Platform 65 (formerly known as Singapore Playhouse London)

03/06/2015

Glad to hear that the folks behind Across Lands who were part of our pop-up theatre last year have now embarked on the second phase of their project! Follow their page for updates & here's wishing them all the best : )

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'Where' is home to you? A place you've known your whole life, a familiar smell that sense of comfort and security, an idea you've built up in your head? Home is all of these things and more.

'Where?' takes to the streets to explore these different notions of home through our conversations with strangers. 'Where?' offers a space for people to share their thoughts on the concept of home, and invites the world to hear what they have to say.

Every three days, a new conversation will be shared via our youtube channel. Each conversation is unique in interviewee, and every week 'Where?' occurs at different location and with a different method of approach.

'Where?' is the second in the Across Lands series, which explores the universal understandings of the human experience.

'Where' Is Home To You?
A different location &
A different approach
every week

27/10/2014

Pictures from Across Lands performances at Platform 65 x Invisible Islands a few weeks ago!

Safehouse 1 139 Copeland Road
12.10.14 3pm / 5pm
13.10.14 7.30pm

in conjunction with Invisible Islands
http://www.seaartsfest.org/invisible-islands/
for SEA ArtsFest
with the generous support of Platform 65 (formerly known as Singapore Playhouse London)

credits to: Tan Zi Han

17/10/2014

If you attended Poetry Thingy and enjoyed Ziying's performance (sibling rivalry and Asian-parent-tough-love :P), come along for SEA ArtsFest tonight cos one of her works is being presented, too!

Tonight, 8pm at Blue Elephant Theatre Camberwell, showcasing new works & works-in-progress.

Featuring:
- Conversations With My Unknown Mother by Actor_Lucy Sheen- 周麗端, dir. by Jennifer Lim
- BATTY MAN FI DEAD by Stephen Hoo
- It's Complicated by Daniel Henry Kaes, dir. by Mingyu Lin (who's also from the Platform 65 collective!)
- Soft Boiled by Ziying Teng, in collaboration with Two Seas

++ An exhibition by Anna Nguyen in the Blue Elephant Theatre Gallery, exploring the Vietnamese diaspora and the struggles between first and second generation Vietnamese

Tickets are £4, available from BET box office/online or at the door.

Would be great to see you there! :)

15/10/2014

Thank you to everyone who's come down for our events at Platform 65 x Invisible Islands the past few days! The installation & our pop-up bookshop close at 5pm today, so it's your last chance to catch it before we move out of Safehouse!

Dwelling on mythologies of distance, Invisible Islands plays out as a conversation between three architectural designers based in Singapore and an artist based in London, UK. It is set in the Safehouse, a restored Victorian house turned arts space in Peckham, London.

11/10/2014

Follow Math Paper Press today! They've been supporting Platform 65 since Pop-Up Singapore House in 2012. Lots of their titles are now on sale at , 139 Copeland Rd till next Wed, 15th Oct!

MATH PAPER PRESS, an imprint of BooksActually, is a small press publisher of poetry, novels and essays.

10/10/2014

OPENING TONIGHT! Invisible Islands: 6771 Miles Away. There will be Tiger Beer, G&Ts, and books for sale! Come along :)

VENUE Safehouse 1 139 Copeland Road London SE15 3SN INVISIBLE ISLANDS: 6771 MILES AWAY By �atelier | small, Fiona Tan & Hanqing Miao Dwelling on mythologies of distance, Invisible Islands plays out as a conversation between three architectural designers based in Singapore and an artist based in Lond…

09/06/2014

Ho Leng of 7x8 kuratoren recently revisited Singapore, which inspired this article based on one-question interviews with contemporary arts professionals in Singapore.

Including director of National Museum of Singapore, principal teaching fellow of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, head curator of visual arts at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, ...and little old Platform 65. Eeeep.

P.S., It was difficult to sum up 10 years, and in 200 words (as instructed), no more. On hindsight, really should've just disobeyed the instructions...

SGArts

17/04/2014

Just realised this was in the papers, too!

The National Arts Council has returned to the prestigious London Book Fair this year to showcase Singapore writers and publishers.

16/04/2014

Thank you, Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore's largest Chinese-language newspaper) for featuring PUSH! :)

Hit the link to read the article (maybe with the help of Google Translate.. ;))

在外留学，除了与朋友分享有关新加坡的故事，还能如何让更多人了解本地文化？两名女生在英国留学期间，就创办了名为“Pop-Up Singapore House”的流动艺术活动，在海外传扬新加坡文化。有什么最能代表新加坡文化？对于两名女生余欣颖（24岁）和莫萃尹（25岁）来说，本地艺术家的作品，就能完好地呈现我国文化的多面性。

28/03/2014

Getting into the literary mood ahead of The London Book Fair & our upcoming event at Free Word Centre.
..We've got a selection of Math Paper Press titles we'll be giving away for FREE at PUSHxSingapore Day 2014!

One of them is Fish Eats Lion, a home-grown anthology of speculative fiction by Singaporean writers, exploring the 'Lion City'. This book is a celebration of the vibrant creative power underlying Singapore's inventive prose stylists, where what is considered normal and what is strange are blended in fantastic new ways.

(With thanks to our lovely friends at BooksActually!)

// Fish Eats Lion anthology edited by Jason Erik Lundberg * Fish Eats Lion collects the best original speculative fiction bein...

26/03/2014

Waiting for our luggage at Heathrow. Bumped into Mr Makansutra himself, KF Seetoh, who pointed at our box and asked,"Is that makan?" (No - it's full of the kult magazines we're giving away at PUSHxSingapore Day 2014!)

Three more days!

Bumped into and fish ball noodle shifu at baggage claim. Food x Art & Design?

24/03/2014

T-5 to PUSHxSingapore Day 2014! Come by our DIY silkscreening booth! You can bring your own tote bags, paper, t-shirts to silkscreen our SG Day designs onto if you so fancy, but we'll also have postcards on hand for you to print on and send a smile back home to Singapore :)