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 14 November 2022 to 20 November 2022.
Monday – 14 November 2022
BEYOND BOLLYWOOD
Description: Put together by keyboardist and pianist David Raja, this live band comprises a group of friends who have had extensive experience performing in outdoor shows, recordings, and other events. On vocals, Hindustani music-trained Ria Dev and Anupama Murali take the stage, accompanied by Jatinder Singh on tabla.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 15 November 2022
BEYOND BOLLYWOOD
Description: Put together by keyboardist and pianist David Raja, this live band comprises a group of friends who have had extensive experience performing in outdoor shows, recordings, and other events. On vocals, Hindustani music-trained Ria Dev and Anupama Murali take the stage, accompanied by Jatinder Singh on tabla.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 16 November 2022
Aromatique Kampong Gelam
Description: Friends of the Museums together with the Malay Heritage Foundation walking tour of Kampong Gelam historic precinct.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Malay Heritage Centre
Time: 1030 – 1200
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 17 November 2022
Concert Series: Divertimenti
Description: Directed by Lim Yau, Artistic Director of the NAFA School of Music, the NAFA Orchestra presents three contrasting divertimenti by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky.
Category: Music
Location: Lee Foundation Theatre
Time: 1930 – 2045
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Friday – 18 November 2022
Roots & Reflections: Voices from the Margin
Description: Inspired by a conversation between two strangers, Roots & Reflections: Voices from the Margin explores vignettes of one’s identity through memories and encounters shared. Blending poetry, prose, music, visual arts and theatrical elements, this spoken word performance invites you on a journey of self-discovery and finding one’s voice.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Festival Opening
Description: Watch Yaar Panj-aab Phangra kick off Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts 2022 with a lively Bhangra performance! Originating from the Punjab region in India, Bhangra originated as a folk dance that marked the arrival of the harvest season and has since evolved into a global phenomenon. This performance will be accompanied by exciting music created by dhol drums as well as short sets of lyrics known as boliyan, which have references to themes of love, devotion, strength and celebration.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1845 – 1900
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Chinatown Heritage Walks – Kreta Ayer Heritage Trail
Description: Experience Kreta Ayer, a predominantly Cantonese area in the 19th century, known for round-the-clock entertainment with a concentration of teahouses, opera theatres and brothels.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: The URA Centre Atrium
Time: 0930 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Go Cashless with DBS PayLah
Description: In this session, learn how to make your everyday easier with the DBS PayLah! app. Whether you are paying your friends, buying groceries or paying for your bills and more, enjoy convenience and seamless every day services with PayLah! This programme is suitable for those aged 50 and above.
Category: Workshop
Location: Jurong Regional Library
Time: 1400 – 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 19 November 2022
Celebrating Arts: an All-in-One Performance
Description: Arts have always been an integral part of life. In this presentation, AK Theatre will demonstrate how traditional folk arts are intertwined with everyday life, performed at important milestones and commemorative events in a person’s life. The performance features awe-inspiring traditional Marabhu arts forms that show the richness and aesthetic world of Tamil culture and tradition.
Category: Dance
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1200 – 1230 | 1330
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
TaalMenz
Description: Rooted in classical Carnatic and Hindustani music, the diverse repertoire of TaalMenz borrows widely from diverse influences: folk, Latin jazz, soul, the blues, Sufi qawwalis, Indian film music and devotional bhajans. The result is a contemporary fusion of soulful, captivating music. In this performance, TaalMenz presents their original arrangements of popular songs as well as brand new compositions in Tamil, Hindi, and other Indian languages.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1815 – 1845 | 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
FreedomFilmFest Singapore 2022
Description: FreedomFilmFest (FFF) Singapore will return in-person after two years of virtual screenings, with a two-day festival at The Projector at Golden Mile Towers on 19 and 20 November 2022.
Category: Film
Location: The Projector
Time: 1400 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
My River Valley Heritage Tour
Description: My River Valley Heritage Tour explores the rich multicultural and multireligious landscape of the River Valley neighbourhood. This will take us through many shophouses, places of worship and other landmarks around the Singapore River. Our tour does not just focus on the great historical figures that gave rise to many of these places, but also on the everyday people and communities that breathe life into these places.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Fort Canning MRT Station
Time: 0830 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
My Telok Blangah Heritage Tour
Description: My Telok Blangah heritage tour traces the 700-year history of Singapore as a prosperous port city at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia, from a trading emporium founded by the legendary Sang Nila Utama in 1299, to a pirate-infested free port established by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 and a modern metropolis in the 21st century.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Harbourfront MRT
Time: 0830 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
MoneySense Annual Campaign 2022
Description: Learn how to prepare yourself for a comfortable retirement. Understand the basics of retirement planning and factors you need to consider when planning your retirement. Learn how to build your retirement fund through CPF and investing and protect you healthcare needs through insurance. Know how you can plan ahead with CPF nominations and the Lasting Power of Attorney.
Category: Talk
Location: Lifelong Learning Institute
Time: 1400 – 1730
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Becoming a Trash Hero
Description: Learn how we can care for the environment through an interactive session of storytelling, games and quizzes!
This is a parent-child programme suitable for children 5-7 years old.
Category: Games
Location:
Time: 1400 – 1500
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
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Skyrise Greenery Tour
Description: Skyrise Greenery refers to rooftop and vertical greenery that are strategically used as a nature-based, sustainable solution to enhance the built environment, reduce energy use, attract biodiversity and extend greening efforts skywards.
Explore the green facades around HortPark and the revamped green roof at the HortCentre. Learn more about the social and ecological importance of skyrise greenery in our urban built environment.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HortPark
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. Visit the OCBC Arboretum and a section of the Mingxin Foundation Rambler’s Ridge.
The tour begins at the Visitor Centre at Gallop, and will take you through the OCBC Arboretum, viewing the dipterocarp collection. You will also experience the Mingxin Foundation Rambler’s Ridge, Forest Discovery Centre @ OCBC Arboretum and the Botanical Art Gallery.
Recommended for ages 6 and above. Please note that dogs are not allowed on this tour.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Time: 0900 – 1030
Booking Requirement: Registration is required 15 minutes prior on a first-come-first-served basis at Visitor Services @ Gallop.
Further Details: Website
Flower Talk – Phalaenopsis Orchids
Description: Join Mr Eric Seah from The Orchid Society of South East Asia as he shares the key factors when growing the Phalaenopsis orchids. He will also give tips on the ideal optimum environment for growing this orchid, which helped him produce award-winning Phalaenopsis.
Category: Talk
Location: HortPark
Time: 1000 – 1100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Arts at HortPark – Botanical Art Exhibition
Description: If you can’t get enough of the exhibition ‘Making an Entrance’, join the artist, Loh Xiang Yun, as she leads you through the exhibition and shares more about her role as a scientific botanical illustrator and the process behind the pen-and-ink drawings.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HortPark
Time: 1300 – 1345 | 1400 – 1445
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: 1300 – 1345 | 1400 – 1445
What’s in my water?
Description: Join us for an interesting morning walk getting to know the creatures and plants that lives in and around the water edges of Sungei Buloh.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Time: 0930 – 1100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 20 November 2022
Celebrating Arts: an All-in-One Performance
Description: Arts have always been an integral part of life. In this presentation, AK Theatre will demonstrate how traditional folk arts are intertwined with everyday life, performed at important milestones and commemorative events in a person’s life. The performance features awe-inspiring traditional Marabhu arts forms that show the richness and aesthetic world of Tamil culture and tradition.
Category: Dance
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1200 – 1230 | 1330
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Hexatonix
Description: Six passionate musicians from Singapore—Suma Balakrishna, Kirti Arora, Ramesh Narasimhan, Joash Edelstein Mohan, Karl Anish Luis and Danial Khaliq Bin Mohd Indra—are coming together as Hexatonix to bring you a memorable evening filled with amazing music from the Indian subcontinent. Get ready to be serenaded in Hindi, Tamil, Rajasthani, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Konkani music in both folk and film styles.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1815 – 1845 | 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
FreedomFilmFest Singapore 2022
Description: FreedomFilmFest (FFF) Singapore will return in-person after two years of virtual screenings, with a two-day festival at The Projector at Golden Mile Towers on 19 and 20 November 2022.
Category: Film
Location: The Projector
Time: 1400 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
My Holland Village Heritage Tour
Description: My Holland Village traces the evolution of Singapore’s first satellite town from a rubber plantation in the 1870s to a bustling military village in the 1930s and a renowned expatriate centre and tourist attraction in the 2000s.
Participants will hear a first-hand account of this transformation from colourful figures in Holland Village and Commonwealth.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Holland Village MRT Station
Time: 0830 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Non-Specific Date Activities
Singapore Biennale 2022
Description: Singapore Biennale 2022 is here from 16 October 2022 to 19 March 2023 and will showcase art from a myriad of local and international artists at multiple locations around Singapore. The main location for the arts festival is ticketed and will be at 39 Tanjong Pagar Distripark with over 40 artists showing their art. Tickets are free for children aged 6 and below, persons with disabilities (PWD) and their caretakers, and local/locally-based students and teachers.
However, there are still plenty of free art installations to view at other locations. The amount of art at these free locations can be quite minimal so you should look for things to do and eat in the area besides just going there to view the art.
Category: Festival
Location: Various locations around Singapore
Date: 16 October 2022 – 19 March 2023
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website | My Article
RE•MIX 2K22
Description: RE•MIX 2K22 is a youth cultural festival presented by Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC), spanning over two weekends from 18 to 27 November 2022. RE•MIX 2K22 features a variety of onsite activities for visitors to experience Chinese Singaporean culture.
RE•MIX 2K22 includes programmes initiated by youths based on their interpretation of Chinese Singaporean culture in the festival line-up. The festival will include a variety of art exhibitions, along with an array of fun activities such as art exhibitions, street dance competitions, Escape Room game, music concerts, bazaar and more. All the events are free for all members of the public.
Category: Festival
Location: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Date: 18 November 2022 – 27 November 2022
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tea Without Borders: A multi-sensory tea experience with Fort Sanctuary
Description: Tea Without Borders is an invitation to reimagine tea experiences.
Tea is an important part of both Chinese and Indian cultures, having been cultivated in both civilisations from ancient to modern times. Today, China and India are the largest producers and consumers of tea in the world, each with the own unique traditional cultures with regards to tea.
Category: Exhibition
Location: Fort Sanctuary, #02-04, Esplanade Mall
Date: 18 November 2022 – 27 November 2022
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Paatti’s Tales (Grandma’s Tales)
Description: Deepavali is here and Paatti (Grandma) prepares her home for Deepavali with pretty lights and decorations. She gathers all the young guests and tells them the story of Naragasuran and how Deepavali became known as the festival of lights.
Performed by Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai for 18 – 20 Nov and Grace Kalaiselvi for 25 – 27 Nov.
Category: Storytelling
Location: PIP’s PLAYbox
Date: 18 November 2022 – 27 November 2022
Booking Requirement: Registration is required at PIP’s PLAYbox on a first-come-first-served basis.
Further Details: Website
True Truth by Sookoon Ang
Description: TRUE TRUTH by Sookoon Ang explores transcendental experiences through abstractions and minimalism. The center of the exhibition is a triptych video installation which breaks down a landscape of sky, forest and lake into 3 disjointed textures. Also within the same space is a series of ceramic sculptures passing off as abstract colour field paintings; each devoid of obvious subject matter. This new collection of artworks produced in different mediums seeks to represent enigmatic forms.
Category: Art
Location: Objectifs – Centre for Photography and Film
Date: 3 – 27 November 2022
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Doesn’t It Feel Like Christmas
Description: We’re decking the cinema halls this holiday season with 12 genres of Christmas films! From musicals to horror to animation to comedy, take a deep dive into the movies that make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year.
Come explore the secret movie sauce that films bring to the holidays and celebrate the happiest season of all with us at ArtScience Museum.
Free Movies
Frozen Sing-Along
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
Gremlins
Category: Film
Location: ArtScience Museum
Date: 5 November 2022 – 6 January 2023
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Singapore Sports Hub – Experience Sports Session
Description: Get ready for new exercise experiences with the refreshed Experience Sports Sessions! The daily free fitness programmes focus on five core aspects – Cardio, Endurance, Flexibility, Strength and Zen.
Join Experience Sports Sessions to work out and keep fit now! Participants are welcome to walk-in and join the free fitness programmes, slots are limited.
Highlights
- Yoga
- Tabata
- HIIT
- Zumba
- Dancing
Visit the website for the latest schedule.
Category: Exercise
Location: Singapore Sports Hub
Date: Everyday
Booking Requirement: No
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
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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