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Programmes in
August 2003
It's a musical and
literary August at library@esplanade
with an abundance of activities to keep you out of the heat and
still warm the cockles of your creativity !
PROMOTIONS
Theatreworks Balance
Borrow any items from our theatre section - plays, musicals
on DVD, books on directing (just to mention a few) and you can go
into a draw for a pair of tickets to Balance, a new play conceived
and directed by Low Kee Hong and starring Gerald Chew and Emma
Yong.
Promotion Dates : 1-15 August.
(The winning tickets are for the performance on 27 August at
The Black Box, Fort Canning, 8pm. The winner will be notified by
email and telephone)
Raise your Lantern !
Borrow 8 items from the library and receive a free lantern -
guaranteed to get you all moony for the upcoming Lantern Festival.
When using combined receipts for redemption, they must be from library@esplanade
and from the same patron.
Promotion Dates: 1- 31 August.
INNOVATION GALLERY
September will see a brand new exhibition in the library's
Innovation
Gallery, so if you haven't experienced our "Lights, Camera,
Sound, Action" display, do drop by and find out how film and
other performing arts interconnect.
AUGUST PROGRAMMES
Friday 1st August, 6.30pm
Bluff Your Way Through Classical Music: Shall We Dance?
An NEW insightful series of lively conversations with special
guest
speakers Chang Tou Liang and Phan Ming Yen, hosted by SSO
Education and Outreach Manager George Wong. Topics can range from
"Greatest Pianists of the Twentieth Century" to
"Great Musical Centres of the World".
This programme is repeated on Saturday 2 August, 6.30pm
Saturday 2 August, 4.00pm
Learn music with the Creative Prodikeys
Come and join the Creative Prodikeys team for an entertaining and
fun afternoon of music learning. Be treated to a repertoire of
tunes from the world's first integrated Music and PC keyboard in
one- the revolutionary Creative Prodikeys! Discover the hidden
music talent in you and find out how easy it is to learn, play and
create music while having lots of fun at the same time!
Friday, 8 August, 6.30pm
Bluff Your Way Through Classical Music: The Magic of Mozart
More in the series of lively conversations with special guest
speakers Chang Tou Liang and Phan Ming Yen, hosted by SSO
Education and Outreach Manager George Wong. The discussion will
touch on the vast and infinitely varied repertoire of one of the
Classical era's best-loved composers, Mozart.
Friday 15 August, 6.30pm
Is It Music? : A John Cage Retrospective
Jonathan Fox, Timpani and Percussion Principal of the SSO, will
talk about the upcoming concert Is It Music?: A John Cage
Retrospective featuring the works of the avant-garde 20th century
composer. He will inform the audience on John Cage's fascinating
and always thought-provoking music, and may even involve attendees
in some interactive demonstrations
Saturday 16 August, 4.00 - 5.30pm
Open Mic August
Dance, drama and music await us as more local talents dazzle us in
Open Mic August.
Singapore Writer's Festival - a series of programmes at library@esplanade
Saturday 23 August, 5pm
Fetish Lives: How to Weave An Arresting Story
Hosted by Dr K K Seet with Speaker: Gail Jones.
Sunday 24 August, 2 pm
Turn Left, Turn Right: Alternatives To Writing Laid Bare
with speaker: Ng King Kang
(This talk is in Mandarin)
Sunday 24 August, 6 pm
Within & Without: Notes from an Even Smaller Island
With Speaker, Neil Humphreys
Saturday, 30 August, 6.30pm
Asian Dawn - Sounds of Asia Series
Get the answers to your questions straight from the composers'
mouths! Come talk to composers Bernard Tan and Zhou Long as they
talk about their careers and their pieces that will appear in this
evening's SSO concert featuring these works that will be heard for
the first time.
All programmes are held at the Open Stage and Admission is free.
Seating provided on a first come first served basis.
Public Enquries: 6332 3255
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