Ong Sor Fern

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SINGAPORE – Sail up the Singapore River and back in time at the National Museum Of Singapore’s new exhibition. Once Upon A Tide, which opens on May 24, traces Singapore’s growth via the sea and its waterways. The story arc melds a tribute to SG60 with a potted history of the nation as the show is serving double duty during its run.

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SINGAPORE – The bustling commuter hub of Bedok Town Square has undergone chameleonic changes in three short weeks. On May 3, the square hosted a polling station as Singaporeans turned out to vote in the general election. The set-up was minimal, steel frames and plastic tape delineating the outlines of the space and simple booths for voters. Two days later, another crew had moved into the space and transformed it in 11 days into the setting for the Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa).

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Animal FarmThe Finger Players Drama Centre Theatre May 15, 4pm The best thing about The Finger Players’ adaptation of Animal Farm, English author George Orwell’s classic 1945 novella, are Loo An Ni’s astonishing puppets. Each operated by a single puppeteer, the exo-skeletons with just masks and feet to identify the individual animal characters are a marvel of inventive construction.

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Ong Sor Fern

1x1x1 Fost Gallery’s 1x1x1 exhibition has a clever gimmick – the works measure no more than 1m in any dimension. This limitation has challenged some of the artists in the show who usually work on a larger scale. Interdisciplinary artist Grace Tan, for example, is better known for her large-scale public artworks such as Woven Field (2015) at Downtown Line’s Little India station and Symmetry At Duo (2017).

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