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20 Jan 2018, Sat 5pm till late

Aliwal Arts Centre & Kampong Glam

#AliwalUAF18

The fifth edition of the Aliwal Urban Art Festival is even bigger! With Aliwal Street closed to vehicular traffic, we’ve leveled up on our programmes so you can have an ab-fab time with your mates getting urban skills like skateboarding, glamping, freestyle football, dancing, and loads more.

For full performance line-up and more information, check out aliwalartscentre.sg or facebook.com/AliwalArtsCentre.

RSCLS DETOURAround Kampong Glam5.30pm & 6.30pmGet an insider’s look at urban art in Kampong Glam by the RSCLS. Learn more about the history of urban art in Singapore, and delve deeper into each iconic work. Limited slots available.Tour Meeting point: RSCLS Studio, #02-10, Aliwal Arts Centre rscls.org

SPIN CYCLEAliwal Car Park5pm till late Boy, are we tired of the usual live painting on standard flat canvases… So here we challenge three artists to use a puzzle canvas to create an artwork visitors can actually play with.

THE GET UP TO GET DOWNAre you up to get down? Time to bust a move with dance wunderkinds ScrachMarcs through the decades from the 60s to the noughties in an all-out vibing block party. There may or may not be a soul train.

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DANCEPresented by ScrachMarcs

URBAN ARTPresented by RSCLS

Aliwal Car Park9pm - 10.30pm

TERRAINWARE TENT CHALLENGEAliwal Car Park5pm till late Always wanted to camp at a festival but don’t have time/money/logistics? We give you a chance to pit your skills against outdoor gurus to get your glamp on at our little festival!

RSCLS DETOUR TERRAINWARE TENT CHALLENGE

20 Jan 2018, Sat 5pm till late

Aliwal Arts Centre & Kampong Glam

#AliwalUAF18

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Programme Partners

BAKERS IN SPACEThe self-confessed indie post-psych rock band that take musical notes from bands like Arctic Monkeys, David Bowie and Temples, blew up the Singapore indie scene with their latest EP Implosions in 2017.soundcloud.com/bakersinspace

MEANSingapore’s own ‘Dapper Rapper’ is a singer, songwriter, and producer, as well as a director and editor of his own music videos. Smooth, versatile, energetic and pure cool, Mean delivers a distinct brand of bad-ass, hazy hip-hop.meanxs.bandcamp.com

BRILLIANT CORNERS :: MUSICCurated by System Sovereign

Multi-purpose hall7pm till late

SOBSPlayful, kitschy and instantly relatable pop music reminiscent of Liz Phair, Frankie Cosmos and Alvvays. The debut EP Catflap featured their trademark sound with lyrics about a neighbour’s dog, intimacy, affection and Singapore’s non-existent ocean.sobs.bandcamp.com

VANDETTAThe veteran performer Vanessa Fernandez has performed at music festivals around the world including Gilles Peterson Worldwide Festival, Laneway Festival, and Face The Music, brandishing her progressive sound and powerhouse vocals. soundcloud.com/vandetta

EATMEPOPTART11pm till lateEatMePoptart parties are filled with delirious fun, mad moshing, scenesters, club kids, head-bangers, and other odd characters in a blur of indie tunes anchored by residents weelikeme and KiDG.eatmepoptart.com

LIVE PERFORMANCES

Aliwal Car Park 5pm – 8pm

DREM (CHOICE CUTS)With over 15 years of experience spanning San Francisco to Singapore, Drem’s musical style is infused with immense soul from the likes of funk greats and lyrical hip-hop greats.

MEAN SOBS

BAKERS IN SPACE

VANDETTA

NADA

KOFLOW

FFINNDREM RAS IRIE

SOUND OF THE CITY: MY SOUND OF SINGAPORE Presented by Goethe-Institut Singapore

FFINN (Slug Wife)SLUG WIFE resident DJ FFINN’s freeform and interactive sets have the tendency to become volatile on the dance floor, peppered with cheeky classics.

Aliwal Car Park 8pm – 9pm

RAS IRIE (Straits Records) RAS IRIE aka Wan, has spent most of his life in the Singapore music scene, becoming a recognised collector and distributor of music as the founder of Straits Records.

KOFLOWKOFLOW is one of the most distinguished DJs in the local music scene as a winner of an extensive list of DJ competitions both local and international. An influential force in his craft, his uniquely versatile and all rounded performance style has made him a highly sought-after DJ in South East Asia.

A debut of two new music works depicting Singapore’s urban and cultural environments by NADA and KOFLOW, featuring the sounds of Singapore as a focus. Each performance will be followed by a music set.

NADANADA is a visual arts/sound project developed by Rizman Putra and Safuan Johari, that blurs the line between fiction and reality by deconstructing popular Malay songs.

ROLL WITH IT IN D’ KTVCurated by fFurious

FIRING LINEOrganised by Skate SGAliwal Street4pm onwards Catch Singapore skaters flex their creativity and skill in a ‘Best Line’ contest that’ll keep you on your toes. There’ll also be a ‘Best Trick’ contest with prize money for the trickster who successfully kills it as they call it.

SKATE DROP-IN CLINICOrganised by Skate SGSupported by VansAliwal Street5pm onwardsOn-site registrationEver see skaters drop in from ramps or bowls and wish you could too? Then this is your chance to learn in a safe, supervised environment with some of the best coaches in Singapore.

STREET FOOTBALL CHALLENGEOrganised by Urban Street TeamAliwal Car Park5pm onwards No field, no problem. Pit your footie skills against your mates in an urban setting, 1v1 or 2v2 tournament-style or learn some freestyle skills from pros. Come ready to win.

Belt out your favourite tunes from Singapore’s indie music history at this special KTV! Featuring artists from Dick Lee to Pleasantry, Charlie Lim to Kopi Kat Klan, co-curated with and designed by creative agency fFurious.

Multi-purpose Studio5pm till late

Photo by Esmond Wee

Photo by Urban Street Team

FIRING LINE SKATE DROP-IN CLINIC

STREET FOOTBALL CHALLENGE

Date & Time Location Title Artist Genre

18 Jan - 11 Feb Aliwal Arts Centre M.A.T.A.S Exhibition RSCLS X RYF ZAINI Urban ArtMon - Fri 2pm - 9pmSat - Sun 11am - 8pm

M.A.T.A.S Workshops

24 Jan Aliwal Arts Centre DIY LED Throwies Ryf Zaini Urban Art 8pm

10 Feb Aliwal Arts Centre INVADED RSCLS Urban Art 2pm

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4pm till late Aliwal Street Firing Line Skate SG Skateboard

5pm till late Aliwal Street Spin Cycle RSCLS & The Blackbook Urban Art

5pm till late Aliwal Carpark Terrainware Terrainware Urban Art Tent Challenge

5pm - 10.30pm Aliwal Carpark Brilliant Corners System Sovereign Market :: Artist Market

5pm - 8pm Aliwal Carpark Brillant Corners :: Music Dre, FFINN, RAS IRIE Music

5pm till late Multi-purpose Studio In D’ KTV fFurious Music

5pm till late Aliwal Street Skate Drop-in Clinic Skate SG Sports

5pm till late Aliwal Carpark Street Football Challenge Urban Street Team Sports

5pm till late Aliwal Carpark Street Food Various F&B

5.30pm Tour Meeting point: RSCLS Detour RSCLS Urban Art& 6.30pm RSCLS Studio, #02-10, Aliwal Arts Centre

7pm till late Multi-purpose Hall Live Performances Bakers In Space, Music Mean, Sobs, Vandetta

8pm - 9pm Aliwal Carpark Sound of the City: NADA, KOFLOW Urban Art My Sound of Singapore Presented by Goethe-Institut Singapore

9pm - 10.30pm Aliwal Carpark The Get UP to Get DOWN ScrachMarcs Dance

11pm till late Multi-purpose Hall Live Performances EATMEPOPTART Music

BRILLIANT CORNERS:: ARTIST MARKETCurated by System SovereignAliwal Car Park5pm – 10.30pm A celebration of Singapore’s independent artists who are fiercely championing the spirit of DIY. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover new music, limited edition art prints, 12” records, custom tees and zines. 

SIRRI NA PESSE: NAVIGATING BUGIS IDENTITIES IN SINGAPOREMalay Heritage Centre14 Oct 2017 - 24 Jun 201810am-6pmFree

Sirri na Pesse, which loosely translates to ‘Honour and Pride’ in the Bugis language, features the history and development of the Malay-Bugis community in Singapore, many of whom can trace their roots through seminal historical developments in the

ALIWAL URBAN ART FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 20 JAN 2018, SAT

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STREET FOODAliwal Car Park5pm onwards All that urban action is sure to leave you famished. Say no more, fam, cos we got you covered with a bunch of food trucks that’ll keep them hunger pangs at bay.

Malay world during the 18th to 20th centuries. Whether of royal descent, or born to seafarers or merchants, the local Malay-Bugis community

continues to maintain their distinct cultural heritage whilst establishing modern Bugis identities unique to their Singapore experience.

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GETTING TO ALIWAL

Aliwal Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts centre with a strong focus on performing arts located at the former Chong Cheng and Chong Pun Schools at 28 Aliwal Street within the Kampong Glam conservation district. It offers a conducive environment to support the artistic development of both contemporary and traditional arts groups, drawing inspiration from the rich cultural heritage in the area.

Aliwal Arts Centre is managed by Arts House Limited.

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Circle LineNicoll Highway (CC5)

East West LineLavendar (EW11), or Bugis (EW12)

Downtown LineBugis (DT14)

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North Bridge Rd 7, 32, 51, 63, 80, 145, and 197.

Victoria St 2, 7, 12, 32, 33, 51, 63, 80, 130, 133, 145, and 197.

Beach Rd 10, 14, 16, 70, 100, 107, 196 and 401.

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Limited public lots available along Kandahar and Pahang St. We recommend parking at DUO, Sultan Plaza or The Concourse. Parking charges apply.

Aliwal Arts Centre is located at 28 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199918

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Do You See It? Try to spot our specially commissioned Aliwal Urban Art Festial mural (psst: it’s behind a building) done by Antz, Dem, Kilas and Spazs-pazspaz from the RSCLs in record time.

Dress Comfortably Much of the event happens outdoors, so you mos def don’t wanna look like a hot mess.

Bring The #squad! How else will you take a #squadgoal shot in front of the giant UAF work? Or belt out “Mr Fantesticles” In D’ KTV?

Come for/with Good VibesIt’s gonna be awesome. We promise.

ALIWAL URBAN ART FESTIVAL ESSENTIALS Here’s the ultimate list of #protips to make sure you have the best time at UAF without looking like a chump.

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Stay Hydrated You could bring a water bot-tle, or grab a beverage from one of the stalls at the out-door section of the festival.

Ka-ching$! Our artist market is gonna entice you to make it rain - what with cool swag from Naked Parade, Kristal

Melson, Choice Cuts, Syndicate, Straits Records and more waiting to up your street cred.

Pack Light Don’t get weighed down by baggage, especially since there’s tons to see and do. Ain’t nobody got time to look after your bag while you learn how to skateboard.

Bring A Spare Phone Battery Instagrammable spots and a late night out means you’re gonna need all the juice you can get. How else will you be able to get your homies to meet you at the backwall for a Boomerang in the middle of the fest?

Come Early We have programmes from 5pm onwards – so come early to ensure a place in the RSCLs Detour or the Skate Drop-in Clinic! Aliwal Arts Centre

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WORKSHOP 01DIY LED THROWIES by Ryf Zaini24 January 20188pmInspired by world-renowned collective Graffiti Research Labs (GRL), this workshop conducted by interactive visual artist Ryf Zaini will teach participants to create their own LED Throwies with DIY materials such as magnets, hot glue, LED lights and batteries.

WORKSHOP 02INVADED BY RSCLS10 February 20182pmThis workshop pays homage to the iconic street artist Space Invader, whose quirky pixel artworks are peppered all around the world. Members of the RSCLS collective will guide participants to make their own pixel mosaic with basic DIY techniques that can easily be applied in the comfort of their own homes.

M.A.T.A.S

The M.A.T.A.S workshop series are two workshops inspired by and dedicated to alternative forms of street art, beyond the confines of traditional mural and graffiti techniques. Participants will be guided through the processes and techniques of creation in these workshops, encouraging them to look beyond the walls and the aerosol cans.

WORKSHOPSRSCLS creates platforms for discourse in popular culture, social politics, and urban narratives, in a visual cacophony of juxtaposed styles and languages. The core of RSCLS’ identity as an urban art collective is also manifested in education, through the propagation of street art and graffiti practices in the context of the Asian narrative, as well as through artistic urban collaborations between like-minded individuals. From murals to urban installations, RSCLS is always seeking new strategies to disrupt social norms and popular narratives whilst pushing the envelope in the different ways to see and create graffiti and street art.

RSCLS has curated, organised and supported various urban art initiatives in Singapore and in the region. As an art collective, RSCLS has been involved in numerous exhibitions, events and festivals both locally and internationally, including the cities of Paris, Manila, San Francisco, Jakarta, and more. RSCLS is represented primarily by Singapore-based artists Antz, Dem, Kilas, RSCLS is a recipient of the Seed Grant from the NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL. Spaz and Zero. Regional members of RSCLS includes Drewfunk (MY), EggFiasco (PH), LiarBen, TraseOne, Song, (VN), Sheep (CHN), and Tuyuloveme (INDO), Mim and Neo form the RSCLS media team.

Ryf Zaini is an engineering graduate from Temasek Polytechnic, but his interest in the arts led him to LASALLE College of the Arts in 2003, from which he completed a diploma in interactive media, and graduated with First Class Honors in Media Arts. His interest was drawn toward utilising his understanding of electronic engineering and translating it into artistic content. His role in the arts, tries to bridge an understanding of how technology functions within a society: that we are “wired” and at the same time tangled with electronics and technology as they are “physically” connected to our bodies. Our reliance may soon ensure our dependency on them for every move and decision humanity takes. Using art as the driving tool in his work, he attempts to connect them to the emphatic and emotional aspect of society.

After his studies, Ryf participated in several exhibitions where he created unique hybrids of tech-art. Ryf’s installations merge ideas relating to technology and the arts, and his work has been exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Sculpture Square (Singapore), the Esplanade (Singapore), ARTRIANGLE (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), the Sea Art Festival (South Korea), Art Garden, Lille (France), as well as Bermonsey Space (London). The I-Light Marina Bay festival in Singapore commissioned Ryf to create interactive light installations for two editions of the festival in 2012 and 2014. He also completed residencies in the Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media (Japan), as well as at the Singapore Science Centre.

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About RYF ZAINI

M.A.T.A.S (MAKE A TERRIFIC ARTWORK SOMEDAY)

M.A.T.A.S or Make A Terrific Artwork Someday is a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted comment by the RSCLS collective on the Singapore graffiti and street art community’s endless commitment to stay relevant and sustainable, while balancing tensions such as the politics and negotiation of space, both public and personal. These tensions, which are commonplace in the practice of street art and graffiti, stresses that space – both physical and metaphorical, is a very limited commodity.

An Exhibition by RSCLS X RYF ZAINI18 January – 11 February 2018 Mon - Fri 2pm - 9pm; Sat - Sun 11am - 8pm

For the first time, RSCLS will collaborate with interactive artist, Ryf Zaini to create a body of interactive artworks. As an urban art collective, this is a departure from their usual modus operandi of spray-painted graffiti murals. The union of these two creative entities out of their comfort zone, will aim to create, encourage and challenge the complexities of space for artistic and personal expression in an environment such as Singapore, where the unmitigated scrutiny of technologically-advanced public surveillance, and trigger-happy netizens come together in an oddball approach to active citizenry.

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M.A.T.A.S (Make A Terrific Artwork Someday) is presented by Aliwal Arts Centre, in conjunction with Aliwal Urban Art Festival, and Singapore Art Week. A joint initiative by the National Arts Council, the Singapore Tourism Board and the Singapore Economic Development Board, Singapore Art Week reinforces Singapore’s position as Asia’s leading arts destination.

www.artweek.sg

18 Jan - 11 Feb 2018Mon - Fri 2pm - 9pm; Sat - Sun 11am - 8pm Aliwal Arts Centre

An Exhibition by RSCLS X RYF ZAINI