I will be highlighting some weekly events and activities to do in Singapore that is absolutely free. We do not have to spend money to enjoy ourselves.
Please check the respective websites to check for the latest details and availability.
Here is a list of free stuff to do in Singapore for the week of 27 December 2021 to 2 January 2022.
Monday – 27 December 2021
Music of Love
Description: Join Zeeura and her students-turned-friends See Chai & Angeline, dynamic duo 400 Chewy & Charlotte and Natalie aka Miss Chu from EveryChusDay in this special evening! Watch as they all come together to share the universal language of love and music!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tuesday – 28 December 2021
Umar Sirhan and Friends: Bilo Bros feat. Tiara Maimun
Description: Come along as Umar Sirhan takes you on a journey in search of the essence and soul of music in collaboration and coming together. Soulful playing embellished with lush vocals and harmonies make for an immersive and uplifting atmosphere.
Umar Sirhan is joined on stage by Hasyir Ibrahim and Tiara Maimun, two respectable musicians in their own regard. They have both been featured on a multitude of Spotify playlists in Southeast Asia for collaborative projects such as If I Told You and What’d I Do, garnering almost 20,000 streams to date.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Wednesday – 29 December 2021
I Kid You Not, Live!
Description: Remember these two boys from I Kid You Not #7: The art of Indian percussion? Well, Dhruv and Siddhant will be performing for you live at the Esplanade Concourse. These two talented young musicians will take you through the drums’ distinct folk origins, share their musical journey with the audience members and do what they do best, perform!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1930 – 2000 | 2100 – 2130
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Thursday – 30 December 2021
Come Play (Cello) With Me
Description: This year end, these young cellists will come together to draw you into the fun and share their love for music and the cello with you.
For these young cellists, music permeates all aspects of life.It is a source of unceasing joy and a means of making friends and creating beauty together. Through mastering great pieces of art, they have found their voice, performing on the global stage and winning many accolades. They feel lucky that practising their instrument has gone beyond being a discipline to becoming pure happiness and to have found equally motivated companions to play ensemble pieces and share pizzas and ice-creams with.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Friday – 31 December 2021
We Will Rock You Concert
Description: We are ROCKING into 2022 with you for the New Year’s Eve celebrations at Town Square in Our Tampines Hub on Fri, 31 Dec at 10.30pm! This is the first time we are holding a phygital rock concert in the heartlands to entertain our residents along with a 3Day back to back lineup of family-friendly activities for all ages to enjoy!
Get ready for an awesome night with comical and witty host Justin Misson and entertaining concert performances by local stars in an unique setting! Please stay glued to your chair to participate in exciting online quizzes and game show to win attractive prizes.
Category: Concert
Location: Our Tampines Hub
Time: 2230
Booking Requirement: Yes
FREE tickets will be available for collection at the Redemption Booth behind L1 Customer Service Counter as follows:
- Sat, 18 Dec at 2pm (First 100pairs)
- Sun, 19 Dec at 10am (First 100 pairs)
- Mon, 20 Dec at 10am (First 100 pairs)
- Tues, 21 Dec at 10am (First 150 pairs)
Further Details: Website
2022 New Year’s Eve Heartland Fireworks
Description: For the second year running, fireworks will be set off from various heartland locations on 31 December 2021. There will be no fireworks at Marina Bay to prevent large crowds from gathering in the precinct, and to mitigate the risk of transmission of COVID-19.
Category: Fireworks
Location
- Bedok
- Bishan
- Boon Lay
- Buona Vista
- Choa Chu Kang
- Hougang
- Kembangan-Chai Chee
- Sembawang
- Tampines
- Woodlands
Time: 2359
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
In with the New with Hasyir Ibrahim
Description: In with The New with Hasyir Ibrahim promises an evening of eclectic genres of music. Catch some of Singapore’s- most promising up-and-coming artists as Hasyir Ibrahim performs with hip hop duo Wovensound x Ihasamic!, indie-pop artist Benny’s, soulful singer-songwriter Tiara Maimun, and indie folk artist Ken Loh. Expect fresh renditions of the artists’ originals as well as popular covers to ring in the new year!
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2000 – 2045
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Tonight with WOKFUNK: Class of 2022
Description: Tonight with WOKFUNK: Class of 2022 caps off the year with a night of pop, funk, hip hop and more from some of Singapore’s most prominent and rising young artists.
Curated by WOKFUNK and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, the class of 2022 features live performances of six prolific and fast-rising artists: Marian Carmel, Akeem Jahat, Vivien Yap, Sambal Snake, Dominic Chin and Owen Li. The artists will be showcasing new tunes that will only be released in the coming year, along with popular covers and interview segments with the WOKFUNK duo acting as host.
Come and get to know each of them a little more in this late-night style show, accompanied by the WOKFUNK live band, with guitarist Leo Goh of Finger Funk Party and pianist Euntaek Kim.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1900 – 1940 | 2030 – 2110 | 2200 – 2240
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Saturday – 1 January 2022
NEW (y)EARS
Description: In the 2022 edition of All Things New, Izat Ibrahim presents NEW (y)EARS,where he’ll perform his latest singles What Went Wrong and Tak Perlu Tahu, as well as new covers and unreleased music.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1800 – 1830 | 1900 – 1930 | 2000 – 2030
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
MOTUS
Description: MOTUS is an amalgamation of vocalists, instrumentalists and a bateria—forming a unique line-up of individuals from different ethnicities and musical backgrounds. Each member flavours our music in their own way, giving it an unmistakable yet conventional tune. With a vision to create music that resonates with our audiences, whether you’re a feet tapper, head bobber, or a full-on dancer, our aim is to get you moving.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2015 – 2100
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Sunday – 2 January 2022
Shak’thiya
Description: Having just dropped his five-track debut EP, Sitting at Home, Shak’thiya brings you an intimate evening of originals both new and old. Expect the usual brand of random shenanigans, off-topic covers and soulful sounds.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Concourse
Time: 1800 – 1830 | 1900 – 1930
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Groove Factory & Friends
Description: Groove Factory is revamping its music and performance pursuits this new year, starting on a highly collaborative note. The band feels that it is time to refocus on homegrown talents such as vocalists and songwriters, working together to create significant impact on the music industry as well as the society.
Category: Music
Location: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
Time: 1845 – 1930 | 2015 – 2100
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Non-Specific Date Activities
Trees of the World 2021
Description: The Singapore Botanic Gardens’ Trees of the World 2021 brings together the Gardens, the community and our partners, to bring festive cheer to Singapore’s favourite green space and raise funds for the Give to the Gardens programme. The 200 trees on display across the Gardens are decorated by donors, community groups and members of public, and will be lit from 7pm to 12 midnight daily, between 4 December 2021 and 2 January 2022.
Category: Tree Decorations
Location: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Bandstand
Date: 4 December 2021 – 02 January 2022
Time: 0500 – 2359
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Waterfront Promenade Light Installations And Projections
Description: To add to the festive cheer, part of the Marina Bay waterfront promenade adjacent to Marina Boulevard will also be lit up with special light installations and projections. Each embodying the spirit of creativity and hopefulness, the installations aim to offer visitors an uplifting experience as they walk through a kaleidoscope of colours on a treetop canopy, immerse themselves in a galaxy of stars, pose with an installation comprising lighted inflatable bird structures, or contemplate an abstract clockface projection display.
Category: Light Installations
Location: Marina Bay waterfront promenade adjacent to Marina Boulevard
Date: 1 December 2021 – 31 December 2021
Time: 2000 – 2230
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Share The Moment
Description: MBSC 2022 will bring back Share the Moment, a series of light projection shows in partnership with the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) and in support of its vision for a City of Good. These light projections will feature original artworks by local students, who were inspired by the stories of this year’s President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards nominees. Their illustrations portray heartwarming moments where people have come together to give their best for others during difficult times.
Nightly light projection shows will transform the facades of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands and the Merlion into a storytelling showcase.
A 5-minute animated light projection show will play every 15 minutes, with the last show at 10.30pm (last show at 11.45pm on 31 December)
Category: Light Show
Location: The Fullerton Hotel, Merlion and ArtScience Museum
Date: 1 December 2021 – 31 December 2021
Time: 2000 – 2230 (Extended to 2345 on 31 December 2021)
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website
Changi’s Light-up @ Jurassic Mile
Description: Be dazzled by Changi’s light-up as you seek out the carnivores hiding behind the greenery along the Changi Airport Park Connector.
Category: Light Installations
Location: Jurassic Mile
Time: Connector open 24 hours. Lights switched on from 1830 onwards.
Date: 29 November 2021 – 19 January 2022
Booking Requirement: No
Further Details: Website | 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.
