Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival 2023, Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall’s open house event to celebrate the Moon Festival, will take place on the 23 & 24 September 2023. Visitors can look forward to a host of ticketed and free activities from mooncake tasting, workshops, games, talks, guided tours, cultural performances to lantern riddles guessing over that weekend. The lawn of the museum has also been decorated with giant panda lanterns that visitors can take a selfies and photographs with from 29 August to 1 October 2023. Admission to the venue is free!
Event Highlights / Programme
- Lawn Installation: A Mid-Autumn Paw-trait
- Date: 29 August – 1 October 2023
- Time: 10:00am – 9:00pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Parent-Child Recycled Panda Lantern Making Workshop
- Date: 23 September 2023 (Saturday)
- Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
- Fee: SGD 24 per parent-child pair. Register here
- Storytelling Sessions: Tales of Mid-Autumn Festival (Mandarin)
- Date: 23 September 2023 (Saturday)
- Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Melodies in Motion: Hokkien Songs & Rhymes Workshop
- Date: 23 September 2023 (Saturday)
- Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- Fee: SGD 10 per person. Register here
- Live on the Lawn: Dialect Culture Performances (Hainan Rod Puppet Performance)
- Date: 23 September 2023 (Saturday)
- Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Mooncake, Pomelo & Tea Tasting
- Date: 23 & 24 September 2023 (Saturday & Sunday)
- Time: 10:30am – 6:30pm
- Fee: Free Admission (Limited quantifies available)
- Drop-in Craft Station: Mid-Autumn Festival Inspired Crafts
- Date: 23 & 24 September 2023 (Saturday & Sunday)
- Time: 10:30am – 6:30pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Drop-in Craft Station: Chinese Calligraphy Try-Out
- Date: 23 & 24 September 2023 (Saturday & Sunday)
- Time: 10:30am – 6:30pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Lost in Time: The Case of the Missing Researcher (Game)
- Date: 23 & 24 September 2023 (Saturday & Sunday)
- Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm | 1:00pm – 2:30pm (Sunday only) | 2:30pm – 4:00pm | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
- Fee: SGD 8 per preson. Group of 4 – 5 person recommended. Register here
- Public Talk – Singapore’s Secret Societies in the 19th century and its Evolution
- Date: 24 September 2023 (Sunday)
- Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
- Fee: Free Admission (Talk conducted in Mandarin)
- Storytelling Sessions: Tales of Mid-Autumn Festival (English)
- Date: 24 September 2023 (Sunday)
- Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Parent-Child Hakka Abacus Seeds Making Workshop
- Date: 24 September 2023 (Sunday)
- Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm
- Fee: SGD 38 per parent-child pair. Register here
- Live on the Lawn: Lantern Riddles Guessing
- Date: 24 September 2023 (Sunday)
- Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
- Fee: Free Admission
- Live on the Lawn: Dialect Culture Performances (Hakka Folk Song & Bamboo Clapper Performance )
- Date: 24 September 2023 (Sunday)
- Time: 6:00pm – 6:30pm
- Fee: Free Admission
Opening Hours
- Venue: Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall [Map]
- Date: 23 – 24 September 2023 (Saturday – Sunday)
- Time: 10:00am – 6:30pm
