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Talks & Interviews

Fear of Writing?

Alvin was invited to be a panellist for the panel discussion entitled “Fear of Writing? The development of political theatre and plays in Singapore”, alongside theatre practitioners Robert Yeo, Tan Tarn How and Ivan Heng, moderated by Janice Koh at library@esplanade.
2015
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Singapore
 

Workshops

Forum Theatre Workshop for Seniors

Join us this November 2013 for a 6-session introductory course into Forum Theatre, conducted by The Necessary Stage’s Founder and Artistic Director, Alvin Tan!  Learn about, create and facilitate a Forum Theatre piece together with your fellow participants.

Created by Augusto Boal, the form empowers the audience member to personally enact changes they would like to see in the presented performance. The form creates a safe space where audiences can test out solutions they think will help resolve the problems presented on stage. You can find out more information about Forum Theatre with a quick Google search, or even at your nearest public libraries!
2013
 

Publications

focas No. 3, Jan 2002

Work/Play
Kitsch & the Singapore Modern
Bodies & Text

focas is a biannual publication that engages issues of contemporary art, politics and social change—primarily but not exclusively—in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

focas is dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange amongst scholars and practitioners.
2002
 

Publications

focas No. 2, Jul 2001

Precious Little Difference - Gender. Sexuality. Art. 
Protest, Provocation, Process - Cultural Activism in South East Asia 
Colonialism or Collaboration? - Intercultural Practice and International Arts Organisations

focas is a biannual publication that engages issues of contemporary art, politics and social change—primarily but not exclusively—in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

focas is dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange amongst scholars and practitioners.
2001
 

Talks & Interviews

Forum on Twinning the Arts with Social Work

This forum aimed to uncover the practices of various agencies in combining arts with social work. 

The video recording is available on request.
2001
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Singapore
 

Publications

focas No. 1, Jan 2001

Who's Afraid of Representation? - Fear of Representation or the Lack Thereof
Imagine Boundaries - Community Art & Public Interaction
Transmedia Cockraoch - The Arts and the Singapore Press

focas is a biannual publication that engages issues of contemporary art, politics and social change—primarily but not exclusively—in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

focas is dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange amongst scholars and practitioners.
2001
 

Talks & Interviews

Fear of Representation and the Lack Thereof in Singapore Theatre

The following description was extracted from the Introduction in focas 1 by Editor Lucy Davis.

The transcript contains a lively debate on the politics and dilemmas of representation, and several perspectives on identity politics and Singapore theatre are raised: How to give space for different and/or marginal expressions without reducing people to difference or marginality? Can one speak of an "ethical representation"? Are there contextual codes of representation that we call can pragmatically access? And is Singapore really there at all? Differences in perspectives mirrored significant differences in the positions of panel speakers and floor speakers. Some of the various positions were: finding oneself marked against one's will; embracing marking as a political choice; and the desire to live, write, practise and perform in a space unmarked by identity politics.

A transcript of the forum was published in focas 1. 

The video recording is available upon request.
2000
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Singapore
 

Talks & Interviews

Forum on Theatre with Social Issues

A forum on theatre for social issues, considering its social function and its artistic value.
1998
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Singapore
 

Workshops

Francois Delsart

A lecture-demonstration about Francois Delsart, influential voice teacher and theoretician of the 19th centrury, whose teachings on voice and movement were important to the development of free dance and greatly impacted contemporary theatre in Europe and America
1997
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