Enter a New World at Night Festival

Enter a New World at Night Festival

INSTEAD of shooting moving targets such as rubber ducks in an amusement park, visitors will be "shot" at in the Abusement Park.

The Abusement Park, an interactive display by Singapore art trio Vertical Submarine, which "tortures" visitors and encourages them to laugh at themselves, will be up at the National Museum during the Night Festival: New World 2010.

The festival, which is in its third year, will be held on July 16 and 17, from 7.30pm to 2am. During these times, admission to the National Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Peranakan Museum and The Substation will be free.

Shows will be held at eight sites in the Bras Basah area. The area from the National Museum to Fort Canning Green will be lit and transformed into an entertainment arena, with acts from the 1960s, modern entertainment and futuristic shows.

This year's theme was inspired by amusement parks of the 1960s, such as New World. The festival will showcase the arts, sports and entertainment that made up nightlife in the past, and aims to change the perception that nightlife here revolves solely around partying.

Ms Lee Chor Lin, the director of the National Museum, said: "In many ways, the 1960s was representative of an era of entertainment in Singapore's past a decade that saw us through our independence. People were not wealthy then, but they sure had a good time."

-News courtesy of Omy-