Vel Vel: A Sonic Walk
Trace the Thaipusam pilgrimage route virtually with this app featuring sights and sounds from Little India, Selegie and Fort Canning.
The digital experience comes with audio recordings, archival photos of the Hindu festival, as well as five short monologues by theatre collective Brown Voices.
Thaipusam, which takes place on Thursday (Jan 28), honours Lord Murugan, the Hindu god of war.
WHERE: Online
WHEN: Till Jan 18, 2022
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: The Arts House's website
Panic Love
This 20-minute music video, set in the time of Covid-19, fuses poetry, a cappella and opera.
It revolves around Mariam (Wong Yong En), a social distancing enforcement officer who fines people who do not wear masks or keep a metre apart from each other. Ironically, the same rules prevent her from seeing her dying mother (Ng Jingyun) in a nursing home.
Panic Love, which is sung in rhyming couplets, examines our unquestioning acceptance of rules. It is directed by veteran actor Nora Samosir, with libretto by poet Felix Cheong and music by composer Chen Zhangyi.
The screening is followed by a chat on Zoom with the creative team.
WHERE: facebook.com/felixcheongauthor
WHEN: Sunday (Jan 31), 8pm
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: Panic Love's Facebook page
Resituating Home (Making): Hyper-Material Domesticity
Vibrator art, a cake sculpture and a floral installation are some of the highlights of this Singapore Art Week exhibition which shines the spotlight on four young artists.
Visitors can check out paintings, sculptures, new media and installation art by Amirah Raudhah, Dipali Gupta, Fatima Bano and Masuri Mazlan.
They can also partake in three artist-led workshops that focus on cake decoration, natural dyes and flower arrangement.
The show is organised by non-profit art initiative Tekad Kolektif.
WHERE: 65 Aliwal Street
WHEN: Till Saturday (Jan 30), noon to 8pm
ADMISSION: Free. Workshops are free with registration
INFO: Tekad Kolektif's website. For more Singapore Art Week events, go to artweek.sg
