Simmering in disappointment over the extension of the existing social distancing measures? Channel that energy into a walk.

Non-profit art space Grey Projects has organised a series of walks that will take place over the next four Saturdays. Titled Walk Walk Don’t Run, this initiative is an island-wide open studio walk seeking to build informal and spontaneous conversations between the artists/designers/creatives that run the studios and the public.

In other words, instead of going to the usual exhibition and just passively looking at artworks, Walk Walk Don’t Run is more of an opportunity to spend time with the artists and designers behind the artworks to find out more about their thought processes and ideas.

This is a rare opportunity, especially with so many different studios participating – so much so that each walk focuses on a particular area: north, east, west and central Singapore. Check out the full list and maps of participating studios here.

October 23, October 30, November 6 and November 13, at various locations 

Singapore’s first and longest-running student-led film initiative is back. Now in its 14th year, Perspectives Film Festival opens October 21 with a theme of ‘What The __?!’ (It’s meant to be open-ended and audiences are invited to interpret the theme to their own ends – or project onto it.)

There are a total of nine award-winning works that cover multiple genres (read: there’s something for every filmgoer), several of which are rare vintage pieces that have been restored, such as the animated Belladonna of Sadness (1973) and the Polish sci-fi gem On the Silver Globe (1988).

Other films will be making their Singapore premieres, such as the intriguing musical-meets-psycho drama Annette (2021), which served as Cannes Film Festival’s opener earlier this year and stars Marion Cotillard and Adam as an opera singer and stand-up comedian who fall in love, only for things to take on a darker twist later on.

Like many events, Perspectives Film Festival will be offering both physical and online screenings – check out the full line-up here.

October 21 to October 31

While we are now allowed to travel to certain locations freely, how does a trip to Mars sound? The ongoing Archifest 2021 is proposing more than 50 virtual exhibits to complement its offline offerings and there are many gems to be uncovered. The virtual exhibits are broadly divided into two categories, namely Singapore Through My Eyes and Evident By Design.

Singapore Through My Eyes is a compilation of projects by local storytellers and artists as they make sense of, grasp and represent the world around them. How can we learn from these viewpoints to fuse them into future designs? It may sound corny to some but it’s a genuinely rich compendium of stories of and from many perspectives, including the elderly, futuristic re-imaginations of iconic buildings like Golden Mile Complex, and Singapore’s forgotten spaces.

On the other hand, Evident By Design adopts a more design-focused lens to uncover evidence of how architects and designers turn aspiration into powerful design responses. In architecture firm Hassell’s virtual exhibit, for instance, the audience is brought to a future where humans are already living on Mars.

The latter is Hassell’s entry to NASA’s international 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, where they’ve aimed to infuse a more human element (through a series of inflatable ​‘pods’ containing everything for work and life on Mars) to space design, which is typically all about maximum efficiency and performance.

Intrigued? Check out all the virtual exhibits here.

On now till October 31