Abigail Chay: No Publicity Is Bad Publicity — Except Silence

2026 will not be remembered as just another year of disruption. It will be remembered as the year the entertainment and media industry finally stopped chasing technology — and started redefining meaning. Audiences are more fragmented, creators are more empowered, and platforms are no longer just distributors but cultural architects. In this shifting landscape, Flux Media identifies five defining trends that will shape how stories are created, consumed, and valued in 2026. 1.

For actor Guo Weiqiang, anniversaries are less about ceremony than reflection. On 23 December 2025, while returning home from Hong Kong, he marked his wedding anniversary with his wife, Mo Yan Lan, not with grand gestures, but with words of gratitude written quietly on board a Singapore Airlines flight. In the piece he composed during the journey, Guo reflects on their life together — a marriage shaped by years of perseverance, shared hardship, and steadfast companionship. He

What begins as a calm, courteous conversation over coffee and pastries quickly disintegrates into verbal warfare in 💥 God of Carnage — a razor-sharp comedy that dissects the fragile façade of modern civility. Two boys get into a playground scuffle. Their parents, sensible and well-meaning, agree to meet and resolve the matter “like adults.” But as Yasmina Reza’s internationally acclaimed play so deliciously proves, adulthood is often just a thin layer of manners stretched ov

When Singapore actor Qi Yuwu openly shared that he does not spend much time with his children, the reaction was immediate and divided. Some found his words refreshingly honest; others felt uncomfortable, even critical. Yet beyond the headlines and soundbites, his comments open up a deeper and often unspoken conversation about modern parenthood, masculinity, and emotional presence. Speaking candidly on a podcast, Qi Yuwu admitted that even when he is at home, he does not alway

In a society that prizes speed, fluency, and constant output, silence is often mistaken for absence. We move on quickly when conversations slow, when sentences stumble, when words do not arrive on cue. Yet on 13 December 2025, at Singapore Management University, a full-house audience was asked to do something quietly radical: to sit with silence, to observe it, and to listen to what it carries. The premiere of Can You Hear Me?  was not simply a cultural event — it was a momen

In a time when speed, productivity, and spectacle dominate much of contemporary culture, WUSHIREN’s Contemplative Body Lab offers a rare and deliberate pause. Held at the WUSHIREN Studio, the lab unfolds not as a conventional workshop, but as an invitation — to slow down, to sense, and to listen to the body as a site of perception, memory, and imagination. The inaugural lab takes place on 17 January 2026, bringing together two sessions that explore the body through distinct y

In conversations about community building, the arts are often treated as secondary—pleasant, but optional. Yet over one carefully curated weekend at Geylang Serai Community Club, it became clear that none of the music, theatre or shared cultural moments would have been possible without the active support of grassroots activists who chose to place the arts at the centre of community life. This was not a weekend that happened by chance. It was the result of grassroots leaders i

A new physical theatre production, After Rain, We Breathe , will be staged on 9 and 10 January 2026 at Black Box, Waterloo Street, bringing together physiotherapy, pain science and performance in an interdisciplinary collaboration. Presented by Grain Performance & Research Lab, the work is written and directed by theatre practitioner Beverly Yuen, who also performs in the production. The piece was inspired by Yuen’s personal experience of injury and rehabilitation after fully

There may be model answers in examinations, but life itself offers none. This was the central reflection behind Model Answer  (《模范答案》), the latest publication by Singapore theatre practitioner and writer Lim Hai Yen, which was officially launched on 14 December 2025. Rooted in lived experience rather than theory, the book grew out of Lim’s journey accompanying her three children through different stages of life — and, in the process, re-examining her own understanding of fami

Staged on Saturday at Geylang Serai Community Club, 《男人女人》 , written, directed and produced by Linda Murphy, is a refreshing reminder of what independent theatre does best: connect directly with its audience through humour, recognisable relationships, and well-observed human flaws. From the moment the show begins, the theatre is filled with laughter. This is not comedy that relies on cheap gags, but humour rooted in character, cultural tension, and everyday emotional negotiat

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The Star Awards 2025  was nothing short of grand. As Singapore’s most iconic television awards ceremony turned 30, it had every reason to...

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I kind of miss teaching in the pre-AI days Some student's comments would sound a bit off, and in their essays, their citations would come...

On the 20th of June 2025, Art Works Gallery is holding an art auction to raise funds for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

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I turn 15 full years in the media and entertainment industry in a few days. June 2010 was when I started doing this, mostly as a TV Director, as well as lecturing concurrently for most of the 15 years plus adding Radio work recently...