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22 to 25 July 2009
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Let's Walk Some More - An interactive activity based on the histories and memories in and around The Substation - with Amanda Heng
Presented by The Substation & the Night Festival 2009
Sat 11 July, 7.30 pm
Meeting Point: The Substation
Free admission. To register, please email admin@substation.org to reserve a place. Spaces limited.
The Substation building and Gallery will be open until midnight and this event is part of the Night Festival.
Local visual artist Amanda Heng will lead participants drawn from members of the public, in an interactive activity based around the histories and memories of the location around the vicinity of The Substation (eg. Stamford Road, Armenian Street, etc).
This project proposes revisiting the most fundamental, natural, simple and often ignored body action of walking, to explore the relations and possibilities with the experiential, the poetic, performative, narrative, investigative and interactive in the everyday life, the human relations, the political and cultural structure of urban cities.
The Struggle of the Starving Artist - Necessity or Romantic Myth? UNCONFERENCE returns!
Presented by The Substation & the Night Festival 2009
Fri 10 & Sat 11 July, 7 pm
The Substation Theatre
Free admission. To register, please email emily@substation.org to reserve a place. Spaces limited. Refreshments provided.
The Substation building and Gallery will be open until midnight and this event is part of the Night Festival.
Unconference goes straight to the fun part of a conference - the times when people can chat and network. Participants have four minutes to have a speed-dating style one-on-one chat about the art topic - The struggle of the starving artist – necessity or romantic myth? Indulge in deep discussions about the arts through fun challenges and stimuli provided by the organisers. At the end of the evening, four lucky participants will get the chance to enjoy an exclusive late-night supper on the rooftop of The Substation!
Filmmaker's Town Hall Meeting at The Substation
On Thurs 25 June, we held an informal town hall meeting for filmmakers. It is the first in a series, we hope, where the group can discuss pertinent issues related to building and supporting the filmmaking community.
Tank Man Tango - 20th Anniversary Of The Tiananmen Square Protests
Presented by The Substation & Deborah Kelly
Tank Man Tango was a momentary monument to the Tiananmen Square protestors from June 1989, a memorial made of dancing bodies in cities around the world. An echo across time and space, multiplied against forgetting; an image, a public participatory performance; an enduring online artefact. Like the other event of global impact in the same year – the fall of the Berlin Wall – events in Tiananmen Square on 4 and 5 June 1989 changed the world. In 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the crushing of a movement for change in China was an opportunity to consider the steps we must take to approach and sustain democracy.
Click here for more information.
Sanna Myrtinnen, with support from The Substation Presents:
Back to the Roots - an environmental art project dedicated to BOS (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation)
From 2 to 11 July
The Substation Gallery
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily
For more information, please click here or visit www.sanna-art.com
The idea to dedicate an art show to the world’s largest primate rescue project BOS (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation) came to me while working as a volunteer in the heart of Borneo’s rapidly disappearing rainforests. After seeing both the immense ecological destruction but also mankind’s desperate attempts to save the little that is left, I realized that this was something I would not be able to walk away from and forget. So back in Europe and with a wish to share my experiences, I decided to give students from different countries and backgrounds the opportunity to get involved in this unique environmental arts project.
The project that has subsequently involved hundreds of international students from Munich International School, Germany, takes the audience from a carefree paradise to the effects of consumerism and to what hopefully could be the beginnings of a new and more sustainable Earth.
The Substation Moving Images Presents:
First Take - July - LINE UP CHANGED!
Mon 6 July, 8 pm
The Substation Theatre
Free admission. Donations welcome!
Sponsored by KODAK.
First Take, happening every first Monday of the month, is a regular platform for new and first-time filmmakers to show their work and share ideas with other filmmakers and audiences. This programme was inspired by discussions with local filmmakers and Moving Images supporters and provides a vital and vitalizing forum for new and first-time local filmmakers.
1. ONE PLUS ONE / KELLY SWEE / 11 MIN / 2008 / PG
2.
CRAB! / TEO CHRISTINA JOLENE / 24 MIN / 2009 / PG (pictured above)
3. LOL.SG / MARILYN LOO / 18 MIN / 2009 / PG
For more information please click here.
Casting Creations Present :
The Daniel James Sketch Show
Fri 17 July, 7:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $12. For tickets and enquiries, please email thesketch@post.com
Age restrictions: 16 years and above
A glimpse of how Singaporeans are and a little look on the life in Singapore. Have a laugh as Daniel James covers some of the aspects of being a Singaporean in Singapore and a little of how the experience of a tourist visiting Singapore may be captured in an usual way that may seem as unthinkable, unspeakable and probably arguable.
Sketches that seem so random but when noticed from a distance uncovers what we love to explain as ‘Singapore’s Hilarious Crimes’. An entertaining event, packed with stand up comedy, live sketches and entertainment from some of our acts in the local music scene. To top it all off, CDs from our local acts will be sold in our very own ‘Kampong Market’ (please email TheSketch@post.com for previews).
Richard Philip & Law Soo Leng Present :
NIGHT
Sat 18 July, 4pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: free
Directed by Richard Philip & Law Soo Leng, with support from The Substation
Some strangers meet one last time in an old inn before their lives end. It had entered their knowledge that the night of their meeting will be their last night on earth. They have been told that by dawn, their lives would end. Each of them has exactly 37,800 heartbeats left. During their final moments, as they await the end, they develop relationships with the other strangers at the inn. They drink deeply of intimacy, passion, sorrow, sadness, confusion, pain, pleasure and madness as they try and live all of life in the quickly passing hours.
“Night” is a multi-disciplinary work that tells a love story about life. We appreciate the value in most things when they are close to ending. When we know for sure that something is finite we tend to be a little more mindful about its value. On the other hand, knowing that an experience can end anytime could make us more carefree or even reckless, because after all, the end is near and imminent.
Atelier HOKO Presents :
:ON ARRANGEMENT
24th July to 6th August
The Substation Gallery
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily
Admission: free
For more information please visit www.hokostudio.com/atelier
We are constantly re-arranging ourselves. arranging things, appointments, meetings, objects, words, sentences, language, food, flowers, shoes, clothes, furniture, interiors, things in drawers, in cabinets. Arranging is like breathing the air around you but arrangement also goes beyond death. Arrangements for funerals, for a coffin, for a tomb space, receiving flower arrangements every year on your death anniversary. After thirty years, your bones get dug up from the grave, re-arranged to another place… Directed by Atelier HOKO, this exhibition will showcase the findings of arrangement through the eyes of 14 international artists’ and designers’ inquiries into the behaviours of our everyday.
CNAVAS! PRESENTS :
Access Denied
Sat 25 July, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20.
For tickets and enquiries, please call Suyee on 9105 3535 or Edlyn on 9697 3084
Age restrictions: 16 years and above preferred.
A self-written play inspired by various international texts, 'Access Denied' showcases and explores identity of self and a psychoanalysis into the different realms of gender. A culmination of ideas from research papers, various scripts and actors' personal experiences, 'Access Denied' promises to be a play that engages audiences intellectually and emotionally.
Come ready to delve into your soul as we bring you into a world of private secrets. Of what it means to touch, to feel, to love, to lose, to choose, we’re about to find out. Join us? Your pass, please.
Singapore Film society Presents :
Best of Ottawa – A Pre-Festival Screening of Animation Nation 2009
Fri 31 July, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free!
Duration: 70 mins, Rated M18
Email AN2009@sfs.org.sg to register
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding short films presented in the Official Competition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), one of the largest and most recognized animation festivals in the world. sSingapore Film Society is proud to present the Best of Ottawa program as a pre-festival special screening of Animation Nation 2009.
Highlights from the Best of Ottawa 2008 program includes exceptional short animations such as: Andy & Carolyn London's thought-provoking A Letter to Colleen; The Comic That Frenches Your Mind, a brain-melting trip by veteran director Bruce Bickford; The Control Master, a hilarious and suspenseful adventure by Run Wrake; and Chainsaw, the intense award-winning animation from Dennis Tupicoff,
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The Substation Courses - Basic Photography
We have a Basic Photography course starting next month. Sign up now as there are only limited spaces! Click here for more info.
We run enriching courses regularly here at The Substation. Sign up NOW! Please click on http://www.substation.org/courses/ or email chris@substation.org for more information.
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Timbre @ The Substation
Timbre @ The Substation is a great place to unwind over some drinks and good food, with live local music to energise your creative side! Located behind The Substation, it's a fabulous venue for hanging out with friends! For more info and reservation details, please click here.
The Substation Presents :
The Substation Online Magazine
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Check out the latest articles - editorial by award-winning writer, poet and performer Ng Yi-Sheng!
Presentation:
Outreach- For Schools and Young People
In 2008, we're continuing to make OUTREACH a priority: we want to connect with new audiences, in particular with young people, and nurture their appreciation while helping them develop useful life-skills.
And that's why we're organizing a wide range of programmes tailored to the youth, spanning from film seminars to art and culture essay writing workshops.
To find out more about our outreach programmes: http://www.substation.org/outreach
The Substation Theatre Projector :
The Substation Theatre Projector is Sponsored by SONY
Since our projector suddenly went kaput just before the Singapore Indie Doc Fest started in March, we've been frantically searching for a replacement.
So we are very pleased (and grateful) to announce that SONY have kindly sponsored the new projector in The Substation Theatre!
In addition to SONY, we would also like to thank one of our long-time supporters, who helped us immensely with the introductions to the lovely folks at SONY.
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