The Civic District's about to get super happening for the last two weekends of October, thanks to the return of arts festival River Nights. Set to the theme of 'Phantasmagoria', this third edition offers up four nights featuring enchanting performances of traditional art forms with a modern twist.
One of the festival's highlights is the Asian debut of the Umbrella Project, a collab between American dance company Pilobolus and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Distributed Robotics Laboratory. It's an interactive art and dance piece that will see 100 Singapore Polytechnic students light up the sky with a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour-changing umbrellas. Also look out for Soundscape: The River, a medley of instruments, vocals and dance that tells the story of a river with a partly improvised performance that spans three stages.