc’s culinary team.
Inspiring and innovating, the menu boosts a fine selection of both food and beverage items, freshly prepared using superior ingredients and all set to excite your senses.

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Let me change your name?

By Kiran Kumar



Movement, as a parameter, is built into the function of a name. Whether or not the name itself changes, it remains that the name travels, as a constant or as transformed, through space and time. And that was all the pretext that Ahn Eun Me seemed to need to present the dance, Let me change your name?

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Sites for Discourse

(or Where to get Affordable Art)

By Syed Muhd Hafiz

Graduation shows are interesting affairs. Not only will you get to see the culmination of a particular cohort’s works after spending a few years pursuing an art education, but also that particular school’s artistic direction. Sure the school might have posted their mandate on open-house brochures or well-maintained websites but it is when you encounter the student’s works, will you get a real sense of what has been happening in the workshops or critique sessions with the lecturers.

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Imitating Life

By Rofan Teo

This year, the Singapore Art Exhibition (SAE) gathers educational institutions, including the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, various galleries and museums. They join forces to provide a sampling of art in Singapore with group exhibitions, solo and retrospective shows, talks, bazaars, and open houses at artist studios, forming a unified, albeit heterogeneous, entity.

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A Fresh Start

Till 4th October at AndrewShire Gallery

By Gillian Nelson

Tucked into the front porch of a furniture shop behind Tiong Bahru Road, lies an offshoot of the Singapore Art Show, an exhibition titled “A Fresh Start”. Curated and organised by the AndrewShire Gallery, the exhibition features five artists from the Korean diaspora, all of whom are currently based in Singapore, and whose works in this show reflect their impressions of their adopted country.

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Total recall

By Ng Yi-Sheng

Not so long ago – just ten years ago, maybe – Singapore theatre felt young.  Our biggest directors, playwrights, and actors were still in their thirties, still hungry for audiences, funding, and fame.
Since then, there’s been crazy development. The Esplanade’s opened its doors, censorship’s been relaxed, and companies have grown pretty adept at raking in crowds. Yet in the midst of this, we sometimes miss the bad old days: back when everyone was dirt poor but burning with revolutionary energy.

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Drawing as Form

Chapel Gallery, Sculpture Square

By Dominic Fonde

On a TV screen placed in the gallery, a man crawls on all fours along a roll of paper, pushing a lump of clay with his forehead. The film, titled “Zen for Head and Leg” by artist Lee Wen references a 1962 performance by Nam June Paik for the Fluxus movement.

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