In a fast-paced city like Singapore, it often leaves us craving a touch of nature's beauty and the soothing embrace of music. So, naturally we've been gleaming with excitement ever since we heard the concept of Sunda Festival a two-day musical extravaganza from Sept 30 to Oct 1, 2023. This remarkable journey is the brainchild of the visionary minds.
Amid the urban hustle and bustle of Singapore, we often encounter significant events like day festivals, expos, and concerts. However, a camping music festival is a novel concept for our sunny island. This year, set your sights on the Sunda Festival – a two-day non-stop musical bonanza celebrating music, art, nature, and the region’s spectacular talents. This first-of-its-kind event, scheduled.
Ron Wan & Mildred Cheng
“Tell them about your rugs,” Wan teases as he gives Cheng a playful nudge in the arm during a recent visit to Sheung Wan co-working space The Hive. It seems Cheng, who moonlights as a painter, has just purchased a tufting gun so she can turn her trippy artworks, some of them bordering on the erotic, into rugs.
“A lot of my personal work is based on psychedelic experiences,” says Cheng, a 27-year-old vegetarian who goes by the alias “I Ride Dolphin” on Instagram. She is simultaneously head-in-the-clouds and sharp-as-a-tack, and received her bachelor’s from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)’s former campus in Hong Kong in 2017. Despite being relatively new to the field, she has already been commissioned by Zheng Mahler, the Hong Kong-based artist-and-anthropologist duo of Royce Ng and Daisy Bisenieks, to design their book,