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NUS ARTS FESTIVAL CELEBRATES EDUSPORTS (STEPHEN RIADY CENTRE)
Open to all NUS staff and students in 2013, EduSports (now known as the Stephen Riady Centre) is the “happening” new hub where arts and culture, education and sports meet. Featuring an awesome rock-climbing wall and a cool rooftop infinity pool as well as auditoriums, dance studios and orchestra practice rooms, the Stephen Riady Centre is a great addition to the existing learning and residential facilities in NUS and may be the ticket to your total experience of NUS, one you will not forget.
This March, despite the economic weather, NUS Arts Festival offers you not-to-be-missed live performances, film screenings, improv and theatre ABSOLUTELY FREE and we invite one and all to come on over to the Stephen Riady Centre and UTown.
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A Brew of Jazz Tunes
NUS Jazz Band
9 Mar | 7pm | Atrium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission
Hop on for a good time as the band experiments with a whole range of arrangements and improvisations from traditional big band to contemporary compositions. Together with a jazz vocal ensemble, the NUS Jazz Band serves up a potent brew of jazz tunes - swing bebop, fusion, ragtime and soul.
The NUS Jazz Band will present fresh renditions of the jazz standards Lullaby of Birdland and I Could Write A Book, as well as upbeat numbers such as Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry Bout' A Thing.
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Spontaneously Combusting
NUS Stage IMPROVables
9 & 10 Mar | 8pm | Dance Studio, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission
Come down for an evening of entertainment that promises to spark your creative juices! Using suggestions from the audience as a launch pad, the IMPROVables of NUS Stage will create completely fresh and unscripted comic and dramatic scenes which riff upon these suggestions, delving deep into shared experiences and concerns. The spontaneous nature of improvised theatre demands truth but pays it back in spades with relevance and immediacy.
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Nodame Cantabile I
10 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission. Registration required. 
Hideki Takeuchi | Japan | 2009 | 122 mins
PG | Japanese with English subtitles
Nodame Cantabile II
22 Mar | 7.30pm | Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium,
Education Resource Centre
Free admission. Registration required.
Yasuhiro Kawamura, Hideki Takeuchi | Japan | 2010
123 mins | PG | Japanese with English subtitles
Created by Tomoko Ninomiya as a manga, and serialized both as an anime and live action drama series, Nodame Cantabile is the quirky love story of two very opposite people, Megumi noda (Nodame), a talented, lovable but eccentric piano student and the arrogant perfectionist Shinichi Chiaki. The lush score and quaint illuminations of each classical piece in the serials and subsequent films were credited with reawakening interest in classical Western music in Japan.
The star of the movies remains the music itself as Nodame Cantabile offers a spectacular orchestral score, turning movie theatres into virtual concert halls. Throw in plenty of laughs, tears and emotion and you get a spectacular climax to a growing legend that promises to settle once and for all the question of what lies ahead for Nodame and Chiaki.
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NUS CAC Presents
NUS Cultural Activities Sub-clubs
16 Mar | 7pm | Atrium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission
Back again and bigger yet, NUS CAC Presents showcases entertaining acts from six of NUS Student's Cultural Activities Club Sub-clubs at this one-hour performance!
Thrill to the electrifying sounds of Amplified, the campus's very own versatile rock band, and the soothing vocals of Voices. Freewheeling d'Hoppers and Funkstyles bring down da’ house with their cool happy dance moves while the slick Salsa and award-winning Viva Latinus will raise temperatures with their spicy Latin grooves.
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David
17 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Education Resource Centre
Free admission. *Fully Registered*
Joel Fendelman & Patrick Daly | USA | 2011
80 mins | PG | English
There will be a post-show dialogue with writer, producer and co-director, Patrick Daly.
2011 Recipient of the Ecumenical Prize awarded at the Montreal World Film Festival.
One boy. Two faiths. As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, 11 year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father (Maz Jobrani) and his feelings of isolation and difference – even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their orthodox school, in the neighboring Jewish community. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and Yoav, one of the Jewish boys, and his family. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known to the kids, is drawn into a complicated dilemma inspired by youthful deceit and the best of intentions.
More on the film at www.david-themovie.com
Part of the Israeli Film Feast
Presented in collaboration with
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Rockfest 2013: An ExxonMobil Campus Concert Event
NUS Halls of Residence
20 Mar | 7pm | Atrium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission
One of the most anticipated Combined Halls performances will be rocking University Town this March. Look forward to the hottest bands from all six of NUS' NUS Halls of Residence in this sizzling live music treat. Organised by Sheares Hall, this annual student-intitated rock concert will feature talents from Eusoff Hall, Kent Ridge Hall, King Edward VII Hall, Raffles Hall, Sheares Hall and Temasek Hall.
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Dolphin Boy
21 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission. Registration required.
Dani Menkin & Yonatan Nir | Israel | 2011 | 72 mins
PG | Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles
Morad, a teenager from an Arab village in the north of Israel, disconnects himself from humans after experiencing a violent attack. As a last resort before hospitalization in a mental institution, he is taken by his devoted father to be treated with the dolphins in Eilat. Morad starts speaking again after months of silence, but he erases his past and refuses to go home to his waiting mother. Filmed over four years, this documentary traces the devastating havoc that human violence can wreak upon the human soul and the healing powers of nature and of love.
More on the film at www.dolphinboyfilm.com
Part of the Israeli Film Feast
Presented in collaboration with
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Will You Still Love Me If I'm ____?
NUS Stage
21 & 22 Mar | 8pm | Dance Studio, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission
Tickets are available at the door (on a first-come-first-served basis) 1 hour before show time. The audience capacity for the Dance Studio is 100. Alternatively, please email nusstage@gmail.com to reserve tickets which should be collected at the door by 7.45pm.
Man is a social animal, and his need to be loved, a funny, many-faceted thing.
In Jaryl Solomon’s Happy Sons, we follow the bittersweet relationship of a mother and son as she brings him up to navigate school, society, life, love… and coming out. In Gwendolyn Lee’s Two in the Morning, two undergraduates come together in heated discussion about their lives, their hopes and dreams and futures, each other, and why they are not, and simply cannot be, friends anymore.
One usually accepts only the love he feels he deserves… but who’s to say that we don’t all deserve to be loved more than we could ever imagine?
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