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The Benefits of Multitasking, and then Hoarding, in the Case of Alvin Tan

This article is one of three pieces on ArtsEquator this week focusing on the people, plays and processes of The Necessary Stage, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Aside from Felipe Cervera’s profile of Alvin Tan, we also feature Akanksha Raja’s personal reflection on Off Centre, and an interview with Edlyn Ng and Shawn Chua on the upcoming online TNS Archive. By Felipe Cervera (1980 […]

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The Necessary Stage’s Archive Fever

This article is one of three pieces on ArtsEquator this week focusing on the people, plays and processes of The Necessary Stage, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Aside from Archive Fever, we also feature Felipe Cervera’s profile of Alvin Tan, and Akanksha Raja’s personal reflection on Off Centre. Shawn Chua and Edlyn Ng have been nose

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10 – 16 July 2017: Singapore

Talk | Photography and Cold War in Southeast Asia, @ NUS Museum, 11 July, 7 – 8pm Free with registration at http://ptix.co/2rWIVts This is a preliminary presentation, a kind of show-and-tell, based on writer, curator and artist Zhuang Wubin’s recent book, Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016). Zhuang’s primary intention is to share

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Taking to the stage with Singapore’s most fearless theatre company [Singapore]

“The lights go down and the actors walk on stage, transforming into familiar figures – teachers, administrators, students – with mannerisms, cadence and a liberal use of ‘Singlish’ that offers a reflection of their audience. The first words that explode out of a teenage actor’s mouth is a string of Hokkien curses. “Work so hard! Rehearse

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10 – 16 July 2017: Indonesia

Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Pekanbaru, Jakarta, Bandung and Bali from 10 – 16 July 2017   PEKANBARU Pekan Seni Media, Now – 14 July 2017, Bandar Seni Raja Ali Haji, Pekanbaru The Ministry of Education and Culture, together with Forum Lenteng presents Pekan Seni Media, a Media Art Festival in Pekanbaru, Riau.

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Podcast 18: Forum Theatre in Myanmar; SDEA Theatre Arts Conference

Duration: 16 min The SDEA (Singapore Drama Educators Association) Theatre Arts Conference took place at Goodman Arts Centre from 30 June to 1 July 2017. SDEA‘s mission is to advance the profession of the drama/theatre educator and advocating for the practice and value of drama and theatre. The conference comprises workshops, panel discussions, masterclasses and other

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“Binary” at M1 Contact Festival 2017: Dream States

By Chloe Calderon Chotrani (870 words, 8-minute read) Culminating the M1 Contact: Contemporary Dance Festival 2017 at Esplanade was Binary: International Artist Showcase. It featured two exquisite pieces Broken Lines by husband and wife, Dimo Kirilov and Tamako Akiyama of Kirilov-Akiyama Dance Projects (Spain) and Zero by Humanhood (U.K) that transported the audience from the black box into

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3 – 9 July: Singapore 2017

The Suffering Fetus & Female Freedom by Dr Amy Paris Langenberg, 3 July, @ AS8 Level 7, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent  Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, Amy Paris Langenberg’s work describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines,

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3 – 9 July 2017: Indonesia

Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Bali from 3 – 9 July 2017   JAKARTA     Body Out, 6 – 8 Juli, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta Supported by Jakarta Arts Council, Body Out is a Performance Art Festival taking place between 6 – 8 July. The festival features an art sharing,

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Art That Moves: Han Xuemei

Art that Moves is an occasional series where we ask artists and other creative workers to reflect on artworks, performances or events that were personally important to them. Han Xuemei, Dramabox‘s Resident Artist, is one of the main facilitators for Dramabox’s  re-run of the The Lesson (5 – 22 July 2017), a critically-praised work that

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26 June – 2 July: Singapore 2017

Good day art lovers! Here are some fun picks happening this week. Being Haresh Sharma by The Necessary Stage (in collaboration with CAKE theatre), 29 June – 1 July 2017, 8pm & 1 – 2 July 2017, 3pm. @Drama Centre Theatre, National Library Level 3 Being Haresh Sharma is a work helmed by Cake Theatrical Productions’ Natalie Hennedige

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Cultural and natural environments in Indonesia: Interview with Edwin Jurriëns [Indonesia]

Dutch researcher and lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the University of Melbourne, Edwin Jurriëns has just published a book with Routledge called “Visual Media in Indonesia”, where he analyses how in Indonesia, in the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected. Every new book of Edwin Jurriëns

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No Escape from the C: Reflections on Censorship and Curation in the Pangrok Sulap case

By Carmen Nge (1110 words, 10-minute read) The dust appears to have settled on the recent controversy surrounding the removal of Malaysian art collective Pangrok Sulap’s artwork Sabah Tanah Air-Ku from the art exhibition, “Escape from the SEA”. Organized by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur (JFKL), “Escape from the SEA” was a group exhibition featuring

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Epic Arts, Cambodia

By Ben Valentine (1091 words, 10-minute read)   The Asia Europe Foundation’s Culture360 and ArtsEquator present a series of 5 co-commissioned articles that look at arts groups, artists and performances in Southeast Asia that are comprised of or address artists with disabilities. In this first article, Ben Valentine meets with Epic Arts, a Cambodian arts group that

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19 – 25 June 2017: Singapore

Showing from 23 June – 22 July @ Victoria Theatre It’s a swinging bachelor’s dream come true: three beautiful air stewardesses, each taking her turn as his girlfriend… and each happily unaware of the others’ existence. Sounds impossible? Not if you’re Bernard, our modern-day Casanova! With careful, down-to-the-minute scheming, he’s managed to keep his hectic

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The schoolgirl thrash metal band smashing stereotypes in Indonesia [Indonesia]

It was a dull day in music class that ignited a rebellion in three Indonesian teenage girls. Poring over their school teacher’s music collection, the hijab-wearing schoolgirls from conservative West Java discovered a trove of heavy metal. “I just fell in love with metal since that first time I heard it. It felt so rebellious,”

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19 June – 2 July 2017: Indonesia

Top picks art events in Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali from 19 June – 2 July 2017 JAKARTA This Ain’t California, 20 June 2017, 7 PM, Goethehaus, Jakarta Goethe Institut’s Arthouse Cinema is back this Tuesday with a screening of This Ain’t California by award-winning director Martin Persiel. The film tells a story of a group

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Filmmakers adamant free expression alive in Philippines [Philippines]

“Two unlikely hits this year have thrust independent Philippine cinema into the global spotlight and shown, filmmakers say, that freedom of expression remains in the country despite the shadow of martial law that’s currently hanging over it. Jun Robles Lana’s “dramedy” Die Beautiful was a surprise commercial success following its general release during the Metro

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