Esplanade Presents

Theatre | Storytelling

jiwang songs for the (un)familiar

nor, C2AC and Rifdi Bin Rosly (Singapore)

25 Mar 2026, Wed, 6.45pm & 7.45pm

30mins

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Concourse

Free
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Synopsis

Coming-of-age poems meet your favourite jiwang (emotional Malay love songs) classics.

 

This is quiet heartbreak.

This is stadium-sized sentimentality.

This is the healing power of kinship and community.

 

These are the songs we inherit,

and these are poems for a new generation of true yearners.

 

Multidisciplinary artist nor teams up with DJ C2AC and multi-media artist Rifdi Bin Rosly to reinterpret and bring to stage their poems from homesick and Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song.

 

Come as you are.

Language: English, Malay
Things to Note:
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Artist Information

nor

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nor (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works situate identity and community within speculative timelines through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories.

nor is the author of homesick (Ethos Books, 2025) and Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song (AFTERIMAGE Press, 2025). Their writings have been in places such as Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore (2021); Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021); and Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore (2022). 

C2AC

C2AC (he/him) is a DJ from Singapore who fearlessly blends an omni-genre of spitting hot vogue chants to dark demented electronica while crafting the divergent velocities ballroom, ghetto house and hard techno, serving you a sensorial delight. 

 

C2AC has enraptured crowds at legendary gatherings such as Endless Return, Bussy Temple, Intervention Party and the illustrious Club Chrome. 

Rifdi bin Rosly

Rifdi bin Rosly (b. 1994) is a Singapore-based photographer and multi-media artist, with a keen interest in pushing the technical limits of given mediums to create new sensory experiences, be it through impossible landscapes, hermeneutical portraits, or evocative soundscapes. 

Date & Time

25 Mar 2026, Wed

6.45pm

Esplanade Concourse

7.45pm

Esplanade Concourse
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