Night Festival

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Fri 16 Jul & Sat 17 Jul 2010 (2 nights only) | 7.30pm – 2am
Presented by National Museum of Singapore
With The Peranakan Museum, Singapore Art Museum, SAM at 8Q, Singapore Management University and The Substation

FREE ADMISSION

From 7.30pm till the wee hours of 2am, festival goers can revel at the reinvented magical playground in the pulsating avenue of Singapore’s arts and heritage district. Acts from Singapore as well as various South-East Asian countries will be entertaining festival goers with a dazzling spectacle of street theatre extravaganza, magical lights and carnivalesque play to retell the story of this era.

PARABOLES 2.0
By Compagnie Off (France)

Presented by French performance group Compagnie Off, audience will be awestruck by this a dynamic performance involving six giant satellite dishes that will spring from the urban grounds right before the National Museum of Singapore. The performance will be accompanied by stroboscopic flashing light, haunting imagery and abstract sounds that symbolise interstellar activity. The story of the relationship between humans and the cosmos, set within the context of the urban city will be explored in this visually stunning outdoor act performance.

Also catch these other amazing activities and programmes including:

(NOT) UNDER THE BANYAN TREE: OPEN AIR CINEMA
A Programme of the National Museum Cinémathèque

Dua Kali
The Love Eterne

A NIGHT AT THE PERANAKAN MUSEUM
Venture into the Glow-in-the-Dark room for some family-friendly fun or visit the special exhibition, Ramayana Revisited: A Tale of Love & Adventure. Then treat yourself to performances by Lunar Node, The Pinholes and Vocaluptuous.

ABUSEMENT PARK AT THE SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
The Singapore Art Museum will be under siege of the Black Baroque Interventionists and Vertical Submarine who will convert parts of the building (including the underground dungeon of SAM) into an Abusement Park. Be entertained by the basics of pain at the shooting gallery and the guillotine, or experience the unexpected with the Hungry Artist and Private Poverty.

PUTHO – CIRCUS ACTS AT SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY GREEN
Catch these dare-devil acrobats in a range of physical contortions, balancing and breath-taking stunts!

LIVE MUSIC GIGS AT THE SUBSTATION
Groove to live music performances by Bani Haykal, Lunarin, Mux, The Analog Girl, Ugly in The Morning and Westside.

For more information, please log on to www.nationalmusem.sg.