HOMEGROUND: A Singapore HeritageFest Experience

25 - 25 May • 10:00am

Explore Singapore’s living heritage at HOMEGROUND: A Singapore HeritageFest Experience! Visit the month-long exhibition at Silver Garden and enjoy weekend highlights like cultural performances, hands-on workshops, heritage food booths, and retail experiences.

Creative Hub at Peranakan Museum

Get hands-on at Creative Hub @ Peranakan Museum, a month-long showcase of Singapore’s living heritage through workshops and sharing sessions throughout the weekends in May. Learn heritage practices such as jamu-making, tea brewing, calligraphy, flower tying, and more – led by the communities who keep these traditions alive.

Out of the Red Box

16 - 17 May • 08:00pm

17 - 18 May • 03:00pm

Where Getai meets Teochew opera, tradition dances with contemporary beats. Experience a vibrant performance at Kreta Ayer People's Theatre that reimagines Singapore's rich cultural tapestry.

Malay Maritime Heritage and Identity in a Changing Singapore - Continuity and Evolution

18 May • 02:00pm

This Seminar explores memory, identity, continuity and evolution, and the documentation and revival of aspects of Malay maritime heritage in Singapore. Four panellists discuss place histories and architecture, maritime-oriented culinary traditions and knowledges, sea sports and boat building, and social memory.

The In-Kueh-Dible Rainbow Ondeh Ondeh workshop

1, 4, 10 - 11, 18 May • 11:00am

Join us in this In-Kueh-Dible hands-on experience, where you and your little ones get to create your very own rainbow ondeh ondeh!

Malay Kampong Heritage Tour

10 - 11, 17 - 18 May • 10:00am

Experience Pulau Ubin's last surviving Malay kampong through the eyes of a local descendant, exploring the island's rich cultural heritage and community stories.

Chutty-making Workshop

1 May • 02:00pm

Discover the art of chutty-making—the distinctive white 3D chin structure essential to Kathakali performers—at SG HeritageFest! Under the guidance of Sadanam Vivek, craft your own mask using traditional techniques, gaining insight into this vital element of one of India's most expressive living performance traditions.

Sweet Hainanese Endings with Yong, The Urbanist Singapore

25 May • 03:00pm

Savour the evolving flavours of Hainanese culinary heritage through iconic desserts and personal stories at Margaret Drive Marketplace.

Silambam Workshop

4, 11, 18 May • 02:00pm

Unleash your inner warrior and explore Silambam, a dynamic martial art that embodies Singapore's living cultural heritage.