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Open calls and job opportunities

Open Calls and Opportunities: February 2019 (Singapore)

  Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative 2019 Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative is the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)’s travel grant for artists and cultural professionals. Mobility First! supports a wide variety of activity types (workshop/training, conference/forum, festival/biennale, residencies, partnership meetings, research trips, short-term exploration/networking) with particular focus on these areas: Skills transfer […]

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: “More Beaches, Less Gamelan”, A Secret Singapore History of Drum and Bass

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts 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. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Tay Tong

Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong

Tay Tong, or TT as he is affectionately known in arts circles locally and internationally, is one of Singapore’s pioneer producers and arts managers. After 30 years as the MD of TheatreWorks, TT left in April 2018. During his time with TheatreWorks, TT produced works that entered the Singapore and SEA canon, built TheatreWorks into

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Digital Public Art in Hanoi, A Mobile Library in rural Cambodia

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts 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. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Sensorial Trail

The Sensorial Trail: Experience Art through Smell, Sound and Touch at National Gallery Singapore

Art doesn’t have to be for the eyes only. As part of the Light To Night Festival 2019, National Gallery Singapore presents The Sensorial Trail, a series of artworks that draw on your other senses – those of smell, sound, and touch – in an intimate, sometimes playful exploration of intimacy with our various senses.

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The ArtsEquator Logo Challenge

The ArtsEquator Logo Challenge

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. We quizzed random strangers in Penang on their geographical knowledge of the region’s capitals – watch them attempt to tackle the challenge and see how many you

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“Jogging” To Survive: Hanane Hajj Ali at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019

Metaphors abound in this complex work about living, loving and surviving. The broad canvas is a country at war. Jogging falls short of running full out, and this black clad woman has survived through thirty years of war in her city Beirut. Her storytelling is multi-layered and cleverly scripted, revealing a series of characters that

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Galleries informed that art fair Art Stage Singapore cancelled (via The Straits Times)

SINGAPORE – At least five galleries slated to participate in Art Stage Singapore say the art fair has been cancelled by organisers. This would have been the ninth edition of the contemporary art fair, which was to run from Jan 25 to 27 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre. Representatives of galleries

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Female artists, art biennial to grace National Gallery this year (via The Jakarta Post)

Indonesia’s arts scene is by no means lacking, yet most of its big names are men, with notable female artists largely unexplored. An upcoming art exhibition at the National Gallery in Central Jakarta, titled Into the Future, aims to change that. Slated to run from Feb. 26 to March 16, Into the Future will showcase

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Open calls and job opportunities

Open Calls and Job Opportunities: January 2019 (Singapore)

General Manager at Checkpoint Theatre Checkpoint Theatre is looking to hire a General Manager, a newly created position. The GM will have particular responsibility for finance; regulatory compliance and reporting; human resources, fundraising, and partnerships. You should have: – a minimum of 10 years’ experience in the arts/culture/heritage sectors, including administrative and management positions; –

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ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Articles of 2018

Before we plunge headlong into 2019, here’s a quick recap of some of our most-read articles on ArtsEquator, in ascending order. 10. Nathalie Johnston: Creating a home for contemporary art in Myanmar by Victoria Milko As part of ArtsEquator’s series covering independent spaces across Southeast Asia, Victoria Milko profiles Nathalie Johnston, founder of contemporary art space Myanm/art in Yangon.

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Theatre Wrap Up 2018

ArtsEquator Theatre Wrap Up 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. Listen in as Akanksha Raja, Casidhe Ng, Corrie Tan, and Naeem Kapadia share which shows they’d give up their most prized possessions to see again, which characters they’d each

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Asrari Nasir of Paradise Pictures

Traversing Two Divergent Paths in “BITTEN: return to our roots”

By Casidhe Ng (1,320 words, six-minute read) We move through the Kampong Bugis landscape throughout the performance, along patches of grass, the river, and brick-tiled pavements. A residue of dirt, sand, and mud clings to our soles, and the afternoon is afflicted with bouts of rain. The atmosphere invokes a stifling sensation brought upon by

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