Nightlife SG: GRYFFIN Asia Tour 2024, Plus 9 Hot Events

Get ready for a Tasmanian takeover in Singapore! On Apr. 4 and 5, 2025, Little Farms and Trade Tasmania are teaming up to bring the island’s finest and freshest produce to the Lion City with Taste Tasmania!

Kick things off on Apr. 4 at Little Farms Table, Tanglin Mall, the neighborhood’s beloved market and café, where a specially curated dinner (from 5 PM) will spotlight Tasmania’s seasonal organic treasures. 

For S$88++ per person, savor dishes like miso-glazed Three Friends Abalone with shimeji mushrooms and ikura, or Tasmanian Lamb Barbacoa slow-cooked with Bruny Island Whey Stout, served with warm tortillas. End on a sweet note with a Storm & India Matcha Burnt Cheesecake paired with Granny Smith apple compote.

On Apr. 5 from 10 AM to 3 PM, head to Little Farms Market in Serangoon Garden for the Taste Tasmania Food & Wine Fair. Sample and shop premium Tasmanian treats, including artisan wines from Haddow & Dineen, Bruny Island Cheese Co.’s award-winning cheeses, and craft beers from Bruny Island Beer Co.

Discover organic teas from Storm & India, pure sea salt from Tasman Sea Salt, and the island’s iconic Leatherwood Honey.

Whether you’re feasting on fine dishes or filling your pantry with gourmet finds, Taste Tasmania offers a delicious escape to one of the world’s most celebrated food regions — right here in Singapore.

Bookings for Little Farms Table's Taste Tasmania Dinner can be made here.  

For more information, visit Little Farms on their website, Facebook and Instagram. 

Location: Tanglin Mall, 163 Tanglin Rd, Singapore

Opening Hours: Mondays to Fridays 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM and 5 PM to 9:30 PM, Saturdays to Sundays from 7:30 AM to 9:30 PM

This May, escape into Asia’s most beautiful open-air cinema and enjoy a good drink and great company over an exciting movie surrounded by golden hour views.  

Hendrick’s Sunset Cinema is making a return with a brand-new lineup of screenings featuring a selection of award-winning films that make up the perfect cinematic escape — on the beach! From May 8 to 25, Sentosa’s Tanjong Beach turns into a gorgeous open cinema serving not only exciting movies but also cocktails and vibin’ music, making it the perfect place to unwind with friends or plan a swoon-worthy date night with your loved ones. 

What to Expect?

Gates open at 5:30 PM, giving you two hours to enjoy a little soiree with friends before the movie officially begins. There will also be a DJ to kick off the summer vibes, a fully-stocked bar, and food stalls where you can buy something to munch on for the film. You can also opt to enjoy a special dinner menu prepared by the newly renovated Tanjong Beach Club.

The enchanting palm tree-lined shores are laid out with comfortable deck chairs where you can lounge on for the duration of the show. We encourage you to come early as seating allocation is general admission. You can choose your seat once you arrive and reserve your preferred spot with their special reserved sign. And if you’re worried that it’ll be too noisy to enjoy a movie in this setting, wireless headphones will be provided so you can be sure to have that immersive silent cinema experience. 

Tickets can be purchased via their Film Programs page and go for S$44.80. This already includes entry to the event, a Hendrick’s Gin cocktail (or 2x non-alcoholic drinks), your own deck chair, use of wireless headphones, and access to shuttle buses from the event to Harbourfront MRT. Tickets can also be bought at the event’s entrance but are subject to availability. 

Movie Schedule

This exciting sunset cinema event has prepared a lineup of start-studded films for your viewing pleasure. From new releases to Oscar-winning classics, here are the films you can enjoy:

• May 8 – “The Substance”
• May 9 – “Lee”
• May 10 – “Better Man”
• May 11 – “We Live in Time”
• May 15 – “A New Kind of Wilderness”
• May 16 – “Conclave”
• May 17 – “Piece by Piece”
• May 18 – “Gladiator II”
• May 22 – “Didi”
• May 23 – “Better Man”
• May 24 – “Wicked”
• May 25 – “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”

For updates, follow Hendrick’s Sunset Cinema on Facebook and Instagram.

Location: 120 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa, Singapore 098942

Date: May 8 to 25, 2025 

Time: Gates open at 5:30 PM. Movies start at 7:45 PM

Admission: S$44.80 (Buy Tickets here)

Singapore's hottest music and arts festival, Sunda Festival, is back from Apr. 17-19, 2025! This electrifying festival is bringing two days of non-stop music, stunning visuals, and pure festival energy with a lineup of regional and international DJs, including Mogwaa, Danilo Plessow, Chucheewa, and La Mamie's. 

The 2025 Edition of Sunda Festival is bigger than ever! Beyond the music, expect an exciting program of wellness, creative, and family-friendly activities, including cold immersion therapy, qi gong, body rhythm workshops, and neon chess. Plenty of local and international food vendors will offer small bites as well such as hotdogs and plant-based treats by Oatly. 

And here's the best part— YOU have a chance to be a part of this amazing energy for free! This year, we are partnered with Sunda Festival to give away a pair of Two-Day Festival Passses (two tickets), valued at SG$320. 

Here's How to Enter our Sunda Festival Giveaway:

1. Subscribe to our Singapore newsletters and look out for our emails from Monday, March 24 to Monday, April 7, 2025 (Tip: We will be sending out 3 emails). Sign up to our mailing list here.

2. To submit your entry, fill out a quick form by clicking the special link in any of the newsletters sent to you during the giveaway period (Monday, March 24 to Monday, April 7, 2025). Make sure you use an eligible email!

3. The giveaway will end on Monday, April 7 and one winner will be announced on Tuesday, April 8 so be sure to subscribe & fill out the form to enter! Check your email for updates and don't forget your spam/junk folder! 

BONUS: Follow The Beat Singapore and Sunda Festival's Instagram and give our giveaway post a like for an extra entry.

We're thrilled and excited to see one of Singapore's biggest festivals come to life! 

Dreamed up in 2019 and launched in 2023, Sunda Festival is the brainchild of Singapore's Ice Cream Sundays and Hong Kong's FuFu Creative, the organizers behind Shi Fu Miz, created to unite the region's best artists and talents in a nature-immersed setting. 

The name "Sunda" comes from the Sunda Plate, which is a tectonic plate that connects Southeast Asia and parts of Asia, embodying the connection between people, music, and nature. 

With Sunda 2025 falling on a public holiday weekend, expect fresh experiences and non-stop good vibes! 

Good luck to all participants, and we can't wait to reveal the winners via email! T&Cs apply. 

Terms & Conditions: 

• Giveaway period: Monday, Mar. 24 to Apr. 7, 2025.
• No purchases necessary to enter or win.
• Only open to Singaporean residents and participants must be at least 18 years or older.
• Participants must be subscribed to The Beat Asia’s newsletters and filled out the special form to be eligible to win.
• In case of any disputes, The Beat Asia reserves the right of final decision. 

Calling all culture enthusiasts! Singapore’s premier performing arts festival is returning bigger and bolder than ever for its 48th edition. 

The annual Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) will be returning from May 16 to June 1, 2025, with the theme More Than Ever. This year marks the 48th edition of the popular performing arts festival in Singapore and is set to present a dynamic line-up highlighting Singapore’s cultural vitality and boldness in defining its present and vision for the future. 

The 2025 edition will also feature its largest showcase of homegrown talent with 15 commissioned local works, the festival’s highest number in history, and will establish Singapore as a prominent city for the arts.

Festival director Natalie Hennedige reflected on the theme “More Than Ever” and said, “In a world afflicted with the rhetoric of divide, More Than Ever, we need to resist limiting binaries and relate to each other in nuance.”

The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) 2025

From May 16 to June 1, 2025, the festival will feature the SIFA Pavilion at Bedok Town Square, which was created to foster collaboration, shared creation, and gathering through the conduit of arts performance. 

Some of the works to be featured include the SIFA’s opening performance of “The Sea and the Neighbourhood” featuring visual artist Wang Ruobin, composer Philip Tan, choreographer Christina Chan with the Singapore Ballet, and video artist Brian Gothong Tan. This artwork is curated by SIFA and is described as “capturing the ebb and flow of Singapore’s collective past, present, and future.” 

Another to be featured at the SIFA Pavilion is “hello, is this working?” by the Singapore theatre company Drama Box. Building from their work-in-progress show from last year’s SIFA, this interactive work invites audiences to reflect on the future of work and challenge societal narratives about labor. 

Visitors and enthusiasts can look forward to local adaptations of international classics, such as The Finger Player’s adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” a contemporary reimagining of the Shakespearean classic “King Lear” by Ramesh Meyyappan, and more. 

Visitors can also relive the history of Singapore, with the 60th birthday of the Lion City coming closer, through a multi-sensorial performance titled “Umbilical”, by artists Rizman Putra, Zul Mahmod, and thesupersystem, which tells the stories of people who lived through the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965. 

Other homegrown talent commissions include “Waiting For Audience” by Nine Years Theatre, which was also presented as a work-in-progress in SIFA 2024, and presents the enduring vitality of theatre as an ancient art form; “COLONY – A True Colors Project,” a dance production directed by Remesh Panicker featuring 13 dancers from Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan. The production explores diversity and “celebrates the individual within an interconnected, inclusive 'colony' of souls.” 

“PRISM 48,” a conversation series curated by writer, editor, and producer Hong Xinyi, is also featured by the festival. It explores and reflects on the multifaceted perspectives that shape Singapore’s evolving cultural identity that is anchored on shared arts and culture. This series will also include a range of thinkers and cultural advocates that will touch on topics like “What Difference Can Singapore Storytelling Make?”

The Singapore International Festival of Arts 2025 will also feature international works, such as “HOME” by Geoff Sobelle, “Told By Mother” by Ali Chahrour, and “Vampyr” by Manuela Infante. 

Little SIFA also makes a return for the 2025 edition, offering a curated series of family-friendly programmes by homegrown talents for two weekends and featuring diverse art forms. These include “The House Between the Winds” by Singaporean artist Yang Jie and a 30-minute performance of The Finger Player’s “Animal Farm” adaptation. 

Much like its first iteration, Little SIFA aims to expose children to these artworks and to engage them with Singapore’s vibrant art landscapes at a young age through a range of activities and performances. 

Early bird tickets for SIFA 2025 are now available from Mar. 11 to April 14, 2025, giving a 20% discount for SIFA-goers. You can buy the tickets on the SIFA 2025 website, Phone Booking, and BookMyShow. 

For more updates, visit the Singapore International Festival of Arts website, Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), and Instagram pages. 

Happy 70th birthday to Nijntje, the little bunny we all love!

In celebration of her 70th birthday, Miffy has been holding different celebrations all around the globe – Singapore included! Miffy will be visiting the Lion City from Mar. 14 to May 12, 2025, for a delightful adventure and fun-filled experience for everyone.

But first, who is Miffy?

Miffy is a mouth-less, little white rabbit created by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, and was “born” in 1955. She was originally drawn like a fluffy toy with floppy ears, but from 1963 onwards, she became the Miffy that now know today – with her ears and little black eyes drawn with minimalistic black graphic lines. 

In Dutch, she is known as Nijntje, from the Dutch word konijntje meaning “little bunny.” 

Miffy’s Garden at Changi Airport

Landing in a giant hot air balloon, join Miffy on an adventure in a charming spring garden! Take unforgettable photos, bring home Miffy merchandise, and get premium Changi-Miffy premiums from Mar. 14 to May 12, 2025! 

Miffy’s Playground

Children can bounce, slide, and have a fun time with Miffy and Friends at Miffy’s Playground! It’s a giant inflatable ball pit with a two-meter slide that’s sure to give the young ones a fun-filled time!

To get a pass, every S$50 (S$80 at Supermarket) spent at participating outlets in Changi Airport’s public areas (T1-T4, excluding Jewel Changi Airport) will allow you to redeem one discounted Activity Pass to Miffy’s Playground at just S$5!

Direct passes are also available at S$15 per Activity Pass. Accompany Adult passes are also available for S$10 per Activity Pass. 

Redeem a Miffy’s Playground Pass here.

Location: T3 Public, Level 2, Departure Hall, opposite Check-in Row 11

Operating Hours: 5 PM to 10 PM (Fridays), 12 PM to 10 PM (Weekends, School Holidays, Public Holidays)

Duration: 30 minutes (including briefing)

Miffy Photo Spots

Dive into the storybook world of Miffy and Friends and capture the childlike joy and wonder in pictures! Photo spots include Miffy’s Garden (T3 Departures), Miffy’s Hangout (T3 Basement 2), Miffy at ST3PS, and Miffy’s Home (T2 Departures).

Don’t miss out on the chance to score exclusive Miffy merch at the Miffy pop-up stores located in several locations around Changi Airport.

Celebrate Miffy’s 70th birthday and join in the fun with Miffy and Friends!

For more information and updates, follow Changi Airport on their Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), and Instagram pages!

Locations: Terminal 3: Level 2 Departure Hall, Basement 2 (Opposite Kopitiam), Basement 2 (Beside Swensen’s), Terminal 2: Level 2 (Beside Kenangan Coffee), Terminal 4: Level 2 (Beside Starbuck’s)

Opening Hours: 10 AM to 10 PM daily