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Songwriting for Hope – Hear Our Voices
Singer-songwriters perform songs by youths from Singapore Girls’ Home created through Esplanade’s Songwriting for Hope, sharing stories of hope, dreams, and resilience.
Meja Lambak
Step into an experiential poetry flea market, unpacking adulting through traded bags of lived experiences and human complexities.
Bicycle Co-Opt
Bicycle Co-Opt creates music with and about bicycles, one of the greatest human inventions.
Powerpoint Party: Behind The Book
Get an entertaining look at what it takes to publish a book with four presentations in this PowerPoint Party.
Quiet Readers’ Club
Join Quiet Readers' Club at Foreword Coffee for a calm, no-pressure session to read, connect, and enjoy books at your own pace.
What The Rhymes Do
A hip hop infused showcase where San The Wordsmith brings words to life across three curated sets of rhythm and truth.
Karaoke Poetry
Karaoke Poetry reimagines how Singaporean Chinese literary works are experienced, drawing inspiration from karaoke’s nature, and blending digital and physical interactions.
Everything Is Now, Now Is Everything
Inch. takes you on a journey through songs and stories spanning a life that refused to stay in one place.
Outspoken: May the best words win
Cheer on some of Singapore’s greatest spoken word artists as they battle with rhyme, rhythm and improv for honour, glory and a cool trophy.
By the Book
Musical theatre songs inspired by books and poems—proof that some stories simply refuse to remain on the page.
jiwang songs for the (un)familiar
Heartbreak. Rage. Kinship. nor teams up with DJ C2AC and multi-media artist Rifdi Bin Rosly to bring their poems from homesick and Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song alive on stage.
Superintelligent Sentimental
Enter the world of Superintelligent Sentimental, a speculative sci-fi prologue that weaves music, poetry and philosophy to explore imagined futures inspired by Buddhist and Daoist symbols.