Tag: Arts Scene in Singapore
2018: From disappearing “independent” PAP MP to the IMDA
What or who to look out for in 2018? Here’s a quick list as we see out 2017:
Under spotlight
The GST people
Feverish work going on...
Cancer, lack of money didn’t stop young film-maker from fulfilling his dream
By Laura Zhang
Chiak (Hokkien for "eat") a local movie with a budget less than $2,000, won the GV25 Film Shorts competition. Golden Village, host of the film competition funded this...
Oh change, how will it come?
By: Tan Tarn How/
Yesterday, a meeting of four of us. Another discussion, another depressing conclusion: Singapore had become even less liberal in the last...
At odds over street art
By Boshika Gupta
In Delhi’s Shahpur Jat area, I stopped frequently on a personal walking tour more than two years ago. There was so much...
Cultural Medallion winner explains how MDA kills the arts scene in Singapore
O.P.E.N. a Singapore International Festival of Arts' (SIFA) pre-festival event kicked off today with an exhibition of award-winning Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian work, I Know Why...
Canceling of Les Misérables kissing scene is not victory over LGBT but of hysteria
~Republished from playwright Alfian Sa'at's Facebook page~
In a Straits Times report, it was mentioned that MDA removed a a 'same-sex kissing scene' from the...
Sound Bytes – Sonny Liew, art and Mulan Gallery exhibition
By Howard Lee
Let's be honest - too few in Singapore would have known who Sonny Liew was, if not for the National Arts Council withdrawing the...
Kok Heng Leun proposed to represent the Arts sector as Nominated Member of Parliament
Artistic director and co-founder of the bilingual theatre company Drama Box, Kok Heng Leun, has been put forward by peers and members of the...
Cultural Medallion winner Ivan Heng and his husband censored from Today newspaper's special Valentine's...
A newspaper owned by Mediacorp, Today, ran a special Valentine's Day feature on office romance and of couples "who cohabit the work space, do...
NEW INTERCULTURAL THEATRE METHODS, TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES OF MAKING CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
Asian Intercultural Conference (AIC) 2014 is a global gathering of actors, writers, directors, scholars and researchers with an interest in the “Asian Intercultural”.
Within Asia’s diversity are...
