Arty Afternoon | Text in Circulation
2026-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Singapore) | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Bring a piece of Rirkrit Tiravanija: SAY YES TO EVERYTHING home with you!

Screenprint a phrase drawn from the exhibition onto a T-shirt in this free, drop-in activity. Inspired by the artist’s Green Go Home project, participants can carry the expressions through their everyday life.

Visitors are encouraged to bring a light-coloured T-shirt. Please note that printing is available on T-shirts only and limited to one per visitor.

Recommended for all ages. No registration required.

A Shared Meal
2026-03-13 12:30 - 13:30 | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Experience an artwork in action!

Join us for a complimentary Thai lunch in the gallery as we activate Rirkrit Tiravanija’s ‘untitled (lunch box)’ (1996). This programme invites 8 visitors to share a freshly prepared meal from a local Thai restaurant, served out of traditional tiffin carriers.

Through this experience, the shared meal becomes the artwork itself, unfolding through conversation, chance encounters and the temporary community formed around the table.

Please note that participation is walk-in only. Advance bookings and dietary requests cannot be accommodated due to the nature of the work. The food may contain meat, peanuts, shellfish, soy and eggs.

Blueprints of Tomorrow: Singapore Polytechnic’s 2026 Graduation Showcases Celebrate Visionary Design
2026-03-11 15:00 - 2026-03-12 20:30 | Media, Arts & Design School (Block T19), Singapore Polytechnic, 500 Dover Rd, Singapore 139651, Singapore
Looking for something different to do this March? Step into a celebration of ideas, imagination and immersive experiences at Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) 2026 Graduation Showcases by the Media, Arts & Design School (MAD).
NEXUS: MAD Grad Experience & Concert 2026 is a two-day immersive experience celebrating student work across design, animation, music, digital media and creative entrepreneurship.

Key highlights include:

Flea market and artist stalls featuring MAD alumni and student creators (T21 Level 3)
Launch of new creative spaces — Immersive Games Studio (MAD x So Drama!) at T21 Level 1 and Riot Factory (MAD x Bloomr.SG) at T21 Level 3
Special Guest Panel (11 March, 4pm, MLT12): The Transdisciplinary Edge: Skills for the New Design Economy — featuring creative industry leaders including Jackson Tan (Co-founder & Creative Director of Black Design), Esther Wong (Design Lead at Changi Airport Group) and more
Industry Opening Night (11 March, 7pm, T19 Foyer) will highlight MOUs with industry partners such as Design Business Chamber Singapore, COL Group, and more as well as recognition of outstanding student projects through the Best of MAD Awards
DJ performance by Løvkëy & DYSTORT (11 March, 7.45pm, T19 Foyer)
Mediacorp 987 pop-up (12 March) with Sonia Chew and Joakim Gomez (T19 Level 1)
MAD Grad Concert (12 March, 7pm, T19 Carpark) hosted by Mediacorp DJ Louisa Kan with performances by graduating students
Free ice cream, fries, churros and more, plus live food stations!

Visitors can also explore nominated works, transdisciplinary projects, creative start-ups and portfolio showcases.
Visitors are encouraged to check the campus map for directions to both events: https://www.sp.edu.sg/about-sp/campus-map-and-facilities/wayfinding-around-campus.
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About Singapore Polytechnic
Established in 1954, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is Singapore’s first polytechnic. It has 10 schools that offer 30 full-time diploma courses and four common entry programmes for more than 12,800 students. Pedagogical innovation is foremost at SP. We have implemented institution-wide Flipped Learning and are at the forefront of using Analytics in Education. SP also leads the global CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) Collaborative in the region. By ensuring our curriculum is just in time with industry developments, we can offer a solution-driven internship programme to our industry partners.
At SP, we are committed to nurturing self-directed, versatile graduates who are also imbued with sound values so that they can be life ready, work ready, world ready, and be of service to industry and society. We have more than 240,000 graduates; among them are successful entrepreneurs, top executives in multi-national and public-listed corporations, industry leaders and professionals across various industries, and leaders in government.
SP clinched the inaugural ASEAN People’s Award in 2015 for contributing to the region’s community-building efforts. We are also the first polytechnic to be awarded the President’s Award for the Environment in 2010, the President’s Social Service Award in 2011, and the President’s Award for Teachers in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2024.
For more information, visit www.sp.edu.sg. Follow SP on Facebook and YouTube @SingaporePolytechnic and Instagram and TikTok at @SingaporePoly.

Finding the Writer's Voice
2026-02-21 - 2026-03-14 | Online
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲
What is the story within you that keeps running into roadblocks, whenever you try to bring it into fuller expression? Is there a deeper truth beneath it that is asking to be seen?
This four-week workshop aims to help you get in touch with, recognise, and develop your unique writing voice. Whether you are a beginner writer, or an experienced writer looking for a fresh approach towards your craft, this workshop aims to help you achieve greater clarity and purpose in your work.
Participants have the option to submit up to ten pages of creative work for detailed individual feedback.
This workshop is open to writers of poetry, prose and creative nonfiction.
Reduced fees are available for students, as well as for those in need of financial assistance; please email rainbowfictioneers@gmail.com to find out more.
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th Dec 2025
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 9.30am – 12.30pm on Saturdays
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Online
𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝘁 rainbowfictioneers.com/writersvoice
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𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿
Stacy Ooi is editor of 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦: 𝘈 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, and founder of the 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘸 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴, a literary platform based in Singapore. Her poetry has been published in 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, and 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴. Her fiction is published in 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, and forthcoming in 𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘠𝘟 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭. She dreams of a world where we are gentle with each other.

Lai Yu Tong: The Dogs
2026-01-11 12:00 - 2026-03-16 18:00 | ShanghART Singapore, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22, 108937, Singapore
ShanghART Singapore is pleased to present Lai Yu Tong’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, The Dogs, opening on 30 August 2025. Featuring a new series of works that centres around his encounters with a pack of stray dogs, the artist invites us to reconsider our relationship with entities that exist on the fringes of our environments, while reflecting upon his own experiences and interactions with the dogs across several months.
Drawing upon observations of the present, Lai’s practice examines the overlooked and neglected. Everyday objects and subjects such as cars, crows, hands, and chairs feature as motifs across his works that are cast within the stories and scenarios that he creates around them. By looking at something for extended periods of time, he brings out alternative perspectives on the familiar. Recently, his gaze fixates upon the stray dogs that he encounters around a forested area close to where he lives. Their existence as wild, untamed and shy creatures that roam under the shadows of Singapore intrigues him.
In a highly developed and controlled society, the presence of these dogs introduces a degree of unpredictability, even instilling a sense of danger. Initial encounters with them ended with Lai retreating out of fear. However, following multiple visits where he would observe, photograph and sometimes feed the dogs, the fear that he felt eventually shifts into a kind of love, as he forms a connection with these misunderstood creatures.
Storytelling makes up a big part of Lai’s approach, manifesting in forms such as drawing, sculpture, and sound. In these latest works, Lai seeks to retell his encounters with these enigmatic creatures through intimate pieces of drawings and collages on various modest everyday materials — cardboard, wood, and paper. He simultaneously draws and obscures the dogs, playing with techniques of erasure and transparency that render his subjects as ghostly figures and impressions. Such loose methods of representation alludes to the elusiveness and placelessness of the subjects he draws, whilst also allowing them to take on other identities and connotations.
Through a selection of two-dimensional works, a sculpture, a sound piece and a performance, the gallery space is transformed into a site of encounter between the audience and the dogs. Bridging the distance between us and them through Lai’s own experiences, the exhibition encourages visitors to empathise and identify with the beings that live on the edges of our environments; out of sight and away from what we are familiar with.
