TGIF Music Station

TGIF Music Station was launched in 2018, they are a free monthly programme that takes place on a Friday night, seeking to showcase both emerging and established local talents in the Mandopop scene. Through TGIF Music Station, SCCC hopes to promote and raise greater public awareness, and appreciation of local talents in Singapore, liven up the Downtown/Central Business District and instil pride in Singapore arts and culture.

Since its launch, SCCC has organised a total of 152 sessions, featuring a total of 496 local artistes. These sessions attracted a total of 53,615 participants and 6 million online views during live streams on SCCC’s social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok as of August 2024.

TGIF Music Station 2024

For this upcoming October 2024 TGIF Music Station, SCCC will be featuring a total of 10 local buskers. They range from the young talents such as Lyla Ng (age 11) to senior groups such as Silver Hype comprising Gillian Goh (age 69) and Davidson Teo (age 65), as well as popular buskers who have released singles and EPs as WHYLUCAS and Jeff Ng.

According to Gillian Goh of Silver Hype: “We are grateful to SCCC for the opportunity to perform to a new audience. Through busking on the streets, we hope to set a positive example of how age should not stop you from doing what you love and to inspire more youths to pursue their dreams, especially in music. If we can do it, you can do it!”

Lyla Ng, added: “I’m excited to perform on TGIF Music Station on 18 October as this is my first time performing at SCCC and I will also be sharing the stage with many of my fellow buskers! Learning and performing Mandarin songs in public has not only allowed me to better appreciate Chinese culture and language but has also improved my academic results! I hope to meet more friends and fans at TGIF Music Station!”

SCCC Chief Executive Officer Alvin Tan said: “Through SCCC’s TGIF Music Station (Buskers Edition), we hope to support our local busking community by providing them with a platform to showcase their talents and interact with their fans, and help them reach a wider audience both physically and digitally. Moving forward, SCCC will organise a buskers edition every October and continue to feature at least one busker for every upcoming TGIF Music Station to provide more sustained support for the busking community.”

Information on SCCC TGIF Music Station

• Date: 18th October 2024
• Time: 8pm
• Venue: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) Concourse

TGIF Music Station: SCCC x YES 933 is presented by SCCC, produced by Cross Ratio Entertainment, supported by YES 933 (Official Radio Station), 8world Entertainment and Lifestyle (Online Media Partner) and KKBOX (Music Streaming Partner).

For more information, please visit Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) website and social media

• Website: www.singaporeccc.org.sg
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/singaporechineseculturalcentre
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/singaporechinese
• WeChat ID: sccc_sg

* Information and pictures courtesy of Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre *

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Who is Very Small Exhibition?

Artist Wei, the creative mind and soul behind Very Small Exhibition. You might have seen, heard or interacted with his colourful pop-up artworks display. My first experience with Very Small Exhibition was the Malay Heritage Centre x Very Small Exhibition supporting World Mental Health Day in 2021, followed by Bring LOVE Everywhere in Singapore at East Coast Park, the prelude to his huge personal project bringing LOVE around Singapore. 

As I continued to follow and document Very Small Exhibition through their Bring LOVE Everywhere in Singapore, I began a new artistic visual storytelling journey. If you to know more in detail on this, this story “How I Met/Follow/Support Very Small Exhibition & Bring LOVE Everywhere” would reveal more. 

Oh yes, you might have heard of this pretty recent viral contemporary arts exhibition that they worked and collaborated with Japanese artist Yui Ozaki, where they explored and discovered your inner “Chin-Chin” world.

Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition

“Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition” is a new series of public space art exhibition by Artist Wei from Very Small Exhibition. They are going around Singapore at different neighbourhoods, collaborating with different artists at the respective neighbourhoods that they lived in. This is a pop-up artworks exhibition, just one night only each time. 

Just one night only, just a few hours, catch it if you can! With this “Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition”, it marks the start of another creative arts visual storytelling journey for me, I just hope that I am able to document and photograph all (if not most of them) of this ongoing Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition series artistic journeys by Very Small Exhibition. 

Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition 1

Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition 1 took place in the Mountbatten heartlands, at a small alley walkway in a private residential estate. A series of different coloured illuminated stones placed together in a wavy form, lighted up by the light emitting umbrellas, formed by artist Wei vision and feel. 

When you view the wavy colourful artworks, what could be story behind it? What does it mean to you? How does the various colours and artworks join from one to the other? Is it therapeutic for you to feel and connect with, by placing yourselves in between the two artworks and connect them together with you?

Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition 2

Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition 2 took place in the Simei HDB heartlands, with artist Joanne Lim from Joanne Lim Studio collaborating with artist Wei. 

The light emitting umbrellas came into play again, lighting up the drawings with chalk on the floor. This is Arts in Your Neighbourhood, it’s fun, interactive, letting people (from young and old) unleash their creativity and artistic talent in drawing with chalk. For some of us, it’s back to school days, for a younger generation, this might be the first time playing with chalk. 

Drawing and painting, whether with chalk, not only is it fun for the children, it’s also fun for the adults, that we saw when we were there. Arts can be a form of therapy, something that we might need it more than we ever know, in our stressful and pressure cooker living environment, swarmed by digital media and social media sharing.

It was more than just fun drawing, we met new people, make new friends, chatting and sharing a common interest in interactive arts and craft.

Since I am pretty bad at drawing, I will use my photography and visual storytelling talents instead, to bring out my creative arts visuals stories to the world. 

Is Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition coming to my neighbourhood?

That’s a very good question! I don’t have an answer to this question, I am just as curious as you, on when and where would Your Artist Neighbour Exhibition is going to visit, and is there any artist that is going to collaborate with Very Small Exhibition? 

Do remember to follow Very Small Exhibition on Instagram and Facebook Page, for their updates, where they are going to pop up with their bright, colourful and interactive artworks. 

Collaborate with Very Small Exhibition in my neighbourhood?

Should I collaborate with Very Small Exhibition as a collaborating artist, combining my photography + light painting with artist Wei’s bright and colourful artworks?

* A TGH Photography x Canon EOS R6 Mark II Explorer Series Production *

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CapitLand’s Raffles City Singapore has collaborated with Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) to launch the “Arts in the City: We Love SINGApore” exhibition in commemoration of Singapore Bicentennial as well as celebrating Singapore’s 54^th birthday this month of August 2019. This exhibition was launched by Guest-of-Honour President Halimah Yacob on 31^st July 2019, featuring over 200 figurines of Singapore’s iconic mascot for kindness and graciousness – Singa the Lion. At the launch of the exhibition, CapitaLand Hope Foundation (CHF), the philanthropic arm of CapitaLand, pledged S$300,000 to benefit six charities under President’s Challenge 2019.

This “Arts in the City: We Love SINGApore” exhibition brings together people from different walks of life in the local community to share their Singapore stories, their vision on what kindness and being gracious means to them. Through their unique and artistic painting, drawing, and craftwork, visitors can view, feel and also read about their stories on the paintings and designs on the 40cm tall three-dimensional Singa the Lion figurines.

President Halimah Yacob and her husband, Mr Mohamed Abdullah Alhabshee, both participated in this exhibition too, with their very own designs, a pair of President’s Challenge Singa the Lion figurines that were unveiled during the official launch of this exhibition.

A mix of companies, such as tenants from Raffles City Singapore and individuals have also contributed to the big line-up of Singa the Lion figurines on display at Raffles City Singapore. When you make your way up from City Hall MRT station towards Raffles City Singapore, you can spot them on Level 1, from 1^st to 28^th August 2019.

Members of the public can also participate and do their part for charity, spreading love, kindness and graciousness, for a good cause at the “Arts in the City: We Love SINGApore” exhibition. When you take photos at this exhibition and share it on Instagram with the official hashtags, #CapitaLand, #RCSArtsIntheCity, #RCSWeLoveSINGApore, #CHFPC, #BeGreaterSG, S$5 will be donated towards President’s Challenge. In addition, the five best photographs will stand to win 54,000 STAR$

If you like the drawing, colour and design of the Singa the Lion figurine and you are interested to adopt them, they can be yours at a minimum sum of S$88 each on a first-come-first-serve basis, subject to availability. All proceeds will go towards President’s Challenge.

Oh yes, do keep a lookout for the following Singa the Lion figurines, giving them a special shoutout here on my article!

National Heritage Board, Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, Malay Heritage Centre, Indian Heritage Centre and The Intan, some of the museums that I have been supporting and covering over the years!

Lynette Tan, a fellow University of Queensland alumnus.

Leroy Teo, Louie Teo, Stacci Teo and Steffi Teo, adorable kids of Steven Teo!

You can play a part for charity too, spread the spirit of love, kindness, graciousness and compassion! Share this “Arts in the City: We Love SINGApore” exhibition! Pay-It-Forward, spread this news about this wonderful exhibition, Pass-It-On!

<A TGH Photography x Canon EOS RP Explorer Series Production>

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