Get ready to immerse yourself in ISLAND NIGHTS at Singapore Night Festival 2025! Discover the vibrant line-up and get your first look at the upcoming highlight experiences, art installations, stunning projection mapping, and programmes at the night festival!
Singapore Night Festival 2025: Island Nights
Singapore Night Festival 2025 will take place from 22 August to 6 September 2025. This marks the first year that Night Fest is led by HeritageSG, a subsidiary of the National Heritage Board (NHB) that reimagines heritage programmes into creative, modern experiences. That sounds like a next-gen NHB to me.
At the Night Festival’s Media Conference, I had the opportunity to learn more about the upcoming programmes from the festival team, artists, and partners.
Qazim Karim, Festival Director of SG Night Fest 2025, opening the media conference
This year’s theme, Island Nights, will dive into Singapore’s identity as an island nation – aptly in the 60th anniversary of Singapore’s independence. Beyond a curated line-up that reflects Singapore’s heritage and creative hub through artistic expression and new immersive experiences, the festival will also introduce new partnerships to further deepen appreciation for Singapore’s island heritage.
Two Highlight Experiences
You can explore two highlight experiences this year, starting with Kampong Chill (Yok & Sheryo) that will be built at Capitol Singapore. Here, an idyllic pavilion optimised for relaxation will challenge you to break down “busy-ness” into laziness, as you settle into “island time”.
Artists Yok and Sheryo shared some of the activities that will be held there, including spaces to sit down and embrace the slowness, and alarm clock-shaped candles that you can light to literally – burn time.
Over at Cathay Green, gigantic inflatable arches form the dazzling Sky Castle (ENESS Studio), which is going to be one of the festival’s Instagrammable hotspots. As an interactive sound and light installation, you will get to shape your own colourful and melodic experience with other visitors. Unlike the other projection mapping and art installation, entry to Sky Castle requires a fee, and S$5 per person, per entry.
Get tickets to Sky Castle from Klook, the official ticketing partner.
Projection Mapping Artwork at SG Night Fest 2025
This year, the National Museum of Singapore rejoins Singapore Night Festival, now that renovation works at the facade are complete! You’ll get to marvel at MOSAIC (Jérémie Bellot, Ena Eno and Josselin Fouché) as you embark on an epic journey through time and space, with cultural design elements, such as Kebaya and Batik prints, woven into the visual tapestry.
Four other artists will showcase their projection mapping works at CHIJMES, as part of the Night Festival’s Projection Mapping Masterclass programme.
At the media conference, I got a chance to hear from artist Adeline Kueh about her piece, Roadside beauties and healing remedies which highlights the creation of cooling remedies using common roadside flowers and herbs – something much needed to keep us all cool on our sunny island.
New Night Lights – Art Installations around the precinct
There are six installations by local and regional artists for Singapore Night Festival 2025. This year, the Night Lights will be installed at Armenian Street, Bugis+, Funan, the National Design Centre, Plaza Singapura, and Raffles City Singapore.
Some of the artists shared stories behind their work at the SNF media conference:
Yang Derong’s CYBERSWORDFISH V2.0: From Myth to Megabytes will feature a gigantic swordfish sculpture with distinctive cyberpunk aesthetics. Constructed out of e-waste that he discovered, his artwork reflects on the rise of AI and accelerated consumption, leading to relentless production of waste. Now, these forces have taken form into invasive swordfishes, a twist on the folktale on the creation of Singapore’s Redhill.
Maegzter (Megan Foo) showing the neon light tube that will form her work
Bugis+ will be home to Waves of Time: Splash On Our Skyline (Maegzter), a retro-futuristic installation comprising of neon lights, that invites you to take fun selfies, while also reflecting on Singapore’s continuous pursuit for progress.
Jiwa Laut – render courtesy of artists Aw Boon Xin and Koh Kai Ting
At Jiaw Laut (Aw Boon Xin and Koh Kai Ting), luminous crab sculptures will emerge from the lawn at Armenian street, connecting us to the enduring waves at our shores and our marine past.
Three Festival Villages at SG Night Fest 2025
Singapore Management University (SMU)’s Campus Green will also have its SMU Arts Fest: 2560 during SG Night Festival, and will be one of the three Festival Villages this year. Visitors can also enjoy more experiences at Paradise Island at Armenian Street, with vibrant programmes around the Peranakan Museum (and if you walk further, the Children’s Museum). Over at Bugis Street Art Lane, the third village, Retro District will transport you into nostalgia with whimsical stations and old-school shops bringing you back to the good old days.
Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) National Day Activations from 1 August 2025
From 1 August 2025, the BBB National Day Activations begin around the precinct as celebrations for Singapore’s 60th intensifies. One of the activations is Paradise of Play at Ten Square (also known as the “car vending machine building), just a short walk away from Rochor MRT stationr. This anamorphic 3D animated piece marks the first collab with LASALLE students.
Paradise of Play, created by Averil Jodie Koh, Kim Jinsol, Nah Yee Chern, Leow May Gwen Veronica and Yu Jia Le Melody
Singapore Night Festival 2025: Island Nights
22 August to 6 September 2025
All around Bras Basah.Bugis precinct
Hours vary at various venues, but generally most art installations are available from:
7:30PM – 12:00AM on Fridays and Saturdays
7:30PM – 11:00PM on Sundays to Thursdays
Most programmes are free to experience, but some activities may require registration, and may require a fee.
For more information, visit the official Singapore Night Festival 2025 website.
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