Singapore Garden Festival 2018 - Showcase of Flowers & Gardens

Asia’s premier tropical garden and flower show is returning for its seventh edition from 21 July to 03 August 2018 at Gardens by the Bay. With more than 70 garden and floral displays at The Meadow, Flower Dome and the Supertree Grove, SGF 2018 will mesmerise, surprise and wow visitors...

Promising a visual fiesta of exquisite garden and floral displays, this year’s SGF will feature a host of exhibits and activities including:

• Fantasy and Landscape Show Gardens featuring approximately 80 sqm creations by top award-winning gardening luminaries from around the world. This year’s festival will feature landscape and garden designers from Australia, France, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Innovative use of structures to create interest and perspective... 

Look out for the little props used - They may just pop out and surprise you!

• Floral Windows to the World featuring colourful and vibrant cut-flower displays and floral masterpieces with stunning set design and lighting by notable floral designers from around the world. This year’s festival will welcome master floral artists from Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Romania, Singapore, South Korea and Spain. 

• Balcony Gardens featuring colourful and inspirational displays for home and apartment owners. Visitors can see how these designers transform 3m by 3m spaces into a soothing retreat.

Balcony Gardens can be a relaxing haven for adults...

Or a cartoon-themed play area for kids...

  

• Orchid Extravaganza in Flower Dome showcasing the world’s largest family of flowering plants. Orchids are a significant part of Singapore’s heritage and this year’s orchid display will see award-winning Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan providing the creative concept and direction.

Set against a Peranakan backdrop typical of shophouses in Joo Chiat and Katong...

Orchids galore...

Colourful traditional Peranakan-themed icons include beaded slippers, trishaws, teapots...

Tiffin carriers and colourful tiled floors... 

• ASEAN Garden, a special feature to mark Singapore’s chairmanship of ASEAN in 2018. ASEAN Garden will showcase a myriad of colourful blossoms symbolic of Southeast Asian nations, including lotuses, hibiscuses and orchids, just to name a few.

The Mountains & Vanda Valley...

   

• Other stunning displays by NParks, a series of gardens with different themes featuring plants such as fragrant flowering edibles and plants with visually cool colours and pleasant scents.

The fun Flower Field with gnomes playing in a child's playground...

• Landscape Design Challenge where 12 teams of students will transform 3m by 3m empty spaces into a garden within the span of four hours.

• Gardeners’ Cup a friendly competition where 60 groups of community gardeners will be split into five teams to compete for the best show garden.

Several entries for the International Floral Design Competition came with self-composed poems...

• A Vibrant Marketplace with over 100 booths offering food and beverages, plants, botanical resources, and arts and crafts for sale. Visitors can also look forward to performances by local musicians.

Be awed by the grandeur of the Landscape Gardens...

• Other favourites include more stunning displays, the Learning Garden, displays by the Floral Designers Society (Singapore), Singapore Penjing & Stone Appreciation Society and Singapore Gardening Society, as well as various educational talks.

One of the Learning Garden exhibits which shows samples plants with seeds
that dispersed through different ways, e.g. water, wind, explosive....

For more information, visit www.singaporegardenfestival.com or follow us at www.facebook.com/SGGardenFest and www.instagram.com/SGGardenFest.

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Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes

From 9 June 2018, Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes exhibition will be transporting visitors into the dynamic Marvel Cinematic Universe as they re-live a decade of epic Marvel Studios moments. Visitors can look forward to experiencing Marvel Studios’ storytelling as they wander through the inner sanctums of Iron Man’s Stark Tower, witness the spectacular sights of Wakanda, traverse Doctor Strange’s light portal, see the world through the eyes of Ant-Man and the Wasp, and more.

Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes exhibition is part of a three-year collaboration between Singapore Tourism Board and The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia to bring unique and fun thematic events to Singapore. With ten themed sections, Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes begins at the first gallery space by presenting MARVEL films that have been released over the last decade. Visitors will have the opportunity to relive key moments from all 19 MARVEL movies. The second gallery shines a spotlight on the beloved Iron Man, a key character in this year’s highest-grossing movie Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War. Visitors will enter Stark Tower and head into Tony Stark’s workshop where they can witness the evolution of armors of Iron Man via projection mapping. 

The story of the First Avenger Captain America and his shields will be shared via 3D holograms in the third zone. Taking a scene from Marvel’s The Avengers, visitors will also be able to view a model of the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier. Visitors will then be transported into the fourth exhibition gallery of Thor’s world via the Bifrost. They will be led into Sakaar’s magnificent gladiator arena where they can be part of the iconic battle between Thor and Hulk in Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok.

The battle ends as visitors head to the fifth area of the exhibition where they enter Yondu’s ship from Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and attempt to avoid Yondu’s flying arrow. As part of the exhibition experience, museum goers can interact and dance with baby Groot via digital screens. Transitioning into the sixth gallery, the exhibition proceeds with the mystic environment of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange. Visitors will be transported to the New York Sanctum Sanctorum as seen in the film, while interactive displays will allow them to bend reality or create portals.

The Panther cave welcomes visitors into the seventh exhibition gallery and they can enter the futurist utopia of Wakanda. The eighth zone introduces the ant-sized/microscopic world of Scott Lang/Ant-Man. Oversized props amidst lab equipment in an area inspired by Hank Pym’s lab from the new film Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man & The Wasp will be located in this gallery.  

In the ninth gallery, visitors will be able to activate the mad titan, Thanos’ infinity gauntlet. Each of the known Infinity Stones will be introduced and activated in an interactive display. The exhibition culminates with the tenth gallery where visitors can ‘step’ on the icon of their favorite Super Hero with the use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology and watch specially created animation appear on the screen. While the visitors are leaving they can pose with their favorite Super Hero in the Marvel Studios’ 10th anniversary class photograph.

Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes is developed by The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and Beast Kingdom; organised by SPACElogic and supported by Singapore Tourism Board, ArtScience Museum and Victory Hill Exhibitions. 

Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes will also include engaging displays curated by ArtScience Museum, which highlight the science, technology, art and cultural stories behind each Marvel Studios’ film. Visitors to the exhibition will be treated to interesting fun facts such as the Norse mythology in the Thor movies and how real life scientists have created artificial elements comparable to the one created by Tony Stark. Inspired by the geometry and tessellating imagery that result from Doctor Strange’s reality bending, one of M.C. Escher’s most famous works - his lithograph Convex and Concave (1955) which illustrates the principles of tessellating imagery will be on display in this exhibition.

Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes exhibition will run from 9 June till 30 September 2018.  Tickets are now available at all Marina Bay Sands Singapore box offices and website. Tickets prices are as follow:

	STANDARD TICKET (SGD)	SINGAPORE RESIDENT (SGD)
Adult	19	16
Senior (65 years and above)/ Student/ Child (2-12 years)	14	12
Family package (2 kids & 2 adults)	54	45

For more information, please visit www.marvelexhibition.sg

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