What is the spirit of that which lives on the streets? On The Substation Theatre’s last night of operations, organiser Salty Xi Jie Ng hosts a cosy celebration of the outsider spirit via busker/artist Roy Payamal. Roy’s artistic history is intertwined with The Substation’s. One of Singapore’s first street performers, he started Singapore’s first juggling club at The Substation Garden.
Street Found is a 48-page collection of Roy’s philosophical outsider poetry, drawings, and iPhone photos of shapes found in street corners. He contemplates everyday life, busking and art: from Ah Bengs and Ang Mo Kio St 12 laksa to his busking trishaw and a baby’s inner life in the womb.
This one-and-final-night-event features: readings from Street Found by fellow artists; Shears, a movement performance art piece by Roy Payamal; Busking Tree, a short film by Zai Kuning which chronicles Roy during early lockdown days; Kite Light, White Tide, Hide, a film by Salty Xi Jie Ng about Roy’s poem of the same name. This will be followed by a dialogue session with Roy and Salty Xi Jie Ng (editor/producer of Street Found).
Poem readers across the two shows include: Kai Lam, Balakrishnan Matchap, Geraldine Schubert, Vivien Goh, Marla Bendini, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Kai Emmanuel Kuah, Amanda Lee Koe, Kirsten Tan, and Shaiful Risan
VENUE: The Substation (Theatre)
ADDRESS: 45 Armenian St, Singapore 179936
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook, Eventbrite (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
18 Jul 2021, 6.30pm-8pm and 9pm-10.30pm, $22 / $40