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Multi-sport events in Singapore; Specific festivals: Asian Festival of Children's Content; i Light Marina Bay; Singapore Arts Festival; Singapore Fashion Festival; Singapore Fireworks Celebrations; Singapore Food Festival; Singapore Garden Festival; Singapore International Film Festival; Singapore International Photography Festival; Singapore's ...
The National Day Parade (NDP) is an annual parade held in Singapore to commemorate its independence. Held annually on 9 August, it is the main public celebration of National Day, and consists of a parade incorporating contingents of the Singapore Armed Forces, Ministry of Home Affairs, local institutions and community groups, followed by a cultural presentation featuring music, dance displays ...
The first National Day Rally was held on 8 August 1966 at the National Theatre.A closed-door event before National Day, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew told grassroots leaders, "Every year, on this 9th August for many years ahead—how many, I do not know—we will dedicate ourselves anew to consolidate ourselves to survive; and, most important of all, to find an enduring future for what we have ...
National Day, [a] sometimes known internationally as Singapore Independence Day, [b] is a major public holiday in Singapore which commemorates an independent and sovereign Republic of Singapore. Held on 9 August since 1965 , this holiday features the National Day Parade (NDP), a National Day Message by the Prime Minister of Singapore and ...
Screen Singapore was a film festival in Singapore held from 1 August 2005 to 31 August 2005, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the independence of Singapore, to celebrate the heritage of Singaporean cinema from pre-independence days to the present.
Singapore's first public LGBTQ+ pride festival, IndigNation, took place during the month of August in 2005, [1] with a second annual IndigNation in August 2006. [citation needed] Previous gay celebrations, exemplified by the Nation parties held annually in Singapore since 2001, were private commercial events held for LGBTQ+ recreation, but were also socio-political statements of significance ...
Channel 8 began its test transmissions on Saturday, 31 August 1963, Malaysia's national day (at the time known as Solidarity Day). [2] Its first day consisted of a Hokkien film, the tamil film Naan Petra Selvam, repeats of India's participation in the South East Asian Cultural Festival and Singapore Celebrates. [3]
The 2019 Chingay was purposed to commemorate Singapore's Bicentennial [21] such that understanding of the island nation's history expanded beyond marking 200 years of Sir Stamford Raffles' arrival on the shores of Singapore in 1819 [22] to a beginning that was even earlier at 1299 when the Kingdom of Singapura (also known as Temasek) was ...