Exhibition of Neighbourhood History by Cashew Community
Date: 2 August to Mid-September 2025
Venue: Senja-Cashew CC; touring other CCs and malls thereafter
Senja Cashew Opening event on: 2 August at 3.45PM
Ticketing: Free
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| Passage Through Time – Then, Now and Beyond is a community-driven exhibition celebrating the Senja-Cashew precinct’s evolution. Located at Senja-Cashew CC, the exhibition explores the neighbourhood’s past, present, and future through stories, photos, and interactive displays. Designed by Year 3 NAFA Arts Management students as part of their Industry Project, it offers visitors of all ages a chance to engage with local heritage and contribute their dreams for the future. The exhibition launches in mid and will travel across community centres and malls before a portion is permanently installed at the CC. Organised by NAFA and the Senja-Cashew Citizens’ Consultative Committee, it is a heartfelt tribute to community identity and collective memory.
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ADPRex 2025
Date: 6 – 7 August 2025
Venue: NAFA Campus 3, Studio Theatre and Online
Ticketing: TBC
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The Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange (ADPRex) is Southeast Asia’s first annual conference dedicated to practice research. ADPRex positions the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), University of the Arts Singapore, as the leading centre for arts and design practice research in this region. Here, artists and thinkers gather to share ideas and insights at the apex of arts and design practice and innovative thinking. Once again, ADPRex is delighted to be presented in conjunction with NAFA’s Southeast Asian Arts Forum.
More details here
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UOB-NAFA Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2025
Date: 7 – 8 August 2025
Venue: NAFA
Ticketing: Free
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In a world shaped by digital landscapes and AI, how we preserve and reflect on history is increasingly vital. Archives—both physical and digital—serve as the foundation for future technology, with AI drawing from this vast data.
This forum explores how these records, past and present, act as mirrors of our identity and guide our place in a rapidly changing world. It will examine the role of history and digital archives in shaping a more connected and inclusive future.
More details here
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National Day Parade 2025
Date: 9 August 2025
Venue: The Padang
Ticketing: Free via balloting
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| NAFA’s School of Fashion Studies has been commissioned by the NDP 2025 organising committee to design costumes for the opening programme and a special segment highlighting emerging Singaporean artistes. The costumes will be worn by performers, including singers of the NDP 2025 theme song and dancers from the Maya Dance Company. NAFA has been tasked with designing 14 costume sets.
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Night Fest x SMU Arts Festival
Date: Coming soon in August and September 2025
Venue: SMU Campus Green
Ticketing: Free
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| As part of Singapore Night Festival 2025, NAFA Dance students will participate in the SMU Arts Festival, a youth-led celebration of artistic expression in the city. Held at the SMU Campus Green, this lively outdoor event showcases the vibrancy of Singapore’s next generation of performers and creators. The collaboration highlights student-led works in contemporary dance and performance, transforming public spaces into dynamic platforms for creativity. With its youthful energy and open-air format, the festival fosters community engagement and spotlights emerging talent. Designated as an SG60 event, it celebrates the role of young artists in shaping Singapore’s cultural future.
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INterSPACE (Interdisciplinary Performance)
Date: 28 – 29 August 2025
Venue: NAFA Campus 1 Foyer
Ticketing: Free
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| INterSPACE presents a bold fusion of dance, theatre, and experimental performance created by NAFA’s BA (Hons) Performance Making students. As part of the Singapore Night Festival 2025, this interdisciplinary showcase reimagines the boundaries of performance by weaving movement, narrative, and unexpected artistic elements. The works reveal a spirit of innovation and resilience, reflecting students' exploration of form and expression. Taking place at the NAFA Campus 1 Foyer, the performances transform the space into a laboratory of ideas and experimentation. INterSPACE captures the essence of SG60 by highlighting how creative practice continues to evolve across disciplines and generations.
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Dandelion
Date: 22 August – 6 September 2025
Venue: Level 1 Foyer, NAFA Campus 2
Ticketing: Free
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Dandelion is an immersive light installation that explores the poetic intersection between humanity and technology. Composed of 3000 fibre optic strands and motion-sensitive sensors, the sculpture responds organically to human presence, glowing and shifting in a mesmerising dance of light.
Inspired by its namesake, Dandelion captures the ethereal beauty of seeds scattered by the wind, just like NAFA students who take flight from Singapore to flourish across the world. As the installation transforms with each interaction, it whispers a quiet invitation: “Dare to dance like a dandelion in the wind”, calling upon the audience to move with hope, lightness, and fearless possibility.
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HueManity: When Different Eyes Meet One Island
Date: 22 August – 7 September 2025
Venue: NAFA Campus 1, Glass Showcases along Bencoolen Street
Ticketing: Free
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| HueManity invites you to see Singapore through new lenses—where red fades into deep blue waters, light reveals and conceals, and the world shifts depending on who's looking. Set across three windows on Bencoolen Street, the installation layers illustrations of local folklore, marine life, and the role of colour in our society. Using chromatic filters and modified light, it explores how perception changes with context. By rethinking how and what we see, Huemanity invites reflection on the many viewpoints that shape the shared Singaporean experience that is dynamic and ever-changing.
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They Walk Above Us
Date: 30 August 2025
Venue: NAFA Campus 1, Glass Showcases along Bencoolen Street & Level 1 Foyer, NAFA Campus 2
Ticketing: Free
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During this performance across two NAFA-produced festival exhibits, lanky long-legged beings dance around a giant Dandelion, and show you the colours of Huemanity — as choreographed by NAFA alumna Beverly Wan in costumes designed by fashion student Tansii Mui.
The Stilts Walkers (Singapore) proudly represent the spirit of traditional Chinese folk arts, combining skill, coordination and festive energy to tell stories. This cultural performance troupe of passionate individuals from all walks of life aims to bring heritage to life through movement, joy and dizzying heights of stilt walking — rising above the ground, yet staying rooted in tradition.
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