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NUS Arts Festival 2021: A Question of Time – Exploring the relationship between Man and Time
2 March 2021
Emerging from a year of suspended plans and new norms, the NUS Arts Festival’s 16th edition, A Question of Time, asks the question, “How do you measure and mark Time in your life?”
From 19 March to 16 April 2021, the festival presents multidisciplinary performances across all genres of dance, music, theatre, film, visual and literary arts by over 300 students and academics from National University of Singapore (NUS).
Re-Awakening the Dream & the Journey
20 August 2020
Dreamtalk 話夢 by Ranice Tay & Ang Gey Pin and other shows from the postponed NUS Arts Festival 2020 transformed for the virtual stage.
Other scheduled shows such as A Quiet Place, An Act of Killing and Weathering with you have been re-introduced as part of the ExxonMobil Campus Concert series.
Crime Radio: Exploring the true cost of media sensationalism
22 September 2020
Hosts of an online radio show are forced to confront ethical and moral dilemmas in Crime Radio, a Zoom theatre experience presented by National University of Singapore’s Centre For the Arts (NUS CFA), as a part of the ExxonMobil Campus Concerts (EMCC) series.
The show is presented as an interactive theatre performance which invites the audience to navigate twists and turns in the plot, while reflecting on their susceptibility of being influenced by sensational media.
Arts with a Purpose: NUS artists develop three projects that feature the stories of migrant workers and honour frontline workers
19 August 2020
During these unprecedented times, NUS students, staff and alumni rose to the challenge of inviting the wider community into their artistic processes.
Their works span from recognising frontline workers to giving voice to groups affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leveraging the Arts to embrace new perspectives
13 January 2020
The NUS Arts Festival 2020 is an invitation to be entertained, while pondering how we perceive the world around us.
From 13 to 28 March 2020, NUS Centre For the Arts will present ‘Ways of Seeing’, an arts festival of dance, music, theatre, film and related dialogues.
Collaboration is at the heart of a new season of ExxonMobil Campus Concerts
13 December 2019
Collaboration and contrast drive the arts forward, and in the latest season of ExxonMobil Campus Concerts, various combinations of artists and source materials are being brought together to take performing arts in new directions at NUS and push artistic boundaries.
October at the NUS Museum: between war and the artist, art and the tropics
8 October 2019
This October, NUS Museum unveils two new exhibitions surveying the art historical in the region from distinct positions.
Open call for the Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence
30 September 2019
NUS Centre For the Arts is seeking applications from young, talented Singaporeans for the Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence.
NUS Centre For the Arts marks the Singapore Bicentennial with two new productions
1 August 2019
NUS Centre For the Arts (CFA) is celebrating the Singapore Bicentennial with two new productions from the creative minds of award-winning theatre director Edith Podesta and up-and-coming artist Sean Cham.
New exhibition from Gilles Massot to be unveiled at NUS Museum
31 May 2019
“…you have to lose your way to find yourself in the right place” presents the works of Singapore-based French artist, Gilles Massot. Featuring a selection of photographs, videos, sketches and writings from his extensive corpus of works.
Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking
14 February 2019
Following eleven years of giving glimpses of a Peranakan family’s domestic life in the early 20th century, NUS Baba House presents the exhibition Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking.
A Game of Numbers
16 January 2019
Singapore’s first ever mathematics-themed arts festival to be held at National University of Singapore.
If We Dream: Delving into the legacy of our cultural pioneers
16 July 2018
NUS Arts Festival 2018: Tickets are now on sale!
The NUSChoir named Choir of the World at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
10 July 2019
The NUSChoir will bring the famed Pavarotti Trophy to Singapore for the first time after winning in Wales.
Violin talent from ‘varied sound-worlds’ awarded the Paul Abisheganaden Grant for 2018
28 March 2018
The Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence in 2018 has been presented to violinist, Gabriel Lee.
NUS’ cultural icon refreshed for a new generation
22 March 2018
The University Cultural Centre’s first major renovation improves the high standard of guest comfort, efficiency and production possibilities.
Singapore's oldest Chinese dance group celebrates 40 years of performances
29 June 2017
On 28 July, more than 70 dancers will take the stage as NUS Chinese Dance celebrates forty years of award winning stage production.
Festival: Final week of Brave New Worlds
22 March 2017
The opening week of the NUS Arts Festival 2017 delivered diverse performances and sold out shows. The final week will push the experience further.
Award: Piano virtuoso awarded the Paul Abisheganaden Grant for 2017
1 March 2017
NUS Centre For the Arts is proud to announce that the recipient of this year’s Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence is pianist and NUS alumni Azariah Tan.
Exhibition: From the Ashes: Reviving Myanmar Celadon Ceramics
3 February 2017
NUS Museum presents ongoing attempts to revive the technology of making ash-glazed ceramics in Myanmar.
Festival: Brave The Change, Embrace The New, In Future Worlds
1 February 2017
NUS Arts Festival 2017 challenges artists and audiences to consider the future, arts, science, and culture to realise their own Brave New Worlds.
Festival: Revealing Brave New Worlds
6 January 2017
NUS Arts Festival 2017 features more than 25 events across dance, theatre, music and film, including the student community, academic thought leaders and local and international artists.
Exhibition: Between the brush lines of Lim Tze Peng
23 November 2016
Solo exhibition at NUS Museum considers 70-year oeuvre of Singapore’s oldest living artist.
Book Launch: NUS Baba House launches inaugural guidebook
1 November 2016
From architecture to social history, book reveals the myriad facets of Singapore’s only restored Straits Chinese family home.
Exhibition: Looking within - What makes an exhibition?
21 October 2016
NUS Museum presents exhibition introspecting into curatorial impulses and the exhibitionary medium.
Spectrum: The first all-Singapore multi-genre electronic music festival
13 October 2016
NUS Electronic Music Lab is bringing Singapore-based electronic musicians and artists together in one event.
Exhibition: “Who wants to remember a war?”
1 July 2016
NUS Museum draws on war posters, woodcuts and drawings to explore contemporary narratives of the Vietnam War.
Award: NUS Museum wins inaugural award for innovative museological practice
10 May 2016
International Committee of University Museums and Collections recognises efforts to facilitate conversation between audiences and exhibitions.
Exhibition: Figuring Ng Eng Teng
14 April 2016
NUS Museum reveals unstudied elements and works from the late Cultural Medallion recipient’s practice.
Festival: Step Out and Wonder
2 February 2016
NUS Arts Festival 2016 expands audience’s minds with a science and technological twist.
