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Daily Cuts - Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2024

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Melanie Oliveiro speaks with the creatives participating at the Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2024. Happening at Kampong Glam, AUAF features an electric array of urban art activities led by tenants from Aliwal Arts Centre (AAC), various renowned local urban art groups and communities of different artistic practices. The interviewees will describe how visitors can experience street art showcases including a live graffiti painting and competition session, as well as unique music and dance performances.

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Daily Cuts - Why it's easy to misjudge people online

Britain's Princess Kate Middleton's battle with cancer exposes the dark side of online culture, but can it spark a change for more empathy? Andrea Heng and Joel Chua speak with Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU to find out more.

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Daily Cuts - US-Japan upgraded security pact

The US and Japan are reportedly planning a major security pact upgrade. What could this mean for the region? Andre Heng and Joel Chua speak with Grant Newsham, Senior Research Fellow, Japan Forum for Strategic Studies. He explains which aspects of the current security arrangement are most in need of updating given the new geopolitical challenges.

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Daily Cuts - Drama-Mama with Tan Ngiap Heng & Wild Rice

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with photographer and visual artist Tan Ngiap Heng about his exhibition Drama Mama co-presented with theatre company Wild Rice.  Located along the underground pedestrian walkway linking Funan to The Adelphi, Drama Mama is a series of over eighty black & white portraits of Singaporean artists. Tan will talk about how he curated this exhibition, and what it was like photographing household names like actor/singer Lim Yu-Beng, pioneering Indian classical dance doyenne Santha Bhaskar and actress Siti Khalijah.

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Daily Cuts - JISR Film Festival

Melanie Oliveiro finds out where in Singapore we can go to watch films made by moviemakers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and in the process learning more about modern Arabian culture - should we consider traveling to the GCC. The JISR Film Festival is an inaugural cultural festival that’s debuting in Singapore, featuring the works of established and emerging filmmakers. Cinemagoers will access a curated selection of 17 films representing the diverse cinematic landscape of the GCC, along the themes of sustainability, animation, sports and female empowerment.

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Daily Cuts - Good Threads

Melanie Oliveiro finds out more about a new local brand Good Threads, a capsule collection of 200 multi-functional apparel designed for conscious, eco-friendly urban living. Good Threads was recently launched by Mandai Wildlife Group. The collection is produced in collaboration with various designers and companies like Plastify, a Singapore-born startup that has made recycling plastic waste its business.

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