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New Finds

In Asian premieres which will present a unique vision of animation theatre, the Festival will present The Great War by Hotel Modern (The Netherlands), and SAMOVAR: Check Out Chekov by Schauspielhaus Vienna (Austria).

In another Asian premiere, leading company in contemporary music theatre, Chamber Made Opera (Australia) will perform Phobia, a Hitchcock-inspired thriller complete with an enchanting soundscape created in the fashion of multi-tasking Foley artists.

In the vein of regularly showcasing emerging artists, the Festival presents Victoria Hanna and the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet (Israel) in Jerusalem Dreaming, where ancient prayer texts and Hebrew poetry are rendered in original compositions.

In the concert by The Vegetable Orchestra (Austria), audiences will enjoy the organic contemporary music of vegetable instruments.

Other acts making their Festival debut include Al Kasaba Theatre & Cinematheque (The Palestinian Territories) with their work The Wall, and Singapore’s premier wind orchestra, The Philharmonic Winds, whose concert presents a repertoire of wind music that includes the world premiere of artistic director and resident conductor Dr Robert Casteels’ Second Symphony.

　

WORKSHOPS & TALKS

In another Festival first, we will be presenting a 5-day International Workshop on Suzuki and Viewpoints Acting Method by the visionary artistic director of the SITI Company (USA) Anne Bogart, and members of the company. The workshop, organised in association with Practice's Theatre Training & Research Programme, will provide theatre professionals in Singapore and Asia a first-hand opportunity to learn from Bogart, who co-founded the company with renowned theatre artist Tadashi Suzuki, the name behind the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.

There are many other workshops and talks in the Festival. Please refer to the annexes for more details.

Outreach Programme

An integral component of the Singapore Arts Festival has always been its extensive Outreach Programme which brings the Festival mostly free to people throughout Singapore. 

This year, regular features such as KIDSFEST, Special Events, Weekend Highlights, Arts on the Move and Closing Celebrations return with high-action, interactive shows for everyone. The unique and entertaining shows in the Special Events include Finals! by Grejpfrut (Slovenia), where unsuspecting passerbys are pit against one another in an interactive soccer match right on the streets; and Deviation’s (France) Ecrans Tambours (Screen Drums), whose thumping voyage of movement and percussion music in water are a definite must-see. Weekend Highlights includes a Grandioso of Hundred Guzhengs, combining Java and Sundanese zithers, the Morinkhuur and Yatga from Mongolia with the Chinese guzheng.

In a first for the Festival, Singapore’s newest music platform POPagenda Singapore brings three weekends of Asian pop n’ rock music developing Singapore’s own brand of S-Pop.  A contemporary pop music platform showcasing established and emerging local and regional talents, it is also planned as a hub for discovering new Asian talents. Four key events make up the new platform - Rock D’Fort; Pop Village; Rock Opera the Musical and Bandhana.

In Asian Showcase, the richness of traditional Asian arts feature strongly. Pasar Theatre entertains with street puppetry, cross-talk, jianggu (storytelling), martial arts and folk singing. Baba Nyonya, HIStory and HERitage by The Main Wayang Company, delves into the colourful Peranakan past of romance and courtship rituals, handicrafts, traditional games and tales in music, song and dance. Other Asian Showcase productions include Taal Express by the Temple of Fine Arts, Sichuan Province Chuan Opera Spectacular and Zhanjiang Cantonese Opera Evergreens by the Kreta Ayer People’s Theatre and Street Play by The Theatre Practice.

In the Festival’s Visual Arts programme this year, the biennial Month of Photography 2006 (Singapore) will bring together French Masters, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau and five new Singaporean photographers. Supernatural Artificial features contemporary photo-based art from Australia while Titled-Untitled, a project of the Singapore-India Executive Programme, will showcase 60 paintings by 30 of India’s eminent abstract artists.  Migration Addicts at Sculpture Square features site-specifc works of 6 artists Ang Soo Koon (Singapore), Susanne Winterling (Germany), Naho Kawabe (Japan) , Jin Shan, Huang Kui and Jiang Chongwu (China). islanded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore is an exhibition of works by 12 established and emerging contemporary artists from three islands in the Asia-Pacific region: New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.  The Scenic Eye at the National Museum of Singapore explores the meaning of theatre to visual artists.

As always the Festival will come to a breathtaking close with Closing Celebrations. This year Spanish troupe, Puja! performs K@osmos, an aerial acrobatic performance with live music, daredevil artistes, special effects and pyrotechnics in mid-air.

Be ready to explore, enjoy and experience the finest of the performing arts and a wide array of engaging programmes, dialogues and workshops at affordable prices and accessible venues. Join in the revelry and celebration of the many faces of the arts!

Annex 1

Festival Hotline: (65) 6837 9589

Festival Website: www.singaporeartsfest.com

Festival Email: NAC_ArtsFest@nac.gov.sg

Annex 2

* includes core, outreach and KIDSFEST

Information accurate as of 31 March 2006

Annex 3

Summary of Productions

(I) CORE PROGRAMMES DANCE

(II) OUTREACH PROGRAMMES

KIDSFEST

Date : 1 – 6 June Venue : The Arts Centre at Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road)

Tickets : $20 per show A refreshing line-up of programmes designed for the young and the young at heart!

Discount and Ticketing Details

EARLY BIRD TICKET SALES

24 Feb 2006 to 17 April 2006

General Public

·         10% discount for any value of purchase

·         Special Package discounts of 15% for single purchase of tickets to 3 or 4 shows, and 20% for 5 or more shows

GENERAL SALES

18 April 2006 to 25 June 2006

General Public

·         Special Package discounts of 10% for single purchase of tickets to 3 or 4 shows, and 15% for 5 or more shows

SPECIAL CONCESSIONS

24 Feb 2006 to 25 June 2006

Students/ Senior Citizens/ NSF

·         20% discount for any value of purchase (1 ticket per pass per show)

·         Students, Senior Citizens and NSF must produce relevant and valid identification at point of purchase to enjoy discounts.

HOW TO BOOK

By Internet

www.singaporeartsfest.com 

www.sistic.com.sg 

Credit card payment only

By telephone

Call SISTIC Hotline at (65) 6348 5555

Mon to Sat: 10.00am to 10.00pm

Sun & Public Holidays: 12.00pm to 8.00pm

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At SISTIC Counters

Cash, NETS and Credit Card payment only

All ticket prices exclude SISTIC handling fee.

School and corporate bookings are also available.

For more information, log on to: www.singaporeartsfest.com.

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10 lucky winners will each win a pair of tickets to any Singapore Arts Festival 2006 performance of your choice (subject to availability).

Closing date: 10 May 2006. Terms and conditions apply.

Festival Partners

Official Sponsors

Official Online Media        :      Yahoo! Singapore

Official Magazine       :      TIME

Official TV Station      :      MediaCorp TV12 Arts Central

Official Airline             :      Singapore Airlines

Premier Partners

• OCBC Bank
• Singapore Press Holdings Limited
• Singapore Totalisator Board
• Singapore Tourism Board

Major Sponsors

• The Keppel Group
• Lee Foundation
• Wing Tai Holdings Limited
• HSBC
• City Developments Limited (Chinatown Point)
• Raffles City
• Moove Media Pte Ltd
• StarHub

Sponsors

• French Embassy in Singapore
• Ho Bee Group
• Hong Leong Foundation
• Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Singapore

Festival Supporters

• Allson Hotel
• Austrian Embassy Jakarta
• Australian High Commission
• British Council
• Central Singapore Community Development Council
• Chip Lian Investments Pte Ltd
• Cold Storage Supermarkets
• Copthorne King’s Hotel
• Embassy of Brazil
• Embassy of Israel
• Embassy of Spain
• Fraser Serviced Residences
• Gramophone
• Gryphon Tea
• Hotel Royal @ Queens
• Housing & Development Board
• National Library Board
• Neptune Orient Lines
• North West Community Development Council and Woodlands Grassroots Organisations
• PSA International Pte Ltd
• Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore
• Singapore General Hospital
• Singapore Shipping Corporation Limited
• South West Community Development Council
• Team Singapore at Singapore Sports Council
• The Heeren Shops
• Yoonly Enterprise Pte Ltd

Source: www.nac.gov.sg News Release 31 Mar 2006

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