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2 unusual facts about Singapore Arts Festival


Blue Grassy Knoll

After a 4 month tour across the USA and Canada in 2003 the band were beginning to experience touring fatigue and only performed sparingly over the next 4 years, playing once a year at festivals such as Sydney's Rocks Aroma Coffee Festival in 2004 and 2005 and the Singapore Arts Festival in 2006.

Little Toys

In 2003, Singaporean composer Mark Chan, in a co-commissioned project by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Singapore Arts Festival, did the score for the silent film and productions were staged in each country, featuring live music accompanying the screening of Little Toys.


Hwee Hwee Tan

Her second novel, Mammon Inc (2001), was adapted for the stage during the 2002 Singapore Arts Festival and won the 2004 Singapore Literature Prize.


see also

Arbos – Company for Music and Theatre

„The Stories about Voyages“ a music theatre trilogy „The Singing of The Fools about Europe“, „The Concert of Birds“ and „UROBOS : Project Time“ by Dževad Karahasan and Herbert Gantschacher produced and presented in Odessa (Ukrainia), Prague, Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), Berlin, Erfurt, Leipzig (Germany), Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Hallein (Austria) and Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival 2001).