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Free: Arts & Entertainment
Your complete guide to Singapore's free art exhibitions and film screenings
Join a cult film screening
Where words and cinema collide
The library isn’t good only for tomes and penguin-bashers, folks. The National Library Board arranges movie screenings at its heartland libraries – and the library@esplanade – most of whose titles are, as you’d expect, based on those old-timey things we used to call ‘books’. Ah, those halcyon days.
Give props to the brigade of young directors
At The Substation’s First Take, feast your eyes on the latest and coolest short films by up-and-coming Singapore-based directors. These are typically rough around the edges, and not all will blow you away, but it is pretty encouraging to see young local filmmakers – there’s also a Q&A session after each screening – stitch together something on a shoestring.
Every quarter of the year, next screening in Nov.
Jam to jazz
Don’t let their name fool you. The Blue Monks aren’t a posse of porn-peddling priests but a jazz band that plays regular nights at the gallery/café, Artistry. (The ‘blue’ refers to the musical note.)
The outfit takes the stage anywhere from once a week to once a month, so hit up their Facebook page for updates.
Must-see free art exhibitions
Best free outdoor film screenings in Singapore
Watch free movie screenings organised by DBS Movies by the Bay, Under the Banyan Tree and MovieMob. Catch a range of movies from classics to favourite blockbusters while hanging out under the stars.