Updated 16 September 2026. This guide is kept current for September 2026; earlier editions are archived as dated posts.
September 2026 in Singapore brings Pangdemonium’s last bow after 16 years, a 7m Pompompurin perched on a giant mooncake, and free martial arts trials for kids. These eight things to do in Singapore this month are for anyone deciding what to book now and what can wait, plus parents planning Mid-Autumn around the family.
| What | When | Where | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pompompurin, Mooncakes, and Free Martial Arts | Until 27 Sep | Sky Park, VivoCity, HarbourFront MRT | S$10 per carnival game or train ride, S$8 per photo booth session |
| Two Prime Video Nights In | 16 Sep to 23 Sep | see item | see item |
| BYD PURE Games on Orchard Road | 26 to 27 Sep | Civic Plaza, Ngee Ann City, Orchard or Somerset MRT | Standard race entry (early bird from S$90 ended 31 Aug) |
| Art Remembers at National Gallery Singapore | Until 18 Oct | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall MRT | Free for Singaporeans and PRs |
| Pangdemonium’s Farewell Musical | 11 to 27 Sep | Victoria Theatre, City Hall MRT | S$45 to S$105 off-peak, S$50 to S$125 Fri and Sat evenings, plus booking fee |
| Suntec City’s Health Fair | 14 to 20 Sep, 10am to 10pm | Suntec City Atrium (Convention Centre), Promenade or Esplanade MRT | One circuit token per S$50 spent, Power Strike Card free |
| KARD Returns After Seven Years | 27 Sep, 6pm | Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, Bayfront MRT | S$98 to S$248 per seat, excluding booking fees |
| Tech Week’s Live Vehicle Hackathon | 29 to 30 Sep | Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Bayfront MRT | Free |
1. Pompompurin, Mooncakes, and Free Martial Arts
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the lantern-and-mooncake holiday, and it falls on Friday, 25 September 2026. This year it gets a Sanrio makeover at VivoCity. Until 27 September, the mall’s rooftop Sky Park is the Sanrio Moonlit Garden, with six themed spaces of glowing lights and giant Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, Kuromi, My Melody, Hangyodon, and Pompompurin installations.
The star is a 7m Pompompurin sitting on an oversized mooncake, and it’ll be in every family group chat by the end of the month. Set a budget before you go, though. The Kuromi Carnival Kingdom charges S$10 for each of its six Sanrio carnival games, S$10 per Mini Express Train ride, and S$8 per photo booth session. A family of four playing one game each has spent S$40 before anyone boards the train, so let the pudding-loving golden retriever be the main event.
Sharp minds should try the Lantern Riddle Challenge. Crack the riddles between 5pm and 9pm and you could be among the first 50 each hour to claim a Sanrio sticker set, while stocks last. Character meet-and-greets on selected weekends need an S$80 spend on a single receipt, and each session caps redemptions at 30. Already planning a big shop? Time it for one of those weekends.
Merch fans will find the Sanrio Retail Pop-Up at Level 1, East Court, and VivoCity connects directly to HarbourFront MRT (Mass Rapid Transit). Go before Mid-Autumn if you can. The festival lands on a Friday and the garden shuts that Sunday, so expect its last few days to be packed.
Mooncake hunters get a proper spread at Great World, where the Moonlit Treasures fair fills the Level 1 Atrium until 25 September. Its hotel stalls include Shangri-La Singapore, The Fullerton, Sheraton Towers, and Conrad. Spend S$30 there to unlock old-school treats such as dragon’s beard candy and ding ding tang, the maltose candy chipped off a slab with a hammer. The same receipt gets you an Activity Pass for ink painting, lantern crafting, and tea appreciation workshops. September weekends also bring wushu (Chinese martial arts), traditional Chinese music, and magic shows at 1pm and 4pm.
Families in the east can spend Mid-Autumn night itself at Pasir Ris Mall. On 20 and 25 September, its Level 2 Event Space tells the story of Chang’e, the goddess who floated to the moon, from 8pm to 8.30pm. A lantern parade and a Jade Rabbit hunt with prizes follow until 9pm.
Over at NEX, above Serangoon MRT, the TANGS Mid-Autumn Fair runs an Eight Bites Trail until 25 September. The first 200 people to taste their way around eight mooncake booths take home a free Sanrio lantern.
Children with more energy than patience for lanterns can burn it off at Evolve MMA (mixed martial arts). Its Kids Martial Arts Programme teaches ages 4 to 13 two styles. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is grappling that sharpens coordination and problem-solving, while Muay Thai, the Thai striking art, builds footwork and fitness. Classes are split into Little Samurais (4 to 6), Kids (7 to 9), and Pre-Teens (10 to 13), so the littlest ones train with children their own size.
The big draw is a free 30-minute trial class with one of the gym’s world champion instructors, and equipment is provided. Sessions run seven days a week at 10am, 12pm, and 3pm at Orchard Central, The Star Vista, and Raffles Place. Most of the mall perks above ask for a receipt, and this one doesn’t, which makes it the easiest yes of the lot for parents.
📅 Until 27 Sep · 📍 Sky Park, VivoCity, HarbourFront MRT · 💰 S$10 per carnival game or train ride, S$8 per photo booth session · 🎟 Meet-and-greets need an S$80 single-receipt spend
2. Two Prime Video Nights In
Some September evenings are for staying in, and Prime Video has two releases worth keeping a night free for. First comes Neagley on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, starring Maria Sten as Frances Neagley, Jack Reacher’s former protégé from the Army’s 110th Special Investigations Unit.
She’s now a private investigator in Chicago, and a beloved friend’s suspicious death sends her on a dangerous hunt for answers. Fans who binged Reacher already know she can carry a show of her own.
A week later, on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, The Love Hypothesis arrives. It adapts Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel, a long-time favourite on BookTok, TikTok’s book-loving corner.
Lili Reinhart plays Olive, a doctoral candidate who kisses professor Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman) to convince her best friend she’s moved on. Their fake relationship comes with rules, and readers of the book know how long those last.
Want something tenser first? Gal Gadot’s The Runner has been streaming since 2 September. She plays a London lawyer forced to keep running through the city to save her kidnapped son. Both big releases land on Wednesdays, so that’s two midweek nights planned with no queues and no booking fees.
📅 16 Sep (Neagley) and 23 Sep (The Love Hypothesis) · 📍 Streaming on Prime Video
3. BYD PURE Games on Orchard Road
Two nights on the sofa earn you a weekend on your feet. On 26 and 27 September 2026, PURE Singapore, the company behind PURE Fitness and PURE Yoga, turns Ngee Ann City’s Civic Plaza into a gym floor with an audience for the BYD PURE Games 2026. Carmaker BYD is the title sponsor, and the main event is a functional fitness race across eight workout stations.
Racers chase the best scores on everything from treadmills to SkiErgs, the machines that copy the arm action of cross-country skiing. Saturday is for the Team category and Sunday belongs to Elite. Entrants can race solo, in pairs, or as a four-person relay. Early bird entry started from S$90 but closed on 31 August, so late sign-ups pay the standard rate on the online registration page.
Every competitor gets a Challenger Kit with a week’s access to PURE, vouchers, and partner merchandise, and the top three in each category win prizes such as PURE memberships. Not racing? Cheer from the sidelines. Mediacorp artistes Nick Teo, Richie Koh, Jernelle Oh, and Kele, all familiar faces from Singapore’s national broadcaster, are racing the course too.
The standout in the PURE Explorer Zone is Re:set by PURE, a guided recovery routine of contrast therapy, sauna, and compression massage boots run by PURE coaches from Hong Kong. Until now it has been available solely at PURE’s Hong Kong clubs, so this weekend is Singapore’s first go at it.
Dyson is offering complimentary hair styling, a smart call if you’ve got dinner plans on Orchard Road afterwards. PURE’s booth runs free body composition checks. BYD is bringing its ATTO 3 EVO, SEALION 7 Extended Range, and ATTO 1 for a closer look, along with a lucky draw for a BYD ATTO 3 electric car.
Upstairs at PURE Fitness and PURE Yoga Ngee Ann City, classes made for the festival range from cycling to mobility work, and class-goers get free Bloom or C4 energy drinks.
Sign up for the race if you’ve been training without a goal. Spectators should come for Re:set and leave the SkiErg to the Elite crowd.
📅 26 to 27 Sep · 📍 Civic Plaza, Ngee Ann City, Orchard or Somerset MRT · 💰 Standard race entry (early bird from S$90 ended 31 Aug) · 🎟 Race registration online
4. Art Remembers at National Gallery Singapore
Everyone’s phone is a personal archive by now, stuffed with screenshots and concert clips nobody ever scrolls back to. Art Remembers, the contemporary art exhibition at National Gallery Singapore, is built around that urge to keep a record. Its 20 works come from artists across Singapore and Southeast Asia who rework old photographs, footage, and official records to retell the region’s past. Some are new commissions, and the rest come from Singapore’s National Collection.
The piece that’ll stop you mid-scroll is Powdered iPhone by American artist Josh Kline. He made it during a residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, turning iPhone SE handsets and dyed cotton pulp into paper, and Art Remembers is the first place it has been shown. The device that holds your whole camera roll has been reduced to something you could scribble on. That’s a quietly unnerving reminder of how flimsy digital memory is.
Two more pieces deserve a detour. Malaysian artist Ahmad Fuad Osman slips a present-day figure in modern clothes and comical poses into archival photographs from Malaysia’s post-independence years. The joke doubles as a point about how national histories keep getting retold. Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui follows a fish instead. His The Fish Does Not Know the War Is Over tracks the tilapia from wartime Singapore to commercial success in Taiwan, the kind of oddly specific story a textbook would skip.
The show fills the Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 1 and the City Hall Chamber until 18 October 2026. Entry needs a General Admission ticket, which is free for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents (PRs). The Gallery opens from 10am to 7pm daily, and ticket sales stop at 6.30pm.
It’s the one pick here that outlasts September, which makes it the one most likely to slip off the calendar. Victoria Theatre, where Pangdemonium’s farewell is playing, sits a short walk away. Do both on the same day and there’s no excuse left.
If your feed has creator potential, the Gallery is paying someone S$3,000 a month to take over its TikTok, no followers needed.
📅 Until 18 Oct · 📍 National Gallery Singapore, City Hall MRT · 💰 Free for Singaporeans and PRs · 🎟 General Admission ticket online or at the Gallery’s kiosks
5. Pangdemonium’s Farewell Musical
Married couple Adrian Pang and Tracie Pang founded Pangdemonium in 2010. Adrian came to it after an acting career that ran from the UK to Singapore television, and Tracie had made her name as a director. Over 16 years their shows earned a reputation for hitting audiences hard. The farewell season kept that up, and A Mirror picked up five stars from arts blog Bakchormeeboy.
On 2 February 2026, the Pangs revealed that Pangdemonium would take its final bow at the end of this season. They were clear that cost pressures weren’t the reason. In their words, they wanted to go “on our own terms, on a grace note, and while we are still in love”. The season opened in March with Force Majeure at Victoria Theatre and spent June and July at the Esplanade’s Singtel Waterfront Theatre with A Mirror. Now it closes where it began.
Come From Away is Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s Olivier Award-winning musical about Gander, a small Canadian town. When US airspace shut after the 11 September 2001 attacks, 38 diverted planes left nearly 7,000 passengers there, and the town took them in. Pangdemonium’s preview played on 11 September 2026, 25 years to the day, and the run continues until 27 September.
This is the first musical for Associate Director Timothy Koh. His Doubt: A Parable and Singapore, Michigan earned Production of the Year and Best Director nominations at The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards.
It’s a fitting closer: an ensemble piece about strangers throwing their doors open, staged by a company about to close its own. Inch Chua, Sheila Francisco, and Lim Yu-Beng are among the 11-strong cast. The Pangs call it a musical that challenges audiences to ask themselves, “would we do that?” It runs 1 hour 40 minutes with no interval and carries an Advisory rating for some mature content.
Seats sell through Pangdemonium’s website, which runs on BookMyShow. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday shows and all matinees cost S$45 to S$105, while Friday and Saturday evenings cost S$50 to S$125. Every ticket carries a booking fee of S$1 to S$6. Under-25s should hunt down S$25 U25 Youth Fund seats on selected dates, and those have to be collected in person with ID an hour before curtain. You can pay with SG Culture Pass credits too, the government’s arts credits for adult Singaporeans.
Captioned performances fall on 16 September at 8pm and 26 September at 3pm. Wheelchair spaces can’t be selected on the seat map, so arrange them through BookMyShow’s customer care.
For a keepsake, the company’s commemorative book, Ass-Kicking Adventures in Theatre: The Pangdemonium Story, is limited to 500 copies at S$45. Add it to a ticket order or buy it at Victoria Theatre during the run. Snap up a weeknight seat now, because the last weekend of a 16-year run is the one everybody wants.
📅 11 to 27 Sep · 📍 Victoria Theatre, City Hall MRT · 💰 S$45 to S$105 off-peak, S$50 to S$125 Fri and Sat evenings, plus booking fee · 🎟 Pangdemonium’s website
6. Suntec City’s Health Fair
Mid-month calls for something lighter on the heart and heavier on the shopping bags. From 14 to 20 September 2026, Suntec City Atrium hosts Watsons Get Active, the health and beauty chain’s fitness-themed shopping week, now in its third edition. More than 40 brands take up to 70% off, and each day brings a pool of as much as S$1,000 in Watsons cash vouchers.
The fair leans into its gym theme with the Get Active Circuit, where every S$50 spent earns a token for one go at all three stations. Power Toss wants four goals in 15 seconds. Power Sled has women pushing 60kg and men 110kg across 10 metres against the clock, and Power Grip is a hang of 80 seconds for women or 120 for men.
Clear all three and you could win back your purchase in vouchers. Each day’s pool shrinks with every winner, so turn up early in the day if you fancy your grip. At last, the friend dragged along on a shopping trip has something to do with their hands.
Shoppers keeping their wallets shut can still get a Power Strike Card, free with no purchase needed. Visit participating booths, complete a line across the card (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal), and swap it for a gift.
The fair runs Monday to Sunday from 10am to 10pm. Office workers nearby can squeeze it into a lunch hour, and weekend shoppers still get their turn. Promenade and Esplanade MRT stations are the closest.
📅 14 to 20 Sep, 10am to 10pm · 📍 Suntec City Atrium (Convention Centre), Promenade or Esplanade MRT · 💰 One circuit token per S$50 spent, Power Strike Card free
7. KARD Returns After Seven Years
KARD is a co-ed K-pop quartet of BM, J.seph, SOMIN, and JIWOO, known for high-energy live shows. The group’s KARD 2026 World Tour “NOW HERE” follows its first full-length album, Where To Now? (Part.2): NOWHERE, a record about finding the truth after a long stretch of wandering.
The tour opened in Seoul on 8 August 2026 and reaches Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands on Sunday, 27 September 2026, with a 90-minute show from 6pm. It’s KARD’s first Singapore performance since HallyuPopFest 2019, where they shared the line-up with Super Junior, MONSTA X, and (G)I-DLE. Seven years is a long wait, so expect a loud room.
Tickets run from S$98 for Cat 4 to S$248 for Hidden Premium, before booking fees, and the perks are what separate the tiers. Cat 1 at S$178 is the cheapest seat with a chance at a one-on-one photo, but just 40 fans win one. VIP costs S$20 more and adds the pre-concert soundcheck. It also gives you a shot at the Hi-Touch, a quick high-five line with the members that 200 fans get. That S$20 is the best-value upgrade on the chart.
That same Sunday, Come From Away plays its final performance, the Sanrio garden closes, and Elite racers hit Civic Plaza. That makes 27 September the most crowded date on this list. K-pop fans should secure KARD seats first, and theatre lovers shouldn’t leave Pangdemonium’s last day to chance.
📅 27 Sep, 6pm · 📍 Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, Bayfront MRT · 💰 S$98 to S$248 per seat, excluding booking fees · 🎟 Marina Bay Sands Ticketing, SISTIC, or Klook
8. Tech Week’s Live Vehicle Hackathon
September signs off midweek, and students and young professionals in tech have a reason to stay for it. Tech Week Singapore 2026 fills the Sands Expo & Convention Centre on 29 and 30 September 2026, a Tuesday and Wednesday, and the ticket is free. Now in its 12th edition, it runs under the theme “The Infrastructure Era”. More than 600 speakers are lined up, and organisers expect over 30,000 participants across the two days.
The event with the most bite is the Live Vehicle Cyber Hackathon, new this year at Cyber Security World Asia, one of five shows running under the Tech Week banner. Competitors go after a vehicle’s cyber defences, and the organisers see it as a way to find the region’s next wave of cybersecurity talent. If your university weekends went to capture-the-flag hacking contests, this one’s for you.
The guest list helps too. Executives from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Horizon Quantum, the European Space Agency, and Mercedes-Benz AG are coming. Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, is Guest of Honour on day one.
There are more firsts. The Open Compute Project (OCP), a group that shares open hardware designs for data centres, holds its first OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day at Data Centre World Asia. Companies figuring out artificial intelligence (AI) can get advice at Beyondsoft’s AI Consultation Clinic, part of Big Data & AI World.
It’s a trade event first, built for the people who build and buy company tech. For a student or early-career techie, a free pass into a hall with DeepMind and Microsoft executives is a better use of a Tuesday than another unanswered LinkedIn message. Register ahead on the Tech Week Singapore website, and use Bayfront MRT, the closest station.
📅 29 to 30 Sep · 📍 Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Bayfront MRT · 💰 Free · 🎟 Register online
Book the Goodbye First
Back in 2022, our September guide could run nine picks in any order you liked. This year the order matters, even though most of this list will come round again in some form. Mid-Autumn returns every year with new mascots, streaming never stops, and Tech Week has already reached its 12th edition.
A goodbye can’t be rescheduled. Pangdemonium won’t stage anything after Come From Away, so if you book one thing from this list, make it a seat at the company’s last show. Parents with a single free evening should give it to the Sanrio garden for the photos alone. Anyone with a competitive streak has a race on Orchard Road with their name on it, and tech students should end the month at Sands Expo.
Lock in your Come From Away seats on Pangdemonium’s website before the closing weekend goes. Then set a Mid-Autumn reminder so your favourite mooncakes don’t disappear first.
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Evolve MMA, Great World, Prime Video, PURE Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, and Pangdemonium.
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