August is stacked this year, and barely any of it is the usual suspects.
Aside from the long National Day weekend, look forward to highly-anticipated openings such as Singapore’s very first Pop Bakery in Sentosa, a classic-car concours in a Gardens dome, an ink master’s centennial, and two China beverage giants making their first jump overseas.
1. Pop Bakery
POP MART’s first bakery in Southeast Asia.
The toymaker is opening a two-storey flagship at WEAVE in Resorts World Sentosa, with the bakery built into the second floor. Expect character bakes sold in keepable packaging, from Labubu butter-cookie tins to Molly chocolates, plus photo corners on both levels.
Date: Opens 30 July 2026
Location: WEAVE, Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269
Opening hours: 10am-10pm
2. Bugis Street Level 2
The dead second floor of Bugis Street has been gutted and handed to the youth.
The refreshed Level 2 unveils over 25 and 26 July as a lifestyle floor anchored by Somewhere @ Bugis Street, a retail playground from Invade with pre-loved fashion and a weekend market of around 40 local vendors. Ruby Merlot opens its first physical store for its bags and journals, while White Pixies runs a candle bar with fragrance workshops. Meanwhile, Standard Photo Studio adds four themed self-shoot rooms and DIY photo keychains. It’s the first real reason to go up the escalator in years.
Location: Bugis Street, 3 New Bugis Street, Singapore 188867
Opening hours: 11am-10pm
3. Singapore GREEN-HOUSE Festival
GREEN-HOUSE debuts its first day-to-night edition as part of the Singapore Night Festival, taking over Temasek Shophouse for a weekend. It pulls together 74 local brands and 45 workshops and talks, all built around sustainability through design and community.
This year’s highlight is the Elsewhere there’s Eat Your Scraps!, a six-course zero-waste dinner by nottofu and Bricolage. The dinner needs booking ahead, but most of the floor is flexible.
Date: 28-30 August 2026
Location: Temasek Shophouse, 28 Orchard Road, Singapore 238832
Admission: Free entry; select experiences ticketed
4. Singapore Night Festival 2026
Sixteen nights of free light installations, with this year’s theme as Myths and Legends.
As usual, the National Museum facade runs a stunning projection show, and around it are light installations and night walks, plus festival villages with food and retail.
Date: 21 August-5 September 2026
Location: Bras Basah.Bugis precinct, around National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 17889
5. Spider-Man: World of Webs
A hardcore Spider-Man fan? Other than catching the movie on 1 August, check out their stunning pop-up at Plaza Singapura.
Inside are themed photo spots drawn from Miles Morales, Ghost-Spider and the Sinister Six, plus colouring stations and an interactive lava-floor game. Spend $50 at the retail area and you can redeem a Spider-Man gift while stocks last.
On select weekends the web-slinger himself turns up for meet-and-greets, so check the appearance schedule before you go.
Date: 25 July-15 August 2026
Location: Plaza Singapura, #01-01, 68 Orchard Road, Singapore 238839
Opening hours: 10am-10pm
6. Century of Ink: A Mo Mengchu Retrospective
Ten days is the entire window to see a lifetime of one man’s ink work.
Century of Ink gathers the paintings of Mo Mengchu (1920–2012), a Sichuan-born painter who trained at the Sichuan Art School and gave his whole life to brush-and-ink. His birds and flowers come in a loose, fluid hand, and this show marks his hundredth year. Dynasties Antique & Art Gallery and Mo Ni present it.
In 1960, his painting “Nursery During the Busy Farming Season” was chosen as a national gift when President Liu Shaoqi toured ten Eastern European countries. Dr. Ho Kah Leong opens the show on Sunday, 2 August at 3pm.
Date: 1-10 August 2026
Location: Old Parliament Art House, Gallery 2, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
Opening hours: 11am-6pm
7. POP TOY SHOW Singapore
POP MART’s biggest date of the year runs one weekend, and this edition belongs to Molly.
The fourth POP TOY SHOW takes over Sands Expo with the show themed to Molly’s 20th anniversary, including anniversary merch, event-exclusive releases and an appearance by Kenny Wong, the designer who created her. It’s the flagship gathering for the art-toy crowd, so expect the rare drops and the queues that come with them.
Tickets start from $40.
Date: 21-23 August 2026
Location: Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 1, Halls A–C, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956
8. The F1 Exhibition
The season closes with a Singapore Grand Prix, and now there’s a way to feel it without a race ticket.
The F1 Exhibition makes its Asia debut with seven galleries covering 76 years of the sport, from historic cars to a Singapore Drive room built around the nation’s own F1 history. The Fastest Lap simulators put you on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, which is the part worth queueing for. Tickets start at $29 for children and $49 for adults, with $40 for teenagers. Hours tighten after the opening stretch, so check the day you’re going.
Price: From $29 (child), $40 (teen), $49 (adult)
Date: 23 July to 18 October 2026
Location: Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018953
Opening hours:
23 July-2 Aug: 11am-9pm
3 Aug onward, Tue-Sun: 11am-8pm
9. HoYo FEST 2026
Three of HoYoverse’s biggest games take over Suntec for one long weekend.
HoYo FEST 2026 brings themed installations and interactive booths for Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, running across the National Day long weekend. Expect photo setups and in-game tie-in activities aimed squarely at players.
Date: 31 July to 2 August 2026
Location: Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039593
10. KFC SWAGS
KFC is selling you a bucket bag now, and it’s not carrying chicken (but it could…)
KFC SWAGS is a five-piece lifestyle capsule that turns the brand’s red-and-bucket identity into things you actually wear and carry. The line-up runs the Finger Lickin’ Good Jacket ($65.9) in a cream colourway, the Original Red Tumbler ($38.9), the Utility Phone Lanyard ($14.9), an oversized Drumstick Plushie ($23.9) and the Bucket Bag ($15.9). It drops alongside a dedicated merch site, so you can buy without lining up. The Bucket Bag is the one people will actually clock on the street.
Date: From 1 August 2026
Location: KFC Kallang and merch.kfc.com.sg
11. Concours d’Elegance Singapore 2026
Concours d’Elegance Singapore 2026 stages a curated gallery of rare vintage and classic cars competing for the top title, billed as the first immersive concours experience in the region. You get live judging up close, not just roped-off metal. Collector insights and design deep-dives round out the four days.
Tickets start from $50.
Date: 13-16 August 2026
Location: IMBA Theatre, Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Drive, #01-24, Singapore 018953
12. NDP 2026
The parade comes home to the National Stadium for the first time since 2016.
NDP 2026 runs under the theme “Majulah Singapura, Go Beyond!” for the nation’s 61st, with the 55,000-seat stadium hosting the first-ever indoor drone light show and the largest indoor special-effects display the parade has attempted. Local acts including Iman Fandi and Jasmine Sokko perform. Tickets are balloted, but the fireworks and the drone show are visible from the Kallang basin fringe if you didn’t get a seat.
Date: 9 August 2026
Location: National Stadium, 1 Stadium Drive, Singapore 397629
13. Hungry Ghost getai
The seventh lunar month brings getai across the heartlands: open-air stages with high-energy singers and Hokkien-speaking hosts, staged as offerings during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Geylang runs the largest concentration, and estates like Toa Payoh and Hougang host their own.
The front row of seats stays empty for the spirits, so don’t take those.
Date: 13-27 August
Location: Geylang and heartland estates, islandwide
14. Jurassic Park live-to-film
The 1993 film plays on the big screen while two orchestras play the score under it.
The Singapore National Youth Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra perform John Williams’s score live to a full screening of Jurassic Park at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Live-to-film sits somewhere between a concert and a cinema night, and the brass hits differently in a hall built for it.
Tickets are priced at $28 to $88.
Price: $28–$88
Date: 28 August 2026
Location: Esplanade Concert Hall, 1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore 038981
15. Classic Symphony in the Gardens
The SSO plays Bizet and Debussy on the grass, and you can bring the dog.
Symphony in the Gardens is a free open-air concert at the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under new Associate Conductor Nathanaël Iselin. The programme pulls from Bizet’s Carmen and Debussy’s Petite Suite, plus Singaporean composer Kam Kee Yong’s Fantasia of Insects. Cellist Ng Pei-Sian and soprano Cherie Tse feature.
Come early with a mat, since the lawn fills up well before the 6pm downbeat.
Date: 1 August 2026, 6pm
Location: Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569
16. Jesus Christ Superstar
The Olivier-winning revival lands, and it’s the arena-rock staging, not the polite one.
Jesus Christ Superstar runs at Sands Theatre after sold-out London seasons, telling Christ’s last seven days through the eyes of Judas over the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber score. This is the reimagined production that leans into the rock-concert energy of the original concept album.
Tickets start at $98 through SISTIC.
Date: 19 August-6 September 2026
Location: Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956
17. RWS Cares Festival
Resorts World turns its first community festival into a two-day open house.
The inaugural RWS Cares Festival runs across the resort with activations built around social inclusion and environmental sustainability. It’s pitched as a family weekend rather than a ticketed attraction, with hands-on booths and programming spread over the grounds. Worth folding into a Sentosa day if you’re already heading over for Pop Bakery or the beach.
Date: 22-23 August 2026
Location: Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269
18. BlackTree
China’s self-styled No.1 Thai milk tea brand picked Singapore for its first outlet outside the mainland.
BlackTree (黑树) opens at 313@somerset with the drinks that made it viral: the Milky Cat Cheese Milk Thai Tea and the 400 Times Cheese Milk Thai Tea. The Singapore store also debuts what the brand calls the world’s first BlackTree Asian Tea Lab, and a city-exclusive drink, the Lily Lamb, made with Shanghai-viral Matcha Wang. The brand is barely a year old and already in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, so the Orchard queues are a given early on.
Location: 313@somerset, 313 Orchard Road, Singapore 238895
Opening hours: 11am-10pm
19. YIMANFEN Dessert
Another Hangzhou viral brand crosses the border, this time for sweet soup.
YIMANFEN (怔满分) makes its first overseas outlet at 313@somerset, built on a modern take on traditional Chinese tong sui. Everything is handcrafted in-house daily, from the sugar syrups to the toppings. The Manfen Grand Bowl loads fresh milk with grass jelly, peach gum, lotus seeds and taro balls, and the Mango Snowy Bowl with Gelato pairs mango and black glutinous rice with vanilla gelato. Tea drinkers should look at the 800x Hand-Whipped Aged HK Yuenyeung.
Location: 313@somerset, 313 Orchard Road, Singapore 238895
Opening hours: 11am-10pm
20. Sentosa GrillFest
The beach grill fest is back for a ninth year with its biggest line-up yet.
Sentosa GrillFest returns to Siloso Beach on selected dates with 42 food vendors across five zones, including 18 new additions. The headline debut is Chef’s Grill, an eight-course omakase-inspired beachfront dinner in an air-conditioned pavilion, done with the Singapore Chefs’ Association.
Date: 23 July-16 August 2026
Location: Siloso Beach, Sentosa
Opening hours: 4-10:30pm
23. Ocean in Focus: Apex Predators
Getting this close to a shark usually needs a cage. Here it needs a booking and one of twelve spots.
Ocean in Focus: Apex Predators is a new 60-minute guided programme at Singapore Oceanarium that takes twelve people at a time behind the scenes. You get into the shark care areas and the Shark Encounter support zone, normally off-limits to the public. A live feeding shows the difference between broadcast and target feeding, and you can handle real specimens like preserved jaws and teeth, right down to the chainmail the handlers wear during feeds.
Location: Singapore Oceanarium, 24 Sentosa Gateway, Sentosa Island, Singapore 098137
Opening hours: 10am-8pm
24. Prototype Island Homecoming Showcase
A showcase that toured internationally finally lands back where it started, at ArtScience Museum’s basement level.
Prototype Island’s homecoming run gathers the projects developed under the programme, giving Singapore audiences a look at work that’s mostly been shown overseas until now.
Date: 24 July-20 September 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, B2 Circulation, 6 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018974
Opening hours:
Sun-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-9pm
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