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Talks & Interviews

Negotiating a Third Space

This forum seeks to discuss the recent efforts made in cultural activism and explore how they relate to the role of the arts in Singapore.

The forum transcription was published in focas Vol. 2.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

untitled cow number one

A performative meditation on bovine consciousness.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

A Shadow's Mask

The society consists of mask makers. Everyone makes their own masks, be it for friends, for family, for work, for school…This performance will showcase the collaboration between the choreographer Lee Yong Wen and the puppeteer Tan Beng Tian. It will use movement, music and masks to explore their inner souls, souls lost in a labyrinth of masks.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

Detached Retina II

A return to Plato's cave, viewing it not from the perspective of the philosophical observer, who experiments on or imagines the "prisoners", but from the perspective of the prisoner who imagines the philosophical observer…as idealogue.
2001
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Singapore
 

Staging

[names changed to protect the innocent]

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

Productions

What's the difference?

What's the difference? aims to help students understand and respect difference. Some children already have prejudices and discriminate against others who are of a different colour, size or gender from themselves at a young age.

The pay hopes to enable students to reflect on how these prejudices are formed and to question their validity. It also hopes to encourage students to examine their own thought and decision making process and to provide them with alternative perspectives.
2000
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Singapore

Staging

What's the difference?

What's the difference? aims to help students understand and respect difference. Some children already have prejudices and discriminate against others who are of a different colour, size or gender from themselves at a young age.

The pay hopes to enable students to reflect on how these prejudices are formed and to question their validity. It also hopes to encourage students to examine their own thought and decision making process and to provide them with alternative perspectives.
2000
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Singapore

Productions

Raining Cats and Dogs

This play will look at the importance of taking responsibility for our environment. Find out how growing "tow gay" for a science experiment can have many consequences! Through scenarios that affect the personal, larger environmental issues will also be looked at and discussed in a fun and interesting manner. This programme aims to encourage students to not take their surroundings for granted, and to think about how they impact on others, and the larger environment.
2000
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Singapore

Staging

Raining Cats and Dogs

This play will look at the importance of taking responsibility for our environment. Find out how growing "tow gay" for a science experiment can have many consequences! Through scenarios that affect the personal, larger environmental issues will also be looked at and discussed in a fun and interesting manner. This programme aims to encourage students to not take their surroundings for granted, and to think about how they impact on others, and the larger environment.
2000
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Singapore
 

Workshops

My Dream Classroom

Building on its success in education and the arts, especially the Theatre For Youth Branch’s Development Through Drama programme, The Necessary Stage introduces its interdisciplinary Integrated Arts & Personal Development programme in 2001, with a focus on visual art and drama.

Targeted at secondary school students to young adults, the programme hopes to introduce to young people creative skills that will enhance their learning process. The course seeks to discover and adapt to the unique abilities of the student through hands-on teaching, finding the forms of expression that best suits them.

As with the Branch’s Development Through Drama programme, the course aims to develop and enhance students’ life-skills such as confidence, expression, communication, and social interaction and to introduce students to the arts and to open up their creative and imaginative faculties.  This programme is piloted at East View Secondary and Telok Kurau Secondary School.
2000
 

Workshops

Theatre For Youth Branch 2001

In September 1992, Alvin Tan, Artistic Director of The Necessary Stage, established the Theatre For Youth Branch.

The aims of the Branch are:


to expose young people to theatre;
to create a space for artistic expression by and for young people;
to cultivate the aesthetic sensibilities of young people; and
to explore themes and issues relevant to young people in Singapore


We believe that theatre must grow out of the community and therefore pay close attention to issues that concern young people and educators. Our programmes develop from research, careful planning and consultation. The concern that students should benefit fully has led us to theoretical and hands-on learning; and cultivate students' life-skills and contribute towards their personal development.

The Branch also believes strongly in, and welcomes, partnerships with other sectors in society to achieve holistic outcomes for our programmes. The school's curriculum and directions in education are also taken into consideration when planning our programmes.
2000
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