Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival

Arts@SBG: NAC‑ExxonMobil Concert in the Gardens presents Xinyao Lives On! A 2-hour spectacle celebrating homegrown Xinyao music.

EnlighTEN @ Singapore Botanic Gardens, the Gardens’ first-ever light show spanning five iconic spaces in the Gardens and transforming familiar landscapes through immersive installations and storytelling.

Dr Gillian Khew, Centre Director for Genomics and Micropropagation, leading the DNA Unlocked: A Plant-Based Discovery workshop. Participants extracted plant DNA using household materials such as bananas and isopropyl alcohol.

The Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival is a nine-day series of public programmes that marks the Gardens’ UNESCO World Heritage status through curated tours, exhibitions, talks and cultural performances. The festival highlights the Gardens’ historic landscapes and institutional legacy, while examining how these continue to inform stewardship of the Gardens' today. Through educational programmes and hands-on activities, the festival supports public understanding of heritage as an evolving responsibility within a living botanical landscape.

In July 2025, the Singapore Botanic Gardens embarked on a year-long celebration, Celebrating Singapore Botanic Gardens, to commemorate several key milestones in its history and development like the 10^th anniversary of the Gardens’ inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a decade since its inscription on 4^th July 2015.

These milestones were commemorated through a series of festivals, exhibitions, and community initiatives throughout the year, including the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival, the Singapore Garden Festival Orchid Show, and EnlighTEN, the Gardens’ first-ever large-scale light show.

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