Sat, 17 Jul 2010
7.00 – 8.00pm
Open Stage, library@esplanade

Latin American and Spanish Guitar Concert
by Sebastian Pompilio & Justin Hyer

Argentine guitarist Sebastian Pompilio and British guitarist Justin Hyer perform a selection of solo and duo works by Spanish and Latin American composers. Concert to include works by Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Turina, Pereira, Gnattali and Sanchez.

Sebastian Pompilio is one of Argentina’s new generation of virtuoso performers. He has

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Win tickets to the Singapore Arts Festival at NLB Public Libraries every week!
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From 14 May – 06 Jun 2010

Borrow at least 4 items from the following libraries and stand a chance to win tickets to the Singapore Arts Festival 2010 every week!

The participating libraries are:
- library@esplanade
- Central Public Library
- Tampines Regional Library
- Woodlands Regional Library
- Jurong Regional Library

Here’s how it goes:

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The Singapore Arts Festival is right around the corner again! This year, the National Arts Council and NLB Public Libraries are working together to bring you a series of Festival Chats, where you can learn more about the shows that will be featuring in Singapore Arts Festival 2010.

So join us for this series of informative chats and previews of the upcoming Singapore Arts Festival programmes. Come and hear the artists’ journey in art making.

The schedule:

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Date: Sat 29 May
Time: 3.00 – 4.30pm
Topic: Introduction to Dance Film
What is dance film? Hear the panel share about the challenges of choreography and filming the moving image. Guest speakers include Yuni Hadi & Daniel Kok, Guest Curators, Singapore Arts Festival, Dance Film Series.
Venue: library@esplanade

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Festival Chat: Introduction to Dance Film
29 May 2010 (Saturday)
3.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
library@esplanade (Esplanade Mall, Level 3)
Free admission

Dance film as an art form finds its balance between the film and performing arts world. It embraces the visual language of film that dramatises scenes through seamless editing, and is heightened by the fluidity of dance movements choreographed to create drama, tension and space.

On 29 May 2010 at 3pm, join us at the library@esplanade as we delve into the art of the dance film with a panel of guest speakers that includes Yuni Hadi, the guest curator of the dance film series for the Singapore Arts Festival 2010.

Admission to the talk is free and no registration is required.

This Singapore Arts Festival 2010 event is part of a free series of Festival Chats designed to inform and educate the public on the performing arts.

For a full listing of talks, please visit Festival Chats @ Public Libraries.

Singapore Arts Festival Chat: On the String: Theatre of Music
Fri, 14 May 2010
6.30 – 7.30pm
Open Stage, library@esplanade

On the String is a performance about String Theory, a speculative theory of space, matter, energy and time, based on tiny one-dimensional vibrating entities.

What if we could hear the sounds of elementary particles? Or the sonic texture created by various vibration patterns of a string curving space? Or the harmonic colour sparked by string interaction?

Conceived and directed by composer, Joyce Beetuan Koh, this multidisciplinary performance is an artistic, performable and interactive environment (computational model-system), using strings of acoustic instruments of pipa and harpsichord, and a variety of strings (made of steel, titanium, copper) which form an oversized string sculpture, combined with dynamic intervention by musicians to metaphorically musicalise certain aspects of String Theory.

This theatre of music will provoke conversations between science and arts, fascinate minds who are curious about the integration of music and visual arts, movements and theatre.

Concept, Direction and Composition, Joyce Beetuan Koh (Singapore)
Sound Art and Interaction Design, PerMagnus Lindborg (Sweden)
Sound Art and Instrument Design, Dirk Stromberg (United States)
Sculpture-Installation, Khiew Huey Chian (Singapore)
Light Design, Lim Woan Wen (Singapore)
Musicians, pipa-Samuel Wong (Singapore), harpsichord-Shane Thio (Singapore)

Ticketing details can be found at the Singapore Arts Festival website.

The Ramblin’ Librarian showed up at this World Book & Copyright Day event and heard the awesome foursome of SG Rockers talking about the music business and copyright issues.

Head over to the Rambler’s blog to read what he has to say.

All Broken Up and Dancing – The Happening:
Look, Watch & Listen.
8 May 2010 (Saturday)
4.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
library@esplanade (Esplanade Mall, Level 3)
Free admission

The All Broken Up and Dancing exhibition in the library@esplanade concludes with a happening at the library’s Open Stage on 8 May 2010 (Saturday) at 4.00 p.m.

This event will feature:

1. a book recital by filmmaker and actor Wong Kwang Han, who will read and perform excerpts from Kelvin Tan’s cult novel, All Broken Up and Dancing – A Meta Novel;w
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2. the official launch of visual artist Sia Joo Hiang’s I am Brinsley Bivouac, the 5-volume ‘visual document’ from which selected artwork have been featured in the exhibition;
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3. a video screening of I am Brinsley Bivouac – the A-Z of , a short film by video artist Toh Hun Ping, with a soundtrack featuring music composed and performed by Kelvin Tan and friends. This film premiered at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival.

So come on down to the library@esplanade to discover the ‘lost’ classic of Singapore literature and the new generation of art it has spawned and inspired.

Admission to the event is free and no registration is required.

All Broken Up and Dancing – The Exhibition
9 April – 9 May 2010
11.00 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
library@esplanade (Esplanade Mall, Level 3)
Free admission

Presented by visual artist Sia Joo Hiang, this exhibition showcases original paintings, drawings, altered prints and film strips from I am Brinsley Bivouac, a 5-volume ‘visual document’ based on, and inspired by, the local cult underground novel, All Broken Up and Dancing – A Meta Novel.

Penned by Singaporean writer-musician Kelvin Tan in 1992, the novel charts the life of its protagonist, Brinsley Bivouac, a struggling artist searching for identity and self-worth in a society that’s growing more alien to him by the day.

Come soak in Ms. Sia’s personal interpretation of the text, as she visually explores Brinsley’s world – a life all broken up, yet dancing.

This exhibition will conclude with a happening at the library@esplanade’s Open Stage on 8 May 2010 (Saturday) at 4.00 p.m.

How many lawyers do you know who are also band members of some of the hottest acts to come out of Singapore’s pop-rock scene? This session brings together some of Singapore’s musicians who are lawyers, some specializing in IP laws.

Come for a session to listen to them share their experiences in the music scene, how they produce their songs and their thoughts on music and copyright. We’ll ask our guests to talk about ideas — from books or anything recorded — that they have found inspiring for their music and life.

They will also share their personal views on copyright, from their perspective as musicians. The focus is on them as musicians; the fact that they are practicing lawyers is just incidental.

This talk follows the Open Mic session that starts an hour earlier, so you might want to drop by early to catch both events.

17 April 2010 (Saturday)
3.30pm – 4.30pm
library@esplanade

剧本演读现场
SCENES: The Dramatised readings

从战前到现在， 新加坡的剧作家创作了无数的剧本， 这次的演读， 让你看到更多这次无法上演的剧本片段。由谢燊杰与许婉婧联合策划， 我们将从众多出色的剧本中， 选择某些精彩片断， 让你看到新加坡华语剧场这些年来的发展与成绩。每一次演读之后， 都会有讨论会，通过交流的方式， 对我们的文化景观有更进一步的认识。

(华语演出)

华艺节2010《戏聚现场》节目之一

Get a taste of plays written from the pre-war era to the present time. Featuring read excerpts from seminal local Chinese language plays from the decades, SCENES: The Dramatised Readings, curated by Nelson Chia and Koh Wan Ching, give a sense of how Singapore’s Chinese Language Theatre has developed over the years. Each dramatized reading will be followed by a discussion that will enable all to consider the rich history of our cultural landscape with fresh eyes.

(Performed in Mandarin)

Presented as part of SCENES, a programme of Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2010

2010年1月30日与2月6日， 星期六
30 Jan & 6 Feb 2010, Sat
library@esplanade 滨海艺术中心艺术图书馆

下午3时至4时30分
3pm – 4 30pm

剧本 Script 作者 Playwright 年代 Year

1 鸦片毒 丘国基 1924

2 凄凄惨惨 静倩 1931

3 和平以后 朱绪 1946

4 明天的太阳 杜边 1945 – 1948

5 风雨牛车水 岳野 1945 – 1948

6 头家哲学 白寒 1950

导演Director : 许婉婧 Koh Wanching
演员Cast: 郑光辉Tay Kong Hui, 杨君伟Danny Yeo, 徐冰Xu Bing, 卢佳慧Lu Jiahui

傍晚5时至6时30分
5pm – 6 30pm

剧本 Script 作者 Playwright 年代 Year

1 打得好 宋人 1954

2 他并没有死 刘仁心 1955

3 打破镜子的女人 林晨 1957 – 1966

4 学店 关新艺 1957 – 1966

5 喂, 醒醒! 郭宝昆 1968

6 把国旗挂起来 王里 1967 – 1976

导演: 谢燊杰 Director: Nelson Chia
演员Cast: 雷宇Lei Yu, 周庆隆Zhou Qing Long, 洛若Luo Ruo, 任良艺Ren Liang Yi

About SCENES
With more than 80 years in existence, Singapore’s Chinese language theatre has truly constituted an important part of our cultural landscape, reflecting the changing identity of Chinese here, and constantly evolving in its aesthetic and relevance. SCENES is a five-part project that celebrates Singapore’s Chinese language theatre with The Performances, The Exhibition, Fresh Takes, The Dramatised Readings and The Symposium.

SCENES Directors: Kok Heng Leun and Quah Sy Ren

A Huayi 2010 festival commission, co-produced by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and Drama Box.

走过80余年的岁月，华语剧场是新加坡文化景观中的重要标志，展现了新加坡华人认同的变迁、国家意识的构建，也反映了我们与世界各地的文化交流。剧场观念与美学随着时代与思潮在演变，华语剧场也在不同的时期应对不同的挑战，尝试寻找生存与发展的契机。《戏聚现场》将以五个不同的形式 — 演出现场、展览现场、生力军现场、剧本演读现场和研讨会现场，展现新加坡华语剧场的发展历程。

剧展总监: 郭庆亮; 柯思仁

华艺节2010 委约， 滨海艺术中心与戏剧盒联合制作