MONDAY, 2 MAY

West Block: SPOL room, guided tour
1pm- 2pm | History of Old Kallang Airport Tour by Mr S.S. Khaw from Flight Science G.O.V.
*This is in addition to the Guided tours (English) at 11am and 2pm
Join Mr S S Khaw's tour to learn more about the history of Kallang Airport; including the opening, the Japanese Occupation, the major airlines at Kallang Airport as well as the air crash in 1953 with video presentations and model aeroplanes. S S Khaw lived in Seletar camp in the early sixties while the British airbase was present and is currently the president of Flight Science G.O.V.
West Block Walkway
10am - 5pm | "I Love SAM" Badge-making
10am - 5pm | Kite-making and flying
11am - 1230pm, 1pm - 3pm | "Strum it!" Craft Activity
11am - 1pm, 3pm - 5pm | Line Drawings on Transparencies, Inspired by Gosia Wlodarczak's Artwork
East Block Walkway
11am - 6pm | Flea Market
10am – 5pm | Giant Jigsaw Puzzle
11am - 1pm | Glitter Tattoo
3pm – 5pm | Face Painting
Terminal Building porch
10am - 5pm | Biennale Art Hunt: complete a quiz and redeem a prize
Near security post
11am - 5pm | Balloon Giveaway

SUNDAY, 8 MAY

Guided tour at Old Kallang Airport
1pm - 2pm| Guided tour by Lim Kok Boon on Singapore Artists in Singapore Biennale*
*This is in addition to the Guided tours (English) at 11am and 2pm
Lim Kok Boon is an independent art critic with a soft spot for home grown art. Join his guided tour at the Old Kallang Airport to hear his personal observations, interpretations and digressions of 'paper as a sculpture', 'studio as an installation' and 'video as a moving painting'.
West Block Walkway
10am - 5pm | "I Love SAM" Badge-making
10.30am - 1.30pm | Milo Van
11am - 1pm | Glitter Tattoo
11am - 1230pm, 1pm - 3pm | "I ♥ Mother's Day!" Craft Activity
11am - 1pm, 3pm - 5pm | Make a paper flower for Mum
1pm - 3pm | A Garden in a Bottle
East Block Walkway
10am – 5pm | Giant Jigsaw Puzzle
11am - 1pm | Glitter Tattoo
3pm - 5pm | Caricature
Terminal Building porch
10am - 5pm | Biennale Art Hunt: complete a quiz and redeem a prize
Near security post
11am - 5pm | Balloon Giveaway

SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555
Museum admission applies. Monday to Sunday 10am - 7pm, Friday: 10am - 9pm| Free Admission on Fridays from 6pm-9pm, or with Singapore Biennale Ticket.

It’s Now or Never: Part II
8 March – 8 May 2011
The second instalment of Singapore Art Museum's a two-part showcase of its latest acquisitions. The first display showcased mainly two-dimensional works by Singapore and Singapore-based artists, whereas this display will focus on artists from the wider Southeast Asian region working with installation art. Artists include Chun Kaifeng, Geraldine Javier, Ringo Bunoan, Chang Yoong Chia, Shahrul Jamili Miskon, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Nge Lye, and Vandy Rattana.

Negotiating Home, History & Nation: two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia 1991 – 2011
12 March - 26 June 2011
Negotiating Home, History and Nation presents the work created over the last two decades, by fifty-four seminal practitioners in contemporary art from six Southeast Asian countries. This extensive survey gives audiences the opportunity to form a cogent picture of the diverse realities and threads linking Southeast Asia and its art through inquires into topics such as nation building, urbanisation, and religious and gender discourse from an Asian perspective.

Amongst the artists featured are Agus Suwage (Indonesia), Vasan Sitthiket (Thailand), Suzann Victor (Singapore), Wong Hoy Cheong (Malaysia) and Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan (The Philippines). Through a broad range of media including photography, video, painting, performance and installation art, the exhibition provides an entry to the specific characteristics of Southeast Asia’s aesthetic language and offers a key to understanding some of the region’s more recent political and social developments.

Guest curator: Iola Lenzi.
Co-curator: Singapore Art Museum (SAM) director Tan Boon Hui and SAM curator Khairuddin Hori

LIVE Singapore!
7 April - 1 May 2011
LIVE Singapore! is a project within the Future Urban Mobility research initiative funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation and developed by MIT's SENSEable City Lab. The project closes the feedback loop between people moving in the city and the digital real-time data collected in multiple networks. It gives the data back to the people who themselves generate it through their actions. The aim is to develop an open platform for the collection, the combination, fusion and distribution of real-time data from a large number of different sources.

Bridging the Gap: Korean Contemporary Art Since 1980
5 - 6 May 2011 | Singapore Art Museum Glass Hall
The Singapore Art Museum presents a conference on art in Korea since 1980. A panel of esteemed specialists from Korean institutions will discuss the development of contemporary art practice in Korea, from the rise of modernism to the avant-garde, as well as explore topics such as new media art, feminist art and public art.

Speakers include Kim Hong Hee (art critic and former Director of the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art), Kim Young Ho (Professor at Chung-Ang University), Lee Young-Jun (Professor at the Kaewon School for Art and Design), Lee Young Wook (Professor at Jeonju University), Song Mi-Sook, President of the Institute of East Asian Culture), Youn Bum Mo (Professor at Kyungwon University), and Jun Seung Bo, independent curator.

Join us for this exciting conference and walk away with a deeper knowledge of the contemporary Korean scene.

Free admission. To register, please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg.
For more information on the Presentations and Speaker Biographies, click here.

Contemporary Japanese Crafts
15 March - 19 April 2011|Galleries 1 & 2
In conjunction with the Embassy of Japan and Japan Foundation, NAFA present's an exhibition of 64 exquisite objects epitomising contemporary Japanese design. Curated by Shiraishi Masami, Director of Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, the exhibition presents a range of ceramics, porcelain, stoneware and lacquerware in six themes, designed for the viewer to marvel at the dexterity and rich heritage of the Japanese artistic temperament.

Art Activism Symposium is a programme organized alongside the exhibition, Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya at the NUS Museum from 18 Feb – 24 April 2011.

Four artists will present their personal experiences and projects that deal with varied models of interactions and intersections with communities and agencies in the region. Each story presents the artist as a social innovator and change maker, challenging boundaries, rules and expectations, and creating cooperative social transformation and improvement through art.

Free admission with registration. Limited to 100 participants. Please RSVP by Friday, 4 March 2011. For details and registration, click here