singapore free events activities next week 26dec 2022 1jan 2023

Free Stuff To Do In Singapore Next Week – 26 DEC – 1 JAN

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 26 December 2022 to 1 January 2023.

Singapore free stuff next week banner 26DEC 2022 1JAN 2023

Monday – 26 December 2022

Songs Re:Imagined

Description: Songs Re:Imagined is a collaboration of songs, stories, lives and performers. Coming together from different worlds, experiences and performing styles, it is a collaboration among friends (who happen to also be neighbours!) brought together by the love and power of music to re-tell, re-interpret, and re-discover.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

HYRULXAZMIR

Description: Be enthralled by their magnetic showmanship and renditions of hits from influences like Tulus, Judika, Ne-Yo and Harry Styles. From throwback anthems to current bops, get hyped with HYRULXAZMIR through a repertoire of pop, R&B and funk music!

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre

Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2030 – 2115

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Tuesday – 27 December 2022

Heema Izzati

Description: Join songstress and multi-instrumentalist Heema as she takes you through her musical journey starting from her first public performance at the delicate age of three. From Disney to Rihanna, she will be showcasing a collection of songs in a variety of genres and languages, all of which have shaped her identity as a young performer.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Wednesday – 28 December 2022

The Ostrich of Kampong Glam LIVE!

Description: Join author-performer Kane Wheatley-Holder and sound design folks from Artwave for a tale you’ve never heard of—and might never hear of again!

Category: Storytelling

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Thursday – 29 December 2022

Inclusive Arts Movement

Description: Join Inclusive Arts Movement (I.AM) for an evening of soulful and inspiring performances by differently-abled talents. Feel the love as they share sentimental songs that are sure to stir your emotions.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Movie Date With BPPL!

Description: Calling all families, Join us for a movie date at Bukit Panjang Public Library!

Advisory: PG (Some violence)

Category: Film

Location: Bukit Panjang Public Library

Time: 1730 – 1930

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: Website

Friday – 30 December 2022

Inclusive Arts Movement

Description: Join Inclusive Arts Movement (I.AM) for an evening of soulful and inspiring performances by differently-abled talents. Feel the love as they share sentimental songs that are sure to stir your emotions.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2000 – 2045

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Festa!

Description: Join NovoBloco and Bloco Singapura this festive season for an entrancing evening of pulsating drums and dance alongside family and friends, both old and new.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre

Time: 1900 – 1945 | 2030 – 2115

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Saturday – 31 December 2022

The Next Wave

Description: Get the freshest sounds on your radar as handpicked by the finest ears in the industry including Dean Augustine (Cross Ratio Entertainment), Leonard Soosay (Snakeweed Studios) and singer-songwriter Linying, in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

1845 – 1930 – Shazza

2000 – 2045 – Thaarmin

2115 – 2200 – Alicia DC

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2000 – 1945 | 2115 – 2200

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

The Next Wave

Description: Get the freshest sounds on your radar as handpicked by the finest ears in the industry including Dean Augustine (Cross Ratio Entertainment), Leonard Soosay (Snakeweed Studios) and singer-songwriter Linying, in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

1900 – 1940 – motifs

2000 – 2040 – motifs

2100 – 2140 – mattgnaw

2200 – 2240 – Narysal

2300 – 2340 – mattgnaw

Next Morning 0008 – 0048 – Narysal

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre

Time: 1900 – 1940 | 2000 – 2040 | 2100 – 2140 | 2200 – 2240 | 2300 – 2340 | Next Morning 0008 – 0048

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Movie Time! @ Sengkang Public Library

Description: Unwind with a movie at Sengkang Public Library’s programme zone. Come on down to enjoy some of our favourite movies. Admission is free! Slots are limited, so do register quickly! Suitable for families, or anyone needing a break.

Rating: G

Est duration: 88 mins

Category: Film

Location: Sengkang Public Library

Time: 1400 – 1600

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: Website

Let’s Celebrate 2023

Description: Usher in the new year with an exciting slate of Let’s Celebrate 2023 activities as your favourite annual countdown party returns to The Promontory at Marina Bay! You will be treated to performances by a star-studded line-up of local and regional talents including Shila Amzah, Richie Koh, Yung Raja, ALYPH, Ebi Shankara, Glenn Yong, Desmond Ng, Rahimah Rahim and many more!

No outside food and drinks (even bottled water) are allowed so do eat and drink before attending the countdown.

Category: Festival

Location: The Promontory

Time: 1900 – 0015

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Let’s Walk, Singapore

Description: Join the Sunnystep community for a free 3.5km walkathon at Jurong Lake Gardens! Our friendly Sunnystep staff will greet you at Jurong Lake Gardens (at the Oval)! Before the walk commences, there will be a simple warm-up stretch routine. We will also stop for toilet breaks and water breaks in between, and the walk will end with a cooling stretch routine!

09:00 – 09:05: Introduction + Distribution of vouchers (no registration required)

09:05 – 09:15: Warm-up exercise

09:15 – 09:50: Walk

09:50 – 09:55: Water/ toilet break

09:55 – 10:25: Walk

10:25 – 10:30: Water/ Toilet break

10:30 – 10:50: Walk

10:50 – 11:00: Cool down stretch

Category: Exercise

Location: Jurong Lake Gardens

Time: 0900 – 1100

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: Website

Sunday – 1 January 2023

Leslie Low

Description: Known for his work with The Observatory and Hanging up the Moon, Leslie Low returns with music off his latest album, Nightingale. Expect intimate renditions of this album’s songs and see how he breathes new life into old songs from different periods of his musical oeuvre.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Concourse

Time: 1800 – 1830 | 1900 – 1930

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Houg

Description: For the first time ever at Esplanade, Houg presents his music with the support of his band. Houg will perform tracks off his debut album, which was inspired by his journey between Singapore and Melbourne, trying to find a home for his music.

Category: Music

Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre

Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2015 – 2100

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

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.

Category: Guided Tour

Location: Tiong Bahru CC

Time: 1000 – 1200 | 1400 – 1600 | 1600 – 1800

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: 1000 – 1200 | 1400 – 1600 | 1600 – 1800 

My Dawson Heritage Tour

Description: My Dawson Heritage Tour explores the history and heritage of Queenstown, Singapore’s first satellite town. Join us as we explore how Queenstown links to different periods throughout Singapore’s history, from it being founded as a port city in 1819, to achieving self-governance in 1959, and to its nation building from the 1960s to the present day.

Category: Guided Tour

Location: Queenstown MRT Station

Time: 0830 – 1230

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: Website

Non-Specific Date Activities

兔gether

Description: SCCC’s Roof Garden comes alive with a spectacular rabbit-themed art installation exhibition to welcome the Year of the Rabbit. Entitled 兔gether, the art installations created by local art and design studio Whisky and Foxtrot LLP, the mixed-media artwork presents a cast of characters from Chinese New Year mythology. These characters will showcase local Chinese New Year practices enjoyed together with family and friends.

Light Shows

Visitors can also look forward to special light shows with narration of the story of  Tu Zai’s journey home to celebrate Chinese New Year with his family and friends.

Light shows will be held on 7 Jan, 14 Jan, 28 Jan, 25 Feb and 25 Mar from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Category: Exhibition

Location: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Date: 18 December 2022 – 31 March 2023

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

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

Children’s Museum Singapore

Description: Let’s “Start With Wonder” at Children’s Museum Singapore. We are the first museum in Singapore dedicated to children 12 years old and below! We believe in sparking wonder and the power of play in a safe environment.

Adults are unable to visit without a child accompanying them.

Admission is free until 31 March 2023

Category: Museum

Location: Children’s Museum Singapore

Date: Till 31 March 2023 (Closed on Mondays)

Booking Requirement: Yes

Further Details: Website

Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book

Description: Pulp III marks the midpoint of Rao’s ongoing decade-long project Pulp, which explores the history of book destruction and its impact on the futures of knowledge. The exhibition provides visitors the opportunity to engage with Rao’s work through daily screenings of her film, Talking Leaves, and a presentation of her book, Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book, Volume III of V (Pulp Vol. III).

Filmed over five years in various locations including Venice and Singapore, Talking Leaves highlights the tales of those at the forefront of the effort to save books and libraries through personal confidences and elegiac reflections, as well as incendiary documentary and mytho-poetic languages.

Category: Exhibition

Location: ArtScience Museum

Date: 6 January 2023 – 24 January 2023

Booking Requirement: No

Further Details: Website

Special Tours at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Description: How did Chinese Singaporeans develop the habit of having kaya toast for breakfast, and what is kopi siudai? Why do Chinese Singaporeans lohei during Chinese New Year and observe Zhongyuan in the seventh lunar month? How did these habits and practices develop, and what are some other Chinese Singaporean customs? Join a tour specially curated for new citizens and non-Singaporeans to better appreciate the distinctiveness of Chinese Singaporean culture. Each session includes a guided tour and short discussion segment.

Tour is free. Suitable for those aged 15 and above. Each participant will also receive a complimentary bottle of Cooling Water from Three Legs brand.

Category: Guided Tour

Location: Singapore Chinese Culture Centre

Date: 1st Saturday of every month of 2023

Booking Requirement: Yes

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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