Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa (Offerings for the Victims of Amnesia)
By Teater Ekamatra
Thursday 16 – Satuday 18 February 2012, 8pm
Satuday 18 February, 3pm
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
Performed in Malay with English surtitles
This is an InHouse Event 
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa is a trilogy of plays inspired by the three main events leading to the establishment of Islam. Paired with the severely poetic nature of the Malay language, Hantaran offers a dimension that faith excludes and questions. The first two plays – Genap 40 and W.C. – were previously staged to small audiences, and this presentation marks the completion of the trilogy with the premiere of 94:05 alongside the other two. Performed by three talented theatre and TV actors, Sani Hussin, Mastura Ahmad and newcomer Rian Asrudi, Hantaran is a performance not to be missed.
“Expectations of fate and faith are tussled with in language that was both sophisticated in its intellectual curiosity and dramatically poetic.”
- The Straits Times Life! on Genap 40
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Cane
By Loo Zihan
Sunday 19 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
Rating: R18
This is an InHouse Event
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
In 1993, Singaporean artist Josef Ng’s performance Brother Cane resulted in a public debate over obscenity in performance art and a subsequent ten-year restriction of the licensing and funding of performance art in Singapore.
Cane by Loo Zihan consists of a re-enactment of Brother Cane based on an eyewitness account by artist Ray Langenbach, a performative lecture reconstructing incidents surrounding the event based on various oral accounts, and pre-filmed segments with individuals involved in Brother Cane and performance art in Singapore. The work seeks not only to commemorate and honour the memory of this performance, but also to explore the possibility of representing performance art, a form often perceived as ephemeral or transient.
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The Prayer
By Eng Kai Er
Wednesday 22 – Thursday 23 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
This is an InHouse Event
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
The Prayer is a solo dance-theatre performance piece with existentialist questions at its heart. What are we on Earth for? Why should we continue existing? How can we be cheerful, when we have discovered the terrible secret that life is meaningless? These questions are explored but remain unanswered. The quest to find the answers results in a performance piece that is dark, desperate, and yet funny.
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Titik Nol
Thursday 1 – Saturday 3 March 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $16 for 1 March preview, $20 for performances on 2 & 3 March.
Available from The Substation Box Office, contact Mishaal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an OpenHouse Event 
Language: Bahasa Indonesia, Malay and English (with English surtitles)
Siti, a Malaysian Moslem woman and Sukran, an Acehnese boy, have a common link: Sofyan. Sofyan is Siti’s love interest and Sukran calls him “Bapak”. But nobody knows if he is Sukran’s father. And nobody really knows if Siti and Sofyan are in any relationship.
Sofyan’s life is shaped by the political situation in Aceh. The existence of Free Aceh Movement and its tension with the Indonesian government affects all Acehneses’ lives. But how does it affect Siti’s life, a woman living in Malaysia? When the Aceh tsunami occurred and Sofyan went missing, their lives became even more complicated and they were left with questions. When someone goes missing, one keeps hoping that that person will come back, but how long can one wait?
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Happy Together
Dance Performance by Elysa Wendi
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 & $10 (concession)
available from the box office
Contact mishaal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an OpenHouse event
The idea of Happy Together came about after an encounter with a group of elderly musicians from the Traditional Southern Fujian Music Society. This music group comprises of a vocalist, flute player, pipa and 2 string players. Their lives revolve around the playing of melancholic ancient music which provides a link to their ancestors. After the initial meetings, the different artists would gather every Sunday to listen to their weekly playing while following temple rituals like keeping a long-term promise to old friends.
As a contemporary artist, one seeks for new understanding of such ancient music heritage and its relevancy in contemporary art-making. Striving to comprehend the interpretation of this music, dance artist Elysa Wendi and traditional arts researcher Wang Tian Yu have been exchanging perceptions and ideas in meeting after meeting, in order to decipher the beauty of Nan Yin whilst making connections within their own creative processes.
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SPAM
Friday 27 January 2012, 7:30-9:30pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
This is an InHouse event
SPAM is an artist-run platform which aims to encourage the practice, feedback and showcase of performances by emerging artists. At every monthly practice session, artists explore various modalities of performance in order to investigate unfamiliar situations and test themselves, and their reactions. Audience members are encouraged to comment and participate in the discussion.
SPAM aims to sustain and encourage artistic skill and talent in order to develop more compelling, complex and complete artistic works. Photo by Marla Bendini
SPAM
Saturday 17 December 2011, 2pm–2am
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
This is an InHouse event
SPAM is an artist-run platform which aims to encourage the practice, feedback and showcase of performances by emerging artists. At every monthly practice session, artists explore various modalities of performance in order to investigate unfamiliar situations and test themselves, and their reactions. Audience members are encouraged to comment and participate in the discussion. SPAM aims to sustain and encourage artistic skill and talent in order to develop more compelling, complex and complete artistic works.
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Dia Di Atas Sana
By Panggung Arts and The Substation
Thursday 24 (preview) and Friday 25 November 2011, 8pm
Saturday 26 November 2011, 3pm and 8pm
Sunday 27 November 2011, 3pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $18 (concession) available from the box office,
contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
Rating: No persons under 16 / Performed in Malay with English Surtitles
This is an InHouse event
“Where is God?”
Man has been asking, and has been asked this particular question ever since he was introduced or some would strongly believe, re-introduced, to the concept of the higher being. The higher being, God, Elohim, Jesus, Gaia, Vishnu, or Allah has led Man to spend his existence approving or disapproving. In the name of a particular God, beliefs have been forced and reinforced, to be embed in the hearts of Man and then reiterated in blood. But, those dramatic episodes in Man’s history, most probably start with that one simple question. ‘Where is God?’. That same question gradually spawns an entire variation of itself; ‘Where is my God?’, ‘Where is your God?’, ‘Where are you God?’, or ‘Where the hell are you God, in times when I needed you the most?’.
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TUAH
By The Substation and Teater Kami LImited
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November 2011, 3pm and 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $18 (concession) available from the box office, contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
Performed in Malay with English Surtitles
Two close friends are required to submit weekly reports to the “people up there”, a report of society’s problems and solutions on how to address them. If their report is accepted, they will be given a better future. They have four weeks left. One of them falls in love with one of the “people up there”, an act which is strictly prohibited, and begans to neglect his reports. The two friends now have individual agendas. One seeks love. The other seeks freedom. They have four weeks to decide.
Decimal Points: 0.01
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $15 (concession) available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
Please note that this production is sold out. Thank you for your support.
Conceived by David Lee, the second experiment in the Decimal Points series is 0.01, a quest for perfection that eludes. A tiny piece in a puzzle that seems forever missing. A small voice that echoes…all is lost, all is lost. Colliding dance, performance and drawing deep inspiration from the conceptual world of visual design, 0.01 seeks to create an illusionary world, at once tragic and fantastic, where the inhabitants reach for pure, unadulterated liberation in the face of imperfection, glorious and monstrous.
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