Ong Sor Fern

Arts Editor

Sor Fern started at The Straits Times writing about books and has since covered arts and culture as well as film and entertainment. She founded a short-lived tabloid-sized books supplement for the paper and helped conceptualise The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards.

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R.F. Kuang thrills packed Victoria Theatre with anecdotes and dissection of dark academia

China-born American writer R.F. Kuang’s lecture Beyond The Ivory Tower at the Singapore Writers Festival 2025.

Booker Prize: Katie Kitamura’s Audition an audacious technical experiment

Author Katie Kitamura's Audition is in the running for 2025's Booker Prize.

Singapore Ballet dancers impress in dynamic new works for Passages

ecdance02 - Natalie Weir's Terra

Credit and copyright: BERNIE NG

Congratulations, Get Rich! an uneven muddle of themes and genres

sfrich02 - SRT, La Boite & STC's Congratulations, Get Rich - Kimie Tsukakoshi, Seong Hui Xuan

Credit and copyright: TUCKYS PHOTOGRAPHY

Arts Picks: Performances from Singapore Ballet and T.H.E. Dance Company, artist Chen Cheng Mei on show

sfpicks30 - Christina Chan's Meeting Point.
Credit and copyright: Singapore Ballet

Puppet Origin Stories looks back, with anger, love and grief, at Cairnhill Arts Centre’s rich history

Cat And The Faceless Maiden is one of a trio of stories in the latest staging of Puppet Origin Stories.

Actor Tatsuya Fujiwara headlines star-studded Haruki Murakami stage adaptation coming to Singapore

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is presenting the show from April 3 to 5, 2026.

Dunhuang’s Buddhist art comes to Asian Civilisations Museum in biggest South-east Asia show

At the signing of the memorandum of understanding signing between the Asian Civilisations Museum and Dunhuang Academy were (from left) ACM deputy director Chun Boon Beng; ACM director Clement Onn; Mr Zhang Yuanlin, deputy director of Dunhuang Academy; and Ms Wang Huihui, deputy head of Exhibition Centre for the Conservation and Rresearch of Dunhuang Cave Relics, Dunhuang Academy.

BookTalk: EtonHouse founder Ng Gim Choo reads to deal with loss and grief

EtonHouse founder Ng Gim Choo likes to read Goldilocks And The Three Bears to children.

Singapore Writers Festival 2025: Where food meets sci-fi and poetry

(Clockwise from top left) Ms Fuchsia Dunlop, Mr Ken Liu and Ms Victoria Chang.

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