Indie-pop-punk legends, Plainsunset will be celebrating their album launch on June 13th, 8pm at Zouk. Entry is only allowed for those 18 and above. Every CD purchased comes with a pair of tickets to the launch party (limited to first 500 on entry). Tickets will be sold at the door at S$15.

The Fast & Fresh festival is a youth-oriented version of Short & Sweet, Australia’s premier ten minute play competition. It will be launched in Singapore by Word Forward Limited. Featuring plays written, directed, produced and enacted by teenagers (18 and under), Fast & Fresh is a competition that showcases and gives the best young talents the exposure and guidance necessary to stage quality productions, while connecting them to the theatre scene. 23 May, 7-9pm, Play Den @ The Arts House.

Renowned jewelry designer Shing, of cult label argentum, creates her second installation My Last Adornment, using jewelry to reflect on themes of vanity and mortality. Viewers are invited to step into the installation and put on their last adornment inside a photo booth and contemplate the transience of life. This act becomes less about vanity and more a reminder of their mortality and how precious lives are. 1-15 Jun, 11am to 8pm daily at The Substation Gallery

Be inspired by selected pieces of furniture from the FDA 2008 Students and Young Designers Category finalists and discover how they interpreted the theme ‘TENSION’. Also on display are the winning designs of the 4th FL!P Challenge held late last year, where student designers were given two types of wood to work with - American red oak and yellow poplar. 29 May-14 Jun, 10am to 9pm daily at The National Museum of Singapore - The Concourse, Level 1. Admission is free.

Rock The Sub! presents a total of 12 fantastic Singapore bands and featuring 8 excellent bands who have appeared on the Rock Your World acoustic stage. This time around, all cables will be plugged in for an evening of full on rock music. Gibson Stage (The Substation Theatre): 6.15pm-7.00pm Armchair Critic 7.30pm-8.15pm Allura 8.45pm-9.30pm Fishtank 10.00pm-10.45pm Tiramisu 11.15pm-12.00am Zero Sequence 12.30am-1.15am Vertical Rush Timbre Stage: 7.00pm-7.45pm You and Whose Army? 8.15pm-9.00pm Heritage 9.30pm-10.15pm Kevin Mathews & The Groovy People 10.45pm-11.30pm Lunarin 12.00am-12.45am Giants Must Fall 1.15am-2.00am West Grand Boulevard. 7 June, 6.00pm-2.00am. Tickets: $15 (inclusive of one drink).

The 6th Furniture Design Forum (FDF) will see a panel of distinguished international design gurus as well as local design personalities gathered to share their design experiences and latest trends. Eminent speaker at the forum is renowned Japanese Designer, Naoto Fukasawa who will take you on a journey through the “Core of Awareness”. 13 Jun, 2pm-6pm at Gallery Theatre, Basement National Museum of Singapore. Click here for more information and registration.

Writer-Performer Kaylene Tan presents a reading of her current work-in-progress - an intimate audio triptych inspired by the Singapore River, Peninsula Plaza and the Armenian Church. Traversing history and memory, myth and biography, the domestic and the poetic, this text emerges from nine months of archival research, listening, walking and lingering. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session. 9 May, 7pm at the Playden (Arts House).

A performance beyond the walls of the museum, bringing body art into the city. Renowned celebrity Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi, local artists ZERO and Joanne Lim present their latest creations using bodies as canvases. Be spotted with the body art models by the Polaroid crew, get your pictures taken and stand to win 3 attractive N Series Nokia mobile phones. Take home with you limited edition Fiction@Love collectible! 11 May, 12.00pm – 2.00pm (Outside Caltex House) • 3.00pm – 5.00pm (Outside Plaza Singapura/Atrium); 13 May, 1.00pm – 3.00pm (Outside Ngee Ann City) • 4.00pm – 6.00pm (Outside Shaw House). Limited free Polaroid instant pictures. Announcement of winners and selected entries will be displayed at SAM from 20 May.

Aging Youth Productions’ first installment of Choking The Chicken will feature musical acts that bravely tread the fine line that divides different genres. Expect a clash of electronic, post rock and ambient in an evening that will entice the audience to redefine their genre pigeon holes. D+A+K+A+I, Bani Haykal, Indus Gendi and Breakbeat Theory. 17 May, 8pm at Earshot

URA’s exhibition, “Singapore 1:1 Island” highlights the city’s architectural and urban design uniqueness through a selection of architectural projects completed island-wide, outside of the city centre, over the past four decades. Untill 11 Apr at the URA Centre.

Every quarter, House finds an undiscovered talent to adopt. This time, they found a talent in Amrita, a 16-year-old baking extraordinaire who makes creative desserts with a touch of bourgeoisie. 17 Mar-22 Apr at House.

The Arts House will be launching Stephen Black’s photography book at the Arts House on 18 April, with the exhibition starting on the 15th and ending on the 27th.

Through a series of paintings, drawings and a fridge, nine emerging artists from Singapore’s local arts institutions will explore the human trajectory of closeness in their maiden fine arts exhibition, “Will You Be | So Close“. Curated by two students from NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), the exhibit’s theme came to co-organiser, Annette Heitmann, when she lost someone metaphorically and began a search for something close to her. 27 Mar-14 Apr, Tue to Sun: 1130AM to 7PM at Forth Art Gallery.

The Convention will see an onslaught of general and designer toys, comics, animation, gaming, design, licensing and Cosplay on creative minds from all over the world. There will be over 150 targeted exhibitors from 20 different countries, bringing the best that the East and West have to offer in one single event. Visit the website for more information. 27-29 Jun at Suntec.

Renowned for his juxtaposed black and white surrealistic images, photographer Chow Chee Yong will be launching his first photographic book titled 30th February, a collection of his past photographic works. A JCCI art scholarship recipient, he has been the first Singaporean whose works were acquired by Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 2001, a collective of photographic prints which includes artworks by renowned photographers Nobuyashi Araki, Helmut Newton and Ansel Adams. 19 Feb-15 Mar at Kay Ngee Tan Architecs Gallery, 16-17 Duxton Hill.