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Deepavali: Rekindling the Spark
Longform
October 31, 2024
Deepavali: Rekindling the Spark
What does it mean to be a proud Hindu? Join me as I reflect on my evolving relationship with Deepavali, and find new ways to honour my roots.
Melodies and Memories: Upcoming Asia festivals and where to stay
Music
April 29, 2024
Melodies and Memories: Upcoming Asia festivals and where to stay
Discover the top music festivals of 2024! Get the lowdown on the best performances, travel tips, and finding accommodation for an unforgettable experience.
Our Day at Anime Festival Asia 2022
Events
December 6, 2022
Our Day at Anime Festival Asia 2022
Having not had a physical event since 2019, Anime Festival Asia is back with its 2022 iteration! Here's how our day at the festival went.
Block Live Asia 2019: Blockchain, Explained
Tech
March 31, 2019
Block Live Asia 2019: Blockchain, Explained
Looking to learn more about the world of Blockchain? Here is your chance: Block Live Asia makes its debut as a never-before-seen part-convention part-festival from 18 to 19 April! If you think that Blockchain is irrelevant… well, you should start paying attention. In Singapore, Blockchain is all around us Today, Blockchain has already extended its services to our nation’s banks, real estate, schools, and across many industries. For example, Singapore Airlines’ frequent flyer programme, Krisflyer, has restructured its payments and loyalty programme by implementing the Blockchain structure for its new digital wallet. With Blockchain, the digital wallet allows members to…
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Experience The French Connection
Life
April 6, 2016
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Experience The French Connection
This is the third of three listings on “Voilah! 2016”. This piece features the gastronomical highlights of the seven-week festival, which will see events exploring French Visual and Performing Arts, Food, Film, Science, and Culture. Just in case you were thinking all this was too atas for you, watch out as “Voilah! 2016” comes to the heartlands, your classrooms and our bars and clubs. The French Connection is both a feast for the senses as well as a query to the mind. As the spirit of the French region of Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes is invoked and the challenges of sustainable urbanism and…
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Lo-baguettes! Lo-banquettes! Lo-bang!
Life
April 5, 2016
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Lo-baguettes! Lo-banquettes! Lo-bang!
This is the second of three listings on “Voilah! 2016”. This piece features the gastronomical highlights of the seven-week festival, which will see events exploring French Visual and Performing Arts, Food, Film, Science, and Culture. If food is your one and only love, prepare for a French romance of epic proportions. “Voilah! 2016” is working with dozens of partners to bring French food to you at an affordable rate! Whether it be a night out with a special someone or a boss you’re trying to impress with your impressive knowledge of wine and cheese, we’ve got you covered. We picked out a…
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Discovering Cultural Fraternité
Arts
April 4, 2016
Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2016: Discovering Cultural Fraternité
This is the first of three listings on “Voilah! 2016”. This piece features the Arts and Film highlights of the seven-week festival, which will see events exploring French Visual and Performing Arts, Food, Film, Science, and Culture. If you’re concerned about the dearth of exciting cultural events after last year’s SG50 bonanza, fear not, for the Institut Français Singapour, together with the French Embassy in Singapore, French Chamber of Commerce, and Alliance Française are kicking things up a notch to celebrate 51 years of friendly diplomatic and cultural relationships between France and Singapore. “Voilah! 2016” has just about something for everyone, offering inimitable…
Chill Vibes: Kicking It Back With The 1975
Music
March 22, 2016
Chill Vibes: Kicking It Back With The 1975
After pulling a Houdini on us and disappearing from the social media scene, The 1975 is back with their second album. Sure the album title is a mouthful, but “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It” is an apt description of this beautiful masterpiece. 3 years after their debut self-titled album, this record proves that the wait was definitely worth it. As someone who prioritises Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift on my playlists, The 1975 isn’t at once an obvious choice in my music library. 10 minutes in to the album, however, and…
Digital Art Forms In Question At Betwixt Festival
Arts
March 4, 2016
Digital Art Forms In Question At Betwixt Festival
As more production tools become available on a digital platform, it’s becoming easier for anyone to produce a work of art and publish it online. Such is the rate of this phenomenon that it may become an increasingly common occurrence for the art we pay for ending up enclosed within a hard drive. If we pay for digital art, are we paying for a hard drive? This question was deliberated during a panel at the inaugural Betwixt Festival on Saturday. The four presenters – Dayang MNT Yraola, Suzy Sulaiman, Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, and Michelle Ho – discussed digital art and the role…
Art & Bytes: Betwixt Festival To Launch End-February
Arts
February 15, 2016
Art & Bytes: Betwixt Festival To Launch End-February
Interstice – that’s the theme at the inaugural Betwixt Festival, a six-day event launching this February at the ArtScience Museum. Referring to “gaps, cracks, and a very small intervening space”, the theme sets the tone for the meeting of art, science, and technology. “As our social landscape swiftly becomes more and more digitalised, new mediums of expression emerge entwined in technology. Coding and physical computing have become tools for artists to create art that has an interactive nature to it, art that requires stimulation and participation to be art – in summary, digital, interactive art.” Falling almost perfectly in line with…