Sat–Sun, 31 Jan–1 Feb and 7–8 Feb 2026
10am–12pm
Meeting Point: OUE Bayfront Office Atrium (Thinker Sculpture)
$30 per ticket (includes refreshments at Lau Pa Sat) (Culture Pass Eligible)

Embark on a 2-hour journey that bridges urban heritage and contemporary art, as Yong from The Urbanist Singapore brings together his signature engagement style with deep knowledge of heritage and urban design—this time, with a twist.

How might we forge the last-mile connection with heritage and embedded histories through stories found within public art, architecture, and the urban environment? From Collyer Quay to Shenton Way, learn about the financial heartbeat of Singapore, fondly known as the “Golden Shoe”, with Yong’s expertise in cultural geography guiding you through public artworks commissioned by The Everyday Museum. Learn how these artworks reveal sights and sites that lend to the continued relevance of the Golden Shoe as both memory and blueprint, a place where past stories can be traded for future possibilities.

The trail includes a reflective interlude at Lau Pa Sat market, engaging your sense of taste to tie lesser-known food culture as a significant marker of time and exchange within the district.

This programme is ticketed with limited slots available. Registration is required.

Sat–Sun, 31 Jan–1 Feb and 7–8 Feb 2026
4pm–6pm
Meeting Point: OUE Bayfront Office Atrium (Thinker Sculpture)
$15 per ticket (Culture Pass Eligible)

Discover hidden stories pulsing through the Central Business District in this 2-hour experience of contemporary art, oral storytelling, responsive soundscapes and hands-on making.​

Journey through three commissioned artworks from The Everyday Museum’s Momentary Pulses public art series. Guided by storytellers Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips and Laura Kee, encounter artists Catherine Hu’s A fountain when it rains, Zul Mahmod’s LOOP - The Resonance of Motion, and Finbarr Fallon’s Sweet Water. Listen to original tales written by Story Scape Creative Producer Kamini Ramachandran that give voice to everyday objects—tiles, a bell, and a pineapple—tracing their ties to Singapore’s changing landscape.​

These narratives are thoughtfully interpreted by artist-researcher Wong Zi Hao from Superlative Futures, who will be providing a tactile dimension to the experience. After listening to the stories, participants assume the role of archaeologists for the future, becoming storytellers themselves to engage in a collective act of speculating alternative forms of social currencies and daily rituals for the city.

Alongside these stories, experience sound artist Syafiq Halid’s soundscapes for Story Walk, which flow between storytelling points as you move through the CBD.​

Story Walk transforms the CBD from a utilitarian space into a living storytelling landscape, revealing how contemporary art awakens dormant memories, rekindles forgotten connections, and makes visible the rhythms that bind us to place and to each other.​

Tue, 3 Feb 2026
7pm–9pm
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck (39 Keppel Road #03-07 S089065)
Free (with registration)

Join the team from Kontinentalist as they share about their process of creating A line of our own drawing, a large-scale data storytelling artwork that examines desire paths in Singapore in an attempt to plot how, why and where we walk.

Originally used in transport and urban planning, desire paths are unofficial routes created through the simple act of enough people walking differently. These paths reveal unexpected spaces of collective action within Singapore’s planned public landscape.

Learn how the research team conducted their fieldwork in four sites across Singapore, from the Central Business District to industrial sites and the heartlands, combining research and data with personal reflection as a means of storytelling to understand our world. Using a mix of Google Maps, lived experience and speculation, you will then be guided to reflect on the desire paths you encounter daily—what might they say about us and our desires? What does a line of our own drawing look like?

A line of our own drawing is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative of Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Attendees will also get to visit the work that is on display right by the museum’s entrance at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 1.

Wed, 4 Feb 2026
7pm–8.30pm
RASA (9 Republic Plaza #02-01 S048619)
Free (with registration)

Join storytellers Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips and Laura Kee, together with artist-researcher Wong Zi Hao (Superlative Futures), as they reflect on their collaboration for Story Walk—a storytelling and tactile workshop through the Central Business District. Moderated by Kamini Ramachandran, the panel explores how different storytelling traditions—oral and aural practices alongside research-driven approaches rooted in material memory—came together to respond to six public artworks commissioned by The Everyday Museum (Momentary Pulses). Discover how notions of care, deeper looking, and the art of noticing shaped this unique programme.

Thu, 5 Feb 2026
7pm–8.30pm
RASA (9 Republic Plaza #02-01 S048619)
Free (with registration)

What happens when oral tradition meets urban exploration? How might storytelling become a collective act that marries folklore and archive?

Join Yong from The Urbanist Singapore and Kamini Ramachandran, Creative Producer of Story Scape, as they explore the art of storytelling across different mediums and methods. Both are storytellers who breathe life into Singapore’s spaces—one through urban trails that uncover hidden histories and geographies, the other through oral tradition that engages with heritage through performance and folklore. 

In this intimate conversation, discover how contemporary acts of storytelling can bridge heritage education with creative expression, and how social media and live performance offer unique pathways to connect communities to place. Glean insights into how the personal act of noticing can transform our relationship with the city we inhabit, and how we can continually find new ways to tell its stories.

Fri, 6 Feb 2026
8pm–9.30pm
RASA (9 Republic Plaza #02-01 S048619)
Tickets purchased at the door

Story Scape is proud to host an audiovisual presentation by sound artist Syafiq Halid with visual collaborator Superlative Futures. This one-night-only experience celebrates Story Scape and marks the launch of Momentary Pulses, The Everyday Museum’s new public art trail.

Syafiq Halid reworks sonic fragments—field recordings, archival material and sound compositions—into layered textures that expand how we listen to place and memory. Adapting from existing compositions for Story Scape’s programmes, Syafiq will also weave in “uncut” pieces for an exclusive peek into his artistic practice on shaping the sonic environment of the festival. Accompanying these soundscapes, Superlative Futures introduces a responsive visual dimension that transforms RASA into a site of resonance and encounter. Adapting from their own explorations grounded in the Momentary Pulses public art commissioning series, Superlative Futures reflects on time and material memory as they respond to an ever-shifting relationship with the city.

Together, the artists shape a new sensory vocabulary for urban experience.Cut out the noise of the daily humdrum in the Central Business District, and tune into the frequency of Story Scape: Uncut. The evening is co-presented with RASA.

30 Jan–28 Feb 2026
Accessible at all times
Various locations along Shenton Way

Story Hosts is a month-long art, design and literary activation that transforms Singapore's Central Business District (CBD) into a living archive of stories, histories and artistic responses. ​

Along the Shenton Way stretch, the heartbeat of this financial centre, audiences will encounter Art Teller Machines (ATMs) placed in proximity to The Everyday Museum's latest public art commissions, designed by The Merry Men Works. By engaging with these ATMs, curious passersby will receive one of six commissioned poems by Pooja Nansi. The humble receipt that is usually tied to “transaction,” “commerce,” and “trade”—is reimagined here as a poetic barter, weaving together site, artwork and layered city stories.

Throughout the month, beyond Story Scape's 10-day engagements, Story Hosts reveals six poetic fabulations: artistic interjections that break the CBD's everyday humdrum, offering moments to pause, reflect and bring a story home.