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Arts festivals

Re-Route: Orchard 2024

Updated: 23 Sep 2024

Re-Route: Orchard 2024, a placemaking festival that offers visitors a fresh narrative of a location through creative activations, is returning for its second edition from 26 September - 6 October 2024. Building on the success of its 2022 debut, which invited attendees to rediscover Little India from a new perspective and engage with its hidden history, this year's festival moves to Singapore's renowned shopping district, Orchard Road, as part of Singapore Design Week 2024. Embracing the theme "Be Here Now", the festival will feature installations that delve into concepts of adaptation and reimagination, providing unique and immersive experiences throughout the iconic street.

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Updated: 27 Aug 2024

Singapore Night Festival 2024 (SNF 2024), the city's most spectacular nocturnal event, is returning bigger than ever, now spanning 16 nights from 23 August - 7 September 2024. Celebrating heritage and culture through creativity, this nighttime art festival will once again transform the historic Bras Basah.Bugis precinct into a vibrant hub of arts, culture, and entertainment. This year, the festivities will also extend to Fort Canning Park.

Singapore Art Week 2025 (SAW 2025)

Updated: 19 Jul 2024

Singapore Art Week 2025 (SAW 2025), the 13th edition of Singapore's premier annual arts festival, will be held from 17 - 26 January 2025, at multiple venues across the island. Art enthusiasts and the general public alike will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an artistic 10-day celebration, with over 100 free and ticketed art events showcasing new works and international collaborations.

Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021 (SIFA 2021)

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

Featuring a bumper crop of new commissions and international work, both live and online, the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021 (SIFA 2021) will present over 60 shows and 300 performances, with artists from Switzerland, Australia, USA, Lebanon, Japan, Malaysia and Philippines performing alongside hundreds of Singaporean artists and freelancers within the 16-day festival period.

Singapore Art Week 2022 (SAW 2022)

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

For its 10th anniversary, SAW 2022 is inviting artists, curators, producers and partners to develop physical, digital and hybrid projects that explores re-generation and transformation in the new world that we live in. As we ponder this sea-change and our relationship with the world, SAW 2022 invites all to explore the possibilities that this moment in time offers: ways forward and ways to connect, beyond time, borders, cultures and histories. How do we harness art’s potential to interrogate the present, uplift spirits, and envisage a sturdy future for ourselves? Shall we and can we, be the difference for a transformed tomorrow?

Light to Night Festival 2022

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

Light to Night Festival 2022 (a marquee event of Singapore Art Week) is the 6th edition of the festival. It features a host of innovative digital and on-site art experiences that are sure to excite and delight more audiences than ever before! Taking place over three weeks with an expanded line-up of programmes and artistic interventions, Light to Night 2022 will focus on the pursuit of new perspectives and states of mind. Audiences are invited to uncover new ways of seeing, thinking and being as they engage with fresh perspectives about the world we live in.

Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022 (SIFA 2022)

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

With Singapore’s own creatives steering new works, SIFA 2022 serves to highlight the very city that cradles the festival – Singapore and her inherent characteristics. Held across various physical venues, SIFA 2022 commissions will treat audiences to the experience of an unusual “excursion”, where the destination holds as much charm and creative vitality as the actual performance.

Singapore Night Festival 2022

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

Singapore Night Festival 2022 (SNF 2022) has finally returned! After pausing for two years, the 13th edition of Singapore's leading night festival will be held from 19 - 27 August 2022 in the Bras Basah, Bugis district. Visitors will be treated to a series of projection mappings, light art installations, performances, and other experiential programmes, including food and retail experiences over two weeks.

Re-Route Festival 2022

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

Re-Route Festival 2022 is a placemaking festival that will immerse visitors in an alternate storytelling of the Little India district. Taking place from 16 September to 9 October 2022, the three-week long festival will host curated experiences, installations, programmes, and other design activations, to encourage people to detour from their usual routes to explore the district with a new perspective and connect with Little India’s lesser-known history.

Singapore Art Week 2023 (SAW 2023)

Updated: 15 Jul 2024

Singapore Art Week 2023 (SAW 2023), the 11th edition of the country's annual visual arts festival, is back this year from 6 - 15 January 2023. Over 130 free & ticketed art events showcasing new works and transnational collaborations will take place online as well as at various locations across the island.