Curious about what goes on behind-the-scenes of an arts-based community development programme? In her inaugural Project Journal post, Salty delves into the stories and memories of 8 seniors through bilingual chat sessions and intimate gatherings. She utilises various arts and creative approaches, guiding them on a journey to learn more about end-of-life matters.
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.
This paper examines M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival and how cultural difference is performed by and for young people in Singapore.
What is the relationship between art and community development? What place does the artistic voice occupy within the latter?
