Singapore Season in China 2007 @ Beijing & Shanghai
12 October to 10 November 2007

Singapore Season debuts in China from 12 October to 10 November

The Singapore Season is a multi-agency effort to showcase Singapore’s artistic and cultural achievements in key global cities. The line-up includes programmes in the arts, business, media, and design to highlight the attractiveness of Singapore as a place to work, live and play. Singapore Season in China 2007 will be held in Beijing and Shanghai from 12 October – 10 November 2007.

First launched in London in 2005, Singapore Season London 2005 spanned six weeks and featured performances by Singapore arts groups and artists at key arts venues, as well as associated events such as the Singapore Conference, the Singapore Evening, the naming of the Uniquely Singapore Clipper, the Singapore Season Film Week and the Singapore Food Festival. The patron of Singapore Season is Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong

Singapore Season in China 2007 is the second in the series of overseas ventures. Through the programmes, Singapore companies operating in China, and vice versa, will fill the Season an excellent platform for generating in China, and vice verse, will find the Season an excellent platform for generating higher brand profile and awareness especially in Beijing and Shanghai. Since China and Singapore established diplomatic relations more than ten years ago, economic cooperation between the two countries has grown steadily and is expected to increase further, China is now Singapore’s third largest trading partner and top foreign investment destination.

The key events including:

Singapore Evening galas, which will be graced by Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively;

Singapore Seminar, a networking event to promote Singapore as an investment and business destination;

Singapore-China Media Business Forum, and

Singapore Design exhibition, which explores the discourse of Singapore design.

The month-long programme in China boasts a holistic and invigorating line-up of music, theatre, dance, visual arts, design and literary events. Prominent art groups and performers include the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Dance Theatre, Drama Box, Mark Chan and Singapore pop star JJ Lin.

A multi-cultural delegation of Singapore writers will also be showcased at a series of exhibitions, readings and forums. The works of Singaporean artists such as Chen Wen Hsi, Goh Beng Kwan, Wong Keen and Vincent Leow, and a photography project on 14 distinguished Chinese ink painters by Chua SooBin will also be presented. In addition, there will be a Singapore Film Festival featuring popular Singapore films such as “I Not Stupid Too”. Besides, ticketed events, the public in China will also get to experience Singapore Season at outreach shows featuring People’s Association Talent, Wick Aura Batucada and The Nuradee Brothers

The Season will serve as a platform for artistic exchanges and collaboration between artists in Singapore and China. Some of these collaborations will be featured in the prestigious Beijing Music Festival and the China Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF). Singapore is the first Asian country to be presented in the Culture Week of the CSIAF.

Singapore Season in China 2007 is organized by the Ministry of Information, Communications and Arts and the National Arts Council, in collaboration with Contact Singapore, DesignSingapore, Economic Development Board, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, International Enterprise Singapore, Media Development Authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry, People’s Association, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Tourism Board, SPRING Singapore and Urban Redevelopment Authority.

For more information on Singapore Season, visit www.singaporeseason.com

Edited by Eugene Tang. Photo Courtesy of DesignSingapore and Singapore Tourism Board. All Rights reserved