In case you didn’t know, the Singapore International Film Festival 2025 is happening from now till the next few days. You’ll definitely want to check out any one of the 120 films from more than 45 countries that will be showcased—including Shu Qi’s award-winning directorial debut Girl / 女孩.
Once you’re done with that, consider signing up for something more interactive: FFIGS festival. Considered as “Singapore’s most unofficial film festival,” expect screenings, community-driven events, including themed parties, rooftop sessions, and quirky experimental showcases. To give you an even greater sense of what to expect, there’s going to be a Shu Qi Lookalike Party and a Bring Your Rejected Film Potluck where you can share your own films.
When: 29 November to 7 December 2025
Where: Goethe-Institut Singapore, 136 Neil Rd, Singapore 088865
More information here
Psychologists spend their lives studying the human mind and its infinite quirks, but what happens when they pick up a camera? Their photographs might land a little closer to heart than you’d expect.
Dr Michael J. Gerson, New York–based photographer and psychologist, will be showcasing his five-decade-long visual diary—capturing human portraits from bustling cities to rural landscapes, from rapturous joy to bleak melancholy. Think of it as a guided tour through the human condition, told by someone who has spent just as much time studying it as he has capturing it. By the way, the photographs are all available for sale, with all proceeds going to charity. Pretty awesome if you ask me.
When: Now till 8 December 2025
Where: Artitude Galeria, Block 9 Dempsey Rd, #01-11, Singapore 247697
Register your interest
Singapore's first local sneaker con, Sole Superior, returns tomorrow. Held at *SCAPE Playspace, the event will host sneakers, streetwear, collectibles, art, music and also allow a homegrown community to flourish for the past 12 years. Participating vendors include Placate the Gods, Bonsai Social Club and Crumpler.
When: 29 November 2025, from 11am to 8pm
Where: 2 Orchard Link, Singapore 237978
National Gallery Singapore is presenting Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a substantial look at one of the largest impressionist collections outside France. Look for works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, and other key figures who will anchor the exhibition.
Spread across three galleries and seven thematic sections, the show brings together more than 100 pieces, a scale rarely seen in Singapore. The installations will also trace how Impressionism shaped artistic developments in Southeast Asia.
Also, it's worth noting that tickets booked before 30 November 2025 come with a 30% discount—so you'll want to move quick if you’re planning a quiet afternoon at the gallery.
Where: National Gallery Singapore, Singapore 178957
When: 14 November 2025 to 1 March 2026
Get your tickets here
Here's a radical suggestion: stay in and watch a horror movie in the spirit of spooky season. We went around the office asking the Esquire SG staff about the horror films everyone swears by—films that are perfect for Halloween, and compiled them into a curated list. Check it out here.
To mark its 10th anniversary, SG Enable has opened the i’mable Collective Space—an 800-square-metre hub bringing together pan-disability creatives across design and the arts. The new space houses eight partners and blends retail, gallery, studio, and café experiences, spotlighting both inclusive enterprise and the range of artistic expression within Singapore’s disability community.
When: 1 October to 12 December 2025, from 10am to 7pm
Where: Young Gallery, i’mable Collective Space, Vista Block #02-02, Enabling Village, 20 Lengkok Bahru, Singapore 159053.
No registration required
Presented by Sculpture 2052, ‘Being Human: Forging Fields of Experience’ is an exhibition that features monumental works by Taiwanese sculptor Prof. Liu Po-Chun. The centrepiece—a six-metre-tall installation of 188 figures forged from recycled industrial steel—invites visitors to move through a maze of beams and silhouettes, where metal, sound, and space converge.
When: 31 October to 30 November 2025, from 9am to 6pm daily
Where: Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-05 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
No registration required
Science Centre Singapore and the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum join forces to host Dinosaurs | Extinctions | Us, an exhibition that transports you to the prehistoric world of Patagonia. At the centre of it is a 40-metre cast of Patagotitan mayorum—one of the largest creatures ever to walk the planet. Alongside it are 33 rare fossils and 60 full-scale models tracing 400 million years of evolution and extinction.
The showcase also turns its gaze to the five mass extinctions that have shaped Earth’s history, and a sixth one that’s currently unfolding before our eyes—including a look at species once native to Singapore. Tickets start at $25.90 and include a complimentary plushie.
When: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 5pm
Where: Science Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre Rd, Singapore 609081
Get your tickets here
Japanese whisky house Nikka Whisky is joining hands with Singapore’s homegrown perfumery Oo La Lab to create a limited olfactory workshop guided by the experts at Oo La Lab. Guests are invited to alchemise their own perfume, drop by drop, based on their interpretation of the Nikka From The Barrel whisky. However, the lab won’t limit you; you’re free to tweak and adjust your scent to your liking, based on over 20 different scents (I think, if my memory serves me right).
Each session not only begins with a welcome cocktail crafted with Nikka From The Barrel, but continues with tastings of Nikka From The Barrel served neat and diluted so guests can explore its base note in detail. But here’s the best part: tickets are priced at SGD98, but everyone gets to bring home a full-sized bottle of Nikka From The Barrel worth SGD85 on top of their personalised perfume. So you’re essentially paying SGD13 for a perfume workshop, which is a BARGAIN. The experience is limited to just 8 sessions for up to 25 participants, so you’ll want to move quick.
When: Thursdays at 6pm, and Saturdays at 2pm
Where: Oo La Lab, 2 Alexandra Rd, #02-04 Delta House, Singapore 159919
Get your tickets here
PREVIOUSLY
Singapore’s last remaining traditional Teochew mansion, The House of Tan Yeok Nee, reopens after careful restoration. Once a private residence, the 19th-century home welcomes the public for the first time in over 140 years. Expect guided tours led by the Society of Tourist Guides, a Teochew Food Festival featuring both heritage and modern dishes—think Chef Ivan Yeo’s braised classics, Ah Ma’s Legacy’s reinvented desserts, and teas from LimCha’s Teahouse Café—and a photography exhibition by the Teochew Sim Clan documenting ancestral roots and vanishing homes.
When: By appointment only
Where: 101 Penang Road, Singapore 238467
Register online for free here
A bold new sub-concept under Ginger.Lily is here. The bar transforms the space into a dedicated cocktail destination, offering guests an experience that blends flavour, culture, and creativity. The bar’s Synaesthesia 2.0 collection pairs each cocktail with a complementary bite, drawing inspiration from flavours such as shiitake mushrooms, tom yum, curry, and pasta.
Guests can enjoy a dedicated bar entrance flowing through a curated cocktail gallery and takeaway counter, while live DJ sets every Friday and Saturday set the tone for lively evenings. The launch week on 5 - 6 September includes guest appearances from Taiwan’s Bar Pine and East End Bar, and the interactive ‘Synaesthesia: Shaken by You’ initiative invites the community to co-create a Cocktail of the Month.
When: Every Friday and Saturday
Where: Hilton Singapore Orchard, 333 Orchard Rd, Level 5, Singapore 238867
Having made its rounds in Paris, London, and Colombia, Jurassic World: The Experience is now stomping its way onto our sunny shores—more specifically, into the cool, lush foliage of the Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay. Expect to encounter towering, lifelike animatronic dinosaurs, such as a roaring Tyrannosaurus emerging from a wreath of mist, or a Stygimoloch attempting to free itself from a freight container. There’s even an 8.5-metre-tall Brachiosaurus ready to greet you, surrounded by 3D replicas of long-extinct plants dating back to the Jurassic period.
Do be warned that the effects are highly realistic, so it’s worth mentally preparing your child if you have one of those. But if they do end up in tears, there are petting stations where baby dinosaurs are ready to sniff their hands and be petted.
When: Now till 31 December 2025, 9am to 9pm daily
Where: Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore 018953
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