Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2025 (Singapore)

Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2025 (华艺节2025), the annual cultural celebration during the Chinese New Year, returns from 7 – 16 February 2025 at The Esplanade. Over 10 days, the festival will feature the works of artists from both Singapore and abroad, offering twenty exciting events that include concerts, workshops, Teochew opera, theatre performances, storytelling sessions, and cultural dance performances.

A major highlight of this year’s festival is a free concert by the acclaimed Taiwanese Golden Melody Award-winning indie band, Lilium 百合花.

Featured Free Activities

• Huayi Huat Opening! (Lion dance performance)
  • Date: 7 February 2025 (Friday)
  • Time: 7:00pm – 7:15pm
  • Venue: DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre
• Thunderous Spring (Drum performance)
  • Date: 7 February 2025 (Friday)
  • Time: 7:15pm – 8:00pm | 8:30pm – 9:15pm
  • Venue: DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre
• Crosstalk Performance (Chinese talk show 相声)
  • Date: 8 February 2025 (Saturday)
  • Time: 2:30pm – 3:00pm | 3:30pm – 4:00pm
  • Venue: Esplanade Concourse

• Everything Will Go Wonderfully (Mini-concert by Lilium 百合花)
  • Date: 8 February 2025 (Saturday)
  • Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm | 8:45pm – 9:45pm
  • Venue: DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre
• Teochew Opera for Young and Old (Chinese opera)
  • Date: 15 February 2025 (Saturday)
  • Time: 2:30pm – 3:00pm | 3:30pm – 4:00pm
  • Venue: Esplanade Concourse
• Mandopop Hits (Mandarin pop music performance)
  • Date: 15 February 2025 (Saturday)
  • Time: 7:00pm – 7:45pm | 8:15pm – 9:00pm | 9:30pm – 10:15pm
  • Venue: DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre

• Nanyang Ballads (Ensemble using multi-cultural music instruments)
  • Date: 15 February 2025 (Saturday)
  • Time: 7:15pm – 7:45pm | 8:15pm – 8:45pm
  • Venue: Esplanade Concourse
• Best of Cantopop (Cantonese pop music performance)
  • Date: 16 February 2025 (Sunday)
  • Time: 5:15pm – 5:45pm | 6:15pm – 6:45pm | 7:15pm – 7:45pm
  • Venue: Esplanade Concourse

Complete list of all activites