Updated 6 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 6 Oct 2026: added Halloween at Five Frasers Malls, Changi Race Season Three Picks and Tommy Hilfiger Cadillac F1 Pop-Up; removed UFIT Games: 6 Tests, 2 People, Global 6K: S$6, 200 Goodie Bags, Lai Foong Moi: 60 Years Overdue and Slow Saturday: Rooftop Yoga at Sunset (dates passed); no longer mentions Global 6K: S$6, 200 Goodie Bags.
| 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 |
| Music Matters Live: Free Before F1 | Fri 2 to Sun 4 Oct, plus Wed 7 Oct | CQ @ Clarke Quay, Clarke Quay MRT | Free |
| 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 | — |
| Tommy Hilfiger Cadillac F1 Pop-Up | Until 11 Oct 2026 | Paragon, Orchard Road | — |
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
Music Matters Live: Free Before F1
Music Matters Live is back at CQ @ Clarke Quay from Friday, 2 October to Sunday, 4 October 2026, then returns for a Girls’ Night Out closing party on Wednesday, 7 October. Admission is free. More than 40 artists from 15 countries are on the bill. It’s an official event of Grand Prix Season Singapore, timed for the lead-up to the Formula 1 (F1) Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2026 weekend.
The festival opens the 21st edition of All That Matters, a six-day programme from Singapore events company BRANDED that began in 2006 as Music Matters. We covered Music Matters Live when it marked its 18th year at Clarke Quay in 2023, and three years on, it still brings new names to the river.
The acts come from all over. Universal Music’s “Music Is Universal” line-up brings pop idols from its Southeast Asian roster, representing Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Sounds Australia, which helps Australian musicians reach audiences overseas, is back for two nights. Japan and the Philippines each get a country spotlight, and Nagaland in India sends its first-ever line-up.
From Japan come LIL LEAGUE and KID PHENOMENON from EXILE TRIBE, and the Philippines sends Lola Amour, KAIA, and PIX!E. Bratty from Mexico, Maisha Kanna from Indonesia, Singapore’s Supercatkei, and Australia’s Reuben De Melo and Pierce Brothers sit alongside them, with many more on the bill. Filipino music fans get three acts in one place, and J-pop (Japanese pop) fans can see two EXILE TRIBE groups without flying to Tokyo.
CQ @ Clarke Quay is at 3 River Valley Road, a few minutes on foot from Clarke Quay MRT on the North East Line. Fort Canning station on the Downtown Line is another option. The gigs cost nothing, but the bars and restaurants along the quay charge their usual prices, so budget for dinner or a drink.
The paid half of the week is the All That Matters Conference at Hilton Singapore Orchard from 5 to 7 October. Under the theme “Where Culture Is Currency”, it gathers more than 100 global speakers and over 2,000 senior decision-makers from music, sport, gaming, and marketing. On the list are SoundCloud chief executive Eliah Seton, Singapore GP executive director Adam Firth, and Willem Dinger, chief partnerships officer at the Cadillac F1 Team.
Passes are priced for company budgets. A Sounds Australia deal for Australian delegates, which ran until June, cut the VIP pass from US$1,249 to US$849 and the Content pass from US$649 to US$399. Members of The Marketing Society, a network for marketers, get 15% off the Early Bird or Regular rate with the code ATM26TMS. The hotel is at 333 Orchard Road, near Somerset MRT on the North-South Line.
If you work in music, sport, gaming, or brand marketing, the networking makes a pass a fair ask of your employer. Everyone else gets the best of the week at Clarke Quay without spending a cent.
📅 Fri 2 to Sun 4 Oct, plus Wed 7 Oct · 📍 CQ @ Clarke Quay, Clarke Quay MRT · 💰 Free
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
Tommy Hilfiger Cadillac F1 Pop-Up
Paragon is getting into race season with a TOMMY HILFIGER X Cadillac Formula 1® pop-up, running until 11 October. It stretches from the outdoor foyer into the main atrium, with interactive racing challenges, an F1® simulator, a driver suit gallery and official team merchandise.
Cadillac Formula 1® drivers Sergio Pérez and Zhou Guanyu are set to appear. Paragon Club members can meet the drivers on 8 October, or Tommy Hilfiger brand ambassadors and family, including Fourth Nattawat and Pond Naravit, on 11 October. Members also get up to 1,500 bonus points worth S$600, and an 8% rebate from 9 to 13 October.
📅 Until 11 Oct 2026 · 📍 Paragon, Orchard Road · 🎟 Driver meets on 8 Oct for Paragon Club members. Details at www.paragon.com.sg
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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