I will be highlighting events and activities to do in Singapore next week that are absolutely free. We do not have to spend money to enjoy ourselves. 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 25 April 2022 to 1 May 2022.
Monday – 25 April 2022
Pipa Harmonies
Description: Come join the Pipa Society for an evening of pipa classics and familiar tunes from drama series such as Give Me a Rose, Little Sisters on the Prairie and Liu Yang River.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 26 April 2022
RACH
Description: Relive the 2000s with RACH as they perform a mix of acoustic covers from pop rock and pop punk bands such as My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Hoobastank, alongside original tracks such as You’re A Liar (But So Am I) and I Like It.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Theatre Festival 2022
Description: This is a week of shows featuring various theatrical forms, and includes performances from ATPA, drama classes, Improv groups, student created and produced plays, dance and even some musicals.
This show features:
- Advanced Improv troupe
- Advanced Production Class’s Send in the Clowns
- followed by Thespian Inductions
Category: Theatre
Location: Singapore American School
Time: 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 27 April 2022
Zeitgeist! Viola through the Times
Description: Ever wondered about the difference between a viola and a violin? Let these six young violists show you through their performance, demonstrating the endless possibilities and beauty of the viola!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Theatre Festival 2022
Description: This is a week of shows featuring various theatrical forms, and includes performances from ATPA, drama classes, Improv groups, student created and produced plays, dance and even some musicals.
This show features:
- The Booth
- IASAS Improv
Category: Theatre
Location: Singapore American School
Time: 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 28 April 2022
Externalizing corporeality
Description: A composer of concert music, Bertram Wee views his compositions as a conduit for performers to externalise corporeality. During the residency, he will expand upon compositional strategies that shatter the boundary between musician and listening to explore the role of the body in performance, music-making and formalised concert music.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
Time: 1830 – 1930
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Between A Square and an Octopus: Practices in Inter-Materiality
Description: This collaborative project by Sonja Jokiniemi and Daniel Kok intertwines each artist’s long-standing exploration of different materialities. Choreographed into performative bricolages, they will endeavour to develop their poetics based on multiplicity and discover alternative modes of communication.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Annese Studio
Time: 2000 – 2100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Aliff Sharil
Description: A passion project that turned into something more: Shortly after debuting his original single Yellow Daisies, Aliff Sharil quickly found himself positioned as an emerging voice after landing on Spotify’s curated playlist, Fresh Finds. Join him for an intimate evening as he presents a repertoire of folk-inspired music.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
PLAWK 4 Mental Wellness @ NEE SOON EAST
Description: PLAWK – PICK LITTER AS WE WALK. It’s healthy and good for mental wellbeing and the environment. Join us as we raise funds by PLAWKING!
Spread the word among your contacts and join us as we do our part to clean up our environment, while raising funds to train and support caregivers of persons with mental health issues.
Gloves and garbage bags will be provided. You may wish to bring your own tongs though.
Category: Volunteer
Location: Yishun Park
Time: 1700 – 1900
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Theatre Festival 2022
Description: This is a week of shows featuring various theatrical forms, and includes performances from ATPA, drama classes, Improv groups, student created and produced plays, dance and even some musicals.
This show features an
Advanced Topic Performing Arts showcase
comprised of the following pieces:
- 21 Chump Street
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ft. God
- He Said, She Said
- Point Average
- Departure
Category: Theatre
Location: Singapore American School
Time: 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Friday – 29 April 2022
Chinese Dance Fiesta 2022: Talk & Demonstration
Description: The Mongols are an east Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongolian traditional folk dance is a unique and distinguished art expression that has embodied and originated from the nomadic living style of Mongols.
If you are curious to find out more about Mongolian dance then you need to join Shao Ziwen, Senior Lecturer of Singapore Raffles Music College at our talk and demonstration as part of Chinese Dance Fiesta 2022.
Category: Dance
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1915 | 2030 – 2100
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Chinese Dance Fiesta 2022: Performance Showcase
Description: Experience the beauty and diversity of Chinese dance as Singapore Chinese Dance Theatre (SCDT) presents its Chinese Dance Fiesta !
Be mesmerised by dazzling presentations of elegant classical and energetic ethnic folk forms at Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, featuring dancers from Wu Yue Dance Studio Arts Troupe, Joyance Arts Centre, Hwa Chong Alumni Association – Dance Club, as well as SCDT’s very own company dancers and Children, Junior, and Youth Performance Troupes.
Category: Dance
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1930 – 2015 | 2115 – 2200
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Chinatown Heritage Walks – Bukit Pasoh Heritage Trail
Description: Experience one of the few remaining hills in the city area which is home to many clans and associations since the late 19th-century.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: The URA Centre Atrium
Time: 0930 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Theatre Festival 2022
Description: This is a week of shows featuring various theatrical forms, and includes performances from ATPA, drama classes, Improv groups, student created and produced plays, dance and even some musicals.
This show features:
- Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Category: Theatre
Location: Singapore American School
Time: 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 30 April 2022
goneMUNE – LIVE
Description: goneMUNE performs for the first time ever live. catch MUNE’s originals, unreleased tracks from their band Certain Shadows and more.
Category: Music
Location: *SCAPE bandstand
Time: 1700 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
PLAWK 4 Mental Wellness @ Tampines
Description: PLAWK – PICK LITTER AS WE WALK. It’s healthy and good for mental wellbeing and the environment. Join us as we raise funds by PLAWKING!
Spread the word among your contacts and join us as we do our part to clean up our environment, while raising funds to train and support caregivers of persons with mental health issues.
Gloves and garbage bags will be provided. You may wish to bring your own tongs though.
Category: Volunteer
Location: Sun Plaza Park
Time: 0800 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Living with Nature | Storytelling by NParks
Description: Join NParks for our Living with Nature sharing series, starting with a storytelling about our native long-tailed macaques and how we can react appropriately when we encounter them in our estate! Following the storytelling segment, there will be a craft activity for both parent and child to make a monkey paper bag puppet.
This is a parent-child programme and will require both parent and child to register for one ticket each.
Category: Storytelling & Crafts
Location: Choa Chu Kang Public Library
Time: 1400 – 1430 | 1530 – 1600
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: 1400 – 1430 | 1530 – 1600
The Heart Heals
Description: SINC invites you into their world of confessions, secrets and heartbreak. Comprising Shahzuie Jaffar, Isaac Lee, Putera Nizam, and Christie Khoo, these four friends from Institute Technical of Education (ITE) present familiar tunes such as NIKI’s Every Summertime alongside bold original music. Tune in to their experiences of love accompanied on the piano by their teacher, Mr. Julian Wong.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Squad Game
Description: Get ready for a celebration of youth and team spirit as the young members of CheerForce SG, Ikigai Effect (IFX), and SMU Samba Masala take the stage with performances that spotlight different disciplines, skills and forms of creative expression!
Category: Dance
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1945 – 2015 | 2100 – 2145
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
#TeamUpEdition: Fort Canning Puzzle Hunt
Description: Do you want to explore Singapore in a fun way? Come try our Fort Canning Puzzle Hunt Adventure! And guess what, we are giving away 500 FREE tickets across four weekends for you to join us in this one-of a kind puzzle hunt. (Note: the usual price per ticket is $30).
Category: Games
Location: Fort Canning
Time: 0900 – 1200 | 0930 – 1230 | 1000 – 1300 | 1400 – 1700 | 1430 – 1730 | 1500 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 1 May 2022
My Tiong Bahru Heritage Tour
Description: Take a walk around Singapore’s only conserved housing estate with our volunteer guides to explore the pre-war and post-war architecture and learn about the culture and arts, food and romance, as well as intriguing people and stories associated with this charming and picturesque neighbourhood.
- Wear a mask, comfortable clothes and suitable shoes.
- Bring along hand sanitiser, insect repellent, EZ-Link card, a bottle of water and an umbrella.
- If you have earphones with a standard 3.5mm audio jack, please bring them along (for radio guides during the tour).
- Asthmatic individuals are encouraged to bring their inhaler.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Tiong Bahru CC
Time: 0930 – 1130 | 1000 – 1200 | 1600 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: 0930 – 1130 | 1000 – 1200 | 1600 – 1800
Non-Specific Date Activities
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: Art
Location: Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
Date: 21 Jan 2022 – 25 Sep 2022
Time: 1000 – 1700
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Singapore Maritime Trail – Our Progress
Description: Discover Singapore’s rich maritime stories through the Singapore Maritime Trails!
Singapore Maritime Trail – Our Heritage
Description: Discover Singapore’s rich maritime stories through the Singapore Maritime Trails!
Category: Guided Tour
Location: SMU School of Accountancy
Date: 7 May 2022 | 4 June 2022
Time: 0900 – 1130 | 1500 – 1730
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Singapore Maritime Trail – Our Progress
Description: Discover Singapore’s rich maritime stories through the Singapore Maritime Trails!
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HarbourFront Centre
Date: 11 June 2022
Time: 0900 – 1130 | 1500 – 1730
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Singapore Maritime Trail – Our Legacy
Description: Discover Singapore’s rich maritime stories through the Singapore Maritime Trails!
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Telok Ayer MRT Station, Exit B
Date: 21 May 2022 | 18 June 2022
Time: 0900 – 1130 | 1500 – 1730
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Life is Sweet: Ang Ku Kueh Girl Exhibition
Description: These illustrations were inspired by Wang Shijia’s reflections on life’s joys and struggles. But don’t mistake Ang Ku Kueh Girl for her creator! Ang Ku Kueh Girl is determined, persistent and a thankful optimist; Shijia aspires to be like her!
Many of these illustrations have been published before. They have since been updated with new details and colours. Shijia also added traditional Chinese motifs to convey her well wishes for visitors.
There are also other free exhibitions and events available at SCCC that you can check out here.
Category: Exhibition
Location: SCCC Auditorium Foyer, Level 9 and 10
Date: 7 January 2021 – 30 June 2022
Time: 0900 – 2200
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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