S’poreans, revisit your childhood and walk down memory lane by visiting this art event @ Bras Basar-Bugis

Last Updated on 2016-06-23 , 12:27 pm

If you’re looking for somewhere to go this weekend but don’t want to spend from your wallet, head down to the upcoming arts sprawl at Bras Basah-Bugis. The event’s theme this time is “Never Growing Up” and consists of multiple programmes, arts and booths that many Singaporeans would find nostalgic.

From 18 to 19 June, starting from 5pm to 10pm, the arts sprawl is open to the public with a range of entertainment, workshops and film screenings that’ll make you feel like you went back in time to the 1960s. Feel free to bring your grandparents, family and friends, I’m sure everyone will have a blast and appreciate the nostalgic day.

50 booths with homemade snacks, art and jewllery designed by local designers and artists will be lined along Waterloo Street ready for patrons. If you have been wanting to try the current hot pick of foods, do remember to get yourself a dish of the Japanese Raindrop Cake!

Don’t be afraid to have nothing to do at the event as workshops are arranged for participants to craft personalised old-school items. Remember back in the days when our grandma would sit by the huge sewing machine and mend our uniforms or repair our chou-chou? Old-school coin pouches and “five-stones” bean bags will be ready for you to craft through that sewing machine! Don’t these traditional items make you reminiscence of your childhood?

An interactive wall with the grid papers used often in our chinese lessons for essays will be placed up on the board, ready for visitors to jot down their favourite school days memories and relive those moments. Short stories can be penned down in either Mandarin or English and two writers with the funniest stories will stand to win prizes.

Black and white murals of thick outlined illustrations and scribbles are also installed on walls for anyone to colour in while satisfying yourself with a piece of your favourite childhood snack. Talk about unity in the community through artwork!

Fancy catching a movie screening for free as well? Sit back and enjoy a locally produced film at 8.3opm while appreciating the history of Singapore’s film industry. Look how far the development has come!

Besides the multiple programs mentioned above, feel free to pamper yourselves by unwinding during the weekends through live music performed by local musicians including Strangerfox, Jean Goh Seizure, Stanley Ho and Twofoldsband.

Storytelling of our childhood favourite books, Roald Dahl’s James and The Giant Peach, Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree will be told by storyteller, Imelda Mo. Gather around at 7pm and sit back to listen to the stories unfold while she takes you on a storytelling journey open to kids and adults alike.

Last but not least, end the night and seal the memories by having a photograph of you and your friends or family taken old-school style with the Portrait Studio. When better to travel back to 1960 than this weekend, because time stops for no man right?