Events
Be captivated by Jack & Rai
Let Singapore’s favourite acoustic pop/rock duo Jack & Rai ease away your Monday blues with their husky voices, and sing along to popular songs and classics in the comfort of IKEA’s bedroom furniture.
Date and time: August 27, 7pm-8pm
Venue: IKEA Alexandra
Price: Free
Fun with Linoleum Block Printing
Thinking about picking up a craft? Then try your hand at linoleum block printing, which requires cutting a pattern or design on a linoleum surface, covering it with ink and then pressing it onto paper or fabric. This course will teach you about the art form, which dates back to the early 1900s and composition, colours, lines and textures. You’ll get to produce a print of your own too.
Date and time: Aug 27 - Sep 24, every Monday
Venue: LASALLE College of the Arts
Price: $300. Call Sharina M Salim at 6496 5066 or email shortcourses@lasalle.edu.sg for more info.
Turn your living room into a gym at IKEA
Sweat it out with fitness instructors and learn how to keep fit in your living room using IKEA’s Furniture!
Date and time: August 27, 8pm-9pm
Venue: IKEA Tampines
Price: Free
We Make Luxury Accessible
Get your luxury shopping done during lunchtime as members-only discount website Reebonz pops up in the CBD area to offer up to 80 per cent discounts on brands and bags. The items for sale change each day according to a theme, too. OCBC customers get additional discounts.
Date and time: Aug 27 - 29, 9am - 3pm
Venue: OCBC Centre @ Raffles Place
Price: Free. Log on to www.reebonz.com.sg for more.
Ben & Jerry’s Chunkfest
Celebrate peace, love and ice cream with Ben & Jerry’s at their fifth Chunkfest. Come down in your beach wear to try 20 different Ben & Jerry’s flavours, with 15 specially flown in for the festival. Chunkfest is also where you’ll get to have a sneak preview of a new flavour that will only be launched in September. If you think you’ve got the stomach for it, grab three friends and join the ‘Vermonster’ eating challenge, to be the fastest to devour 20 scoops of Ben & Jerry’s!
Date and time: August 25, 2pm-10pm
Venue: Sentosa Siloso Beach
Price: Free
Movie night at ION Orchard
It's ION Orchard’s monthly free movie night again. This Saturday, American sci-fi western flick Cowboys & Aliens will be screened on ION’s giant LED façade. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde, this adaptation of a 2006 graphic novel has all the elements of old-school westerns: the outlaw, the sheriff, the love interest, gunslinging fight scenes – with the addition of alien attacks.
Date and time: August 25, 10pm
Venue: ION Orchard
Price: Free
Soul Rhumba with Matteblacc and Aidan Bamrah
Let your hair down and dance away to Afro Funk, Cuban Jazz and Latin Salsa classics at the Loof's first-ever Soul Rhumba night. Join this rooftop party for funky beats, Latin-themed concoctions and the chance to get into rhumba with Loof this Saturday.
Date and Time: August 25, from 10pm to 2am
Venue: Loof, 331 North Bridge Road #03-07, Odeon Towers Extension Rooftop, S188720
Prices: Admission is free. RSVP at the event page here.
Alemay Fernandez & Richard Jackson
Looking for a way to jazz up your weekend? Hit up the Sultan Jazz club for a soulful night of smooth velvety jazz standards and some scatting from vocalists Alemay Fernandez and Richard Jackson. For reservations, please text 9173 3281.
Date and time: August 24 & 25, 9.30pm
Venue: Sultan Jazz Club, 64 Aliwal Street
Price: $20
Build it – Fast!
Want to know how easy it is to assemble IKEA furniture? Follow the simple set-up instructions and build something under 60 seconds to win a prize.
Date and time: August 24, 1pm-3pm (Tampines), 12pm-2pm or 9pm-11pm (Alexandra)
Venue: IKEA Alexandra and Tampines
Price: Free
Fall in love with Jai Wahab
Unwind after a long week of work and relax with celebrated singer-songwriter and producer Jai, who will serenade popular love songs in this intimate one-hour acoustic performance in our cosy IKEA bedroom.
Date and time: August 24, 8pm-9pm
Venue: IKEA Alexandra
Price: Free
