[SIN]efest Announces Film Selection

[SIN]efest announces film selection for the inaugural edition of the UK’s largest Singapore film festival. A total of 4 features films and 2 shorts will be featured in addition to popular new talent showcase PROJECT: slingSHORT. The screenings will be held at The Birkbeck Cinema, on Gordon Square in London. [SIN]efest is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy X Flynn Film Co.

Thursday 11th November
Sandcastle
Director: Boo Junfeng, Cast: Joshua Tan, 96 mins, English Subtitles

Friday 12th November
881
Director: Royston Tan, Cast: Qi Yu Wu, Mindee Ong,Yeo Yann Yann, Liu Ling Ling, 115 mins, English Subtitles

Saturday 13th November
Here
Director: Ho Tzu Nyen, Cast: John Low, Jo Tan, 86 mins, English Subtitles

Haze - Short film bonus screened immediately before “Here”
Director: Anthony Chen, Cast: Quek Ee-Seng and Tan Mei Jun 14 mins, English Subtitles

Saturday 13th November
PROJECT: slingSHORT
featuring - Tickets by Shermong Ong | Cold Noodles by Kirsten Tan | Promises in December by Elgin Ho | 5Films in an Anthology of a Film a Month by David Shiyang Liu | Masala Mama by Michael Kam

Saturday 13th November
Invisible City
Director: Tan Pin Pin, 58 mins, English Subtitles

Tanjong Rhu - Short film bonus screened immediately before “Invisible City”
Director: Boo Junfeng, Cast:Nick Shen Weijun, Scott Lee, 19 mins, English Subtitles

[SIN]efest
11 - 13 November 2010
The Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

For more information please visit www.sinefest.org

[SIN]efest is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy + Flynn Film Co. and supported by The Singapore High Commission in London, Singapore Airlines, Tiger Beer and Town Hall Hotel

Karen Yeh At Creative [SIN]ergy Group Show

Karen Yeh was recently featured at Creative [SIN]ergy's group show called Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project. The exhibition was part of the London Design Festival and was held at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road from 16 to 19 September 2010.

DANGER, DELETE (2010) by KAREN YEH

Ink on paper (50cm x 70cm)

The motif of “Danger-Keep Out” sign pervades in this piece. The signs are a familiar sight in construction sites in Singapore, unique for their four languages of communication. With the city ceaselessly reinventing itself, construction sites and the “Danger-Keep Out” signs pervade public spaces. Is the city in need of more inert places of memories for its people, instead of the sustaining image of the construction site? What are some of the dangers that are congruent with a persistently young and always developing city?

SINGAPORE NODLES (2010) by KAREN YEH

Video, 10’’

What is this Singapore noodles that Singaporeans do not know of, but the foreigners in London know so well?

The basis upon which Singapore Noodles is named is not based on it being a popular or national dish of Singapore. Nor does it seem to have its origins in Singapore. What is this origin then? Different people remember the history of the dish differently. Which one is true? To what extent is one culture’s representation of another valid?

A work that explores issues surrounding national identity, globalisation and the rituals of eating.

SKYLINE (2010) by KAREN YEH

Ink on paper (50cm x 70cm)

The skyline of Singapore is continually changing with architectural trophies erected one after another. This work traces what used to be the iconic skyline of Singapore in the 1980s and early 1990s—the Central Business District area overlooking the Singapore River. In the present day, there are various skylines competing to be iconic of the modern cityscape. Is the iconic skyline that which encompasses the Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands or the Singapore Flyer? While the skyline is constantly being redefined, the only enduring image is perhaps the numerous construction cranes that overlook and transform it.

The exhibition also featured other works from the diverse creative industries of UK based Singaporeans.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra @ Royal Festival Hall on 11th October

Singapore Symphony Orchestra will make its long-awaited debut at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 11th October.

Led by Music Director Lan Shui, the orchestra will be joined by the celebrated pianist Stephen Hough for Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1. The exciting programme includes Debussy’s La Mer, Rachmaninov’s The Isle of the Dead and Zhou Long’s The Rhyme of Taigu.

Since assuming the position of Music Director in 1997, Lan Shui has brought the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to a high level of excellence and a rising international profile, through several international tours and recordings for the BIS and Avie labels. Over the last five years, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra has toured to the USA, France, Spain, China and Taiwan.

A highlight of the programme is Debussy’s La Mer, which, as the centrepiece of a maritime-themed CD released by BIS in 2007, received critical acclaim worldwide. BBC Music Magazine described their playing of this work on the disc as “an unequivocally world-class performance of Debussy’s masterpiece”.

The iridescent seascapes of La Mer are preced

ed by Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead, pervaded by the hypnotic rhythm of oars. Composed in the same decade as Debussy’s symphonic sketches, this sombre tone poem displays further facets of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra while sustaining an aqueous theme in its repertoire.

Stephen Hough talks about performing with the SSO. Click here to watch the video.

To mark its 30th anniversary in 2004, the SSO produced a DVD of Mahler’s Symphony No 10.

Mahler Symphony 10

Chen Wu xing (Five Elements)

Click here to watch an excerpt from the DVD/Blu-ray.

Do not forget that you can still benefit from our discounted ticket offer in collaboration with the Southbank Centre. Simply quote ‘SINergy’ when booking your tickets at the box office or by phone (0844 847 9910) and you will receive a 10% discount off the top three price tickets to the SSO’s concert.

We very much hope you will join us for what promises to be a spectacular evening.

Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London? Opens at Great Western Studios

Great Western Studios invited Creative [SIN]ergy to exhibit its latest collaborative project entitled, Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London? This exhibition was held at their premise during London Design Festival from 20 - 26 September 2010.

The repeat showing of this Architectural Photographic exhibition was held at Great Western Studios on September 22 with a private view. Despite being a repeat showing, the event continued to attract dozens of visitors. Featuring the photographic works of UK-based Singaporeans from diverse creative industries, the photographs showed the juxtaposition of contemporary life in the UK and Singapore, categorised under six key activity spaces: Transit, Eating, Leisure, Retail, Living and Occupational.

Through the most generic and banal scenes of everyday life, the works aimed to question and rediscover the uniqueness of urban spaces. Anecdotal evidence of their success could be seen when some of the British visitors, who had previously been to Singapore, found the photographs consistent with their recollections of Singapore and its unique differences to their home country.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Boardand Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? features works from, Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao.

About Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Text by Yee Hung Lim

Shangyi Xie At Creative [SIN]ergy Group Show

Shangyi Xie was recently featured at Creative [SIN]ergy's group show called Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project. The exhibition was part of the London Design Festival and was held at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road from 16 to 19 September 2010.

WHO IS MORE TOM, DICK & HARRY? (2009) by SHANGYI XIE

C-prints on Photo-paper, 3 Panels of 40 x 50cm

A name has always been something given to a person from birth and this identification is held for life for individuals, with preconceptions and impressions attached. However, when there is more than one person sharing the same name, the impression of a name might change, then gradually the confusion sets in: Who looks more like a “Tom”? Who Is More “Harry”? What happens when name becomes a common denominator?

Nonetheless, judging people and forming impressions is a norm; everyone is guilty of that. In this work, 30 photos depicting those with names of Tom, Dick and Harry are aligned in a yearbook format, framed, and put under the scrutiny of the audience, providing a platform to form impressions on these strangers without feeling guilty, like in a television game show. Furthermore, as the title suggests, the audience becomes judges and tasked with deciding who is MORE who in their definition, as if given the ability to vote someone out. Yet, by generalising them as “Tom, Dick and Harry”, no one in particular is being referred to, and this turns them to just nobody.

ON THE STREETS (2010) by SHANGYI XIE

4mins 51sec Video (Supermario Game Audio)

Panels of Video stills with stick on post-its 30 x 420cm

Extending from the video Who are you, On the Streets allows the audience to join in and write down their thoughts on post-its and form narratives on these video stills of street scenes. Some of the post-its narratives are taken off the tabloid news and juxtaposed beside these characters in the stills, instilling confusion between fiction and truth.

Hence, these people on the streets become helpless characters that take on the identity the viewer have created for them while they try to interpret their life. Such behaviours of tagging narratives beside the characters also seems to be playing the role of God, having everyone within your control in your imagination, mimicking computer gamers controlling their avatars. Made to form judgments and narratives from merely pictures, the work further resembles the tabloid characteristic where gossips are churned out; It is this ambiguity of taking things to be facts or fantasy that make this work interesting.

Re-Inhabiting the City by SHANGYI XIE

How Much Mistakes Can Be Made In A Day, 2010

10 X A4 paper (framed)

After leaving Singapore for a year of so, I realize how much I miss Singapore. I miss the food, miss the warmth, miss the hustle and bustle of the city, miss the people, but what I miss most was the language. The familiarity I got hearing a Singaporean speaks- the tone, the pace, the accent- can never be replaced, it is so unique and identifiable. However in other people’s ears, even in the opinion of our own rulers, this language is considered to be coarse and unpresentable.

My work, titled How Much Mistakes Can Be Made In A Day, follows and records a day of my life where every word I spoke for the day is documented and transcribed onto paper. Having a recorder placed on me may have raise awareness of my own speech, but having the need to communicate in my social circle, it is quite a good representation of the way I talk. After putting it down on paper, the mistakes (be it grammatical, pronunciation or sentence structure) will be highlighted in red and corrected, resembling a marked examination paper.

Singapore being a meritocracy society tolerates very little mistakes, my work aims to challenge this mindset in exploring just how much mistakes we unforgiving Singaporeans ourselves can make in a day just in our own speech. It also touches on the strict censorship issues Singapore impose be it self-inspection or on media. How freely will you speak if you know your every word is being recorded?

The exhibition also featured other works from the diverse creative industries of UK based Singaporeans.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Lilia Yip At Creative [SIN]ergy Group Show

Lilia Yip was recently featured at Creative [SIN]ergy's group show called Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project. The exhibition was part of the London Design Festival and was held at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road from 16 to 19 September 2010.

Architecture is often referred to as the third space that exists beyond the human body. Fashion and Art then can be seen as delightful companions to architecture, with clothing creating the second space between fabric and skin while art delves into the human interior. These pieces are part of larger collection of digitally printed artwork on clothing, cut to rectangular freeform shapes. They reflect Lilia’s minimal-maximalist approach to clothes, which is minimum cut, seam and waste, maximum effect in form, feeling and touch.

They propose a subtle and intimate form of design and art activism, where art and fashion combine to ask questions about urban human life: how we interact with each other, how we feel, what impact do we have on the environment and other living beings.

Lilia and Mona met by chance through the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Lilia was exhibiting and Mona was their artist-in-residence. Having grown up in Singapore and honed their creative skills abroad, their work embodies the essence of who they are and what makes them Singaporeans:

“ We are a unique blend of East to West, with a depth of heart that stems from our roots and an eye to the world, embracing its vastness and diversity.”

HEAD SPACE (2009 -2010) by LILIA YIP
Digital print by Mona Choo on triple layered silk dress

FALL INTO NATURE (2009) by LILIA YIP
Digital print by Mona Choo on silk dress

CONNECTED DISCONNECTED (2010)
by LILIA YIP
Digital print by Mona Choo on silk dress

The exhibition also featured other works from the diverse creative industries of UK based Singaporeans.

Click here for more information about the work exhibited.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Private View: Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London?

Great Western Studios invites Creative [SIN]ergy to exhibit Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London? at their premise during London Design Festival from 20 - 26 September 2010.

Please join us for the Private View of Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London?

PRIVATE VIEW
Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London?
Wednesday 22nd September 2010
6 -9 pm

Great Western Studios
65 Alfred Road
London W2 5EU

RSVP
events@greatwesternstudios.com


Exhibition runs from 20 - 26 September 2010.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? features works from, Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao.

About Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Voon Wong participates in The Tramshed

Creative [SIN]ergy member Voon Wong participates in The Tramshed.

Voon Wong participates in BENCH10

Creative [SIN]ergy member Voon Wong participates in BENCH10.

Discussion Forum @ The Crypt Gallery

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? at the Crypt gallery concluded on 19 September with a discussion forum comprising of correspondents' presentation, followed by a panel discussion. Panelists included, Kathryn Firth (Director of Urban Design, PLP Architecture), Lawrence Barth (Professor of Urbanism, AA), William Tan (Architect, Zaha Hadid Architects) and Ting-Ting Zhang (Architect, Studio Egret West).


Correspondents present at the forum were, Voon Wong (Director, VW+BS), Vince Ong, Architect (Fosters + Partners), Kevin Hung, (Architect, Serie Architects), Janita Han (Architect, FAT), Agnes Yit (Student, AA), Lingxiu (Student, AA).

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? is an Architectural Photographic exhibition derived from ongoing conversations on generic spaces between six pairs of architects and architectural students in London and Singapore over the past year. An online version of this dialogue was launch during The London Festival of Architecture.


Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? features works from, Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? was part of a group show called Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project. The exhibition was part of the London Design festival and saw numbers averaging 70 visitors per day. Works displayed were from the diverse creative industries of UK based Singaporeans.


Also featured in Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project, are works from Lilia Yip (Fashion Designer), Karen Yeh (Fine Artist), Johnny Gao (Architect and Photographer) and Shangyi Xie (Fine Artist).

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Discussion Forum: Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Discussion Forum

Sunday 19th September 2010

3.00 - 6.00pm

The Crypt Gallery

St Pancras Church

Euston Road, London NW1 2BA

The Discussion Forum is free to attend but RSVP is essential.

Click here to RSVP.

Discussion Forum Panelists:

Kathryn Firth, MAUD

Director of Urban Design, PLP Architecture

Kathryn Firth is a Director at PLP Architecture and urban designer with over 25 years of experience. In addition to practice, she is a visiting lecturer at the Architecture Association in the Housing & Urbanism programme. Previous to this, she ran the MSc City Design and Social Science program at the London School of Economics Cities Programme for six years. Here she led student projects addressing both urban regeneration and the establishment of new city districts. Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). Kathryn has taught at several universities in Canada and the US, including the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Toronto. Kathryn has worked on masterplanning and urban regeneration projects in the US, Europe, South America, the Middle East and the UK. Her current work includes a mixed-use masterplan to create a new neighbourhood in Berkshire, UK, and a masterplan, in Caucaia, Brazil.

Lawrence Barth

Professor of Urbanism, Graduate School, AA

Lawrence Barth is the Professor of Urbanism at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association (Housing and Urbanism Programme). He works independently as a consultant urbanist for cities, design practices and research institutes and has collaborated with diverse architects and landscape architects including Zaha Hadid, Future Systems, Gustafson Porter, Balmori Associates, and S333. He has published widely in architecture and sociology, and is a frequently invited lecturer and critic on the role of architecture and landscape in the contemporary urban process.

Ting-Ting Zhang

Architect, Studio Egret West

William Tan

Architect, Zaha Hadid Architects

Ting-Ting Zhang and William Tan are currently designers at Studio Egret West and Zaha Hadid Architects respectively. They were educated at NUS and Cornell University. Their collaborative works have been exhibited in exhibitions such as AIA New York, Students Exhibition 2006, and the Architectural Biennial Beijing 2006; these projects have also appeared in publications such as Collective Intelligent in Design – Architectural Design (John Wiley, Sons, Inc., 2006) and Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies (China Architecture and Building Press, 2006).

Discussion Forum Correspondents:

Voon Wong, Director, VW+BS

Vince Ong, Architect, Fosters + Partners

Kevin Hung, Architect, Serie Architects

Janita Han, Architect, FAT

Agnes Yit, Student, AA

Lingxiu, Student, AA

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? features works from, Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao.

About Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and supported by the Singapore International Foundation, Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project @ The Crypt Gallery

Thursday 16th September 2010 saw the private view and opening reception of Creative [SIN]ergy's Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project was held at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road in London as part of the London Design festival. The reception was attended by 130 guest comprising of non-Singaporeans and the local Singaporean community.

Selected artworks were sold with proceeds going to LandAid. LandAid is a charity to help the young and disadvantaged access the facilities, skills, and opportunities to achieve their potential and thrive within their local community.


Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project, is the name of a group exhibition showcasing works from the diverse creative industries from UK based Singaporeans and is part of the London Design festival.

This exhibition includes Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? An Architectural Photographic exhibition derived from ongoing conversations on generic spaces between six pairs of architects and architectural students in London and Singapore over the past year. An online version of this dialogue was launch during The London Festival of Architecture.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? features works from, Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao.


Also featured in Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project, are works from Lilia Yip (Fashion Designer), Karen Yeh (Fine Artist), Johnny Gao (Architect and Photographer) and Shangyi Xie (Fine Artist).

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and is supported by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Private View: Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project

Join us for the Opening Reception of

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project

Private View/ Opening Reception

Thursday 16th September 2010

6.30 - 9.00pm

The Crypt Gallery

St Pancras Church

Euston Road, London NW1 2BA

The Opening Reception is free to attend but RSVP is essential.

Click here to RSVP.

Come join us for an inquiry into generic urban spaces within cities, with specific examples relating to London and Singapore, through an exhibition and a discussion forum.

Exhibitions runs from 16th - 19th September 2010.

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
Discussion Forum

Sunday 19th September 2010

3.00 - 7.00pm

The Discussion Forum is free to attend but RSVP is essential.

Click here to RSVP.

Discussion Forum Panelists:

Kathryn Firth, Director of Urban Design, PLP Architecture

William Tan, Architect, Zaha Hadid Architects

Ting-Ting Zhang, Architect, Studio Egret West

with others to be confirmed.

Discussion Forum Correspondents:

Voon Wong, Director, VW+BS

Vince Ong, Architect, Fosters + Partners

Kevin Hung, Architect, Serie Architects

Janita Han, Architect, FAT

Agnes Yit, Student, AA

Lingxiu, Student, AA

About Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project, features Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London? (Kelvin Ang | Vince Ong | Justin Zhuang | Lingxiu Chong | Randy Tan | Agnes Yit | May Anne Lee | Kevin Hung | Yue Han Teow | Janita Han | Voon Wong | Yicheng Pan | Fabrizio Matillana | Johnny Gao) and works from Lilia Yip (Fashion Designer), Karen Yeh (Fine Artist), Johnny Gao (Architect and Photographer) and Shangyi Xie (Fine Artist).

About Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Artworks are sold individually framed (50x50cm), in an edition of 2 + 1 AP.
To purchase artworks click here. Proceeds of sale of artworks go to LandAid.

LandAid is a charity to help the young and disadvantaged access the facilities, skills, and opportunities to achieve their potential and thrive within their local community.

Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project is presented by Creative [SIN]ergy and supported by the Singapore International Foundation, Contact Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Johnny Gao for Creative [SIN]ergy

These 12 photography pieces were photograph by Johnny Gao, which were specially commissioned by Creative [SIN]ergy for Contact Singapore. These signed artworks are sold individually framed (40x50cm), in an edition of 2 + 1 AP and will be exhibited at the Crypt Gallery as part of a group show called Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project.

To purchase artworks click here. Proceeds of sale of artworks go to LandAid.

LandAid is a charity to help the young and disadvantaged access the facilities, skills, and opportunities to achieve their potential and thrive within their local community.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra Ticket Giveaway

On 11th October, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will make its long-awaited debut at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, marking the orchestra’s first visit to the UK since 1991.

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Lan Shui will bring a distinctly maritime flavour to this sought-after concert. The exciting programme will include Debussy’s La Mer, Rachmaninov’s The Isle of the Dead and Zhou Long’s The Rhyme of Taigu. The orchestra’s recent recording of Debussy’s La Mer was described in BBC Music Magazine as "an unequivocally world-class performance of Debussy's masterpiece". Pianist Stephen Hough will join them for Mendelssohn's glittering showpiece, his Piano Concerto No 1.

'a world-class ensemble that plays its heart out at every concert

and where each musician is a hand-picked virtuoso.'

(American Record Guide)

COMPETITION
To celebrate the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s first appearance at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Sinergy is happy to offer one lucky member/subscriber a pair of tickets to the concert on 11th October.

For your chance to win this fabulous prize, simply answer the following question:

The home of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra is named after which great British monarch?

(a) Queen Victoria
(b) King Edward VII
(c) King George V

Email your answer to info@creativesinergy.com before 20th September 2010 and you may have the unique opportunity to see the Singapore Symphony Orchestra perform in London this year!

Creative [SIN]ergy has teamed up with the Southbank Centre to offer a 10% discount off the top three price tickets to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s concert to all the members of the network. Simply quote ‘SINergy’ when booking your tickets at the box office or by phone: 0844 847 9910.

Do book your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment! Click here.

We very much hope you will join us for what promises to be a spectacular evening.

Kind Regards,
The Creative [SIN]ergy Team


Singapore Symphony Orchestra supports Uniquely Singapore? a generi-City project

ARTWORKS: Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
KEVIN HUNG (LDN) - RETAIL SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
LEE MAY ANNE (SG) - RETAIL SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2
Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
VINCE ONG (LDN) - TRANSIT SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
KELVIN ANG (SG) - TRANSIT SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
VOON WONG (LDN) - OCCUPATIONAL SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
PAN YICHENG (SG) - OCCUPATIONAL SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
JANITA HAN (LDN) - LIVING SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
TEOW YUE HAN (SG) - LIVING SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
AGNES YIT (LDN) - LEISURE SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
RANDY CHAN (SG) - LEISURE SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
LINGXIU CHONG (LDN) - EATING SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2

Uniquely Singapore, Distinctively London?
JUSTIN ZHUANG (SG) - EATING SPACES
50 x 50cm, Edition of 2


To purchase artworks click here. Proceeds of sale of artworks go to LandAid.

LandAid is a charity to help the young and disadvantaged access the facilities, skills, and opportunities to achieve their potential and thrive within their local community.

FABRIZIO MATILLANA + JOHNNY GAO

TRANSIT SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
Spaces of transit circulation manage flows of passengers, arriving as groups, individuals, walking, on bikes, on wheelchairs, into an open plan increasingly challenged by new means of passenger transit.

(SG)
An “air-conditioned integrated interchange” materializes as a prescriptive solution to a combination of an increasingly stronger outward entity of the national framework of satellite town planning and a tropical climatic issue.


EATING SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
The moment of eating as a moment of contemplation in a fake idyllic setting becomes a ritual that creates a space separated from the city.

(SG )
In a hyper-productive microstate of 5 million people where there is one food vendor for every 570 people, the hawker centre was the Singaporean government’s answer to a potential rip in the social fabric by the aggressively efficient removal of street food vendors in the 1960s.


RETAIL SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
The formally permanent with the transient market stalls build up into a social impromptu space, institutionalised by routine and defining an indeterminate indoor as a meeting point, which, by virtue of its own success, settles into a venue that contradicts its unpredictability into an expected retail space.

(SG)
The escalator acts as networked urbanism’s tool in its manifestation within modern retail building types where under the transmission of this urban object, users are treated as components rather than human beings, transforming a nation’s perceived notion of value-free assumptions.


LEISURE SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
A square as a leisure space is framed by an increasing congestive flow that transcends the capacity of restrain, yet stoic users override the incongruence by sheer will of occupation.

(SG)
Singapore’s “garden city action committee” enforces the nation’s long term commitment to one hectare of green space for every 1000 people, part of a prescriptive national framework made more remarkable by Singapore’s status as the 3rd most dense country in the world.


OCCUPATIONAL SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
Minimal changes in table orientation, table and chair layout and spacing in between enacts a work space located in between a canteen and gallery within the British Library on a Sunday.

(SG)
The success of adaptive re-use of a small office/home office (SOHO) programmatic building type in what initially set out to be an escape from the city to be a unique abandoned village, has resulted in a landscape of sameness.


LIVING SPACES (UK, SG)
Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao

(UK)
Overlapping the seriality and material choice from the past with the modernist brutality in linearity and material weight; London’s living environment oscillates from these regimes of genericness.

(SG)
The Singaporean balcony – an upward extrapolation of leisure spaces proliferated within the generic modern private residential type.


These photographs are taken by Architects, Fabrizo Matillana and Johnny Gao as part of the Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London? exhibition.

Using photography as a medium of observation, communication and representation, this project has been a series of ongoing conversations on generic spaces between architects in London and Singapore over the past year. Six key activity spaces (Transit, Eating, Leisure, Retail, Living and Occupational) that define our contemporary life have been identified as the basis for discussion.

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