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Esplanade Presents

Music

Another Place: hiraeth / 一期一会

Chelle & Ailouros

22 Jun 2026, Mon, 7pm & 7.45pm

30mins

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Concourse

Free
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Synopsis

Chelle & Ailouros presents original songs and multilingual poetry expressing hiraeth, a Welsh word with no direct English translation and understood as a yearning for home. For a place, time, person or that which may never return. In seeking remedy for longing, a new song honouring 一期一会 (ichi-go ichi-e), a Japanese idiom referring to impermanence, the unrepeatable in life, was created. Catch the premiere of their new song along with song-poetry on nature and life in Japan during the pandemic.

Language: English
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Artist Information

Chelle & Ailouros

Chelle & Ailouros' Instagram | Alvin Wong's Instagram | Eugene Ang's Instagram | Michelle Chua's Facebook | Michelle Chua's Youtube

Chelle & Ailouros (ancient Greek for “cat”) is home and playground of poet-vocalist Michelle C as an emerging songwriter, melding performance poetry with original and improvised music.

 

Chelle collaborates with jazzcats Eugene Ang (piano) and Alvin Wong (guitarist) in composition and song-poetry. They premiered at Across the Music Verse, Poetry Festival Singapore (2024) and have since performed at Singapore Writers Festival (2024), Foreword (Esplanade) and Eden Jazz Night at the Jazz Loft (2025).

 

Chelle conjures nature, childhood, Singapore and life in Japan in poetry anthologised in the New Landscapes Anthology (2019) by Lungs Project (UK/ USA).

Date & Time

22 Jun 2026, Mon

7pm

Esplanade Concourse

7.45pm

Esplanade Concourse
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