THE SUBSTATION'S SEPTFEST IS HERE AGAIN!
Since 1990 when The Substation was founded by Kuo Pao Kun, we’ve kept faith with his vision of nurturing experimentation, innovation and diversity in the arts. We’ve enabled emerging talent as well as championed challenging artists. This year, as always, SeptFest is a showcase of the art that we love and support. As we look ahead to the next 18 years – of more drinking, smoking, and other adult vices… no, seriously… we also look back and reflect on how we’ve grown up with the local arts community and the roads we’ve travelled together.
Come and celebrate our 18th birthday – everyone’s welcome!
Opening Weekend! :
Opening Night Party!
Friday 29 August , 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: by donation
Act 1: Performance Art
by
by anGie seah, Juliana Yasin, Wilson Goh and Chin (pictured above left).
Act 2: Literati: Come celebrate the power of meaningful words at Literati!!! A showcase of poetry, prose and music delivered by talented local writers, storytellers and musicians. Featuring Kamini Ramachandran (a professional storyteller, founder and president of MoonShadow Stories), Cyril Wong (author of
Tilting Our Plates To Catch The Light (Firstfruits Publications)
and recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize in 2006), and Jon Chan (frontman of punk-rock legendary band Plainsunset, songwriter for Sonic Edge Band and currently working on his debut solo release). Organised by Platform (The Label).
Official Wine Sponsor of Opening Night Party: Caveau
Opening Weekend! :
AYASCHOOL : JUNGLEGYM
Saturday 30 August, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $25 from The Substation Box Office - call 6337 7800
Aya Sekine (pictured) is an energetic, quirky, experimental jazz pianist who will be performing with Budi & Riduan Zalani (Wicked Aura Batucada), Tan Boon Gee and Yuta Nakayama. As Aya experiments with rhythms with Budi on Repinique (Brazilian snare drum), and Boon Gee on drum set, Riduan will trigger his handheld Brazilian percussion instruments, especially his Pandeiro (very close to tambourine but with more sizzles and depth in sound), with his electro gadgets. Whilst Aya embraces all the beats and pushes the edge with her analogue synthesizers and gadgets, Yuta Nakayama will improvise his innovative home-made gadgets that stole his show with Aya at the Choppa Festival held at LASALLE College of the Arts. It’s a mad new JUNGLE, it’s a wonderful mayhem that will exist for one night only.
Official Beer: Archipelago. Official Wine Sponsor: Caveau
The Substation & FARM Present :
ROJAK 12
Sunday 31 August, 3 to 6pm
The Substation Theatre
Free admission
The 12th ROJAK is hosted by The Substation features a fabulous assortment of 10 local creatives. Presented by FARM. Featuring: Eng Yee Peng (film), Perception3 (photography & film), Jacen Tan (film), Randy Chan (architecture), Ang Song Ming (sound), Lawrence Abrahamson (art), Laura Soon (art), Lim Shengen (art), Jing (photography) and Mintio (photography).
1. ROJAK is derived from a local salad dish of mixed vegetables and fruit and the term is used to describe mixture and variety.
2. ROJAK is all about the spirit of sharing.
3. ROJAK began as an intimate house gathering where we shared common beliefs, dreams, and lotsa drinks.
4. ROJAK is an art & design sharing session featuring 10 local creatives held every quarterly.
5. ROJAK is open for everyone who wants to share their works. For point 6 to 10 please visit www.farm.sg
SeptFest Performance :
Nanjing: 1937 Phase II – A Solo Performance by Nelson Chia
Friday 5 & Saturday 6 September, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $15 & $10 for 4+ students, $12 for PAssion members, from The Substation Box Office on 6337 7800
The next phase of a work first presented during SeptFest 2007, based on materials on the Nanjing massacre during the second Sino-Japanese War. The artist reflects on our contemporary response to the brutal facts as recorded in historical texts, as well as the historical records themselves.
SeptFest Exhibition:
New Castle:
A Solo exhibition by Chua Chye Teck
Saturday 6 to Tuesday 16 September
Opening night: Sat 6 Sept, 7pm
The Substation Gallery
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily
An exhibition of twelve photographs taken during Chye Teck’s residency in Newcastle, UK. With this series of photos, the artist explores "how space planning affects society and the way people behave". The exhibition examines slowness and memory in the deceptively sedate and isolated suburban landscape
around Newcastle. Commissioned by the International Photography
Research Network, they are loosely based on the theme of “Work, Place
and People”.
Supported by NAC, Arts Fund, Alcan, Dibond and Q Framing
Official Wine Sponsor: Caveau
SeptFest Performance :
POVERTY
Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 September, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $15 & $10 for 4+ students, $12 for PAssion members, from The Substation Box Office on 6337 7800.
Please join the artists for refreshments after the performances on 12 & 13 Sept.
POVERTY is a movement theatre performance directed by Law Soo Leng and Richard Philip that touches on the disturbing prevalence of child prostitution. Using a collage of dramatic scenes the piece provides an artistic perspective to the moral, sociological and cultural problem of child prostitution.
The Substation Moving Images Programme Presents :
8th Asian Film Symposium
Sunday 14 to Monday 22 September, 8pm
Opening & Closing films at The Picturehouse
All other screenings at
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: Opening/Closing - $12/$10 students & NSF through www.thepicturehouse.com.sg; All other screenings $8/$6 students and NSF from The Substation Box Office - 6337 7800.
A highly regarded film programme that brings together exceptional local and regional independent films and filmmakers and includes “S-Express”, a regional travelling short film programme. Please visit www.subbstation.org/AFS08.html for more info and the film schedules.
Supported by Lee Foundation, Singapore Film Commission, & The Picturehouse.
Official wine sponsor: Caveau
SeptFest Exhibition :
Jurong West Street 81 by Shannon Castleman
Friday 19 to Monday 29 September
Opening night: Friday 19 Sept, 7pm
The Substation Gallery
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily
Most Singaporeans live in HDB flats. But there is often little
interaction between buildings which are just metres apart. Shannon
Castleman and the residents of Jurong West Street 81 present an
artwork about neighbours discovering neighbours, and making
connections. Shannon has organised thirty residents who live in
blocks that face opposite each other to video-tape one another.
Supported by National Arts Council, Canon & NTU School of Art, Design & Media
Official Wine Sponsor: Caveau
SeptFest DIY Week :
To Each Their Own
Monday 22 to Saturday 27 September
The Substation
Admission by donation
Different works by different artists on different days in different places. Presented by LIONCITYDIY and Platform. Check out www.lioncitydiy.com for more information. Programme includes:
Monday 22 September
Random Room: Opening reception & photography exhibition
Foyer: Poetry reading & acoustic gig (TBC)
Theatre: Guerilla film screening
Tuesday 23 September
Random Room: Photography exhibition
Foyer: DIY haircuts (TBC)
Theatre: Forum Part I
Wednesday 24 September
Random Room: Photography exhibition
Foyer: Distro Day Out: a day where all music distributors get free first-come-first-served space to sell their merch! (TBC)
Theatre: SKITzophrenia performance
Thursday 25 September
Random Room: closing party & last day of photography exhibition
Foyer: Poetry reading (TBC)
Theatre: Forum Part II
Friday 26 September, 8pm &
Saturday 27 September, 3pm
Subculture
Presented by Underground Theatre in collaboration with Lioncity DIY
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $15 from The Substation Box Office or email dew.chaiyanara@gmail.com
The Punks and The Peranakans both share the same playground.
2 distinct cultures with very different views collide and thus begin the struggle to claim their rightful territory.
Can they live in cohesion at The Station?
Written & Directed by Dew M. Chaiyanara (SBA Merit Award: Scriptwriting).
Performed by real Punks & Peranakans including:
Candice De Rozario (Life! Theatre Awards: Best Ensemble),
Faizal Abdullah,
Gillian Tan, Gloria Tan (Short & Sweet Festival: Best Supporting Actress),
Hemang Yadav (Singapore Writers Festival: Best Performer),
Hirzi Zulkiflie,
Lee Gao Ju,
Max Ling (Magician Unlimited 2005 Award),
Shaiful Risan (Lioncity DIY) and
Vanessa Victoria (Lioncity DIY).
Lighting Design by: Thaib A. Wahab (Lioncity DIY). Venue sponsor: The Substation
Saturday 27 September
Foyer: Distro Day Out: a day where all music distributors get free first-come-first-served space to sell their merch!
SeptFest Performance :
Curry Devil – A Solo Performance by Elizabeth de Roza
Friday 3 & Saturday 4 October, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $15 & $10 for 4+ students, $12 for PAssion members, from The Substation Box Office on 6337 7800
A work in development, this performance is a story of a woman and her relationship with her mother exploring her roots from Malacca to Singapore, trying to make sense of her existence in contemporary Singapore. Conceptualised and performed by Elizabeth de Roza (pictured) with collaborator/director Alvin Tan it is developed from an original text by Cyril Wong. A draft version of this work was performed in January 2008 at the Magdalena Sin Fronteras theatre festival in Cuba.