Updated 14 October 2026. This guide is kept current for October 2026; earlier editions are archived as dated posts.
Show up, don’t just stream it: these are the things to do in Singapore this October 2026 that are worth leaving the house for. It’s for young Singaporeans deciding what deserves a bus ride, with the price, booking route, and nearest MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) station for all six picks.
Updated 14 Oct 2026: removed Music Matters Live: Free Before F1 and Tommy Hilfiger Cadillac F1 Pop-Up (dates passed).
| What | When | Where | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art Remembers: Your Camera Roll, Reframed | Until Sun 18 Oct | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall MRT | Free for Singaporeans and PRs |
| Halloween at Five Frasers Malls | Paw-lloween Party 16 to 18 Oct; Halloween events to 1 Nov | Tiong Bahru Plaza (near UOB and Toast Box), Causeway Point, Century Square, Tampines 1, The Centrepoint | — |
| Changi Race Season Three Picks | Until 14 Oct 2026 (store); KitKat and Chivas pop-ups run longer | Jewel #02-212/213; Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 Departure Transit | — |
Art Remembers: Your Camera Roll, Reframed
Your phone holds thousands of photos you’ll never scroll back to. Art Remembers at National Gallery Singapore looks at what artists do with the records people keep, from government files and community archives to old newspaper and television images. Its 20 works mix new commissions with pieces from Singapore’s National Collection, and the show runs until Sunday, 18 October 2026.
The work that best fits the camera-roll comparison is Josh Kline’s Powdered iPhone (2025). During a residency at STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute), the Filipino American artist turned iPhones into paper, and Art Remembers is the first place it’s being shown. It’s an unsettling idea: the device holding your personal archive, pulped back into the material archives used to be made of.
The rest of the exhibition ranges across the region. Robert Zhao Renhui’s The Fish Does Not Know the War Is Over follows the tilapia from wartime Singapore to commercial success in Taiwan. Malaysian artist Ahmad Fuad Osman digitally slips a figure in modern clothes and comical poses into archival photos from Malaysia’s post-independence years. Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia is edited by an algorithm on an endless loop, so the video keeps reshuffling itself.
Krack!, a printmaking collective from Yogyakarta, has made a new mural that reworks images from wartime. Hmong Australian artist Vanghoua Anthony Vue paints from archival images to recover the story of the lesser-known conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War.
The show fills the Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 1 and the City Hall Chamber. You’ll need a General Admission ticket, which is free for Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs). The Gallery is at 1 St Andrew’s Road, near City Hall MRT on the North-South and East-West lines. It closes in a few weeks, so put it ahead of the next entry on your list.
📅 Until Sun 18 Oct · 📍 National Gallery Singapore, City Hall MRT · 💰 Free for Singaporeans and PRs · 🎟 General Admission ticket required
Halloween at Five Frasers Malls
Tiong Bahru Plaza is the pick for pet owners. Its Paw-lloween Party, 16 to 18 October, is held outdoors near UOB and Toast Box, with 14 booths, a Chang Beer pop-up and Tesla test drives with your dog using Pet Mode. The Cutest Paw-lloween Contest is on 17 October at 7.30pm.
Elsewhere, Causeway Point hosts a Halloween Carnival from 19 to 25 October, and Century Square follows from 26 October to 1 November. Tampines 1 opens a rooftop Toy Factory 444 maze from 7pm to 11pm on selected nights.
📅 Paw-lloween Party 16 to 18 Oct; Halloween events to 1 Nov · 📍 Tiong Bahru Plaza (near UOB and Toast Box), Causeway Point, Century Square, Tampines 1, The Centrepoint · 🎟 Tesla Pet Mode test drives at Tiong Bahru Plaza’s Paw-lloween Party
Changi Race Season Three Picks
Changi Airport and Jewel have a long list of F1 offers this season. Three are worth planning around, and all are still on until at least 14 October.
Head to the Chequered Flag store at Jewel, billed as Singapore’s largest motorsport-themed store. It has official F1 merchandise, racing-inspired footwear, apparel and limited-edition collectibles. At Terminal 2 Departure Transit, the Changi-only KitKat Break Zone has a racing simulator in a full-size F1 car and a reaction wall. At Terminal 3 Departure Transit, Chivas Regal has its first racing car simulator in Asia.
📅 Until 14 Oct 2026 (store); KitKat and Chivas pop-ups run longer · 📍 Jewel #02-212/213; Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 Departure Transit
The Two We’d Book First
If you only do one thing this October, make it Music Matters Live. It asks the least of you: there’s no leave to apply for and no budget to justify. Its line-up carries acts you’d otherwise need a flight to see. A night by the river beats watching someone else’s concert clips on your phone.
Our second pick is Slow Saturday, because one trip to City Hall covers half this list. You get the sunset session and The TENG Company’s new music, plus Art Remembers before its closing date sneaks up and Lai Foong Moi: Crossings in the same building.
That makes Saturday, 3 October the month’s big day if your legs are up for it. Walk Global 6K for Water first thing, slow down on the Gallery roof at sunset, and catch the Clarke Quay gigs after dark. Pairs chasing a training goal with a cause attached should save some energy for UFIT Games the next morning. As for the All That Matters Conference, it’s best enjoyed on your company’s budget.
Whichever you pick, book it before the calendar fills up. Follow BRANDED for the latest on Music Matters Live. Then plan your Gallery day on National Gallery Singapore’s Slow Saturday page.
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Photos and Visuals courtesy of UFIT, PAZZION Singapore, World Vision Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, and All That Matters.
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