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Celebrating 10 Years of
Developing Community Creatively

Harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue,
invite social participation and build bridges across difference

Celebrating 10 Years of Developing Community Creatively

Harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue, invite social participation and build bridges across difference

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Both Sides, Now

A multi-disciplinary arts-based community programme to create awareness and opportunities for having end-of-life conversations and planning in various communities since 2013.

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The Greenhouse Lab

An action-learning programme for practitioners across disciplines and sectors interested in arts-based community development.

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Field Studies

A series of essays, explainers, and multimedia presentations on the latest developments and key issues shaping the vibrant terrain of arts-based community development.

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Programmes

Find out more about our work

In our work, we journey with partners across sectors and different communities. Through various arts-based programmes, we collectively imagine, create and innovate the changes we want to experience in society.

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Library

Discover the ingredients of arts-based community development

Our arts and cultural approach sits within the larger field of community development. Learn more about arts-based community development through various studies on our work and the wider ecosystem.

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ArtsWok is hiring!

We are expanding our team to strengthen our content creation, marketing and programming efforts with new positions. Do you know anyone who could become our Content Creator, Marketing Executive, or Programme Executive? Or better yet, do you see yourself in such a role? Spread the word – and apply!

With the greater push for arts practitioners to develop artistic projects in community spaces, it is essential to examine the skills and capabilities required of those engaging in the field today.

Read our latest field study, where guest contributor Regina De Rozario reflects on the notion of cultural competence and how it might be fostered through arts-based community work!

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