Events
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Instruments in Motion: Sounds Across Cultures
A cross-cultural instrumental showcase blending Western and Chinese instruments, featuring classical, jazz and contemporary ensemble performances.
Songs of Love: Voices Across Cultures
A cross-cultural vocal showcase featuring classical and Chinese repertoire, celebrating love through music in multiple languages and styles.
Grains of Sand
Dive into a bold fusion of electronic and traditional sounds as mattgnaw & Herbibie craft an immersive experimental journey.
The World Within My World
A special improvised music performance where immeasurable landscapes are explored through movement and sound.
Genesis Keefer x TAMARA
Two vessels. One ritual. Genesis Keefer and TAMARA unite sound and voice in an evening of healing and transcendence.
Another Place: hiraeth / 一期一会
Enjoy original songs and song-poetry on hiraeth, and a new song honouring 一期一会 (impermanence).
In Conversation with The Straits Collective
Diverse musicians from The Straits Collective present an evening of improvisation, collaboration, and intercultural exchange through shared musical traditions.
Performative Response: Ikan Besar Skali
Malay dance practitioner Hasyimah Harith offers a performative response to Ikan Besar Skali by Hu Qiren.
Kindness and Gratitude
A collection of reflections, stories, songs and poems for an individual navigating the 21st century.
UNBECOMING
Sound. Poetry. Movement. Mantravine and Francesca Harriman eXchAnge in Unbecoming, a visceral exchange of music, body, and verse.
BONFIRE 你我之間
A physical theatre performance that asks “what does it mean to stand before the fire of being alive?”
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Threading and electronic music come together to explore the playful spectrum of possibilities.