Foreword 2025, Literary Arts Performance Festival


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Let's go to the event Foreword 2025, a literary arts performance festival!
Keyword: spoken word, poetry reading, jazz, just chilling out
https://www.esplanade.com/whats-on/festivals-and-series/free-programmes/2025/foreword/snow-ocean-flower-performance-cum-dialogue#synopsis
An emerging singer-songwriter/ poet/ writer group Chelle & Ailouros (@chelle_ailouros) presents original songs and multilingual poetry of coming-of-age in Singapore and Australia, and life in Japan.
Enjoy original and improvised music tapestries of nature and culture, and go behind-the-scenes on their collaboration with dialogue and demonstration.
Get insights on the confluence of language, identity, family and universal human experience from their cross-genre work.
Be first to catch the premiere of the poem ‘The Ocean Blue’ (蔚蓝的海洋), written and performed in English, Mandarin and Teochew by poet Michelle C (@michellecsingsjazz), with Mandarin translation by Christina Ng and music by composers Eugene Ang and Alvin Wong.
What to do:
- Self introduction
- Watch Chelle & Ailouros' performance
- Maybe have some drinks and snacks afterwards?
Language:
- English
Note:
- Michelle C is the co-organizer of Living Well with Arts group.
- I will be taking a video of Chelle & Ailouros' performance. I apologize in advance, if I am not talkative during the show!

Foreword 2025, Literary Arts Performance Festival