Singapore Night Festival 2023 At Bras Basah & Bugis Has Light Installations, Projection Mappings, Performances
Itching for an after-dark activity that isn't clubbing or having supper? Singapore Night Festival (SNF) 2023 has you covered. Running every night every night till 26 August 2023, from 7.30pm to 12am, the extravaganza will have projection mappings, Night Lights installations, performances and tours across the Bras Basah.Bugis precinct.
Here are the highlights:
National Museum of Singapore
Created by playwright Zizi Majid, illustrator Muhammad Izdi and digital artist Jérémie Bellot, the six-minute theatrical experience on the facade of the museum brings the past 700 years of Singapore's port city history to life.
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While you're in that area, check out other light-ups including the funky LED Wall outside of SUPERMAMA as part of GIFFEST III: IMPERFECT COMPILATION.
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Festival go-ers will also find a Disco Time Portal, the main act of SNF, at the museum. Titled Time is a Black Circle, this immersive multisensorial experience by artist Dawn Ng transports participants to discothèques of the roaring sixties and seventies. Tickets are available via Klook for $27.
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CHIJMES
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Over at CHIJMES, stunning projection mapping artwork by Chis Chai covers the gothic architecture in vibrant colours and patterns portraying Singapore as a portal to a more prosperous existence.
Festival Village @ Armenian Street
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There's also plenty going on at Festival Village @ Armenian Street, including Peranakan-themed festivities, eclectic music, food and drinks.
A few steps away from the main lights, beside The Bible House, is a futuristic structure inspired by Singapore's first experimental botanical garden, built circa 1822 by Sir Stamford Raffles.
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Funan
The Funan Kinetic Wall has been taken over by the SeaScape Symphony, a display of otherworldly sea creatures and aquatic landscapes found along Singapore's shores.
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This installation also has a fun interactive element where visitors can blow virtual bubbles using the bubble makers.
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Stamford Arts Centre
This quirky installation, inspired by the flora and the Sanskrit term for play, Lila (लला), is designed to draw participants to the seesaws like moths to light.
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Bugis Street
As you're strolling Bugis Street, look up to marvel at Florescence, an inflatable installation where a giant periwinkle flower seems to have taken over the building, with "stems" growing through the windows.
Here's some fun trivia: in Singapore's early days as a bustling port city, the periwinkle held significance as a traded item thanks to its medicinal properties.
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Singapore Night Festival 2023 runs from 18 to 26 August 2023. Visit go.gov.sg/sgnightfest for more information.
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