I will be highlighting events and activities to do in Singapore next week that is 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 28 March 2022 to 3 April 2022.
Monday – 28 March 2022
Children’s Stage of Arts Production
Description: Children’s Stage of Arts Production organises the annual National Primary School Crosstalk Competition, with the aim of allowing students to find joy in learning Mandarin through the art of crosstalk.
The crosstalk performance will be delivered by winners of the competition, for everyone to enjoy the fun in Mandarin.
Category: Theatre
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Every Drop Counts: Transformative Innovations
Description: To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Can Tech save the World and Art heal it?, let us convene on a panel to talk about one of the most complex and highly- contested topics: Water security.
Category: Talk And Guided Tour
Location: Courtyard Room, Marina Barrage
Time: 1630 – 1830
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 29 March 2022
Jendela Pantunism
Description: Join Pantunism for a night of unorthodox poetry recitation based on journal entries of their daily experiences.
Category: Theatre
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 30 March 2022
Melizarani T. Selva and Cheyenne Alexandria Phillip
Description: Join Melizarani T. Selva and Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips for a night of spoken word poetry inspired by their repertoire on nature, science and intricacies of the world that unite and divide us.
Category: Theatre
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 31 March 2022
(you) let the light in
Description: Join us as we gather the voices of those in Singapore who have walked alongside death— healthcare workers, caregivers and patients who have each grappled with the realities of losing a loved one to terminal illness. With this poignant poetry reading, we hope to provide a sense of connection and relief for those who are currently going through this difficult journey, and to raise awareness of the importance of palliative care in the region.
Category: Theatre
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
All About Food! | ST*ART Series
Description: Join the storytellers as they share tales about food! A fun craft session awaits!
This programme is suitable for participants aged 4 to 8. Admission is free and registration is required.
Category: Storytelling And Craft
Location: Bedok Public Library
Time: 1500 – 1600
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Friday – 1 April 2022
NAFA-SCO MOU Signing Ceremony & Concert
Description: The Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) will sign a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalise partnerships for the preservation of traditional Chinese arts, music, and culture. This special chamber music concert highlights the achievements by NAFA students with their instructors, who are also SCO musicians.
Category: Music
Location: Lee Foundation Theatre
Time: 1930 – 2100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Jazz Night 2022 – Fool Me Once
Description: Come enjoy a swinging April Fools’ night with the SAS Singers and Jazz Band. ?“Don’t be a fool and miss this … no audience limits!”
Category: Music
Location: Auditorium, Singapore American School
Time: 1800 – ????
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 2 April 2022
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.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Gallop Extension
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required (Visitor Services @ Gallop) 15min before the scheduled tour. Limited slots available.
Further Details: Website
Healing Garden Tour
Description: The Healing Garden showcases over 400 varieties of plants used medicinally. It is laid out thematically relating to component parts of the body such as head, respiratory and reproductive systems. Spread over 2.5 hectares, this garden is designed as a tranquil retreat with medical plants traditionally used in Southeast Asia as the main focus.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Visitor Services Desk at Nassim Gate
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required (Visitor Centre, Nassim Gate) 15min before the scheduled tour. Limited slots available.
Further Details: Website
PSBuskers Festival 2022
Description: Their stage on the streets may be gone for now but this doesn’t mean you can’t catch their exhilarating performances! Wanting to give Singapore’s talented buskers a platform to perform after a hiatus from the public spaces (no thanks to COVID), a group of PSB Academy students come together to present the PSBuskers Festival.
Category: Music
Location: PSB Academy City Campus
Time: 1200 – 1500 | 1600 – 1900
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 3 April 2022
New Beginnings
Description: This concert marks the beginning of a new year of music-making for Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra (BHSO). It also marks the opening of a new chapter for BHSO as it ventures forth without the guiding force and baton of its late Music Director, Adrian Tan, whom the orchestra hopes to do proud with today’s performance. His musicians miss him, his absence is still tangible, but they hope to do him proud with today’s performance.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concert Hall
Time: 1400 – 1500
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Non-Specific Date Activities
Heritage Hunter Volume 2 Bingo
Description: Experience a free treasure hunt in Kampong Gelam organised by National Heritage Board. I wrote a short post on what it is all about here that you can check out.
Category: Games
Location: Kampong Gelam
Date: 12 March 2022 – 2 April 2022 (Avoid Mondays)
Time: 0900 – 2359 (Dependent on location)
Booking Requirement: Need to register an account here
Further Details: Website
ArtScience on Screen: The Modern Fables of Masaaki Yuasa
Description: Yakitori, yakuza, and mermaids collide in the wonderfully kaleidoscopic genius mind of acclaimed Japanese animator and director Masaaki Yuasa.
Mind Game (2004)
Lu Over The Wall (2017)
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)
Ride Your Wave (2019)
Category: Movie Screening
Location: Art Science Museum
Date: 4 March 2022 – 18 April 2022 (Free screenings only on weekdays)
Time: 1400 – 1830 (Screen time dependant on movie)
Booking Requirement: Yes (Can try to walk in on weekdays)
Further Details: Website
ArtScience Museum x NOWNESS: Meditative Screens
Description: Come witness how community, song, language and spirituality transcend chaos through an inextricable bond of hope across 4 very specially curated short films in conjunction with NOWNESS.
First Sunday
Nabs
The Dictionary
Boys Will Be Flowers
Category: Movie Screening
Location: Art Science Museum
Date: 4 March 2022 – 18 April 2022 (Free screenings only on weekdays)
Time: 1030 – 1300 (Total screen time 19 minutes)
Booking Requirement: Yes (Can try to walk in on weekdays)
Further Details: Website
This Is What We Eat at Home
Description: Mealtimes at home are not only a time for eating. They are also about creating memories together, intertwined with knowledge passed down from one generation to the next, where elders and children invest in each other with care.
This is What We Eat at Home is a participatory photography project featuring 12 children and youths from very diverse households in Boon Lay. Through capturing meal preparations and candid sharing of their life experiences, these young persons and their family members shed light on a diversity of caregiving models, heritage and value systems that exist in a socially complex community.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Esplanade Courtyard
Date: 9 March 2022 – 31 March 2022
Guided tours are available on 11 – 13, 18 – 20 March 2022
Time: All Day (Guided tour at 1700 and 1800)
Booking Requirement: Yes
Limited capacity for guided tours. Registration for tours is available on a first-come, first-served basis onsite. Registration will open onsite 30mins before each tour session.
Further Details: Website
URA Special Exhibition on Autonomous Vehicles
Description: Led by URA volunteers, this approximately 25-minutes guided tour will provide you an introduction to Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), how they work, what Singapore is doing to facilitate their roll out, and how the proliferation of AVs may change urban planning in Singapore in the future.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore City Gallery
Date: Guided tours are offered on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and alternate Saturdays from 18 January to 29 March 2022
Time: Every 20 minutes from 12:00pm to 1:40pm (6 tours per day)
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
One of Us, All of Us Exhibition
Description: Culminating from the One of Us video series, One of Us, All of Us is an exhibition that gives visitors untold insights into local Chinese dialect culture through an up close and personal showcase of over 20 people featured on the video series.
Category: Exhibition
Location: SCCC Concourse, Level 1
Date: 7 January 2021 – 31 March 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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