Culture · free
Duration
Evening
The take
Through the seventh lunar month, Chinatown and the heartland estates put on street opera and getai, loud live shows of song and comedy on open-air stages. Leave the front row empty, since those seats are kept for the spirits.
Good to know
It falls in the seventh month of the lunar calendar
At getai shows, the front row of seats is left empty for the spirits
Leave offerings by the roadside untouched and avoid stepping on incense paper
Finding it: Held across the island rather than at one venue: in homes, at temples and in the neighbourhood, with getai on open fields in HDB estates
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