5 Things To Do This Week in Singapore: 24th to 30th October 2016

PUBLISHED October 24th, 2016 06:00 am | UPDATED May 14th, 2018 01:04 pm

This week, catch one of New Zealand’s biggest music sensations, get a dose of happily ever laughter, visit the Singapore Biennale, participate in a scare fest at Fort Canning Park, and more.

TIKI TAANE Live in Singapore

One of New Zealand’s most popular and diverse artists and producers, Tiki Taane has often been considered a pioneer in the NZ music scene – first a frontman of leading band Salmonella Dub in 1996, and then embarking on his solo career in 2007. Best known for his acoustic love ballad Always On My Mind, his extraordinary ability to rock the mic and unify an audience, catch Tiki live here at the Hard Rock Cafe with his mix of dubstep, reggae, drum n bass, and hip hop.

TIKI TAANE Live in Singapore is happening on Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at Hard Rock Cafe Singapore from 8pm to 11pm. Tickets are priced at $38, available here.

Happy Ever Laughter: Standup Comedy Madness!

Love a good laugh? Boy, are you in for a mad-dical treat. This October, Singapore’s best comedians – including Suhaimi Yusof, Judee Tan, Hossan Leong, Dee Kosh, Sebastian Tan, and Patricia Mok – will have you in stitches as they take the stage in the medically-certified Happy Ever Laughter! Put more Life in your MediShield plan, because the comic surgeons will dissect everything from cracked MRT trains, expat bank robbers, and a slice of everything our little island offers.

Happy Ever Laughter: Standup Comedy Madness! is running from 26 October to 6 November 2016 at Esplanade Theatre. Tickets are priced from $58, available via SISTIC. For more details, check out the event page here. 

Perspectives Film Festival: Breakthroughs in Cinema

The objective of Perspectives Film Festival is simple: to shock us out of their comfortable assumptions by illuminating uncanny, bewildering, and plain outlandish imageries repressed in our unconscious minds. The theme this time round is Surrealism, and as usual, look forward to a expertly-curated programme that ranges from stories of distorted reality and multi-layered narratives that tap into the human condition – feelings, dreams, memories, and all. We’re looking at an international selection of films (including some Singapore premieres) such as René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and Vera Chytilova’s Daisies.

Perspectives Film Festival is running from 27 to 30 October 2016 at The Projector. Tickets are priced from $11, available via SISTIC. For more details, check out the event page here.

Singapore Biennale 2016: An Atlas Of Mirrors

Singapore Biennale, the blockbuster contemporary visual art festival by the Singapore Art Museum, returns after more than two years to showcase a list of 62 artists and art collectives clustered around nine sub-themes, and presented across seven venues! Starting this Thursday, this year’s theme is titled Atlas of Mirrors and traces the migratory and intertwining relationships within the East and South Asia region, reflecting journeys of discovery by artists like Gregory Halili, Nobuaki Takekawa, Perception3, and Debbie Ding.

Singapore Biennale 2016 is running from 27 October 2016 to 26 February 2017 at various locations around the island. For more details, check out the event page here.

Thriller in the Park

Get your hearts pounding into the night with 12 hours of non-stop scare this Saturday as Fort Canning Park goes full-on fright fest. Highlights include a mock-up cemetery and zombie maze, a pasar malam, pop-up flea market, kids zone, cosplay competition, and a giant picnic lawn to lay down your mats. Don’t forget your dancing shoes; a huge line-up of DJs and musicians will be behind the decks providing music for your dancing pleasure, day and night.

Thriller in the Park is happening on Saturday, 29 October 2016 at Fort Canning Park from 11am to 11pm. Tickets are priced from $25, available via Apactix. For more details, check out the event page here.