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Dance Marathon 2012 Free Admission by registration. |
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Please arrive 15 minutes before. Places will only be kept up to 5 minutes after which they will be released to walk-in registrants. Love dancing and wanna try some new moves and grooves? Whether Contemporary or Classical, Breakdance, Bollywood or Bharatanatyam or the sheer athleticism of Lion Dancing, come for a taste at Dance Open classes by 7 CFA Dance groups and discover new forms of dance expression. Whether it’s zappin’ in Hip Hop or
Zapin in Malay dance, you know your feet just
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CFA House Party: Be The Unexpected! Free Admission. NUS Centre For the Arts (CFA) invites you to join the biggest party on campus, all for the cause of fun and creativity. Grab this chance to watch artistic talents from 22 CFA Groups and guest performers from Cultural Activities Club Sub-clubs as they win you over with their performances. |
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Catch more than 30 bite-sized sit-down/stand-up/hear-and-cheer demonstrations of dance, music, film and theatre on four exciting stages. Meet likeminded undergrads and alums in one complete gathering of the arts on campus and find out how YOU can fight the tyranny of boredom and make your NUS experience an unforgettable one! | |
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ExxonMobil Campus Concerts |  |
EMCC Opening Show: Face The Music Free Admission. Get ready to Face The Music as your favourite ExxonMobil Campus Concerts (EMCC) kicks off 2012/2013 with sonic boom in four fantastic spaces in one venue! This one-night-only event shines with the amazing lineup of musicians across different genres gathered in one space and will change the way you experience, make, consume and talk music! |
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Bon Voyage Free Admission. Treat yourself to a Latin-flavoured showdance spectacle where charming dance couples will take audience on a journey from the sensuality of Argentina’s tango bars, to the elegance of the grand ballroom, and the glitz and glamour of cabarets. |
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Everyone Must Listen Free Admission. |
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Electronic music is everywhere nowadays and more popular than ever. Experience the true diversity of this genre with this concert of all original works by EML members. Having fun with the concept of a vinyl EP (extended play album), the first half of the show is titled A-side, filled with songs by artists unfettered by creative restraints. B-side exhibits a range of works based on variation of a single musical theme. | |
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Happily Ever After Free Admission. Happily Ever After takes you on a journey following the successful launch of Rani Singam’s album Contentment. Rani will perform with a stellar line-up of musicians – Tan Weixiang (piano), Christy Smith (bass) & Soh Wen Ming (drums) – to present original songs from Contentment and well-loved jazz standards and works.
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Exhibitions at NUS Museum | |
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Sculpting Life: Begins 30 August 2012
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Presented as an open storage and second in a series of permanent exhibitions on artist Ng Eng Teng, “Sculpting Life" brings together a range of works that facilitate a mapping of the artist’s history and explorations. Gathered are early pieces completed during his formative years in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), Stoke-on-Trent College of Art (UK), and as a ceramic designer in Ireland from the late 1950s and 1960s; early explorations in ceramics and ciment fondue that foreground the mature phases of his practice; and seminal sculptural pieces that marked his importance amongst a generation of Singapore artists emerging from the period of the 1960s. Documentations, drawings, and maquettes accompany the selection, providing an expansive view of his practice. The exhibition is also devised to prompt a mapping of themes and conceptual concerns of the artist. Significant among these are explorations into the human condition, seen through an evolving articulation of the human form and its emotive potential, and in doing so, Eng Teng invests into them oblique and direct references to questions of self and identity. [Image: Ng Eng Teng, Madonna and Child II, 1990, Bronze. Photo by NUS Museum] | |
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Familiar Spaces Untold Stories: 22 July 2012 to 26 August 2012
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This exhibition arises from a two week long trip to the West Malaysian town of Ipoh by twenty students from the University of Malaya (UM) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). They conducted studies of the city’s heritage, assessed its current state of development, and carried out detailed investigations on four shophouses – a trade house, a Sinhalese bar, a charcoal vendor’s shop and a seamstress’ modern shophouse. The cultural and social fabric of this former ‘Tin Capital of the World’ and its architectural heritage are exhibited in the form of sketches, drawings, photographs and models. This is a project from the UM-NUS Joint Studio Programme started in 2005 in conjunction with the centenary celebrations of the two Universities. The first exhibition entitled ‘Re:Claiming Heritage’ was presented at NUS Museum in 2009. This was followed by ‘Tracing Taiping’ (2010) and ‘Narrating Muar’(2011). Since its inception, the programme has been funded by the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation. | |
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Semblance / Presence: 29 June 2012 to 13 January 2013
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Combining Jose Rizal's "Quiapo Fair" (first published 1891) and artworks produced by artists Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr., the exhibition traces the life-worlds of Plaza Miranda, which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City of Manila. Considering how Plaza Miranda acts as a site for numerous interests, ranging from political and cultural discourse to established traditions of fortune telling, the exhibition connects both artists and their materials to not just as something being observed, but also to the conditions of their observations, where the very act of observation becomes an end that at once implicates but also detaches. By some oblique process, presence also becomes semblance, leading to question, if any act of observation can ever remain unmediated. | |
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Rupal Shah | Tautology of Memory 23 April 2012 to 6 January 2013
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Tautology of Memory is a single channel video shot by artist Rupal Shah at the archaeological site of Ajanta in Western India.* The display is mediated through the multiplicity of voices that define an archaeological site, including the echoes of the tour-guide focusing on the murals and frescoes, constantly alluding to and reifying popular perceptions; the artist partializes this reification by employing her child’s exploration of the caves.
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Capturing the Straits 9 February 2012 to 31 October 2012 Visitors are required to sign up in advance for heritage tours which fall on Mondays 2pm - 3pm, Tuesdays 6.30pm - 7.30pm, Thursdays 10am - 11am & Saturdays 11am - 12pm. For enquiries, please visit here, call [65] 6227 5731 or email babahouse@nus.edu.sg.
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This exhibition brings together paintings of the Straits Settlements by Charles Dyce who was a resident of Singapore in the 1840s, and postcard views of Malacca dating to the early half of the 20th century. As visual sources, they collectively provide a window into the production and reception of landscapes in colonial Malaya, underpinned by new encounters, negotiations with pictorial conventions, and evolving regard of Malaya as a transformative space.
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Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: Till 2 June 2013
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The term Camping and Tramping is inspired by a lesser known 19th century document compiled by a British officer describing the field work and travails of his time with the colonial office in Malaya. Documents such as these, along with colonial institutions, sought to fill a void in terms of Orientalist knowledge available for a colonist or itinerant audience interested in the region. Aggregating such texts which make up the colonial archive, this exhibition traces the rise of the Museum in British Malaya not just as an indicator of power over what was gazed upon as the exotic but by acknowledging that the very advent of the Museum resulted in a staging ground for a project of accumulation and the ordering of knowledge. Mobilizing artefacts from the Raffles Museum and Library (established 1874) and the University Art Museum, Malaya (established 1955), the exhibition offers the question of the Museum in Malaya as evolving propositions expressed through shifting concepts of colonial knowledge, its responses to emerging contingencies of colonial politics and eventual decolonisation, and changing regard for its publics and their aspirations. Collecting, documenting, ordering, preserving and displaying - functions declared and sustained - are tasks made complex by such contexts. Birth, transformation and end of institutions render collections and documents as dynamic sets of archives that are mobile and regenerative, opened to newer meanings and claims. The exhibition is divided into the following sections: • The Museum as Idea As reminders of how individuals in the region have laid claim to the colonial archive, the gallery also sites the practices of two post-colonial figures, Mohammad Din Mohammad and Dr. Ivan Polunin. Mohammad Din was a Singapore artist, traditional healer and collector who held that his works contained talismanic potentials. Arriving in Malaya from England in 1948, Dr. Polunin taught Social Medicine at the then University of Malaya. In an adventurous career that began with the filmic documentation of tropical diseases, Dr. Polunin’s ethnographies grew to encompass hundreds of hours of film footage on Malaya’s eclectic sociocultural practices and its rich biodiversity. Writings and artefacts have been mobilized from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (NUS), NUS Museum, Asian Civilizations Museum, National Museum of Singapore, National Library Board Singapore, Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore National Archives, and the Ivan Polunin and Mohammad Din Mohammad collections. [Image credit: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research Collection. Photo by Nurul Huda] | |
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The Sufi and the Bearded Man: Till December 2012
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This exhibition re-members the keramat of a 19th century Sufi traveler from the Middle East who lives on in contemporary Singapore through her miracles and her shrine which was recently removed. Re-membering the keramat has involved a two-year long project of collaborating with Ali, an intermediary of the Sufi and custodian of the masoleum referred to by fellow devotees as "the bearded man". These conversations culminated in the keramat and its life-worlds entering a museum, a transition animated by the display of photographic evidence, material remains or artifacts, anecdotal histories and related documents. Considering alternative ways to recount and understand heritage, The Sufi and the Bearded Man, calls attention to devotional culture, lesser-heard narratives and esotericism in Singapore. [Image credit: Nurul Huda, Singapore 2010] | |
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Ways of Seeing Chinese Art Ongoing
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Ways of Seeing Chinese Art features over 200 objects including ceramics, jades and bronzes from the Lee Kong Chian Collection. The exhibition presents a comprehensive history of Chinese ceramic art with more than 100 ceramic pieces dating from prehistory to the early 20th century, representing wares produced by major kilns in China. [Image: Polychrome Jar with Floral Motif, Late Ming (17th C), Jingdezhen Ware, Jiangxi] Click here for the exhibition brochure in PDF format. | |
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NUS Baba House Ongoing Visits are by appointment only. |
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Baba House is a heritage house which facilitates research and learning about the Peranakan community and its evolution. It exhibits the community’s material culture in a domestic context, providing the unique experience of visiting a Straits Chinese family home dating back to the early 20th century. The Baba House aims to promote a wider appreciation of the Peranakan identity, history and culture, as well as architectural traditions and conservation efforts in Singapore. The Gallery on the third floor hosts temporary exhibitions featuring various Peranakan themes. | |
