Why Is Southeast Asian Cinema Still Lagging Internationally? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints February 9, 2022 By ArtsEquator (1,187 words, 3-minute read) In Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries, it is common to find Hollywood blockbusters dominating our movie conversations...
Open Calls and Opportunities: Nov 2021 (Singapore/SEA) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 30, 2021 ArtsEquator Lobang is a list of available open calls, job postings and other opportunities open to people from Singapore and Southeast Asia...
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At dawn’s first light: “Matins” by the SYC Ensemble Singers | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints SYC Ensemble Singers May 12, 2021 By Shahril Salleh ( 1,215 words, 6-minute read) We thought about after a year of not singing together in a live performance, we wanted to have a concert about beginnings and about trying to become like the new normal again as a choir...
ArtsEquator’s Hot List: May 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints May 5, 2021 Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator releases our editor’s picks of shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month...
ArtsEquator’s Hot List: April 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints T:>Works, Pitapat Theater, WILD Rice April 7, 2021 Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator releases our editor’s picks of shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month...
ArtsEquator’s Hot List: February 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Pangdemonium, Gaudy Boy and Chua Chye Teck...
ArtsEquator's Hot List: January 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 6, 2021 Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator will release a list of recommended shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month...
[Online Course] ArtsEquator Introduction to Reviewing Theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 13, 2020 INTRODUCTION TO REVIEWING THEATRE by Nabilah Said Course Synopsis: This introductory course will teach you how to write and think critically about a show, from doing research, to watching, preparing to write and finally, writing and editing...
[Online Course] ArtsEquator Introduction to Reviewing Dance | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 6, 2020 INTRODUCTION TO REVIEWING DANCE by Chan Sze-Wei, Jocelyn Chng and Bernice Lee Course Synopsis: This introductory course offers tools and practical exercises for writing for dance and about dance...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: "Fried Rice" nominated for Eisner; Celebrating indigenous music in Indonesia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Franki Raden via Jakarta Post June 11, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Can theatre in the Philippines survive? ; Kadazan short film | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Vu Hoang Long via Urbanist Hanoi May 21, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Indonesian govt aids arts; female voices in Vietnam war stories | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro May 14, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Japanese ska in Saigon, experimental music in Yangon | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Alberto Prieto via Saigoneer April 16, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Photo by Hailey Oldfield on Unsplash March 27, 2020 by Nabilah Said As the world contends with the new normal of temperature checks, home quarantines and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19, artists find themselves reckoning with a lack of paid jobs coupled with an existential question of the meaning of art in these times...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Indonesian webcomics spark joy; "come try" forum theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Jim Selkin January 8, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: The relevance of "Soi Cowboy"; Malaysia's Zen Cho wins Hugo Award | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Illustration by Jared Downing | Frontier August 20, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
By Elsa Lim (1090 words, four-minute read) It was a lazy Sunday afternoon in early December, and the Visitor......
The ArtsEquator Logo Challenge: How Well Do You Know Your Southeast Asian Capitals? Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 22, 2019 Hands up if you’ve ever wondered what the ArtsEquator logo symbolises! 🙋 Few can identify all the Southeast Asian capitals represented by the red dots on the logo....
Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part I) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Natasha Harth for QAGOMA untitled (giran) (2018), Jonathan Jones in collaboration with Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM January 10, 2019 By Marcus Yee (1259 words, five-minute read) This is the first of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019...
ArtsEquator's Top 10 Articles of 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 3, 2019 Before we plunge headlong into 2019, here’s a quick recap of some of our most-read articles on ArtsEquator, in ascending order...
Watch the ArtsEquator Theatre Wrap Up 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 21, 2018 As 2018 draws to a close, we interview four ArtsEquator writers in rapidfire style on the highs and lows of their theatre calendar this past year...
Podcast 50: Anna Chan, Asia Network for Dance (AND+) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 22, 2018 Duration: 36 min Chan Sze-Wei finds out more about the Asia Network for Dance (AND+) from one of its co-conveners Anna Chan, who was former head of Performing Arts and Dance for the West Kowloon Cultural District and current Dean of the School of Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts...
ArtsEquator Turns Two! | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 15, 2018 ArtsEquator is two years old today! 🎉 Aside from our original reviews, essays, podcasts and visual essays, we’ve also organised programmes to strengthen performance criticism and critical discourse....
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ArtsEquator’s Reading Group for Critics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 15, 2018 Duration: October 2018 – March 2019 “What distinguishes the good, valuable theatre critic … is that you sense that [they are] writing about a cause – about a theatre in his or her mind...
ArtsEquator’s “Keep the Kids Happy” list for July - August 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 3, 2018 There are definitely lists of shows, workshops, exhibitions and much more for the adults, well, what about the kids? Parental units, fear not! Arts Equator has come up with a list arts events to keep your beloved children occupied from July to August that are exciting, fun-filled and especially for the young ones!...