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| | Taking place over 18 to 26 August 2017 with a program that runs from 7.30 pm to 12 am, the Singapore Night Festival will transform the Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct into a midsummer's celebration, if you like.
This year the festival celebrates its 10th edition, and organizers are promising the romance and beauty of night lights, exhilarating performances and previous crowd favourites in a refreshing retrospective.
The Bras Basah.Bugis Precinct - also known as 'Be-Be-Be' - is the arts and heritage district in Singapore's Civic District or civic centre and is home to museums, historic monuments, heritage buildings, places of worship, arts schools and groups and lifestyle malls.
The National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Peranakan Museum, National Design Centre, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the National Library are all located here, as is the Armenian Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator, Chinese and Hindu temples and colonial era buildings.
Bras Basah is one of Singapore's oldest districts and its name comes from the Malay term for the 'wet rice' that at one time would be laid out on the banks of Bras Basah River, what is today the Stamford Canal. In the 1820s in accordance with the vision for the town's growth of its founder Sir Stamford Raffles, the area was chosen to be the European part of town. The adjacent Bugis Street was named for the seafaring Bugis people from Indonesia who came to trade with local merchants.
The Singapore Night Festival sees a number of events hosted late into the night at places like the National Museum of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum. These two museums also happen to be at the centre of what is a major highlight of the Singapore Night Festival, when their facades are graced with interactive light installations.
Various street and music performances featuring local and international artists will entertain festival-goers, and the area's Armenian Street turns pedestrian-only for the festival.
For visitors still deciding on their hotel accommodation in Singapore for the Singapore Night Festival, there are various properties situated in and around the event vicinity ranging from backpacker and budget level to mid-range to 5 star luxury.
This includes a much-talked about new lifestyle hotel in Singapore, Hotel G Singapore, which when it opened in late 2016 heralded the arrival to the island of GCP Hospitality's lifestyle hotel brand known as Hotels G. This 308-room design-led hotel's address on Middle Road is ideal for those keen to experience as much of the Singapore Night Festival as possible, it being within comfortable walking distance of the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and the National Library.
It's also a central city location from where prime entertainment areas and attractions such as Marina Bay, major conference facilities and the Orchard Road and Bugis Street shopping areas are easily reached nearby.
And of the many hotels in Singapore near MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) stations, Hotel G Singapore is one of them, with Bugis and Dhoby Ghaut stations each a short walk from its front door. With an extensive network of stations around Singapore, the MRT makes for a good way to travel around and explore the destination.
Designed to meet the needs and desires of today's savvy and design conscious traveler, GCP Hospitality's new Singapore lifestyle hotel offers guests three types of guestroom (Good, Great and Greater) that blend style, practicality and fun, while property facilities include Ginett Restaurant & Wine Bar, 25 Degrees burger and liquor bar and a fitness centre modelled after old American boxing gyms.
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