Monday, 28 March 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Walking Tour Series in conjunction with The Sufi and The Bearded Man on 2 & 9 April 2011
Registration is Closed. The Walking tours for 2 and 9 April is fully booked.
Look out for more Walking Tours in the upcoming months.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Tisna Sanjaya’s Cigondewah reviewed by Tempo Online, 21 March 2011
Seno Joko Suyono of Tempo Magazine reviews NUS Museum exhibition Cigondewah. Tisna’s social criticism is sustained by a pragmatic but strategic approach, gradually soliciting the involvement of its local community without being provocative. Excerpt:
'Yang dilakukan Tisna walhasil sebuah kritisisme yang fleksibel tapi penuh strategi. Tisna tahu diri bahwa ia warga baru di Cigondewah. Ia mendekati warga, memasyarakatkan lingkungan, dengan cara yang tak ingin frontal. Penyadarannya lewat jalan kesenian. Ia bergaul, masuk ke komunitas buruh, dan mengajak mereka berpartisipasi secara pelan-pelan. Ia menghindari konflik. "Saya tak ingin menempatkan diri sebagai hero," katanya.' … read entire article in TEMPO Online
Friday, 18 March 2011
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Raffles Hall’s annual Cultural Night “PhoenixFest”-11.3.2011
A collaboration between NUSM and Raffles Hall for Raffles Hall’s annual Cultural Night “PhoenixFest”. This year’s theme for the Cultural Night is: Le Voyage – Night at the Museum where performances from the Hall’s Choir, Unplugged, Dance, Acaplla and Classical Violin and Cello groups were put up in the galleries around the museum.
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Friday, 11 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Power of Notions/ Notions of Power: 12/ 13 March 2011
Thank you for your interest. The performances for both nights 12 & 13 March 2011 are fully registered.
The show is a collaboration between local group Checkpoint Theatre and the current and former students of NUS. It will feature six different performance pieces within the space of the museum.
Each performance is set to be a refreshing interpretation of and response to three of the most significant texts in Singapore's history - Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals), Hikayat Munshi Abdullah and Frank Swettenham's Malay Sketches.
'There are six very different performances that invoke not just texts and their interpretation but also concepts of kingship, memory, history, artistic authority, narrative, fame, and art-making,' curator Sulaiman explains in an e-mail response.
The Power of Notions/Notions of Power is directed by actress-director Claire Wong whom many may recall for her role in Glen Goei's film Blue Mansion.
According to Wong, the six-piece show is very much like a guided museum tour. But instead of looking at passive artefacts, viewers will be treated to live performances unfolding before their eyes and within the spaces of a museum.
Just as how a museum would have its different sections and galleries operating on a separate theme each, these six performances will act as different checkpoints along the tour and every piece is set to operate rather differently from one another.
Sulaiman reveals: 'Some pieces will actually require the audience to participate.
'NUS Museum has been very proactive about wanting to explore the ways in which exhibitions, museum spaces, histories, literature and performance can intersect and feed off each other.'
Apart from the six playwrights, the series will feature a cast of seasoned performers that include Karen Tan, Daniel Jenkins and Noorlinah Mohamed.
The Power of Notions/Notions of Power is set to debut on March 12 and 13 at the NUS Museum as part of this year's NUS Arts Festival. Each show will begin at 8pm on both days.
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