Arts festivals

Bumper crop of Singapore acts travelling to festivals and fringes abroad despite rising costs

Berahi: Holy Unions, choreographed by Norhaizad Adam, will premiere at the newly opened East Kowloon Cultural Centre as part of the #Danceless Complex Festival on June 13 and 14.

In India’s coastal city Kochi, art, food and history collide

Ginger House, a museum-cum-restaurant set within a 250-year-old ginger warehouse in Kochi's Jew Town. Once seen largely as a stopover en route to places like the hill station of Munnar, Kochi is increasingly becoming a destination in its own right.

SIFA 2026 transforms the Civic District into a playground

One of the headline acts of this year's festival, the 30-minute Noli Timere performance runs at Empress Lawn from May 15 to 17 at 7.15pm and 9.15pm, before moving to Punggol Digital District for multiple weekends from May 22 onwards. Admission is free.

Pesta Raya – Malay Festival of Arts 2026

Macbeth is remade through Minangkabau randai folk theatre tradition

Randai Macbeth plays at the Esplanade Theatre Studio from April 16 to 19 as part of Pesta Raya – Malay Festival of Arts 2026.

‘May have no choice but to cancel’: Singapore Fringe Festival 2027 donations short of target

Invisible by ART:DIS and The Necessary Stage at the Singapore Fringe Festival 2026.

Ong Keng Sen directs Jacintha and Dick Lee at Sifa 2026; plus Jeremy Tiang’s Obie Award-winning play

Veteran singer Jacintha Abisheganaden (left) will tell her life story and share a stage with long-time collaborator Dick Lee in Lush Life at the Singapore International Festival of Arts.

Pesta Raya 2026 brings film La Luna to the stage and Zainalabidin’s 50th anniversary concert

The Esplanade has commissioned Malay-language theatre company Teater Ekamatra to adapt director M. Raihan’s La Luna (2024) – Singapore’s entry to the Oscars in 2025 – for the stage.

Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2026

Absurd Taiwanese and South-east Asian folktales of metamorphosis in Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs

Taiwanese theatremaker Wang Chia-ming (left) and Singaporean theatremaker Oliver Chong's Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs premiere at the Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2026.

Singapore butoh dancer uses traditional art form to warn about the dangers of technology

dlcomma - In Morningstar, Elden Zachery plays a techno-cult leader to highlight his worries about people’s growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI).
Credit: RE:Evente

Art takes over everyday spaces for Singapore Art Week

(From left) IMBA CEO Michael Lee; Gardens by the Bay CEO Felix Loh; Colombia Ambassador Margarita Manjarrez; Mr Fernando Botero Quinta, grandson of the late Colombian artist Fernando Botero; and Mr Fernando Botero Zea, co-president of the Fernando Botero Foundation unveiling the sculpture Horse at Silver Garden in Gardens by the Bay on Jan 23.

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