Night Festival @ The National Museum of Singapore
18 – 19 and 25 -26 July 2008
Singapore

Night Festival @ The National Museum of Singapore

The Night Festival is an extravaganza of theatre, music, dance and visual arts at the heart of Singapore’s arts and heritage district. Helmed by the National Museum of Singapore, the Festival takes place over two Fridays and Saturdays, 18 & 19 and 25 & 26 July 2008.  in July and will be headlined by the scale and excitement of an outdoor spectacle mounted by renowned Italian group Studio Festi, as well as a festive outdoor party by local nightlife establishment Zouk.

Events Highlights

Studio Festi
International performing arts company known for staging large-scale outdoor extranganzas of dance, acrobatics and pyrotechnics. Projects they have completed include the opening for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, and the recent 100-day Olympic countdown celebrations in Macau. Making use of the expansive landscape for the Night Festival, the sky is literally the limit as Studio Festi pulls out all stops and transforms the Museum grounds and SMU Campus Green with soaring dancers, helium-balloon ‘planets’ and flying ships and pianos.

The Electric Canvas
Sydney-based lighting effects company that specialises in large-scale light projections on historic buildings. Specially for the Night Festival, they will be transforming the façades of the National Museum and the Singapore Art Museum into elaborate works of art.

Reform
Perth-based arts group PVI Collective hits the Night Festival with Reform, an outdoor performance work that behaves itself…to the extreme. Armed with an overzealous enthusiasm for current legislation, laws and social standards, PVI’s comic taskforce attempts to implement their own brand of patriotic conformity at the Night Festival. The audience, tuning in via portable FM radios and headsets, can join in their antics as they applaud good behaviour or offer neighbourly advice to any ‘wayward citizens’ at the festival grounds.

Baby, Where Are All The Fine Things You Promised Me?
Baby, Where Are All The Fine Things You Promised Me? is an interactive installation-cum-street performance by New Zealander Stephen Bain. Visitors will see a quaint model of an old school quarter-acre house at first, but will be amazed to discover a man living ship-in-a-bottle style within the tiny 1.5m by 1.5m house. Chat with the actor as he plays music and cooks within his home. If you’re lucky you might even get to share a cup of tea with him!

Celebration
The Happy Puppetry Company has devoted itself to the preservation of traditional Chinese puppetry culture and is famous for its exquisite puppets and dramatic shows. Directed by leading Taiwanese female puppeteer, Ms Sih-mei Chiang, with her son Chia-tsai Ko and grandsons Shih-hong Ko and Shih-hua Ko. The Happy Puppetry Company will present a show entitled Celebration, backed by an ensemble of traditional musicians.

Fuchsia Fusion Quartet
Featuring Kalliope Coplin (Vocal), Christian Su (Piano), Francis Chan (Bass) and Simon Hyett (Percussion). Fuchsia Fusion Quartet embraces the spectrum of Soul, Funk, Jazz and Contemporary. Life is existential- let Fuchsia take you on a musical journey.

Paul Ponnudorai
Paul’s love for jazz, country, rock and blues is evident in his spontaneous playing and singing. His musicianship makes him a true legend in the music scene of South-East Asia. Paul has recently released an album “Right on Time”.

Etnia
A distinct concoction of everything Latin fused together by internationally acclaimed artistes Lauren Mungia (flute), Mario Lopez (Bass), Marcela Pinilla (Vocal), Alina Ramirez (Piano), Faiser Florez (Timbal & Drums), Joe J. (Percussionist). Their rhythm’s going to get you!

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