Our Cultural Medallion Story: 3 ways to explore this showcase of Singapore artists | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Arts House Limited December 16, 2021 By Janice Yap A new interactive showcase is shining the spotlight on the 130 artists who have been conferred the Cultural Medallion, Singapore’s highest accolade for the arts...
ANCER Lab 03 Manila: How arts managers are surviving COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Mah Jun Yi and Low Pey Sien November 22, 2021 By Wennie Yang (1,200 words, 4-minute read) Pandemic restrictions have put arts and cultural workers and institutions in a bind: choosing between sustaining their missions at times of a global pandemic or ceasing operations altogether...
Yale-NUS closure: Artistic legacies and loss in (de)liberation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Raphael Hugh October 6, 2021 By Clara Che Wei Peh and Tee Zhuo (2,500 words, 10-minute read) In August, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced unilaterally that Yale-NUS College would be shut down by 2025, marking what many see as a premature end to the partnership between Yale University and NUS that started in 2011...
Dear Waterloo Street, From An Emerging Arts Manager | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Ho Shu En August 20, 2021 Text and illustrations by Ho Shu En (1,600 words, 4-minute read) Waterloo Street is for me, a place of beginnings...
Podcast 91: Curated Conferences with Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani at Meeting Point 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 30, 2021 Nabilah Said and Wennie Yang speak to Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani the three curators who led the Curated Conference programme as part of Meeting Point 2021 ...
Meeting Point 2021: The cultural worker in a time of social change | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mekong Cultural Hub June 7, 2021 By Wennie Yang (2,000 words, 8-minute read) Laptop fully charged, professional Zoom background selected – Meeting Point 2021 organised by Mekong Cultural Hub and its partners took place virtually between 20 to 22 May 2021...
The Substation’s SeptFest 2021: The last chapter | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints AIRISU / The Substation March 24, 2021 By Nabilah Said Against the backdrop of a battle of words , an impossibility is happening...
The Substation: An unstoppable force and an immovable object | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Substation's Facebook page, taken by Mish'aal March 9, 2021 By Nabilah Said, with additional reporting by Ke Weiliang On Saturday, 6 March 2021, almost 300 members of the arts community came together in a Zoom Townhall to discuss the fate of independent arts centre The Substation...
The future of The Substation: A timeline of events (Updated) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles The Substation Facebook Page March 9, 2021 By Ke Weiliang, with assistance from Nabilah Said Last updated: 12 Nov 2021 ArtsEquator has compiled a timeline of events that details recent developments surrounding the future of The Substation...
How they got their stART: ArtsWok, Paper Monkey Theatre and Bhumi Collective | ArtsEquator % Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 1, 2021 In unprecedented times like a pandemic, artists, like everyone else, are focused on survival...
The Substation: How many more canaries in the coal mine? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 20, 2021 By Hoe Su Fern Since 1990, The Substation has been the sole occupant of the conserved building at 45 Armenian Street...
Statistically Speaking: What the data says about arts audiences in Singapore and Australia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 27, 2021 On Thursday, 28 January 11am-12.30pm (GMT +8), representatives from Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) and the Australia Council for the Arts will discuss audience attitudes towards the arts in their respective countries in the webinar titled “Statistically Speaking: Analysing Arts Audience Engagement in Singapore and Australia”...
Statistically Speaking: Analysing Arts Audience Engagement in Singapore and Australia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 20, 2021 Representatives from Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) and the Australia Council for the Arts will discuss audience attitudes towards the arts in their respective countries, based on research survey data collected in 2019 and 2020...
Book Review: "The State and The Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Images courtesy of Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore April 9, 2019 By Chin Ailin (734 words, four-minute read) Commissioned by the Institute of Policy Studies of Singapore (IPS) to trace the course of cultural policy in Singapore from the 1950s to the present, The State and the Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions is a comprehensive tome that should serve as an essential text in time to come for any student’s introduction to Singapore’s arts and cultural policies...
What the Arts in Malaysia Needs: More Transparency, Less Intermediaries | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 2, 2018 By Kathy Rowland (2145 words, 8 minute read) 2 July 2018 – The receding brown moon on millions of Malaysians’ fingernails are a biological marker of the eight weeks since the end of the Najib administration...