The weekend guide · Fri 30 October – Sun 1 November
Still on: Singapore Dog Festival, Tanglin Mall trick-or-treat, Deepavali open house and Zouk's PLAY DEAD.
By JamieUpdated 28 October 20268 picks this weekend
Our pick of the weekend.
The haze cost the dog festival its opening weekend; its Halloween days are this weekend, with a costume parade on Saturday, a giant sensory playscape and about 50 stalls. You don't need a dog to go. Dogs and under-3s get in free.
In the order we’d recommend them.
The Science Centre turns into a crime scene: four Fear Labs on movement, touch, sound and illusion, a case file to fill in and a giant spider at the end. Go by day with children aged 6 and up, or on Friday or Saturday night for AFTERDARK's DJs, a PG13 horror short in the Omni-Theatre and stargazing.
The best free Halloween for small children this weekend: come in costume, join the trick-or-treat parade from the Level 1 atrium and complete the trail for a gift. Saturday adds sing-alongs at 11.30am and 1pm; at 5pm on Sunday the mall tries for a 20-metre slime record. Under-7s need a parent.
The best-value Halloween is the one down the road: at least a dozen community clubs and residents' networks run their own on Saturday, most from 6.30pm to 9.30pm and around S$5. Leng Kee CC's has a haunted house and goodie bags; Yew Tee, Kallang (The Cursed Castle), Chua Chu Kang and Thomson CC have haunted rooms too; Potong Pasir's runs 3pm to 6pm for younger children. Register on onePA; most close by Saturday.
Fifty years of Singapore dikir barat in one free day at the Esplanade. Drop in from 4pm on the Concourse to play rebana and canang and fold a paper tanjak, then take a seat at 7.45pm in the Concert Hall for the showcase, with a rare dikir laba set and Kelantan performers. It's in Malay, 90 minutes, first come, first served, for ages 6 and up.
Deepavali is the weekend after, and this is the warm-up: a weekend bazaar, a DIY mini mithai box and clay brooch painting, an heirloom saree corner, live performances on Campbell Lane, and dance on Saturday from 6pm. Stay into the evening for the light-up on Serangoon Road. Free for Singapore citizens and PRs.
Halloween for people who'd rather sit down: a string programme of spooky classics by candlelight in the old Parliament's Chamber at The Arts House. It's 65 minutes from 7pm on Friday only, so you're out in time for dinner. Seats from S$43; ages 8 and up, under-16s with an adult.
Shangri-La's all-day buffet goes Halloween for one night, with dishes like beetroot-cured salmon gravlax and a 'Dracula's Tongue' with polenta, themed desserts and cocktails, and face painting for the children. The hotel's usual discounts don't apply. Book ahead.
Zouk's Halloween is PLAY DEAD over two nights: four rooms turned into a darker take on childhood toys, Bassjackers headlining Friday, and more than S$10,000 in cash and prizes for best dressed, with S$5,000 cash for the winner. Doors are at 10pm both nights. Commit to the costume.
Singapore's own scare night, staged in the park built to show Chinese hell, and stranger than anything at Universal. It's on all three nights this weekend and runs to 15 November, so it's the one to keep if Horror Nights ends before you get there. Designed for older teens and adults; tickets are non-refundable, so book first.
Free horror-comedy under the stars at Fort Siloso: Happy Death Day on Saturday and its sequel on Sunday, both rated PG13. No booking needed. Get there early to walk the fort's Tunnel B first, and take the screening as the plan B if Horror Nights is too much. Rain cancels it.
Just opened. Be the first of your friends to go.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats opened at Sands Theatre on Thursday and runs to 22 November, so this is its first full weekend. Prices move with demand, from S$68; the 2pm Saturday and 1pm Sunday shows are the ones for families. No under-7s, and under-12s need an adult. About two hours 25 minutes with an interval.
All of these end this weekend. No reruns.
Final weekend, and all three nights are peak nights, so expect the longest queues of the run. Arrive for the 7.30pm opening and do the houses first; the karang guni house is the one only Singapore could make. Not one for under-13s.
Three daytime Halloween programmes end on Sunday, all a short walk apart: Trick or Thrills at Universal (Minions, costumed characters, candy), Adventure Cove's Legend Keepers treasure hunt through Singapore legends, and divers in skeleton suits at the Oceanarium at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday. Each needs its own ticket, so pick one or two. Pool Party Panic, Adventure Cove's murder mystery, is Saturday 4pm–8pm and not for young children.
Halloween for children who would be terrified by Horror Nights: a clue-and-stamp mission to help Al and Min solve a mystery. It ends on Sunday, and the after-dark Sundown sessions run only these three nights. Daytime is included with Curiosity Cove admission; Sundown is its own ticket and suits older kids.
ArtScience Museum's deep-sea show with OceanX closes on Sunday: five zones from a submersible descent to the lightless Aphotic Zone, plus a smell work by Sissel Tolaas. On Friday, each adult ticket takes up to four children under 12 in free, outside school and public holidays. One gallery has flashing lights.
The Opera People stage Verdi's La Traviata in full, in Italian with English surtitles, in Wild Rice's small theatre at Funan, where even the back row is close to the singers. About two and a half hours with two intervals. Restricted-view seats at S$20 are the cheapest opera ticket in town this weekend.
Twenty years of the President*s Design Award in one free show, with more than 100 recipients on the National Museum's first floor. It closes on Sunday. Pair it with the rebuilt Singapore History Gallery upstairs, free for Singaporeans and PRs.
Popaholic's free last night: pop-rock band Oakë at the Outdoor Theatre by the bay at 7pm and 8.15pm, and Nadya Zaheer's love songs on the Concourse at 6.45pm and 7.45pm. Each set is about 30 minutes, so you can catch both and still make dinner.
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