The Singapore Night time Competition (SNF) 2023, offered by Samsung, returns from 18 to 26 August 2023. Following the theme “Singapore, the Nice Port Metropolis,” SNF’s 14th version will illuminate the Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) precinct. This vibrant pageant will depict Singapore’s journey from an important port metropolis to the dynamic trendy metropolis it’s at the moment.
Singapore, the Nice Port Metropolis
For this 12 months’s Singapore Night time Competition, you’ll be able to stay up for exploring 700 years of Singapore’s historical past, experiencing a various vary of multicultural festivals that deliver to life the colourful sights, smells, tastes and tales of BBB.
Highlights embrace: Projection Mappings, Curler Skating Disco Rink, Roving Performances, and Competition Villages
Primarily based on this 12 months’s theme, Singapore, the Nice Port Metropolis, there shall be 4 projection mapping works, considered one of which takes on a theatrical narrative and method for the primary time. Together with 12 Night time Lights installations, two roving performances, two experiential programmes, one stage efficiency, 9 accomplice programmes, in addition to three Competition Villages that shall be bustling with a large providing of performances, and meals and beverage experiences.
700 Years
Competition-goers can collect on the garden in entrance of the Nationwide Museum and benefit from the visible deal with tracing Singapore’s early years with 700 Years, offered by Samsung. Spot some treasures from Singapore’s nationwide assortment on this collaborative undertaking by illustrator Muhammad Izdi, playwright Zizi Majid and digital artist Jérémie Bellot (AV Prolonged). For the primary time in Singapore, theatre, visible arts and digital media come collectively to offer this projection mapping a theatrical twist that takes viewers on a timelapse by the huge connectivity of Singapore as a buying and selling hub, from the 14th century till at the moment.
Apart from this projection mapping at Nationwide Museum, there will even be one other set of projections at Chijmes, that includes the artworks of three seasoned artists.
Curler-Skating Disco Rink
Get a pair of curler skates on and roll into the Singapore of yesteryears, from the roaring sixties and seventies. Daybreak Ng reimagines the vigorous disco scene of the BBB precinct on the Nationwide Museum as she pays tribute to the nostalgic period and the discothèques which was within the space with Time is a Black Circle. Set in a psychedelic rotunda of heat blooming colors distinctive to the period passed by, an indoor curler skating rink will deliver festival-goers again to the energising nightlife scene as they groove, jive and skate to well-known hits of the previous.
Roving Performances
There will even be a various line-up of performances throughout each pageant weekends, the place distinctive interpretations of Singapore, the Nice Port Metropolis by native artists, bands and theatre corporations shall be staged at three areas throughout the precinct.
#WaterlooStKakis – the primary collective led by BBB stakeholders in collaboration with neighbouring organisations homed alongside Waterloo Road – celebrates Waterloo Road Tales with a showcase of outside music, audio performs, motion responses and exhibition.
We’ll climate the climate, regardless of the climate, till we can not by Candy Tooth invitations festival-goers to take part in a theatrical procession which debuts three fantastical characters in hanging hues impressed by meteorological maps, symbolising the area’s tempestuous climate patterns and reflecting Singapore’s place as a protected haven.
Competition Villages
In celebration of arts abilities in Singapore, SNF collaborates with Singapore Administration College (SMU) Arts Competition, The Social Put up, for the primary time to current the Predominant Competition Village @ SMU Campus Inexperienced, bringing collectively colleges across the BBB precinct, equivalent to LASALLE School of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Effective Arts, College of the Arts and SMU.
Predominant Competition Village @ SMU Campus Inexperienced showcases works by younger artwork abilities with dwell performances, in addition to SNF-exclusive meals and beverage stalls for festival-goers to soak within the buzzing ambiance of the night-time pageant.
In different elements of the BBB precinct, there are two satellite tv for pc Competition Villages – Competition Village @ Armenian Road and Competition Village @ CHIJMES – which current Night time Lights, projection mappings, performances and an eclectic arrange of meals experiences.
Devoted Household Zone at Fort Canning Rise
Concentrated round Fort Canning Rise, households can stay up for youngsters’s programmes at Kids’s Museum Singapore, a roving efficiency by Candy Tooth and light-weight installations with specifically designed interactive components for younger youngsters.
A Gamified Expertise – Verify in to win at numerous SNF 2023 venues
This 12 months, festival-goers can improve their expertise with Night time Stroll, a gamified internet app. By checking in at 10 key checkpoints scattered all through the pageant, you’ll unlock bonus audio and digital tales in regards to the paintings and areas. And in case you log your arrival in any respect 10 stops, you’ll have an opportunity to win a grand prize on the finish of SNF 2023.
For extra info, go to Singapore Night time Competition 2023.
