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 22 August 2022 to 28 August 2022.
Monday – 22 August 2022
Lion City Drum and Bass
Description: Come and get a taste of those heady nights, with DJ Nonsequitur and DJ Aresha as they play two chill sets, with a showcase of photos taken of the scene back then by photographer Ungku Ibrahim, and see why D&B is still winning fans these days with its wicked basslines and infectious beats.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1930 | 1945 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 23 August 2022
Stories from around the world
Description: Join Jasper and Tommy as they tell stories based on their time spent in America, France and China and their feelings about returning to Singapore.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1915 | 1945 – 2015
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 24 August 2022
An Evening With Jason Yu
Description: Have your heartstrings tugged by the acoustic renditions of Jason Yu’s original English and Mandarin repertoire.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1915 | 1945 – 2015
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Kampong Gelam Heritage Walk
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 – 25 August 2022
Singapore Street Prose Status
Description: Let deførmed bring you through his experience of street prose in Singapore (whatever that is supposed to mean). He will be presenting music based on his experiences of living in Singapore. Be ready for a party!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1915 | 1945 – 2015
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Friday – 26 August 2022
solace by Chriskris
Description: Chriskris is going to perform his past projects such as Holdin’ Back, Wishful Thinking and Blank Canvas. On top of that, he will be previewing a couple of unreleased demos for the first time.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1915 | 1945 – 2015
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Sun Cell
Description: The band will be performing songs from his current catalogue as well as some upcoming releases slated for later this year. Join them for a night that spans across various genres and styles, hopefully one for any given mood you may find yourself in.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Evil Dude
Description: Relish in the alternative rock tunes of Evil Dude.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 2115 – 2145 | 2215 – 2245
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
PANIK ROOM 4D by Improvper Conduct
Description: 8 characters wake up and find themselves trapped in an inescapable room. In order to survive, they must play games delivered to them by a mysterious distorted voice. Despite complying with the rules, the characters slowly meet their end as the games progress, leading to a grand finale where the truth is finally revealed.
None of the scenes are written before the show. Everything you see is fully improvised.
The 9pm show on Friday, 26 August will be a special, late-night edition of PANIK ROOM 4D. There may be more profanity and crass material so leave your kids at home!
Category: Theatre
Location: NUS University Town
Time: 1830 – 2000 | 2100 – 2230
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunset Walk at Jurong Lake Gardens
Description: Join us for a specially curated tour of Jurong Lake Gardens this Mid-Autumn Festival! While immersing in the beauty of the sunset, our guides will introduce the different species of flora and fauna in the Gardens.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Jurong Lake Gardens
Time: 1830 – 1930
Booking Requirement: Yes
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 05 Aug 2022 at 10.00am and close on 10 Aug 2022 at 10 .00am or earlier depending on availability of spaces.
Admission is free but PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: The URA Centre Atrium
Time: 0930 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 27 August 2022
Favourites From Home by Nan Hua Symphonic Band
Description: As a gift to our nation on her 57th birthday, Nan Hua Symphonic Band will perform a repertoire comprising local favourites.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1315 – 1400
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
An Evening With Shazza & Friends
Description: Homegrown singer-songwriter Shazza presents an evening of soulful music, with a line-up of songs curated for just about anyone and everyone. This gig marks the 21-year-old’s first Esplanade performance, and to ring it in, she has big plans.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1730 – 1800 | 1830 – 1900 | 1930 – 2000
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
spacedog spacecat
Description: What started out as an excuse for Jam Lorenzo and RJ Mabilin to play music with an ever-revolving cast of friends is now spacedog spacecat.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Megumi Acorda
Description: Find wonder in the dream pop tunes and musical synergy of five-piece act Megumi Acorda.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 2115 – 2145 | 2215 – 2245
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
In Their Own Words: Writing Verbatim Plays
Description: Why should you write a verbatim play instead of a conventional one? How do you choose your topic? What is the writing process like? Join playwright Haresh Sharma as he shares his approaches to working on a verbatim play, including his latest production Acting Mad, presented as part of The Studios series this year.
Category: Talk
Location: library@esplanade
Time: 1200 – 1300
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
PANIK ROOM 4D by Improvper Conduct
Description: 8 characters wake up and find themselves trapped in an inescapable room. In order to survive, they must play games delivered to them by a mysterious distorted voice. Despite complying with the rules, the characters slowly meet their end as the games progress, leading to a grand finale where the truth is finally revealed.
None of the scenes are written before the show. Everything you see is fully improvised.
The 9pm show on Friday, 26 August will be a special, late-night edition of PANIK ROOM 4D. There may be more profanity and crass material so leave your kids at home!
Category: Theatre
Location: NUS University Town
Time: 1930 – 2100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunset Walk at Jurong Lake Gardens
Description: Join us for a specially curated tour of Jurong Lake Gardens this Mid-Autumn Festival! While immersing in the beauty of the sunset, our guides will introduce the different species of flora and fauna in the Gardens.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Jurong Lake Gardens
Time: 1830 – 1930
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Biodiversity Tour
Description: Come on down to Jurong Lake Gardens and learn about the rich biodiversity that you can find here! Breathe in the fresh air and listen to the delightful sounds of nature on a free guided walk.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Jurong Lake Gardens
Time: 0800 – 0900 | 0815 – 0915
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: 0800 – 0900 | 0815 – 0915
Heritage Tour
Description: Highlights of the tour include the Bandstand, sculptures in the Gardens, the Heritage Trees, the Main Gate, the Saraca Stream Walk.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Visitor Services Desk at Tanglin Gate Botany Centre
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required (Visitor Services Desk, Tanglin Gate) 15min before the scheduled tour.
Further Details: Website
Learning Forest Tour
Description: The Learning Forest features a network of boardwalks and elevated walkways that allow visitors to explore habitats ranging from a freshwater forest wetland to a lowland rainforest.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Visitor Services Desk at Tyersall Gate
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required (Visitor Services Desk, Tyersall Gate) 15min before the scheduled tour.
Further Details: Website
Bonsai Demonstration
Description: Sign up for a free educational workshop demonstration about landscape bonsai! In this session, you will learn how to assemble small rocks and small plants to replicate a real-life mountain. You will also learn how to enliven your bonsai landscape using moss and figurines!
Category: Workshop
Location: Jurong Lake Gardens
Time: 1600 – 1700
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Nature Cleanup @Pulau Ubin
Description: Come help us clean Pulau Ubin while meeting new like-minded people!
Category: Volunteer
Location: Pulau Ubin (Jetty Entrance)
Time: 1430 – 1600
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
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, Wetland Centre
Time: 0930 – 1100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 28 August 2022
Love, Care, and Share by Xishan Primary School
Description: Love, Care, and Share is a vibrant performance that features a series of wholesome and meaningful songs composed by students and teachers from Xishan Primary School.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1315 – 1345
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Altoduo
Description: Fusing complex melodic bass and drums, with elements of mathrock, new-age and chill-hop, Altoduo is here to take you on a fresh “chillax” experience.
Category: Film
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1730 – 1800 | 1830 – 1900 | 1930 – 2000
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Pebble
Description: Washed out synths and smelly guitar notes. Experimental rock mixed with dream pop and dance.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1830 – 1900 | 1930 – 2000
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Grrrl Gang
Description: Revel in the youthful authenticity and nod along to relatable lyrics at Grrrl Gang’s performance.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 2045 – 2115 | 2145 – 2215
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Sunset Walk at Jurong Lake Gardens
Description: Join us for a specially curated tour of Jurong Lake Gardens this Mid-Autumn Festival! While immersing in the beauty of the sunset, our guides will introduce the different species of flora and fauna in the Gardens.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Jurong Lake Gardens
Time: 1830 – 1930
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Pioneer Trail Along Ann Siang Hill and Telok Ayer Green
Description: Learn about the trade and ways of life of Singapore’s early immigrants in this walking trail around a quiet enclave amidst the hustle and bustle of Chinatown.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Ang Siang Hill Park
Time: 0900 – 1030
Booking Requirement: Yes
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 – October
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
Imaging Paradise
Description: Come ponder the past, present and future of what a modern utopia means to local filmmakers, and how one can better understand, appreciate and preserve our collective memory through film this August in celebration of National Day.
Free tickets available for selected movies
Category: Film
Location: ArtScience Museum
Date: 1 August 2022 – 8 September 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
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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