Arts and Health is an interdisciplinary field integrating creative practices into community and care settings, aiming to transform health and experiences of healthcare. Field study guest contributor Salty Xi Jie Ng chats with Michael Tan—creative health practitioner, researcher and educator—about this promising field.
Fresh from her sabbatical and as the new Co-Artistic Director of Drama Box, Han Xuemei shares her underlying philosophies that guide her work with communities in our interview with her. Built into her practice with engaging communities is an innate sense of being human that forms the foundation to the relationships involved. Alongside her reflections on this, she offers advice to those wishing to begin working with communities using arts processes.
Pre-Covid-19, socially engaged artist and interdisciplinary practitioner Fié Neo was journeying across America and Europe, where she started and contributed to projects driven by important causes. Back in Singapore now, Fié has many reflections on what she has learnt on her travels: both the beauty and the hard parts of working in, and with communities and wider systems. Get to know Fié, her work, and reflections in this interview.
How does artist Salty Xi Jie Ng work with people, and create spaces where they are free to express themselves? In her feature piece, Salty shares about her projects that were co-created with diverse groups of people from her time in the USA and Singapore. Read her fascinating insights on the magic that is created when people bring their true selves to a collaborative art-making space.
M1 Peer Pleasure's "What If" stood for many open-ended questions, which grew with the onset of Covid-19. Read our new Community Inspirations piece, composed of the voices of the cast, designers, production manager, and directors. This is a collection of our diverse team’s personal experiences, challenges, and learnings in creating this originally devised, digital production about the perspectives of our cast with disabilities.
How do artists create play experiences that grant agency and/or enable others to reinvent meanings? Explore how this is done in the work of artists Han Xuemei and anGie seah.
