The megaclub initiative to adapt to the COVID-19 crisis
In its last turn against the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore club Zouk will turn its main runner’s dance floor into an ephemeral cinema.
The “ephemeral cinematic experience” called Zouk Cinema Club was teased on the club’s social media, which will run 4 days a week, Wednesday to Saturday, from 18 to 22. 30 hours, and will also be open the day before the holidays.
The club will use its lighting and audio systems to deliver a “completely new theatrical experience” and create a theatrical stage around themes that replace every two months. “Unlike the typical silent cinema, we invite visitors to express themselves and have a laugh while practicing social distance projections,” says the official website.
The Zouk Cinema Club will release its programming this week with a double-feature film for Halloween: The Sixth Sense and The Nightmare Before Christmas. His theme for the week of November 4 will be “For the Love of Music”.
A one-of-a-kind cinematic delight that will come very soon. Stay tuned for updates on our official opening date!. . .
Posted through Zouk Singapore on Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A maximum of five other people are allowed in combination at tables that have been configured for at least a distance of 1 meter between customers, among other COVID-19 safety measures.
Table packages are available for teams of 1 to 2 and 3 to five more people at S $ 1. 50 and S $ 3. 50, respectively; The packages are partially priced on Wednesdays at S $ 7five and S $ 17five respectively. Reservations for the Zouk Cinema Club open on October 29 and can be made here. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.
This is Zouk’s latest initiative to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic and its blow to Singapore’s nightlife industry. In recent months, he changed his Capital living room into a place to eat and transformed his master bedroom into a studio for spinning cycle courses.
Andrew Li, CEO of Zouk Group, recently told the Straits Times that while the Singaporean government has been “a great support for our centers,” the licensing procedure has been difficult.
Government agencies in Zouk’s shift to ephemeral cinema, Li said, include the Singapore Food Agency, Infocomm Media Development Authority, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Singapore Tourism Board, the Urban Reurbanization Authority and the Ministry of Health.
On 16 October, the Singaporean government gave the impression that it was about to take action for the nightlife industry as a component of “large-scale aid for more specific people. “But four days later, Lawrence Wong, co-chair of the multi-ministerial organization COVID-19 and the Minister of Education, said the industry needed to prepare for “a fairly long era of restrictions” because nightlife venues are “most threatening environments. “
“The nature of the activities themselves, such activities, means that there are other people who socialize in close contact, in a small, confined area, and that the threat is much greater,” he said. Even as Singapore prepares to enter the next phase of reopening, Wong said that “we do not plan to resume such activities in the short term. “