Here is a list of free stuff to do in Singapore next week. Explore and experience events and activities that are budget-friendly. I will focus on physical activities as there are already many things to do online.
Please check the respective websites to check for the latest details and availability.
I am looking for sources of free events and activities, including volunteering, in Singapore. Do drop me an email at consumelesslife@gmail.com if you know of any of these free events and activities. Thanks!
For free stuff to do this week, check out last week’s post here.
Here is a list of free stuff to do in Singapore next week from 11 July 2022 to 17 July 2022.
Monday – 11 July 2022
What’s That Jazz?
Description: Ever wondered what makes jazz, jazz? Does it seem too complex to be appreciated by all? Join Project RA: The Vibes Collective as they share their understanding of jazz through familiar tunes and music arrangements. Through their personal stories and short, interactive exercises, the collective hopes to guide you along the ins and outs of jazz!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1500 – 1600
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Jazz & Hip Hop Connections
Description: As a jazz drummer who grew up listening to hip hop, Darren Moore draws from his own experience and research to examine the connection between the two forms. In this talk, Moore explores the origins, shared attributes and significant intersections where hip hop and jazz have crossed paths and cross-pollinated.
Category: Talk
Location: library@esplanade
Time: 1530 – 1630
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tribute to Chick Corea
Description: Nita Aartsen is undoubtedly one of Indonesia’s most accomplished and entertaining jazz piano players. Voted AMI’s best Female Jazz Artist, Aartsen is a standout regular performer at many Asian, Australian, American and European Jazz Festivals and prestigious international jazz clubs.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2015 – 2100
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tropic Green
Description: There is not one single cover tune in this repertoire. All tunes were written specially for Tropic Green by band leader, Susan Harmer Lauw, giving this horn-led ensemble its distinctive sound. The music is varied from haunting ballads to red-hot Latin rhythms.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2030 – 2115
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 12 July 2022
Rit Xu Organ Trio
Description: Enjoy an evening of jazz standards as well as modern original compositions with the Rit Xu Organ Trio. The band—with its unique instrumentation of hammond organ, flute, and drums—is the first of its kind in Singapore and will be making their debut showcase at Esplanade. The evening promises to be masterful, emotional, fresh and creative.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 13 July 2022
A Space for All the Wanderers
Description: Music is second nature to us all. Some of us enjoy making it, some of us enjoy listening to it. Either way, it helps us greatly as we venture on through our everyday lives. These sounds, rhythms, waves …colours that cross the boundaries—A Space for All the Wanderers teases the boundaries and conventions of traditional and modern jazz.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 14 July 2022
The Joy and Genius of Fats Waller
Description: Join the Amanda Lee Swingtet as they celebrate the timeless joy and genius of Fats Waller through a selection of curated works including Honeysuckle Rose, Jitterbug Waltz and I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
GWEI 2022
Description: The GWEI Summit 2022 is a bilingual and hybrid event that aims to foster collaboration and communication for practitioners from East and West. It promises to provide attendees with the latest updates and comprehensive information on Web3.
Category: Talk
Location: Marina Bay Sands
Time: 0900 – 1730
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Friday – 15 July 2022
Date Night Friday: Anne Weerapass
Description: In keeping to the motif of love and date night jazz, hear the classics of jazz greats and composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Nat King Cole, as well as modern classics from Stacey Kent to scintillate, titillate, captivate, arouse and tease one’s body and soul.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2015 – 2100
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Electric Bass Jam: The Brown Note
Description: Inspired by the electric bass supergroup of Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten, The Brown Note is a triple-bass jazz fusion group with bass guitar exponents Ben Poh, Melvin Wong and Nicholas Lee. Enjoy the exciting confluence of three bass guitarists showing off their mastery of bass fretboard wizardry, and expect an evening of groovy slapping, tapping, and double-thumb-plucking!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1915 – 2000 | 2045 – 2130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Chinatown Heritage Walks – Telok Ayer Heritage Trail
Description: Experience the oldest part of Chinatown, which is traditionally associated with the Hokkien and also the South Indian Muslim community, who settled along the original water front that ran along today’s Telok Ayer Street.
This is part of the series of monthly Chinatown tours conducted by URA’s volunteer guides from the Friends of the Museums.
Registration will open on 08 Jul 2022 at 10.00am and close on 12 Jul 2022 at 12 noon or earlier depending on availability of spaces.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: The URA Centre Atrium
Time: 0930 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 16 July 2022
Free Jazz: BRAM
Description: BRAM was born out of friendship between Bryan Rozario, Matthew Tan, Russell Seow and Aaron James Lee. Having met at Singapore Polytechnic Jazz Band years ago and with the common interest for music from the Black American culture, it was only natural that they banded to make music together.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Theatre Studio
Time: 2000 – 2100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Vintage Years
Description: Ladies of Jazz: The Vintage Years—from Ella Fitzgerald to Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington and many more, come listen to the female vocal legends from the golden age of jazz.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1600 – 1630 | 1700 – 1730
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Sunny and Julian: Up to Us
Description: Up to Us is a project conceived from a simple concept—to add a different sort of freshness to songs that are widely known and loved.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1930 – 2015 | 2045 – 2130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
The Fusion Motion
Description: The Fusion Motion is back with a line-up that brings not only jazz standard tunes but also tunes from jazz giants such as Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson, and more. Join the band as they perform their original jazz tunes and explorative improvisations too.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2030 – 2115
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Stage Jam
Description: Join Singapore and international jazz artists as they come together in a series of exciting stage jams, with different guest performers each week. Watch sparks fly as they interact in spontaneous showcases of jazz musicianship.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 2200 – 2245
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Healthier Lifestyle with Herbal Drinks
Description: Want to make your own healthy herbal drinks from scratch? Join Community-in-Bloom Ambassador Joshua in this enriching talk on how to grow your own herbs and brew up a sustainable recipe.
Category: Talk
Location: HortPark, Fruit Room
Time: 0930 – 1030
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
What’s in my mud?
Description: Join us for an interesting guided walk featuring our lesser known creatures of the mudflats in Sungei Buloh.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Wetland Centre
Time: 0930 – 1100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Bees and Butterflies Trail Tour
Description: Journey with us as we explore the relationship between these pollinators and plants in the garden and their significance. Gain a greater appreciation of Singapore’s rich diversity of bees and butterflies.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HortPark, Visitor Services Centre
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Edibles Discovery Tour
Description: Excite your taste buds as we discover the various edibles that can be grown in your backyard and balcony spaces. Learn about heirloom edibles used in cooking and sustainable gardening practices.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HortPark, Visitor Services Centre
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Tour of Gallop Extension
Description: Join us for a guided walk through the Gallop Extension of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Time: 0900 – 1030
Booking Requirement: Registration is required (Visitor Services Desk, Visitor Services @ Gallop) 15min before the scheduled tour.
Further Details: Website
Hiking In Singapore
Description: When we think of hiking, we think of the rainforest in Malaysia, walking long distances with a heavy backpack in exotic National Park. Is hiking in Singapore even possible? Is it just walking in the park rather than hiking? What if I tell you that Researchers have found that a one-hectare plot of land within Bukit Timah Nature Reserve contains more tree species than the whole of North America.
Category: Talk And Guided Tour
Location: library@harbourfront
Time: 1430 – 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
From Seed to Harvest
Description: This session immerses children in the process of farming, through a guided exhibit tour and tactile hands-on activities. Participants get to learn each step of the farming process which includes seed sowing, transplant, grow-out and harvest. Note that this programme will be conducted in both the programme zone and the basement garden area.
This programme is suitable for children ages 7 to 12.
Category: Talk
Location: Bishan Public Library
Time: 1400 – 1500
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Fort Siloso Day Tour
Description: Come and explore the fortified military structures and tunnels with our passionate guides, as they journey with you back in time with stories of yesteryears.
Also available on 9 July 2022.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Fort Siloso Skywalk Lobby
Time: 1500 – 1630
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 17 July 2022
The Jazz Conversations: Aya Sekine
Description: To pianist Aya Sekine, jazz is akin to spontaneous conversation and storytelling—making music with others is no different from communication between individuals.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1700 – 1745 | 1815 – 1900
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Big Band Sunday: TSWS City Swing
Description: The City Swing big band brings you an evening of tunes including classics from Count Basie to Earth, Wind & Fire.
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2030 – 2115
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Let’s Explore Climate Change!
Description: This programme introduces children to the concept of climate change through interactive activities and hands-on learning. Children will learn the importance of climate change including its affects on polar bears.
Category: Workshop
Location: Queenstown Public Library
Time: 1030 – 1130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Non-Specific Date Activities
OBJECTIFS CINEMA: NOW SHOWING
Description: Welcome to Objectifs Cinema: Now Showing, a celebration of the richness and diversity of Southeast Asian short films. It is an exhibition that hopes to gather film lovers of all backgrounds through screenings, talks, sharing sessions, and a film memorabilia showcase. It aims to set the stage for deeper discussions and a broader understanding of short films from the region.
- Alternative Voices | 14 July – 27 July
- Southeast Asia Now | 28 July – 10 August
- Experimental Shorts | 11 August – 24 August
- Shorts From Film Schools | 25 August – 2 September
- Shorts From Film Schools | 3 September – 11 September
Category: Film
Location: 155 Middle Road, Singapore 188977
Date: 14 July 2022 – 11 September 2022
Booking Requirement: Probably no
Further Details: Website
Farm in the Sky! + compost
Description: Get your hands dirty, build some muscles, meet some new like-minded people while building a rooftop community farm from scratch!
Category: Environment
Location: Beauty World Centre
Date: Saturday and Sundays in July
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Singapore Maritime Trail 2 – Our Progress
Description: Discover Singapore’s rich maritime stories through the Singapore Maritime Trails!
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HarbourFront Centre
Date: 9 July 2022, 13 August 2022, 10 September 2022
Time: 0900 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Guided Tour of “Space For Our Dreams” Exhibition
Description: Find out more about the planning concepts and strategies to guide Singapore’s development over the next 50 years and beyond.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Urban Redevelopment Authority
Date: Tuesdays, Thursdays and the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of June and July
Time: 1000 – 1100 | 1130 – 1230 | 1300 – 1400
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
SCDF Fire Station Open House
Description: Visitors to our Fire Station can look forward to the following during the guided tour:
- Introduction to the Open House;
- Introduction to Emergency Vehicles and their capabilities;
- Demo on donning the full protective gear;
- Demo on using various equipment/appliances; and
- Photo taking
Category: Exhibition
Location: Various Fire Stations
Date: Saturdays
Time: 0900 – 0950 | 1000 – 1050
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
We Tread in a Garden of Spells
Description: We Tread in a Garden of Spells is a specially curated film programme celebrating humanity’s fundamental connection with the hallowed land beneath our feet.
Free tickets are available on weekdays.
Category: Film
Location: ArtScience Museum
Date: 28 May 2022 – 31 July 2022
Time: Various Timings
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Nian Hua: Of Deities, Guardians and Auspicious Art
Description: Nian Hua: Of Deities, Guardians and Auspicious Art is a collaboration with the Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum and showcases new year prints produced in China from the Qing dynasty to the 1980s. A close examination of the iconography of these prints, which are deeply rooted in popular beliefs and folk customs, provides insights into the rarely-documented attitudes and values of the common people in China.
Free guided tours are available. Check with the front desk.
Category: Exhibition
Location: Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
Date: 21 Jan 2022 – 25 Sep 2022
Time: 1000 – 1700
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Change the Present, Save the Oceans
Description: Learn about how Singapore has been working to mitigate the effects of urbanization and climate change, and how everyone has a part to play in building ocean resilience.
Closed on every last Tuesday of the month, except on Public Holidays – the closure day will then take place on the next working day
Category: Exhibition
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, CDL Green Gallery
Date: 12 April 2022 – 14 August 2022
Time: 0900 – 1800
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Mythology RElooked
Description: Venture into the mystical realm of Chinese mythology through an interactive and immersive art experience in Mythology RElooked! Get your phones ready as you gear up to experience more than 20 art installations and works by local artists through immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and digital reactive media. Are you ready to meet various mythological characters and relive their epic stories in unique and exciting ways?
Category: Exhibition
Location: SCCC Concourse, Level
Date: 14 May 2022 – 31 July 2022
Time: 1000 – 2000
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
If you have any free events or activities that you would like included or if there are any new sources of free activities, do drop me an email at consumelesslife@gmail.com.
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