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Everybody needs a holiday, so Jetstar have devised personalised gift vouchers as the perfect gift idea for Christmas. Jetstar gift vouchers can bring your family and friends to more places, more often and can be purchased online and sent straight to the recipient – for travel now, or later.
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Contributor: www.haystac.com.sg
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The Philharmonic Chamber Choir and The Philharmonic Orchestra join choirs and orchestras worldwide in celebrating the bicentenary of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s birth.
Mendelssohn is the single most influential early 19th century personality who connects the splendour of the Baroque period with the apocalyptic Romantic era. The Mendelssohn and Beyond concert series, conceptualised and conducted by Lim Yau, explores different facets of Mendelssohn’s compositional portfolio.
The first concert of the series was The Philharmonic Chamber Choir’s a cappella choral concert on 4-5 September 2009, with a programme centred around Mendelssohn’s partsongs for mixed chorus and featuring the world premiere of Singaporean composer Ng Tian Hui’s Siehe!, specially commissioned for this concert series.
On 3 December 2009, The Philharmonic Orchestra will present Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21 and 61, as the second and final instalment of the concert series. Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s comedy includes the sparkling overture he composed at the age of seventeen, and the well-known wedding march. The performance will be complete with narration by William Ledbetter, and will also feature soprano Yap Shing Min, countertenor Phua Ee Kia, and the ladies of The Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
Narrator, William Ledbetter
William Ledbetter is making his Esplanade debut with his role as narrator in this performance. Trained as a musician and actor, Mr Ledbetter has a Bachelor’s degree in music from the Oberlin Conservatory, and theatre credentials from the National Shakespeare Conservatory of New York City.
His local theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Singapore Repertory Theatre), Shakespeare on Love (Wessex Theatre), and he is currently voicing the role of ‘Dominic Lars’ on the second season of Stowaways (Inspired Media). His United States credits include The Summer in Gossensass (Off-Broadway), the title role in The King and I (MacHayden Theatre), Down the Road (Third Eye Repertory), and numerous regional and New York-based productions of Shakespeare.
As a musician, Mr Ledbetter has thrice toured Europe with groups ranging from chamber ensembles to full orchestras. He has been recorded in performances of standard orchestral repertoire, contemporary chamber music, and period instruments. He counts a performance of Mahler’s 4th Symphony in the Musikvereinshall, Vienna, as his most perfect concert performing experience to date.
Concert details:
Mendelssohn and Beyond:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Philharmonic Orchestra
Lim Yau, conductor
3 December 2009
7.30pm
Esplanade Concert Hall
Ticket prices (booking fees apply):
Category 1: $20 ($60 for group of 4)
Category 2: $25 ($40 for group of 2)
Category 3: $35
Concessions: Tickets at $15 for students, senior citizens, and NSFs.
Keppel Nights 50% subsidy for Category 1 tickets: $10 (U.P. $20)
Tickets are available from the SISTIC website www.sistic.com.sg, hotline 6348 5555, and authorised agents islandwide.
Contributor: www.musicians.com.sg
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NAFA will present 84 works of the artist in an exhibition titled Chia Yu Chian in Nanyang from 13 November till 27 December at the Lim Hak Tai Gallery (NAFA Campus 1).
The works, mostly oil paintings and which date from 1950 to 1990, will examine the artist’s stylistic transitions over the years and his extensive palette. During the span of his prolific career, Chia held a significant number of one-man shows in Malaysia and Singapore and abroad, in France, Germany, UK (London), Spain (Madrid), India (New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras), as well as Thailand (Bangkok), and he participated in many regional and international group shows. His works are in numerous private and public collections around the world. Chia’s commissions include a grand mural titled “Life in Malaysia” for the Malaysian Embassy in Paris (France), as well as portraits for various Malaysian government and political luminaries.
Mr Pierre Emmanuel Jacob, Executive Director, Alliance Française de Singapour will preside over the exhibition opening, to be held on Thursday, 12 November, 6.30pm, as Guest of Honour.
On Chia’s art and draughtsmanship, Ms Bridget Tracy Tan, Director of Art & Corporate Knowledge said: “Chia is special because he seemed to broadly engage his practice on all fronts, on all terms. His paintings define not just what was visionary about Malaysian art, but what was visionary about Nanyang. There was no aping of Western traditions, but a gentle distillation of established idioms to articulate a persistently catalytic Modernity, one that was shaping and would continue to shape, the communities of Nanyang and their interests over many more decades.”
Chia’s work of the 50s, showing kampong scenes, local landscapes, and daily activities, attests to his mastery in observation and his use of light and space, colour and texture to locate his “observing” of objects. After 1959, his practice progressed into fluid textures resembling the Fauvist movement evolving in mid century Paris, where he lived and studied for several years. Upon his return to Malaysia, though still focusing on the same subject matter, he engaged the use of a more visually stimulating and daring architectural mix of pigments on surfaces.
Chia’s works often depicted figures in various shapes and forms, such as the Hospital Series made up of over 25 paintings and many drawings. These are his daily observations, as well as acute sensitivities to the eventfulness that connote his own experiences, having spent a few months on and off in the hospital. The mature work of the 80s and 90s for Chia seem to stem from the layers of a complex and sophisticated
blend of fantasy and reality. The street scenes of local landscapes, particularly of Malaysia, are vivid, direct and rational.
Exhibition Details
Date & Time: Opening: Thursday, 12 November, 6.30pm
Exhibition: 13 November – 27 December, 11am to 7pm daily
(closed on Mondays and public holidays)
Venue: Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA Campus 1,
80 Bencoolen Street, S(189655)
For enquiries: Mr Justin Loke at 6512 4044 or
email: artgalleries@nafa.edu.sg
Free Admission
Contributor: www.nafa.edu.sg
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GuideGecko Launches Marketplace for New and Used Guidebooks
Third party sellers can now sell new and used guidebooks on www.GuideGecko.com
Frankfurt, Germany and Singapore, October 13, 2009 – In conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, GuideGecko.com, the innovative publishing platform and bookstore for travel guides, today unveils its new marketplace functionality enabling third party sellers to list their inventory for sale. Starting today, publishers, bookstores, authors and travelers can sell their new and used travel, food and entertainment guidebooks through the GuideGecko.com website, significantly expanding the selection of books available to worldwide customers and their wallets.
The new marketplace allows bookstores to extend their customer base across local and international markets. Publishers can showcase and sell their titles to new readers worldwide. Customers enjoy reduced shipping costs and delivery times, as well as a larger selection of books from smaller publishers. Customers can also sell their used guidebooks.
“Guidebooks typically become outdated rather quickly, and are read only once while on vacation. Readers can now sell their used guidebooks instead of piling them up on their bookshelf. That’s good for both the buyer and the seller,” says Daniel Quadt, Founder and Managing Director of GuideGecko. “Our marketplace also opens a new online sales channel to the thousands of brick and mortar bookstores and smaller publishers worldwide – and customers benefit through a larger choice of titles and lower prices.”
Sellers simply enter the ISBN of the book they want to sell and state their selling price, and their offer is listed immediately on GuideGecko.com. The service is offered without a registration, setup or listing fee. GuideGecko asks for a low sales commission of 15%, which only applies when a book actually sells.
The new functionality will officially be unveiled on the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 14-18, 2009. Interested parties may visit GuideGecko’s booth at B100 in Hall 3.0, or browse to www.guidegecko.com/sell-travel-guides for more information.
About GuideGecko
GuideGecko is an innovative publishing platform and travel bookstore for travel, lifestyle and entertainment guides. GuideGecko currently offers more than 2200 guides on 169 countries and 270 cities and regions around the world. All well-known series are available, including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and Insight Guides, along with a large variety of less conventional titles such as Hedonist’s Guides and Trailblazer, amongst many others.
GuideGecko invites casual writers, bloggers and established authors to publish and sell their own guides on www.GuideGecko.com. GuideGecko makes such guides available as PDF downloads and as printed books/booklets. Publishing is free and authors earn 50-75% on every copy sold. Become a writer and get published on GuideGecko!
For media enquiries, please contact:
Daniel Quadt
Phone: +49 174 9855798 (from October 13-18), +65 94555974 (afterwards)
Booth B100, Hall 3.0 at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009
Email: media@guidegecko.com
Contributor: www.guidegecko.com
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Title: Lessons from the Legends
About the Seminar:
Dr. Joseph Michelli, the author of several international best-sellers
including The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into
Extraordinary, will be speaking in Singapore for the very first time. During
his seminar, he will be sharing his viewpoints about leadership strategies
of various successful corporations, like The Ritz Carlton, Starbucks and
Pike Place Fish.
Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore
MRT: City Hall
When: Mon, 2 November 2009
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Admission: $650, includes lunch, refreshments and conference documentation.
Group discount is available.
Tel: +65 6736 3633
Info: www.brandone.us/lessonsfromlegends
Contributor: www.bang.com.sg
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Hi
Our Singapore Happenings section is now open for you to add events which you would like visitors to our Web site to know about.
Simply register for an account and then post your article/press release. Next, see your article/press release published immediately.
The categories available for grouping your articles/press releases are shown on the left column of this Web page. Choose one or more of these categories for your articles/press releases.
If you run into difficulties, drop me an email.
Thank you.
Editor
editor[at]getforme.com
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Pardon us as we prepare this new Singapore Happenings section.
Do come back tomorrow, Friday 16 Oct 2009, for a browse around.
Editor
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