Listening Tour: I hear you, you hear me: Listening while coexisting
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Listening Tour: I hear you, you hear me: Listening while coexisting

A guided sound-based walking experience to attend to the sounds that carry the languages and stories of diverse entities.

By The Listening Biennial - Singapore

Location

Stamford Arts Centre, 155 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187962

155 Waterloo Street Singapore, 187962 Singapore

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Listening Tour: I hear you, you hear me: Listening while coexisting

Friday, 29 August & Saturday, 6 September

5pm - 6pm

Stamford Arts Centre (The gate entrance opposite of Sri Krishnan Temple), 155 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187962

Co-presented by The Listening Biennial, a highlight of The Singapore Night Festival

Audio Sponsor: DITA Audio

To coexist is to acknowledge, consider, and respect forms of existence alongside ours. We provide our listening ears to attend to the sounds that carry the languages of diverse entities, allowing a space for mutual intersections and understanding.

In this tour we will view language not as a barrier, but as an integrative and relational channel of communication through attentive listening. As even in the softest and harshest of sounds, there are meanings to discover, stories to unfold, and rhythms that invite us to connect with each other and our surroundings, to share our differences in the same space.

Artwork Image Credit: Earthsong: Indigenous Harmony from Thailand, Hear & Found (Thailand)

About your guide:

Saskia Alifya is an Art Histories and Curatorial Practices undergraduate student in LASALLE College of the Arts. Her research interests center on the topics of displacement and social justice in response to violence and cultural disparities through performance, film, audio, and socially engaged works.

Outside of her studies, she incorporates photography and drawing into her day to day practices to observe the subtleties and movements of life, and capture what can often be missed and forgotten.

Participant Notes:

  • The tour will begin on time at 5pm. Please arrive at least 10 minutes earlier, so that the tour may begin and end on schedule for everyone.
  • Meeting point: Stamford Arts Centre (The gate entrance opposite of Sri Krishnan Temple)
  • End point: Arts Resource Hub, 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187951
  • Total distance covered: 0.5km (estimated)
  • Please dress comfortably for the outdoors and wear suitable footwear for walking longer distances. At certain points during the tour, participants may also be invited to sit on the ground.
  • Please bring along an umbrella or poncho in case of wet weather, as the walk will continue in light rain.
  • You may wish to bring the following items: water (to stay hydrated), insect repellent, a cap and/or sunscreen.

Accessibility:

While we aim to provide accessibility wherever possible, please note that this is a structured walking tour with a significant distance to cover. If you have any accessibility concerns or requirements, do let us know in advance so that we may do our best to support you, within the limits of the tour’s planned course.

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Our photographer may be taking photos and videos. By attending this programme, you consent to be photographed or filmed.

About The Listening Biennial

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Read more: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

Frequently asked questions

What will happen in the event of heavy rain?

In the case of heavy rain, the group will take shelter in a designated building nearby. The tour will continue with a wet weather plan, adapted for a sheltered setting.

Is there a recommended age group for this tour?

This tour is best suited for older teenagers and adults, as it is designed as a quiet, reflective experience held in a small group of 5 participants. While younger participants are welcome, children will need to be accompanied by a supervising adult, who should also register for the tour.

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The Listening Biennial - Singapore

About The Listening Biennial

The Listening Biennial focuses on listening as a creative practice, and on building listening cultures and knowledge. Its decentred format encourages collaboration and simultaneous presentations with partner institutions and spaces, involving a network of practitioners and organisations in different parts of the world.

Curated by: Soledad García Saavedra, Alecia Neo and Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

An Invite into Third Listening

The third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry. These are voices of love and loss, voices that hold the past while evoking a future, and that resound with mystery and force, threading cosmic matter and embodied life with their potent stories. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The Singapore edition is co-programmed by artist Alecia Neo and publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

For the full programme in Singapore, visit:

https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

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