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 7 November 2022 to 13 November 2022.
Monday – 7 November 2022
grayscale
Description: In this edition of Soundtracks, J-music vocal-keyboard duo grayscale will be performing a range of Japanese hits, putting its own spin on well-known songs like ‘Oz’ from the anime Ranking of Kings and Vocaloid classic ‘Senbonzakura’.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 8 November 2022
Anime x Piano!
Description: Join HalcyonMusic and Narutee as they perform piano arrangements of anime and video game music, with a repertoire ranging from recent hit shows such as Chainsaw Man & Bleach to timeless classics from Studio Ghibli.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 9 November 2022
Nyoombaku
Description: Nyoombaku brings your favourite anime hits from Jujutsu Kaisen, Naruto, Attack On Titan and more to the Esplanade Concourse stage
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Safeguarding Against Digital Banking Scams
Description: In recent years, not only has the frequency of scams increased, but the types of scams have become more varied and unpredictable as well. It is important to understand how different scams work so that we can keep our online banking activities secure. Join us to learn more about the most common scam tactics and key tips to protect both yourself and your loved ones online.
This programme is suitable for those aged 50 and above.
Category: Talk
Location: Toa Payoh Public Library
Time: 1400 – 1530
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Edible 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: 1630 – 1800
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 10 November 2022
Anime x Piano!
Description: Join HalcyonMusic and Narutee as they perform piano arrangements of anime and video game music, with a repertoire ranging from recent hit shows such as Chainsaw Man & Bleach to timeless classics from Studio Ghibli.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Friday – 11 November 2022
Feel Trip (Season 3)
Description: Musubi is back for another Feel Trip! Get ready to go on an adventure and reminisce your favourite music memories as the band brings you some of the best soundtracks from the past and present. From the hard hitting hits of One OK Rock, to the soothing ballads of Aimer, there’s something for everyone to make sure you get the feels.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
A Bitesize of Musicals
Description: Get a taste of all your favorite musicals as Bitesize Theatre performs familiar tunes from popular productions such as Frozen, Waitress and Dear Evan Hansen.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1930 – 2000 | 2100 – 2130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Free Train Rides On Thomson East Line
Description: Eleven MRT stations along the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) will officially open for passenger service on Nov 13, announced the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Friday (Oct 7).
Spanning 13.2km, the stations are Stevens, Napier, Orchard Boulevard, Orchard, Great World, Havelock, Outram Park, Maxwell, Shenton Way, Marina Bay and Gardens by the Bay.
An opening event will be held on Nov 11 and commuters can travel for free along the new stations from 10am to 9pm on that day.
LTA said other activities will be held to mark the opening of the newest stage of the TEL, and these will be announced on its social media pages.
Category: Free Rides
Location: Various locations around Singapore
Date: 11 November 2022
Booking Requirement: No
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.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: The URA Centre Atrium
Time: 0930 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Urban Farming Workshop
Description: Join Mark, an urban farmer from VertiVegies as he takes you on a journey into the dynamic world of modern agriculture. This programme/event is open to members of the National Library Board, Singapore and those who are aged 15 years and above.
Category: Workshop
Location: Choa Chu Kang Public Library
Time: 1600 – 1700
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 12 November 2022
Feel Trip (Season 3)
Description: Musubi is back for another Feel Trip! Get ready to go on an adventure and reminisce your favourite music memories as the band brings you some of the best soundtracks from the past and present. From the hard hitting hits of One OK Rock, to the soothing ballads of Aimer, there’s something for everyone to make sure you get the feels.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1800 – 1830 | 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
A Look at Blindness: Biopolitics of the Dystopia
Description: In José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindnesss, an epidemic of ‘white blindness’ consumes a city and upends its social order. Not the first apocalyptic narrative to frame disability as the inciting event, Saramago’s work still bears revisiting almost twenty years later for us to unpack the troubling biopolitics which many dystopian works hold on to. In a society that ascribes power to certain kinds of bodies, how can we craft more inclusive and responsible end-of-world narratives?
Category: Talk
Location: Esplanade Theatre Foyer
Time: 1700 – 1800
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Giving Day @ Bishan CC
Description: GoodHood.SG is organizing Giving Day @ Bishan CC on 12 November 2022, Saturday with free stuff to do and take. If you have usable stuff at home that you have no use for, you can also bring them down to give them a second life and declutter your home. It is an event that combines sustainability and community bonding. If you are in the area, do drop by and check it out.
Category: Festival
Location: Bishan Community Club
Time: 1430 – 1800
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
NLB Café
Description: Get to know our librarians and archivists as they share about themselves and their work in a cosy setting, complete with light refreshments.
Category: Talk
Location: Promenade, Level 10, National Library
Time: 1500 – 1600
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
Kampong Gelam: Where Are You From?
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
Rain Forest Tour
Description: Discover the enchantment of our tropical rain forest with our volunteer guides in this one-hour tour. Please register 15 minutes before the tour at the Visitor Centre, Nassim Gate.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required 15 minutes prior on a first-come-first-served basis at Visitor Services @ Nassim Gate.
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.
Please note that no pets are allowed on this tour.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Time: 0900 – 1000
Booking Requirement: Registration is required 15 minutes before the tour at the Visitor Centre, Tyersall Gate.
Further Details: Website
What’s in my mangrove?
Description: Join us for a guided walk of this unique mangrove wetlands located at the border of freshwater (river) and salt water (sea).
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Time: 0930 – 1100
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 13 November 2022
呼吸 Kokyū – Respire
Description: Vocalist and perforer Rae Atrista presents the music that has shaped her life and values throughout the years. The repertoire will include J-pop favourites from different generations, with songs by Utada Hikaru, LiSA, Itsuwa Mayumi as well as music from anime series such as Demon Slayer and Rurouni Kenshin.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1800 – 1830 | 1915 – 1945 | 2015 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Namaste Bollywood
Description: Enjoy the music of Bollywood and more with Elliyas and friends! Comprising a group of friends who have been playing music together in clubs, bistros and events, this live band—led by Elliyas Farid with features by vocalists Neeraj Saxena and Sundaraman Iyer, drummer Joash Edelstein Mohan and bassist Ananthan—will present a repertoire of songs from Hindustani classical and pop music.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1930 – 2000 | 2100 – 2130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Free Outdoor Family Yoga in Bishan Park
Description: Kickstart your day with an energising morning outdoor yoga session in the verdant gardens and enjoy the clean air in our lovely Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park at Ficus Green! THIS EVENT IS FREE. BRING YOUR OWN MATS!
Category: Fitness
Location: Ficus Green, Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park
Time: 0800 – 0900
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
Storytelling with the Singapore Police Force
Description: Join our Police Officers from Woodlands Division for a special storytelling session as part of the Love Our Libraries and Archives event! Following the storytelling segment, the police officers will share crime prevention messages and teach us how we can play our part in safeguarding the community. For example, “Never give your OTP; No one needs to know.”
Category: Talk
Location: Yishun Public Library
Time: 1530 – 1630
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
My Alexandra Heritage Tour: Gillman Route
Description: Step into the stories of war as we explore the military installations, hospitals and fire station around Alexandra!
My Alexandra Heritage Tour explores the military installations constructed by the British to defend Singapore’s naval outpost at Keppel Harbour. Join us as we explore the military history of Alexandra, beginning from Former Gillman Barracks and Alexandra Barracks, to the massacre at Alexandra Hospital.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: Labrador Park MRT Station
Time: 0830 – 1130
Booking Requirement: Yes
Further Details: Website
My Mt Faber Heritage Tour
Description: My Mount Faber Heritage Tour visits the military encampments, tunnel complexes and secret reservoirs constructed by the British at Mount Faber to defend their naval base in Keppel. Follow us on an adventure to the secret dungeons at the heart of our city and hear first-hand accounts of the former villagers and soldiers at Mt Faber.
Category: Guided Tour
Location: HarbourFront Bus Interchange
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
Free Train Rides On Thomson East Line
Description: Eleven MRT stations along the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) will officially open for passenger service on Nov 13, announced the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Friday (Oct 7).
Spanning 13.2km, the stations are Stevens, Napier, Orchard Boulevard, Orchard, Great World, Havelock, Outram Park, Maxwell, Shenton Way, Marina Bay and Gardens by the Bay.
An opening event will be held on Nov 11 and commuters can travel for free along the new stations from 10am to 9pm on that day.
LTA said other activities will be held to mark the opening of the newest stage of the TEL, and these will be announced on its social media pages.
Category: Free Rides
Location: Various locations around Singapore
Date: 11 November 2022
Booking Requirement: No
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
Yellow Ribbon Community Arts Festival
Description: Previously known as the Yellow Ribbon Community Art & Poetry Exhibition, the Yellow Ribbon Community Arts Festival (YRCAF) will be held at Gardens by the Bay on November 5 this year.
The exhibition focuses on the rehabilitation efforts by inmates and ex-offenders through art and poetry. Art and poetry provides a platform for their reflection and expression and through this, fosters reconciliation, bringing them closer to their families and communities.
Besides the exhibition, the Yellow Ribbon Community Arts Festival includes weekend activities such as band performances by Halfway Houses, sales of food and merchandise, and art workshops for all to enjoy. Join us to create a community of support and a society beyond second chances.
Category: Festival
Location: Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay
Date: 5 – 13 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
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 November
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
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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