Walk Singapore: Bras Basah.Bugis is your essential walking guide to Singapore's arts and cultural precinct of Bras Basah and Bugis. This application will let you find out more about the history and significance of Singapore's national monuments, museums as well as interesting landmarks within the precinct. Learn about museums such as National Museum of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum or find out more about national monuments such as the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator. From museums to national monuments to other landmarks, start your walking trail and discover a treasure-trove of history and culture that awaits you in the Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct.

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Led by a team of enterprising, enthusiastic and passionate walking guides from the Nanyang Technological University's Tourism and Hospitality Management Club, Singapore Footprints promises to be a fun, interactive and experiential walking tour like no other. From the tales of Old Singapore to Modern Singapore, the free guided-tours will uncover many fascinating stories and quirky historical facts as you are guided along the scenic route of the Singapore River and the monumental enclaves of Bras Basah .Bugis Precinct. Come, take a walk with Singapore Footprints and discover of the authentic side of Singapore.

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Located at the atrium of the National Library Building, the Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) Heritage Gallery traces of the history of the precinct and people from the early 1800s and offers visitors an insight on the origins of the National Monuments located within the precinct and the importance they had in serving the ever-growing multicultural communities that had sprung up along with the development of Singapore.. From museums to churches to arts institutions, the gallery will offer visitors a glimpse of this area once known as Commercial Square and its transformation into the present-day bustling and vibrant Arts and Cultural District of Singapore.

NHB's Precinct Development Unit has partnered Nokia to transform Bras Basah and Bugis into Singapore's first NFC enabled precinct! Leveraging on NFC technology, visitors with NFC-enabled smartphones will be able to recall information about the heritage of more than 20 historical landmarks within the precinct by tapping their smartphones on NFC-enabled posters at the Bras Basah and City Hall MRT train stations and/or at NFC-enabled signs at the entrances of these landmarks!

The Bras Basah-Bugis (BBB) Old Schools' Gallery is a partnership with the Singapore Management University (SMU) to raise public awareness and interest in the Bras Basah and Bugis precinct under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's revitalisation plans for the Civic and Cultural District. It features interesting facts and photographs about schools such as Raffles Institution (now Raffles City Shopping Centre), St Josephís Institution (now Singapore Art Museum-SAM) etc. that used to be located in the BBB precinct. Take a walk down memory lane by visiting the gallery located at the Bras Basah-Bugis' underground exit to SMU!

This February, Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct proudly presents the BBB Street Art Project 2012 featuring internationally renowned street artist, Joe Hill, who will be bringing his brand of interactive 3-Dimensional artworks to the Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct. These new artworks are inspired from the heritage and museums of the precinct and promise to a visual spectacle that will be exciting and fun for all ages! Joe will be on-site creating his artwork from 8 - 10 February 2012. The artist currently holds the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest and the World's Longest 3D artwork.

For the months of December 2011 and January 2012, selected buildings in the Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct will be transformed into canvasses for a series of extraordinary and magical light installations and projections.

These installations and projections are the creations of artists, art collectives and arts students located within the precinct. The buildings involved in the festive light up include Singapore Art Museum, SAM at 8Q, National Museum of Singapore, The Peranakan Museum, School of the Arts and the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator.

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The Heritage Along Footpaths project seeks to re-introduce trades that were once common in the past at two designated sites within the Bras Basah and Bugis precinct – the Singapore Art Museum and Stamford Arts Centre (along the mural wall facing Middle Road). At each of the sites, tradesmen that were once commonly found along alleyways or five-foot ways – namely street barbers, cobblers, fortune tellers, ice-ball sellers and kachang puteh sellers – will ply their wares at the prices of yesteryears.

The project will take place over two weekends in December from 3 to 4 December 2011 and 10 to 11 December 2011 from 10am to 5pm each day. For more details of the location, please download the map.

The Balloon Bonanza @ BBB project seeks to showcase accessible, family-friendly, large-scale balloon sculptures at 7 selected sites within the precinct from 12 to 13 November 2011. The seven sites are MICA Building Atrium, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Bugis Junction, Illuma, School of the Arts (SOTA) and National Library.

For more details of the aforementioned sites, please download the map here.

Hub-to-Hub is a public urban art programme, organized by ReallyArchitecture [re:ACT], as part of AUDE Programme by URA. It brings together creative talents in Singapore and around the world, to provide alternative ideas of public space to enliven the city's forgotten urban spaces. Artists, architects, designers, and professionals of diverse disciplines collaborate in developing 7 temporary installations in Bras Basah and Bugis.

For more information, please go to www.hubtohub.sg.

Be dazzled by this nine-evening outdoor showcase of spectacular light installations from France. Encounter these intriguing works as you enter the Bras Basah cultural precinct at SAM, School of the Arts (SOTA), Singapore Management University (SMU) and National Museum of Singapore (NMS). Revel into the night with an array of weekend activities including a flea market, film screenings, a chic thumping Parisian club party, a fun new media installation and, of course, exhibitions at the museums. Night Lights is presented by the Singapore Art Museum as part of Night Festival 2011.

Voyage Night Festival 2011 is an evocation of the spirit behind journeys of departures, arrivals, landings; of passages, pilgrimages, inter-marriages encountered in sound, movement and images.

Voyage remembers the spirit of our forefathers from Asia and Europe who have landed in Singapore giving us legacies that have enriched Singapore. The NHB museums, located at the heart of the Bras Basah Bugis Cultural District is home to many ethnic minorities - Eurasians, Jews, Armenians and many more - welcome all Singapore to embark on a musical voyage under the stars.

Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries, the third Singapore Biennale, titled 'Open House', will be open to the public from 13 March to 15 May 2011. Over half of the artists are creating new commissions or premiering new works.

'Open House' is presented across four exhibition venues, each with their own particular character, that draw upon emblematic spaces in Singapore.

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