Super Juniors
by Junior Edition
5 Oct, Fri
11.30am – 12pm & 12.15pm – 12.45pm

This musical performance features talented children as young as 10 years old on instruments such as flutes, violins and trumpet. Be wowed by the kids performing well beyond their years!

The various youth arts groups of YMCA – YD Gen and Y – Stars warm your heart and leave you with the hope that there is something for everyone at the other end of the rainbow.

Y D Gen
Youth Deaf Generation, also known as Y D GEN is a Y Arts Challenge programme under the YMCA - Tan Chin Tuan community service programmes. It is also under the ExtraOrdinary Horizons, the social enterprise for the deaf that aims to promote awareness, empowerment and passion through sign language courses/workshops, interpretation, performances and other avenues. Our repertoire is in acting/pantomime, song-signing and percussion. Our Y-DGEN production has created its debut solo, duet & group acts in our Deaf way, under the direction of deaf. It incorporates deaf cultural awareness and elements in our acts that are based in Singapore.

Y STARS
YMCA Special Talents, Arts & Recreation Society, also known as Y STARS comprise of a group of 20 special youths with a special love in dance, performing and visual arts under the auspices of the YMCA of Singapore. This special group of youth embrace the beauty of life and spread their message of love and individualism through public performances.

5 – 7 Oct, Fri – Sun
2.30pm – 9pm
Messages of Hope Workshop
Design your very own postcards and pen down your messages of hope. Your postcards might even displayed during Octoburst!.

5 – 7 Oct, Fri – Sun
2.30pm – 9pm
Percussion Instrument Making Workshop
Learn to make your percussion instruments out of everyday items. Come by and be surprised by your own creativity!

Music has always been a part of Catherine Chong's life. Spending the last 20 years as a piano accompanist her daughters, Genevieve and Giselle Lim, now join her on stage for this heart warming piano recital.

Enjoy a series of special evenings where musicians dedicate their music to children with specially crafted pieces.

Singaporean musicians, Lee Lin Chow and Sin Jin How, are back to perform with percussion instruments made out of recycled materials!

The multi-racial dikir barat team from Woodlands Ring Primary School will be performing at the Outdoor Theatre this Octoburst!. Dikir barat is a traditional Malay musical form that involves singing and coordinated hand and body movements. The Primary 6 boys and girls from the popular dikir barat CCA will be singing about the importance of education and life-long learning. The award-winning WRPS dikir barat team has performed at various community events over the past decade. Join them as they strive to perform at their best!

Film Screening: I Not Stupid Too (2006)
Directed by Jack Neo, Singapore (125min)
6 Oct, Sat
8.30pm – 10.35pm
In Mandarin with English Subtitles

The highly anticipated follow-up to Jack Neo's breakout hit I Not Stupid (2002), I Not Stupid Too is a dramatic comedy centred on the theme of generation gaps. The film explores the issue of poor parent-child communication and the challenging relationships parents have with their children today. Set in Singapore's fast-paced society, the movie is seen through the eyes of 8-year-old Jerry and his older brother Tom. Together with Tom's friend, Cheng Chai, the three boys unveil how they face the pressures of school and the demands of the adults in their lives. This is a laugh-out-loud and cry-out-loud film that will tug at your heartstrings.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the Kings Horses and
All the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again...
But Humpty Dumpty did not give up.
Humpty Dumpty hoped that someone, anyone, could help.
Can hope fix Humpty Dumpty?

This is a piece devised by the young actors of The Little Arts Academy, based on the famous nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. Embark on an adventure with the young performers through this interactive play as they explore the theme of hope through Humpty Dumpty's misfortune of the great fall and how it gave Humpty Dumpty a new lease of life.
The budding young actors in this production are from The Little Arts Academy (LAA). The academy offers a multidisciplinary curriculum that includes Music, Dance, Theatre, Multimedia, Visual Arts and Culinary Arts. Most of the young actors performing are beneficiaries of The Business Times Budding Artists Fund, a fund committed to providing arts education for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

LAA is managed by The Old Parliament House Limited.

Kids@Library
5 – 7 Oct, Sat
2.30 – 3.15pm, 3.45 – 4.30pm & 5 – 5.45pm

Come on up to Kids@Library for something more intimate and cosy. Be enthralled by our storytellers as they bring Asian folktales and other original stories to life and be inspired by our Piano Project as we showcase promising pianists from as young as 6 years old. Watch these young musicians tickle the ivories at library@esplanade.

KidsTalk: Mandarin Storytelling
by Chengzhu Mandarin Centre
6 Oct, Sat
3.45 – 4.30pm
7 Oct, Sun
5pm – 5.45pm

小老鼠进城记故事简介

可爱的乡下老鼠住在乡下，它的表哥城市老鼠住在城里。乡下老鼠听表哥说城里很好玩，于是决定到城里去找表哥。到了城里，它总是要小心不被路人践踏和马车的轮子碾到。到了表哥家，它又被一只猫和一只狗追赶，处处充满了危险。正当乡下老鼠下定决心要回到乡下的时候，城市老鼠带给乡下老鼠一个意外的惊喜……

A little mouse's adventure in the city

This is a story about a little mouse who lives in the countryside. The little mouse has a cousin who lives in the city. The city mouse has many exciting tales about the city to share so the little mouse decides to visit him in the city and this is how the adventure begins. Join us at the library to find out what happens to the little mouse in the city!