
SPECIAL EVENT
Sustainable Futures
ArtScience Museum presents a seasonal focus exploring imaginaries that could orientate us towards catalysing change and action to shape real and sustainable collective futures.
Explore diverse perspectives and on-ground learnings through a nature-in-focus film festival, a forum that explores our youths’ unique paradigm around ecological justice, digital nature art trails and upcycling workshops on environmental empathy, and installations that dream up fantastical ecosystems of imaginary flora and fauna and hypothetical realities.
Programmes
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We Are Nature Too
7 & 21 Jun
11am
Ripple Room, ArtScience Laboratory
TicketedWhat does it mean to live in a “City in Nature”?
Through a guided nature-art trail around the museum and its surrounding green spaces, participants will observe, get creative and reflect using a digital journal.
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Create an Eco-Friendly Bag
14 & 28 Jun
11am
Ripple Room, ArtScience Laboratory
Ticketed
Learn about plastics and sustainability practices and how to use simple sewing skills to craft your own eco-friendly bag made from recycled materials.
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Sustainable Futures Film Festival
29 Jun – 30 Jul
ArtScience Cinema, Level 4
This July, catch award-winning cinematic stories about the deep but fragile connection between nature and humanity at ArtScience Museum. From tender portraits of wildlife rehabilitation to sojourns into sublime landscapes slowly eroded by climate change, Sustainable Futures Film Festival features a line-up of visually immersive films that are both an ode and plea to protect our planet.
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Artland by Do Ho Suh and Children
31 May – 14 Sep
ArtScience Laboratory
TicketedWelcome to the imaginative world of Artland, an ever-growing and evolving series of islands inhabited by creatures and plants sculpted from modelling clay.
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ArtScience Encounters with Libby Heaney: Qlimate Tongues
From 20 Jun
Oculus, Basement 2
Free AdmissionQlimate Tongues is a multi-channel sound installation that explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies. In the work, we hear hybrid human and non-human voices that are generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds that are generated by quantum computing, inviting contemplation on how advance technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.
Image courtesy of Andrea Rossetti and the artist.
Sustainable Futures 2023
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Waves of Change Festival 2023
5 – 27 Aug
Free AdmissionThe Waves of Change Festival is an annual celebration of the big blue to inspire love, care and action for the ocean. Featuring thought provoking conservation art, a selection of stunning films, and talks by experts in their field, we hope visitors of all ages will enjoy this safe space to learn, reflect and explore opportunities for change.
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Drop-in Sessions: Super Senses of the Wild
1 – 4, 7 – 11, 14 – 18, 21 – 25 Aug, 1 Sep
Complimentary, on a first-come, first-served basis.Find out more how bats use echoes from the sounds they create to help them hunt in the dark. With their big, wide ears, it helps them to capture these sounds that bounce back to ‘see’ their prey. While we are not able to have this unique ability, find out how bigger ears could make us hear better!
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MeshMinds 3.0: ArtxTechforGood
1 – 30 Sep
Free AdmissionMeshminds 3.0 is a collaborative showcase of interactive and immersive digital experiences by Singapore creative technology studios, MeshMinds and Metamo Industries. The showcase highlights the work of their award-winning digital artists, virtual world-builders and filmmakers who blend art, technology and sustainability to tell stories that create change.
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Creative Recharge: September Holiday Programmes
4 - 29 Sep
Mix of free and ticketed admission
Recharge your creativity this September holidays at ArtScience Museum. Join us for an array of activities ranging from educational tours, crafty drop-ins to a digital storytelling workshop based on the book, Ubin Elephant by Alan John. -
Exploring Nature’s Tapestry
Various dates in Sep and Oct
Come meet the passionate conservationists and biodiversity experts featured in Sensory Odyssey exhibition in this programme of engaging talks and nature walks. Join us to reconnect deeply with nature and explore ways we can conserve biodiversity today.
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The Ocean Imagineer’s Work Studio
2 Sep – 1 Oct
Free AdmissionWitness the development of revolutionary sea vessels in ArtScientist-In-Residence Cesar Jung-Harada’s working space.
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Net Zero is Not Enough: Cesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka
22 Sep
6 – 7pm
Free Admission with RegistrationCesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka discuss the need for regenerative design and greater ecology in design futures.