[event] Fukushima! // 15th Aug 2011 @ Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre

Fukushima, once a quiet rural area in North-East Japan is now world-infamous as the site of possibly the worst human-caused disasters in history. The radioactive pollution continues to this day to spread in our air, water, soil and food. This has forcibly removed around 97,000 people (and counting) from the area, displacing them from their homes to start new lives from scratch.

However, the displacement is not just geographical, but also political and psychological. Fukushima, as a region with its own history and culture, is blindly being ostracized from Japan’s economic activities and being kept off the radar from the general public. Project Fukushima! is an initiative to keep Fukushima alive and connected. This tragic event must be remembered for and used as a stepping point towards a better future.

Fukushima! is a series of simultaneous events happening throughout the world on 15 August. In Singapore, it will happen in Goodman Arts Centre, Black Box, on 15 August, 8pm.

Featuring Hanging Up The Moon, Aya Sekine + Angie Seah, aspidistrafly, Dharma + Shaun Sankaran, Tim O’Dwyer + Ian Woo, Leslie Low + Yuen Chee Wai.

[event] Frottage: Casual Encounters at the Pigeonhole iii. // 14th Aug 2011 @ The Pigeonhole

Unrelenting hardcore-punk party starters 7x0x7 and experimental music curators Ujikaji Records team up for something a little different – a series of musical presentations at book café and dynamic arts space The Pigeonhole.

Featuring touring bands from Belgium/Canada, New Zealand and France and representing a smorgasbord of diverse musical visions from Psychedelic Rock to Folk Soul, these casual encounters are designed to rub off on you in all possible ways.

Less than a month and they're in their 3rd one in the series already. This one sees improv blues guitar wizard ONE LICK LESS (FR), bedroom minimal folk HANGING UP THE MOON (Sean Lam/Concave Scream), and whisky oak soulster LINDA ONG (Lunarin)

Doors open at 7:30pm, performances begin promptly at 8:00pm.

$10 at the door.

[event] House of Incest: an Ob/Scene Surrealist Cross-Disciplinary Art Rave // 28th June-5th July 2011 @ Post-Museum

"If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves." -Anaïs Nin, House of Incest (1936)

Post-Museum collaborates with literary revolutionaries Grapheme Zine Lab to present House of Incest, a week-long multi-disciplinary groupshow that features a surreal, provocative art exhibition, in addition to other fringe events such as academic talks, film screenings and an intimate poetry reading.

Post-Museum is an independent cultural and social space in Singapore which aims to encourage and support a thinking, pro-active community. It hosts the Singapore Really Really Free Market, has seen talks by local Green groups, performances by Japanese Fringe Theatre practitioners, and art workshops amongst others.

However, Post-Museum will be closing down in its current premises come end July with the end of their current lease, and will be fund-raising in the hopes of opening a new independent space.

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28th June 2011 (Tuesday)

House of Incest Opening

Free entry

obscene & surreal art (interpretations of Nin's erotica)

feat.

KILAS / Michy Witchy / Clogtwo / Tiffany Lovage / Leonard Wee / Pourquois / Kristal Melson / XOTL / Miranda Mori / Eeshaun / Genevieve Chua / Elix Arkan / Xin Jie / Lee Wen / Winnie Goh / Speak Cryptic / Holly Pereira

lo-fi music

feat.

Seyra / Hanging Up The Moon / Acid Reef

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29th June 2011 (Wednesday)

Private Film Screening of Lino Brocka's masterpiece Macho Dancer (1988).

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30th June 2011 (Thursday)

Talk: "Female Ejaculation meets Hardcore Pornography: Part 2"

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1st July 2011 (Friday)

Private Film Screening of Gough Lewis' Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999)

Film will be followed by a post-show discussion with Gerrie Lim, author of Singapore Rebel: Searching for Annabel Chong (2011)

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2nd July 2011 (Saturday)

4-6pm

Mini-lecture: "Queer Theory" by Professor Brian Bergen-Aurand

9pm-2am

House of Philia Fundraising Party!

Bani Haykal / Lunarin / Dualtone / The Analog Girl

play for your pleasure before handing over to the DJs over at 4imaginaryboys to spin up the night.

Think un chien andalou, hearts spat out, garters. Imbibe raw, heartfelt music.

Partygoers will also be invited to participate in the Exquisite Corpse, creating a collaborative artwork by the end of the night.

Tickets are priced at $27 (pre-sale) and $32 (at the door), and come with one complimentary vodka jelly shot.

All proceeds go to Post-Museum's relocation fund. Contact Vanessa at 91254467/ho_xihuei@hotmail.com or Amanda at 96919727/circus.bunnies@gmail.com for tickets.

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3rd July 2011 (Sunday)

4-6pm

Singaporeans on Sex

roundtable discussion feat. Alex Au, Pat Law, Martha Lee, Trish Leong.

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5th July 2011 (Tuesday)

730pm-9pm

Carnal Stash

an intimate erotic poetry/prose reading

feat. the private collections of

Alvin Pang / Ng Yi-Sheng / Pooja Nansi / X’ho / Amanda Lee / Sudév Suthendran / Tania de Rozario / Madeleine Lee

9pm-11pm

Private Film Screening of David Lynch's surreal, acclaimed Blue Velvet (1986).

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Entry to film screenings, talks and the poetry reading will be by donation to Post-Museum's relocation fund (suggested $10).

Entry to the art exhibition is free on Opening Night, and by donation of any amount at other times. If you donate to enter for a film screening, talk or reading, you can of course enjoy the exhibition as well.

Note: Contact Vanessa at ho_xihuei@hotmail.com for more information on timings/to reserve a seat for film screenings and talks. We're keeping the details a little sketchy for good reason.