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SUMMARY:Objectifs Junior: Young YouTubers Challenge Video Workshop
DESCRIPTION:(NEW DATES!) Group C: 23 Jun to 25 Jun 2025\, 3pm – 5.30pm \nFee: $220 \nPlease register via: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/objectifsjunior-holiday-camps/  \nCalling all young content creators! Are you ready to embark on a YouTube adventure filled with laughter\, creativity\, and excitement? Come join our “Young YouTubers Challenge Video Workshop” designed especially for kids aged 6 to 13! \nIn this workshop\, participants will learn the art of storytelling\, as well as develop videography and editing skills while building their confidence and on-camera presence. Allow your children to unleash their inner star and master the secrets of crafting thrilling challenge videos that will leave their audience in stitches! \nNo prior experience is required\, suitable for ages 6 to 13.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-junior-young-youtubers-challenge-video-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Objectifs Film Club: Passages of Memory & The Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wed 4 Jun 2025\, 7.30pm – 8.30pm\nVenue: Objectifs’ Workshop Space \nTaking place in conjunction with a kind of magic \nFree admission\, please RSVP here. \nAs this event will be taking place in conjunction with a kind of magic\, we highly recommend arriving before 7pm to have a chance to view the exhibition before attending the Film Club. \n\nHow do physical and geographical relocations of self lead to internal shifts that affect one’s emotions and memories? And can the personal or singular narrative be just as powerful when used to explore wider issues and concerns that affect us all? Where does the imagination insert itself in our attempts to make sense of our identities\, histories\, and personal experiences\, especially amidst wider forces that shape them beyond our control? \nJoin us at our upcoming Film Club event\, taking place in conjunction with Juliana Tan’s exhibition\, a kind of magic\, where we will be exploring these topics and more. The session will kickstart with a screening of Polen Ly’s ‘Further and Further Away‘\, followed by a conversation between Juliana\, academic and researcher Amillin Hussain\, as well as audience members about the similarities in issues that both film and exhibition bring to light. \n\nAbout ‘Further and Further Away‘ by Polen Ly \nA young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia\, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life. While her brother is excited for the move\, she senses a quiet desire to return to their long-gone village that was lost to the development of a nearby hydroelectric dam a few years earlier. \nAbout the speakers \nJuliana Tan is a photographer whose work is rooted in the ephemeral. Her instinct is underscored by her rapt yet gentle observation of the world around her. Juliana’s sensitivity to shifting lights\, hues and timing deftly informs her images as an intimate\, yet infinite\, dialogue—a single moment in time captured within the process of becoming. Her first monograph\, A Kind of Magic\, was published by Jordan\, jordan Édition in 2025. Her work Clear Mandate\, in collaboration with Khoo Guo Jie\, was shown at Angkor Photo Festival 2020. \nNurul Amillin Hussain is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Amillin’s research looks at sustainable and smart infrastructures in high-rise housing estates\, focusing on Singapore. She received her BA in Sociology from NTU\, an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge\, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Oxford. In her free time\, she takes walks\, enjoys creative writing\, and volunteers with The Codette Project. \nAbout the Objectifs Film Library\nThe Objectifs Film Library is an initiative by Objectifs that aims to be a resource for film lovers in Singapore and the region. Currently\, the collection is focused on short films from Southeast Asia. \nUsers will be able to rent some of these films to watch in the comfort of their homes\, and a wider selection is available exclusively at our centre. \nAccess the Objectifs Film Library here.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-film-club-passages-of-memory-the-imaginary/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Curator Open Call 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Monday 23 June 2025\, 2359 SGT \nCurator Open Call invites Singapore-based curators to submit proposals for an exhibition to be realised at the Chapel Gallery\, Objectifs. This is part of our ongoing effort to broaden perspectives by supporting curatorial research and innovative ways of presenting image-based work. \nThe successful proposal will receive: \n– A curator honorarium of SGD $1\,000\n– A production budget of up to SGD $8\,000\n– Mentorship from senior curator and educator\, Siddharta Perez\n– Production guidance\, administrative and marketing support from Objectifs\n– The show will be presented in January 2026\, at the Chapel Gallery for a period of up to 6 weeks. It will coincide with Singapore Art Week 2026. \nMore details: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/curator-open-call-2025/
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/curator-open-call-2025/
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CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Visual Arts (Events)
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SUMMARY:Saturdate – May 2025 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Sat 31 May 2025\, 12pm – 5pm\nObjectifs Annexe \nSaturdate is a new programme happening on the last Saturday of the month that aims to create a gathering space of exploration\, discussion and activities\, highlighting the playful and creative forms of photography and filmmaking. Whether you are a young budding visual storyteller\, or an experienced professional\, there is something for everyone. The first 30 people receive a special stamp card to mark your progress with the activities! Complete 2 / 5 activities to get a 10% discount from our bookstore (T&Cs apply). \nACTIVITIES \nParent-Child Photo Hunt\nAll-day\nPhysical guide printout is pay-by-donation\nOn your marks\, get the Photo Hunt Guide\, go! Explore the Bras Basah district and complete a series of photography quests! These quests are designed to inspire young minds to look at fresh perspectives\, and to create an adventure for them and their caretaker. After completing the photo hunt\, claim your rewards at Objectifs. \nShrink Plastic Keychain Making Corner\n2pm – 3.30pm\nMinimum $5 donation per shrink plastic charm\nTurn your favourite photos into wearable keepsakes! Watch your images and drawings shrink into little charms which can be made into keychains. \nJui Coffee\n12pm – sold out\nSip on a freshly made handcrafted brew at a specialty coffee pop-up by Jui Coffee — the perfect way to unwind on a weekend. \nPrint Swap Station\nAll-day\nBring a photo print and exchange it with someone else’s print at our Print Swap Station! Discover new photographers\, and get an exclusive photo print as a souvenir of time well spent. \nSGSPC Off-The-Street Session: Post-GE2025 Discussion\n2pm – 4pm | Free admission\nLimited Slots Available\, Please register here.\nTook many photos during the election season? This is a great opportunity for you to share them with like-minded photographers and new friends! \nSingapore Street Photography Collective (SGSPC) is established in 2020\, and aims to showcase more street works from lesser-known SG-based photographers.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/saturdate-may-2025-edition/
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SUMMARY:A Kind of Magic
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by Juliana Tan\nCurated by Ng Hui Hsien\n30 May to 22 Jun 2025\nObjectifs Lower Galleries \nOpening: Fri 30 May 2025\, 7pm – 9pm\nFree admission \nRelated events\nArtist Talk with Juliana Tan and Ng Hui Hsien (Please register here)\nSat 14 Jun 2025\, 2pm – 3.30pm\nFree admission \nA Kind of Magic is a photographic journey through a city that no longer exists. Traversing an interplay between imagined and experienced realities\, the images serve as a portal to a temporal landscape that has been irrevocably altered by external forces. Rooted in the artist’s personal displacement from 1998 Indonesia\, a period marked by significant societal unrest and racial tension\, the work transforms personal narrative into a resonant exploration of universal themes: displacement\, remembrance\, and the enduring quest to reclaim our own story. \nAbout the artist\nJuliana Tan is a photographer whose work is rooted in the ephemeral. Her instinct is underscored by her rapt yet gentle observation of the world around her. Juliana’s sensitivity to shifting lights\, hues and timing deftly informs her images as an intimate\, yet infinite\, dialogue—a single moment in time captured within the process of becoming. \nHer first monograph\, A Kind of Magic\, was published by Jordan\, jordan Édition in 2025. Her work Clear Mandate\, in collaboration with Khoo Guo Jie\, was shown at Angkor Photo Festival 2020. \nAbout the curator\nNg Hui Hsien works as an artist\, educator\, and curator. Through her artworks\, she seeks to evoke stillness and wonder\, especially towards our inner landscapes and the more-than-human world. Her artworks have been internationally exhibited in institutions and festivals\, including the MOU Museum of Onomichi City University (Japan)\, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts (Germany)\, Reykjavík Museum of Photography (Iceland)\, and Comma Space (Singapore). \nAs an independent curator\, Hui Hsien has worked with Angkor Photo Festival (Cambodia) and The Private Museum (Singapore) to present a projection screening and an exhibition respectively in 2024.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/a-kind-of-magic/
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SUMMARY:Photography Masterclass: Sequencing and Storytelling for Long-Term Projects
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time\nSat 17 May 2025\, 12pm – 5pm \nVenue\nObjectifs Workshop Space \nDuration\n5h over 1 session \nProficiency Level\nIntermediate \nFind out more and register here. \nThis photography masterclass is designed for photographers working on long-term personal projects who want to strengthen their visual storytelling and sequencing skills. Led by Veejay Villafranca\, acclaimed documentary photographer and former Regional Jury Head (2024) of the World Press Photo Contest\, this workshop offers an in-depth look into the creative process behind building powerful photographic narratives. \nParticipants will explore Veejay’s personal editing and sequencing workflow—learning how to curate images effectively for single images\, photojournalism assignments\, and long-form visual projects. The session will also cover key differences in editing approaches based on the intended platform or purpose. \nAdditionally\, Veejay will provide practical insights into shaping meaningful personal narratives that connect with wider audiences. \n\nAbout Veejay Villafranca \nVeejay was a staff photographer for the national news magazine\, the Philippines Graphic\, covering socio-political events in the Philippines. In 2006\, he started working independently with international news wire agencies covering news and features in the Southeast Asian region. \nIn 2008\, he was awarded the Ian Parry Scholarship and pursued a residency at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan\, France for his project on the lives of former gang members in Manila. In 2013\, Veejay attended the 2013 Joop Swart Masterclass program of the World Press Photo Foundation where he developed a project on public health and Filipino spirituality. His first photobook co-published with MAPA Books\, SIGNOS\, garnered the 2018 Invisible Photographer Asia first photobook award. He is also one of the featured artists at the Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale. \nVeejay is a visual language and documentary photography lecturer at the Diploma in Visual Journalism at the Asian Center for Journalism and at the Bachelor’s of Photography program at the College of Saint Benilde. He is also an alumnus of the 2005 Angkor Photo Festival Documentary photographer workshop and served as a Regional jury member (2022) and later on Regional Jury Head (2023) of the World Press Photo Contest.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/photography-masterclass-sequencing-and-storytelling-for-long-term-projects/
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SUMMARY:Projection Night
DESCRIPTION:Fri 16 May 2025\, 7.30pm – 10pm\nChapel Gallery\, Objectifs\nFree admission (please RSVP here) \nJoin us for an evening projection of works by photographers and artists across Southeast Asia. These slideshows encapsulate the spirit of visual storytelling in the region\, with a special focus on work from the Philippines. The slideshow will be followed by a conversation between photographer Veejay Villafranca and Chelsea Chua\, Programme Director. \nDispatches from the Region\nCurated by Chelsea Chua and Lim Ming Rui (Objectifs) \nFeaturing recent projects by six past recipients of the Objectifs Documentary Award\, this slideshow gives a glimpse into the issues and modes of image-making that preoccupy artists and photographers in Southeast Asia today. \nVista: Philippine Perspectives\nCurated by Veejay Villafranca \nVista will showcase the work of photographers covering contemporary stories in and around the country. This curated slideshow aims to highlight photographic practice and perspective in their work as witnesses in important events and in following contemporary stories that delve in the socio-political sphere of the Philippines and its neighboring countries in Southeast Asia.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/projection-night/
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SUMMARY:[Call For Nominations] Objectifs Women In Focus Art Prize
DESCRIPTION:Deadline for nominations: Mon 23 Jun (2359H SGT)\n \nObjectifs is excited to announce the launch of a new award\, dedicated to celebrating and supporting the exceptional work of mid-career women and non-binary photographers\, filmmakers and visual artists who work primarily in lens-based medium\, and who are now at a pivotal stage in their careers. \nThrough the Objectifs Women in Focus Art Prize\, we aim to recognise the achievements of artists who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in their body of work\, with a focus on practices that are socially engaged or create space for impact\, questioning\, and dialogue. The Prize also reaffirms Objectifs’ commitment to amplifying visual stories by women and non-binary artists\, and the value of supporting practitioners at different stages of their careers. \nThe SGD8\,000 Prize is currently for Southeast Asians with at least 15 years as a professional practitioner. For 2025\, the Prize will be offered to photographers and visual artists working in photography. It will be opened to filmmakers/those working in film in 2026. \nThrough an Open Call for Nominations\, we invite curators\, programmers and industry peers to highlight those who are pushing boundaries and creating meaningful\, culturally relevant narratives. Nominations will be evaluated by a jury panel. \n\nWhat are we looking for in nominations in 2025? \n1. Photographers and visual artists who work primarily in photography medium\, with a preference for work that are socially engaged or that explore and surface social issues/themes. (Note: Nominations for filmmakers and artists working in film/video open only in 2026). \n2. Nominees must be a Southeast Asian citizen\, with at least 15 years as a professional practitioner (the time period may include overlapping academic studies\, if the nominee was pursuing a professional practice at the same time – e.g. freelance work\, independent showcases). \n3. There is no restriction on the use of the Prize money. Our only requirement is for the Prize recipient to deliver an artist-sharing session in October 2025 (format to discussed). \n4. Nominations are open to the public and to all nationalities (note\, only nominees must be Southeast Asian). Self-nominations and nominations by immediate family members will not be accepted. \n5. Nominations will be assessed on:\ni) A strong body of work that has a clear artistic vision\, that preferably explores social themes.\nii) An active and ongoing record of participation in the field (may include exhibitions\, festivals\, screenings\, publications\, mentorships\, community outreach etc).\niii) The nominee demonstrates a commitment to continued artistic growth and dedication to their craft. \n6. One SGD8\,000 Women in Focus Art Prize will be awarded. An award of SGD1\,000 each will be given to two finalists. \n7. Objectifs will contact nominees directly for the submission of materials. These materials will need to be submitted by 6 August 2025. The materials to be submitted by nominees will include a portfolio of up to 3 bodies of works/series that are most representative of their practice. \n8. Results will be announced in October 2025\, during the 8th edition of the Objectifs Women in Film & Photography Showcase. \nSubmit your nominations here.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/call-for-nominations-objectifs-women-in-focus-art-prize/
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SUMMARY:Foundational Photography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Make the most of your digital camera with this comprehensive introduction to digital photography. Comprising classroom sessions\, guided shoots and group critiques\, this course imparts the fundamental principles of photography and is suitable for beginners. \nAfter completing this course\, participants will be familiar with techniques of composition\, understand the ‘trinity of exposure’ (aperture\, shutter speed\, and ISO)\, how to shoot in available light\, and the basics of flash photography. This course sets a strong foundation for other photography workshops at Objectifs. \nTechnical Requirements\nParticipants are to bring their own DSLRs or a prosumer digital camera like the mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC) for the workshop. Participants will also have to bring their own tripods for the night photography guided shoot. \nObjectifs has a limited number of cameras for loan. If you require a camera loan\, please contact us at info@objectifs.com.sg after registration via the form on our website. \nWorkshop Fee\n$500 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit) \nInstructor\nAmrita Chandradas \nPlease register via the form on our website.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/foundational-photography-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20250426T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20250517T153000
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SUMMARY:Black & White II Film Photography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Explore the artistry of black and white photography with renowned fine-art photographer Mary-Ann Teo. This intermediate immerses you in the essentials of printmaking techniques\, such as manipulating filter gels\, and mastering dodging and burning methods. \nPre-requisites:\nParticipants will need to have a 35mm film SLR or point-and-shoot camera. Participants will also need some basic experience with 35mm film processing or darkroom processes. (Please refer to our Black and White I page if you are looking for an introductory class on film processing and the darkroom.) \nWorkshop Fee\n$350 Workshop Fee + Materials & Darkroom Use $100 (includes darkroom and chemicals usage during class time\, and 6 additional hours outside class time) \nNext Dates \nGroup A: 26 Apr to 17 May 2025 \n\n1. Sat 26 Apr\, 1pm – 3.30pm\n2. Sat 3 May\, 1pm – 3.30pm\n3. Sat 10 May\, 1pm – 3.30pm\n4. Sat 17 May\, 1pm – 3.30pm\n\n\nPlease register via the form on our website.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/black-white-ii-film-photography-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This is not your average documentary workshop. It’s not about the latest gear\, or the trendiest topic\, or how to make your video go viral. This is about how life is often stranger than fiction\, what the functions and techniques of documentary are\, and how to tell a compelling non-fiction story for the screen. \nThe process of ideating\, producing\, filming\, editing your own documentary\, plus overcoming the various challenges that will come along with making a documentary\, will be the craft journey you will embark upon as a class across the 6 sessions. \nBy the end of the workshop\, you will have made a documentary that you can truly call your own\, and present it to the class in a film screening. \nThere will also be a screening of films by the class which is open to friends and family at the end of the workshop. \nWorkshop Fee: $950 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit) \nInstructor: Jessica Lee \nPlease register via the form on our website.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/documentary-filmmaking-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Film Screening (Events),Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:The Forest Listens\, Their Spirits Cry
DESCRIPTION:Featuring works by Gab Mejia (Philippines)\nRecipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award\, Open Category\nCurated by Goh Sze Ying \n4 Apr to 18 May 2025\nChapel Gallery\, Objectifs\nFree admission \nOpening | 4 Apr 2025\, 12pm – 7pm \nNature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia\nSat 5 Apr 2025\, 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here) \n\nRevered as healers\, warriors\, and teachers\, the Baylans of the Talaandig-Manobo have long been guardians of the sacred forests of Mount Kaluntungan in the southern Philippine province of Bukidnon\, threatened by an encroaching industrial pace since the Spanish and American colonial period. For the Baylans\, the forest is a sacred site—a portal\, a threshold. Nature and spirit abide in the Talaandig-Manobo narrative.\nGab Mejia pays homage to this verdant landscape and its people by directing our attention to the queer kinship of two central figures: a head spiritual leader Datu Arayan\, and a Baylan initiate and youth leader Krystahl Guina. A new generation of Baylans\, they are also members of the Kulahi Pangantucan Performing Arts Group—storytellers\, performers\, protectors of indigenous heritage. Mejia’s dreamlike portraits animate Datu and Krystal’s deep\, unspoken spiritual connection with their land\, home\, and family amidst the quiet domesticity of their daily rhythms. \nThe Forest Listens\, Their Spirits Cry speaks of a desire to pollinate a dream of a future belonging otherwise. \nPresented by Objectifs and supported by the Truthseeker Foundation. \n\nAbout the Artist \nGab Mejia (he/they) is a queer Filipino photographer\, multidisciplinary artist\, and environmental engineer. Born and raised in the Philippine archipelago\, his work unveils the threads of the climate crisis\, biodiversity loss\, ancestral knowledge\, cosmologies\, and cultural interconnections to confront our socio-political and ecological crises. \nMejia is a National Geographic Explorer\, Climate Pledge Global Storyteller\, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers and 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. His work has appeared in National Geographic\, BBC\, CNN\, ArtPartner\, Vogue\, United Nations\, Manila Times\, Fotografiska Shanghai\, Photo London and TEDx talks amongst other publications and platforms. He is a Board of Trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines. \nAbout the Curator \nGoh Sze Ying is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. At the Gallery\, she contributes to the UOB Southeast Asia Gallery long-term display\, Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th century. More recently\, she worked on exhibitions including Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (2022)\, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia (2022)\, and Something New Must Turn Up (2020). In 2019\, she co-curated the sixth edition of the Singapore Biennale\, Every Step in the Right Direction. \nAbout the Objectifs Documentary Award \nThe Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making\, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects\, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling\, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments. \nAbout the Truthseeker Foundation \nThe Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports\, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography. \n\n\nJoin us at our related exhibitions and events: \nExhibition: Mattude by Aziziah Diah Aprilya\nCollecting the Clams: An Artist Talk with Aziziah Diah Aprilya – | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 1pm – 2pm (register here) \nExhibition: Tubig Alat (Salt Water) by Geela Garcia\nAll life depends on Salt: An Artist Talk with Geela Garcia | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 4pm – 5pm (register here)
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SUMMARY:Tubig Alat (Salt Water)
DESCRIPTION:Featuring works by Geela Garcia (Philippines)\nRecipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award\, Emerging Category\nMentored by Jessica Lim \n4 April to 18 May 2025\nLower Gallery 1\, Objectifs\nFree admission \nOpening | 4 Apr 2025\, 12pm – 7pm \nAll life depends on Salt: An Artist talk with Geela Garcia\nSat 5 Apr 2025\, 4pm – 5pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (register here) \nSmoke blankets the room where Emma Ganila has been scooping brine into an assembly line of tin cans. As salt water boils and evaporates in the tins\, blocks of white salt form. Emma has been making Tultul\, an artisanal salt only found on Guimaras island. \nOn Iloilo\, an island right across Emma’s\, Lorlie Noblezada watches her son\, John\, face strong breaking waves as he collects seawater with a bamboo pole to start the process of making Budbud salt. \nEmma and Lorlie are some of the last artisanal saltmakers in the Philippines. Both have been safekeeping traditional saltmaking processes for decades. However\, this craft is in fast decline. \nDespite a long history of saltmaking\, the Philippines\, an archipelago with the fifth-longest coastline in the world\, has not produced enough salt for its own needs for the past 15 years. The country has some of the rarest salts in the world\, including Tultul and Budbud\, and it only needs to ultilise six percent of its coastline to be self-sufficient in salt. But local salts are on the brink of extinction due to unsupportive policies\, industry neglect\, and climate change. \nThe process of making artisanal salt is time-consuming and laborious\, but still\, Emma\, at 74\, spends her day inside the warm and smoky production house to cook blocks of Tultul salt; Lorlie assesses the seasons and checks if the skies are clear to schedule production of Budbud salt. For these matriarchs\, this craft\, as much as it is a livelihood\, is what binds their families’ day-to-day living. \nAll life depends on salt. \nPresented by Objectifs \nSupported by the Truthseeker Foundation \n______ \nAbout the artist \nGeela Garcia is a Filipino photographer and multimedia journalist based in Manila\, Philippines. Her photographic work\, which documents stories of women\, food sovereignty\, and the environment\, aims to write history from the experience of its makers. \nShe received the Seed Award from the Prince Claus Fund in 2023 for her photojournalism work\, and is currently a Shifting Democracies Fellow at Global Press. \nGeela’s writing and photography appear on the Thomson Reuters Foundation – Context News\, South China Morning Post\, and Rappler among others. She is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo Up Next. \nAbout the Mentor \nJessica Lim is currently the director of Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW)\, a non-profit association based in Cambodia. For most of her professional life\, she has worked to provide support and opportunities to visual storytellers in the majority world. Her move to Cambodia built on her previous experience with Drik Picture Library in Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, a media organisation dedicated to advocating for social equality\, where she served as a news and photo editor and photographer liaison. She majored in journalism and graduated from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2006. \nJessica is currently based in Siem Reap\, Cambodia\, where on any given day there is a good chance of meeting water buffalos. \n_____ \nAbout the Objectifs Documentary Award \nThe Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making\, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects\, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling\, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments. \nAbout the Truthseeker Foundation \nThe Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports\, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography. \n_____ \nJoin us at our related events \nExhibition: The Forests Listen\, Their Spirits Cry by Gab Mejia\nNature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 2.30pm – 3.30pm at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here) \nExhibition: Mattude by Aziziah Diah Aprilya\nCollecting the Clams: An Artist Talk with Aziziah Diah Aprilya – | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 1pm – 2pm (register here)
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SUMMARY:Mattude
DESCRIPTION:Featuring works by Aziziah Diah Aprilya (Indonesia)\nRecipient of the 7th Objectifs Documentary Award\, Emerging Category\nMentored by Jessica Lim\n4 April to 18 May 2025\nLower Gallery 2\, Objectifs\nFree admission \nOpening | 4 Apr 2025\, 12pm – 7pm \nArtist Talk: Aziziah Diah Aprilya – Collecting the Clams\nSat 5 Apr 2025\, 1pm – 2pm | Objectifs Workshop Space (register here) \nMattude is a project where I document the effects of reclamation projects along the coast of Makassar\, my hometown in South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Mattude – a local term which means “collecting the clams” – has also come to represent my way of collecting and sharing stories about the resilience of the coastal women of Makassar. \nThe Makassar city government’s reclamation plans echoes similar developments throughout Indonesia. Reclamation in Makassar started in the late 1990s with road construction\, then housing areas\, flats\, hotels\, malls\, a new port\, and more. To date\, 209 hectares of land have been reclaimed\, and it is expected that thousands more hectares will be created along the west and north of Makassar’s coastline. The Makassar City Spatial Plan anticipates that reclamation will expand 26% of the city area. \nBefore reclamation began\, the coast of Makassar was a lively fishing community where people could get various types of fish\, clams and crabs. For the coastal women\, the sea was a means of livelihood\, a shared social space\, a playground for their children\, and a sacred place for rituals. \nAccording to indigenous coastal beliefs\, ancestors are thought to live in the water in various forms. There are crocodiles\, snakes\, dolphins\, fish\, centipedes\, they say. In Bugis and Makassar culture\, many still believe that each person has twin crocodiles. We call these ancestors ‘Nene’ or grandmother. During certain celebrations\, offerings must be lowered into the sea or river as a sign of gratitude to the grandmother\, ancestors\, and nature. These rituals are said to prevent bad luck and disaster\, and are led by women. \nAs reclamation continues\, the livelihoods and practices of coastal communities have come increasingly under threat. They have lost touch with coastal creatures and tide changes. They are losing their physical and spiritual relationship to the sea. \nSince 2017\, the coastal women of Makassar have gathered as a means of survival and resistance. They organize protests against the reclamation\, and find other ways of making a living. As the excavators reclaim the coast\, these women seek to reclaim their own narratives. \nPresented by Objectifs \nSupported by the Truthseeker Foundation \n___ \nAbout the Artist \nAziziah Diah Aprilya (b.1997)\, also known as Zizi\, is an Indonesian photographer\, writer\, and art and cultural practitioner based in Makassar\, South Sulawesi. Her works often explore environmental\, social-cultural\, and women issues\, and she is also interested in stories about food\, rituals\, and mythologies. Zizi’s work has been exhibited in Jakarta\, Solo\, Yogyakarta\, and Makassar\, and she recently published her first photobook\, Got Your Back (SOKONG! Publisher\, 2024). \nIn Makassar\, she works closely with urban studies collective\, art communities\, and literacy groups. Zizi is part of Diversify Photo and Women Photograph and is frequently involved in film production as a still and behind-the-scenes photographer. \nAbout the Mentor \nJessica Lim is currently the director of Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW)\, a non-profit association based in Cambodia. For most of her professional life\, she has worked to provide support and opportunities to visual storytellers in the majority world. Her move to Cambodia built on her previous experience with Drik Picture Library in Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, a media organisation dedicated to advocating for social equality\, where she served as a news and photo editor and photographer liaison. She majored in journalism and graduated from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2006. \nJessica is currently based in Siem Reap\, Cambodia\, where on any given day there is a good chance of meeting water buffalos. \n— \nAbout the Objectifs Documentary Award \nThe Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making\, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects\, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling\, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments. \nAbout the Truthseeker Foundation \nThe Truth Seeker Foundation believes that education and enlightenment are the best ways to address many of the social issues we face today. Amongst the many causes the Foundation supports\, it advocates for raising awareness of social and environmental issues through photography. \n___ \nJoin us at our related exhibitions and events: \nExhibition: The Forests Listen\, Their Spirits Cry by Gab Mejia\nNature and Spirit: An Artist Talk with Gab Mejia | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 2.30pm – 3.30pm at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here) \nExhibition: Tubig Alat (Salt Water) by Geela Garcia\nArtist talk: Geela Garcia – All life depends on Salt | Sat 5 Apr 2025\, 4pm – 5pm (register here)
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/mattude/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Event of the Day,Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:LENScape: Screening
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Gallery\, Objectifs\n13 to 15 Mar 2025 \nTicket prices (per screening programme)\nConcession ticket (student) – $8 (please note that ID may be verified at the door)\nGeneral ticket – $10 \nPresenting the selected films from the 2025 edition of LENScape: Documentary Shorts from Southeast Asia\, a new short film programme that celebrates the creative spirit of the documentary form. Co-organised by Objectifs and In-Docs\, the selected short films will screen in Indonesia within November 2024 to February 2025\, and Singapore in March 2025. The programme welcomes films of all topics and themes. \nSupported by the Silvana S Foundation. \nThu 13 Mar 2025\, 7.30pm – 9.30pm | Programme 1 – Capitalist Dreams: Profit or People? \nRating – NC16 (Some Coarse Language) \nFri 14 Mar 2025\, 7.30pm – 9pm | Programme 2 – Remnants of Time \nRating – PG13 (Some Mature Content) \nSat 15 Mar 2025\, 7.30pm – 930pm | Programme 3 – Murmurs of Kinship  \nRating – PG13 (Brief Coarse Language) \nFind out more about the films and get your tickets via: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/lenscapescreenings-2025/
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LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Film Screening (Events)
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SUMMARY:Scriptwriting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A good story and script form the foundation of all successful films. Designed for the beginner screenwriter or filmmaker with little or no film or television experience\, this workshop aims to build a solid foundation in screenwriting through a blend of lectures and writing exercises. \nTaking the short film as a starting point\, participants will learn how to craft stories from experienced Singaporean practitioners\, and turn their ideas into screenplays with interesting characters and compelling plots. Participants will learn the fundamentals of the 3-act narrative structure\, visual storytelling\, and how to craft dialogue and characters for the screen. The learning experience will be enhanced by online critique and discussions of writing exercises in-between class sessions. At the end of the workshop\, each participant will have a completed first draft for a short film (up to 10 pages). \nWorkshop Fee: $480 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit) \nNext Dates: 12 Mar to 16 Apr 2025 \nPlease register via the form on our website.
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LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Learn Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
DESCRIPTION:Adobe Premiere Pro is an industry-standard software used by professional video editors. \nIn this two-day video editing workshop suitable for beginners\, participants will learn how to combine and edit video\, audio\, effects\, animation\, titles and other elements to build a completed video project. \nAt the end of this workshop\, participants will feel comfortable working in the Premiere environment to assemble and edit video projects. \nThis course assumes little to no prior knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro. \nThe course will be broadly useful to not only those working in film but also those who have to edit and produce good quality videos in the course of their work\, such as marketers\, educators\, non-profit staff\, artists and students\, or for personal use such as home movies and videos to document holidays or special family occasions. \nDates: 10 to 11 Mar 2025 \n1. Mon 10 Mar\, 9am – 5pm\n2. Tue 11 Mar\, 9am – 5pm \nWorkshop Fee\n$680.00 \nThis workshop is eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit. \nPlease register via the form on our website.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/learn-video-editing-with-adobe-premiere-pro-cc/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Hope you are keeping well! | In Dialogue with Hu Rui and Huijun Lu
DESCRIPTION:Hope you are keeping well! | In Dialogue with Hu Rui and Huijun Lu\nThursday 6 March 2025\, 5pm to 6pm\nHeld online via Zoom\nRegister here \nHu Rui and Huijun Lu explore the implications of emergent technologies\, raising ethical and environmental concerns. In the fast-paced capitalism-driven AI development\, might we ever predict and prevent financial crises? How can we balance technological progress with environmental care? Join Rui and Huijun in this online conversation\, as they share their creative processes\, recent reflections\, and explore the roles and responsibilities of artists in navigating these complex issues. \nThis conversation will be moderated by curator Lenette Lua. \n*Please note that conversation will be hosted in English. \nPart of Curator Open Call\nPresented by Objectifs\nSupported by Cultural Matching Fund \nGraphic Identity: Studio Vanessa Ban \nAbout Hu Rui\nHu Rui works with videos\, installations\, and computer simulation. His practice engages with issues around temporality from a multitude of variables\, including causality\, prediction\, choice\, and language. He is the recipient of the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival and a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival Croatia. He is an Assistant Professor in Computation and Design at Duke Kunshan University. \nAbout Huijun Lu\nHuijun Lu works at the intersections of art\, music\, engineering and computing. Lu’s practice culminates in kinetic installations\, sculptures\, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that examine the function of objects\, observations about the unnoticed in our environments\, and technology’s role in mediating relationships with our surroundings. \nAbout the curator \nLenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political\, economic\, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London\, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative\,’ exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops. She was the recipient of the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2024 Award.
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SUMMARY:Objectifs Film Club X Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance Of A Humble Atheist
DESCRIPTION:Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group: Dance of a Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping x One Way Street by Walter Benjamin \nFri\, 28 Feb 2025 | 7.30pm – 9pm\nVenue: Objectifs Workshop Space \nOrganised in collaboration with the NUS Malay Studies Department \nFree admission\, please RSVP here. \nPlease note that as this is a film screening x reading group\, participants will be required to finish the reading beforehand in order to partake in the programme. You may access the reading at this link. \n\nWalter Benjamin’s One-Way Street is an essayistic voyage of leaps\, disjuncture\, misleads\, and occasional dead-ends. A bewildering read\, likely to be influenced by Surrealism in the 1920s\, it comprises meditative fragments of extreme brevity\, cryptic ellipses\, and satisfying length on a range of subjects and formats – dreams\, cities\, childhood\, diary\, writing advice. One can start reading back to front\, from the middle then either way\, it doesn’t matter. The fragments of prose hang together like a collage\, which may only make ‘sense’ if we appreciate what collage does and the effect it creates. Headings with the name of a city do not tell us much about the place\, upsetting the relationship between ‘title’ and ‘content’. \nWe may find similar experimentations with form and content in the film Dance of the Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping\, in which the filmmaker meditates on ‘death\, faith\, the possibility of the afterlife\, the natural world\, consciousness\, and time.’ A larger question we will explore in our discussion is: Where\, when\, why\, and how do we make space for and embrace incoherence\, absences\, empty spaces\, non-linearity\, nonsense\, and irrationality? Engaging the essay and film as companion pieces\, this Film Club x Reading Group session invites readers to unpick and unravel our taken-for-granted notions of ‘form’ that structure our experience of art and culture. \nThe discussion will focus on the following ‘fragments’ from One-Way Street: No. 113\, Chinese curios\, Gloves\, Mexican embassy\, Construction site\, Teaching aid\, Post no bills\, No. 13\, Arc lamp\, Loggia\, Travel souvenirs\, Polyclinic\, Legal Protection of the needy\, To the Planetarium. Access the reading here. \nThe session will be led by Alicia Izharuddin. \n\nWalter Benjamin was a German-Jewish writer and philosopher whose influential work on art\, history\, modernity\, and capitalism has become a protean and prophetic lens for our collective past\, present and future. Although he wrote mainly about the ruins and emerging cultures of Paris and Berlin\, the essence of his arguments about how we write and experience the historical present\, how we experience art\, and how we must engage with the relentless onslaught of capitalism are relevant to us living at a time defined by both ruin and perpetual states of emergence. \nKey themes that animate Walter Benjamin’s well-known writings can be appreciated in Southeast Asian filmmaking. The Objectifs Film Club x Walter Benjamin Reading Group is a space for re-reading Benjamin’s work through Southeast Asian films about cultural memory\, collective pasts and futures\, post-colonialism legacies\, and affect in an age of information overload. \n\nAbout Dance of a Humble Atheist\nAn existential journey of semi-abstract imagery inspired by the filmmaker’s personal ruminations on death\, spiritual faith\, nature and the cosmos. From the funeral of a dying being\, a wondrous cornucopia after life\, to a phosphoric revolt of consciousness. This silent film is created entirely via frame-by-frame animation\, using digital scans of over six hundred individually sculpted ceramic reliefs. With production support from Pinch Ceramics Studio (Singapore). \nAbout the facilitator\nAlicia Izharuddin is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in Gender and Sexuality at the National University of Singapore where she teaches courses on film and gender in Southeast Asia. She is committed to the public engagement of academia through organising reading groups in bookshops and women’s rights organisations. An interdisciplinary scholar in gender studies by training\, she has taught at the University of Malaya\, Harvard University\, and held prestigious fellowships at the Harvard Divinity School and Leiden University. \nAbout the filmmaker\nToh Hun Ping is a video artist\, experimental filmmaker and film researcher. His video works explore and express themes of mental instability\, alternate realities\, resistance and existence. He employs experimental moving image-making methods from film-scratching\, bleaching photographs\, merging materials (mud\, meat\, nails) with video stills\, to stop-motion animation with ceramic reliefs. The works have been presented in exhibitions and film festivals in Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Taipei\, Paris\, Seoul\, Tokyo\, Boston and Bangkok. As a film researcher\, he is investigating the history of filmmaking in early-mid 20th century Singapore\, and has served as researcher-writer and video editor for projects organised by The National Museum of Singapore and Asian Film Archive (‘State of Motion’). He also started the Singapore Film Locations Archive\, a private video collection of films made in and about Singapore\, and runs a website about the intrigues of old Singapore film locations (sgfilmlocations.com). \nAbout the NUS Malay Studies Department\nThe NUS Malay Studies department aims to promote intellectual awareness to the concerns of the globalised Malay world through world-class teaching and research. It is home to the interdisciplinary synthesis of local\, decolonial\, and western approaches to Malay cultures of Southeast Asia and beyond. The department also maintains strong links with the local community in terms of policy studies\, public intellectual engagement and social service. \nAbout the Objectifs Film Library\nThe Objectifs Film Library is an initiative by Objectifs that aims to be a resource for film lovers in Singapore and the region. Currently\, the collection is focused on short films from Southeast Asia. \nUsers will be able to rent some of these films to watch in the comfort of their homes\, and a wider selection is available exclusively at our centre. \nAccess the Objectifs Film Library here.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-film-club-x-walter-benjamin-reading-group-dance-of-a-humble-atheist/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Film Screening (Events),Literary Events/Talks (Events),Visual Arts (Events)
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SUMMARY:Photowalk: Reimagining Nature
DESCRIPTION:The class will meet at and dismiss from Rifle Range Nature Park itself. More information on the exact meeting point will be communicated via email prior to the start of the session. \nHow can we reimagine the everyday sights of nature and look beyond the usual and the typical? Join us for this photowalk at Rifle Range Nature Park\, where you will be guided on how to use your camera lens to transform shots of flora and fauna into expressive and abstract images that will allow you to showcase your photographic creativity! \nThe session will focus on the following: \n• Compositional tips\n• Nature photography\n• Abstract/experimental photography\n• On-site review/critique of images \nPlease register via the form on our website.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/photowalk-reimagining-nature/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Children/Family (Events),Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Digital Filmmaking Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Digital Filmmaking is an introduction to the creative and technical aspects of filmmaking for first-time filmmakers. Participants will learn storyboarding\, creating a shooting script\, production management\, casting\, directing\, working on a crew\, cinematography\, lighting\, sound and finally editing. The workshop includes on-location hands-on camera work and consultation\, as participants work together in teams to complete individual short films. We will also review examples of different genres of films\, including narrative\, documentary and experimental\, drawing inspiration from short films and features made locally and internationally. \nParticipants will use Sony cameras and Adobe Premiere Pro CC editing software in this class. \nThere will be a screening of films by the class which is open to friends and family at the end of the workshop. \nWorkshop Fee: $950 (eligible for use of SkillsFuture Credit) \nNext dates: 6 Feb to 15 Mar 2025 \n1. Thu 6 Feb\, 7.30pm – 10pm\n2. Thu 13 Feb\, 7.30pm – 10pm\n3. Thu 20 Feb\, 7pm – 10pm\n4. Thu 27 Feb\, 7pm – 10pm\n5. Sat 8 Mar\, 9am – 5pm (Shoot)\n6. Sat 15 Mar\, 9am – 5pm (Editing)\nScreening: Thu 3 Apr\, 7:30pm – 10pm \nThis is a very hands-on workshop. Participants’ learning will be most effective if they are able to make all (or most) of the sessions\, and will be able to shoot their short films during the period indicated in the schedule above. \nPlease register via the form on our website. \n 
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/digital-filmmaking-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Film Screening (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Open Call: Objectifs X Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Objectifs x Momo Short Film Incubator is an initiative that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving images\, and will provide five selected participants with mentorship and a valuable support network as they work on their scripts. \nThe Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator will run from 2 June – 19 July 2025. This year’s incubator will take place with a hybrid format\, with weeks 1 to 5 conducted online\, and the sessions from 17 to 20 July will be conducted in person at Objectifs. Applications close on 2 March 2025. \nAfter the workshop\, all selected participants’ scripts will be reviewed by the mentors and a cash prize of SGD$1\,500 will be awarded to one of the participants/teams for the most promising script. \nMomo Film Co is the programme partner for the Objectifs Short Film Incubator. \nThe submission terms are stated in the application form\, please read them carefully before submitting your application. \nSubmit your applications by Sun\, 2 Mar 2025 (2359H SGT). \nPlease visit our website for more details.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/open-call-objectifs-x-momo-film-co-short-film-incubator-2025/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20250121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20250311T220000
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Through Photography Course
DESCRIPTION:Photography has the power to capture moments in time\, document events\, and record our experiences. How can we move beyond strong single images and start to tell compelling visual stories? \nIn this workshop\, participants begin by exploring the work of established documentary photographers. They will learn to develop their vision by identifying themes of personal interest and finding stories around them. The course takes a hands-on approach to visual storytelling\, with participants shooting images weekly and receiving feedback from the instructor and in group critiques. In the process\, they learn the principles\, ethics of and approaches to documentary photography and refine their work. \nParticipants in this course should possess basic technical proficiency in photography and have an interest in visual storytelling and documentary photography. They will maximise their learning in the course if they commit to working on their photo story between sessions. This course will also be useful to those who want to use documentary photography and visual storytelling across a variety of disciplines from advocacy\, to marketing\, to journalism and more. \nParticipants are to use their own cameras and other softwares (if applicable) which they are comfortable with for this workshop. \nKindly note that this instalment of the workshop will run in a hybrid model\, consisting of a mixture of in-person and online sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for more details. \nGroup A: 21 Jan to 11 Mar 2025 \n1. Tue 21 Jan\, 7.30pm – 10pm\n2. Mon 27 Jan\, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)\n3. Tue 4 Feb\, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)\n4. Tue 18 Feb\, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)\n5. Tue 25 Feb\, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)\n6. Tue 11 Mar\, 7.30pm – 10pm \nTechnical Requirements\nBasic photography proficiency will be helpful. Participants may shoot with a smartphone but the use of a DSLR or mirrorless camera is encouraged if possible and accessible\, as it allows for a greater range of technical possibilities.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/storytelling-through-photography-course/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Urban Screens: Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me)
DESCRIPTION:A video art showcase by Susie Wong \n17 to 26 Jan 2025\nVenues: Digital billboard at Fortune Centre and Digital billboard at Wilkie Edge \nDancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) is a series of onscreen vignettes of solitary women dancing by themselves\, for themselves. The work is inspired by a scene from the film\, The King and I\, where the female protagonist says\, “No woman would dance alone when a man is looking at her.” In Wong’s work\, the dancer is both the centre of attention and wholly indifferent; her occupation of the screen gives momentary respite and joy. \nYet her ability to escape the gaze of others is constrained by her own longing to be seen. Exaggerated by a highly visible medium\, these strange tensions speak of Wong’s long term preoccupation with romance and agency in relation to cinematic tropes\, and the complex negotiations that ensue. \nThis work is curated for Urban Screens\, which is presented by Objectifs as part of Singapore Art Week\, supported by the National Arts Council and Plan B Media. \nAbout Susie Wong \nSusie Wong is an artist\, curator\, educator and art writer in Singapore. She studied painting at the former LASALLE College of the Arts (St. Patrick’s Fine Arts) in the mid-1980s\, and pursued her Master of Fine Arts at LASALLE in 2007. She was artist-resident at NTU-CCA Singapore in 2018. Wong’s work ranges across landscapes\, still life\, portraiture\, a recurring subject in her early oil paintings and drawings. Since 1990s\, Wong has curated\, co-curated\, co-organised and/or participated in several solo and group exhibitions: Personae XX (1996\, Kandang Kerbau)\, HOPE: w.a.p. [women artists’ project] (2000\, Chijmes)\, The Machine Contemplating the Body (2014\, Singapore General Hospital) among others. More recently\, her work contemplates mass media and the circulation and consumption of images\, the mistrust of representation\, appropriating images or visual references for much of her work\, extending to romantic tropes in media. Her installation work with video/light projections includes Take Care of Me in the curated series\, Opening Day\, at the Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre in January 2018; and Dancing Alone\, at Objectifs\, 2020. \nShe was artist-in-residence at NTU CCA (Nanyang Technological University -Centre for Contemporary Art) from June to November 2018. \nWong has also written for numerous publications and monographs on art since the late 1980s. She is Assoc. Editor for ISSUE\, an annual LASALLE journal publication since 2013.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/urban-screens-dancing-alone-dont-leave-me/
LOCATION:Fortune Centre\, 190 Middle Rd\, Singapore\, Singapore\, 188979\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Dance (Events),Event of the Day,Visual Arts (Events)
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SUMMARY:Foundational Photography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Our introductory photography course will teach you how to capture images beyond the casual snapshot!\nDuration\n15h over 6 sessions \nProficiency Level\nBeginner \nCourse Description\nMake the most of your digital camera with this comprehensive introduction to digital photography. Comprising classroom sessions\, guided shoots and group critiques\, this course imparts the fundamental principles of photography and is suitable for beginners. \nAfter completing this course\, participants will be familiar with techniques of composition\, understand the ‘trinity of exposure’ (aperture\, shutter speed\, and ISO)\, how to shoot in available light\, and the basics of flash photography. This course sets a strong foundation for other photography workshops at Objectifs. \nGroup A: 16 Jan to 11 Feb 2025 with Aparna Nori \nRegister: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/basicphotography/
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/foundational-photography-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Hope you are keeping well!
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Lenette Lua (Recipient of the Curator Open Call 2024)  \nWith works by Arabelle Zhuang\, Genevieve Leong\, Hu Rui\, and Huijun Lu\nPresented by Objectifs \n14 Jan – 9 Mar 2025\nChapel Gallery\, Objectifs\nOpening: Tue 14 Jan 2025\, 7pm\nFree admission \nExhibition programmes \nHope you are keeping well! | Exhibition Tour with Arabelle Zhuang and Lenette Lua (Register here)\nSat 15 Feb\, 1pm – 2pm\nObjectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission \nHope you are keeping well! | Curator Tour (Register here)\nSat 1 Mar\, 4pm – 5pm\nObjectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission \nLanguage of Difference | Ezzam Rahman in Dialogue with Lenette Lua (Register here)\nSat 8 Mar\, 3pm – 4pm | Objectifs Chapel Gallery\nFree admission \nOpen Studio Sessions with Genevieve Leong and Huijun Lu\nCome and engage with Genevieve Leong and Huijun Lu as they share their creative processes\, and delve into the ideas shaping their works.\nSat 18 Jan\, 2pm – 5pm\nObjectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission\, no registration necessary \nOpen Studio Sessions with Genevieve Leong\nShare your thoughts\, ask questions\, or simply connect as artist Genevieve Leong discusses the inspirations behind her practice\, explores the materialities of her installations\, and shares her current works-in-progress.\nSaturdays 15 Feb & 1 Mar\, 2pm – 5pm\nObjectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission\, no registration necessary \nHope you are keeping well! reflects on the impact of Singapore’s national productivity agenda on artistic labour\, with a particular focus on the Smart Nation plan and the 1980s Productivity Campaign. Comprising an exhibition and a series of informal gatherings\, the project approaches curatorial work of care as a means of revealing and understanding the often-invisible labours of artistic production. Transforming Objectifs’ Chapel Gallery into a shared\, psychological artists’ studio\, the exhibition synthesises four propositions on care by artists Hu Rui\, Genevieve Leong\, Huijun Lu\, and Arabelle Zhuang. The informal gatherings aim to broaden and deepen the discourse\, probing the values encoded in our words and actions. Featuring programmes such as a dialogue with artist Ezzam Rahman and open studios\, these gatherings create a space to imagine how we might journey together sustainably\, thriving within—and beyond—Singapore’s pursuit of excellence. \n— \nAbout the Curator\nLenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political\, economic\, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London\, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative\,’ exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops. She was the recipient of the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2024 Award. \nAbout the Artists \nArabelle Zhuang is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography\, moving images and textiles. In her practice\, Zhuang examines the interpersonal relationship\, beauty in the peripheral and the cyclical nature of being. She is interested in developing narratives that search for the multiplicities of everyday life and the layers in between. \nEzzam Rahman is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common\, easily accessible\, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture\, installation\, digital media\, and performance\, he creates works that are often autobiographical\, time-based\, and ephemeral\, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics\, identity\, impermanence\, traces\, and abjection. He was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President’s Young Talents 2015 and the People’s Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. Ezzam won the Most Promising Award for photography at the PULSE Awards 2021. He served as artistic director for The Substation in 2021 and was involved in various prestigious programmes\, including the NIE Visiting Artist Programme and NAC Our SG Arts Plan launch event. \nGenevieve Leong‘s art practice attempts to visualise the intangible. Beginning with the immaterial\, her work often combines text\, image\, found and made objects and the manipulation of space to create what she describes as “an almost physical image”. The installations that she creates often embody an impermanence with possibilities for change\, whether it be due to audience participation or natural environmental factors. Her work seeks to shed new light onto her emotions\, sensations\, and realisations. \nHu Rui works with videos\, installations\, and computer simulation. His practice engages with issues around temporality from a multitude of variables\, including causality\, prediction\, choice\, and language. He is the recipient of the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival and a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival Croatia. He is Assistant Professor in Computation and Design at Duke Kunshan University. \nHuijun Lu works at the intersections of art\, music\, engineering and computing. Lu’s practice culminates in kinetic installations\, sculptures\, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that examine the function of objects\, observations about the unnoticed in our environments\, and technology’s role in mediating relationships with our surroundings. \nAbout the designer \nVanessa Ban is a designer and educator with over a decade of experience working with cultural institutions and commercial clients. She is the founder of External Assessment Summer School\, an interdisciplinary educational initiative that bridges art\, critical theory\, and design. Vanessa has served on jury panels including D&AD and The Crowbar Awards. As an adjunct faculty\, she incorporates her professional expertise and critical design approach honed through experiences at Pentagram\, Typography Summer School New York\, and the London College of Communication.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/hope-you-are-keeping-well/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Event of the Day,Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Phenomenology of Light and Rhythms of the Earth
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by Zen Teh and SueKi Yee \n14 Jan to 2 Mar 2025\nObjectifs Lower Galleries \nOpening: Tue 14 Jan 2025\, 7pm – 9pm\nThe opening reception will be accompanied by a performance by Sueki Yee at 7pm.\nFree admission \nRelated events\nParticipative Movement Workshop (Please register here)\nDate & Time: Sat 18 Jan 2025\, 3pm – 530pm\nWorkshop details\nSueKi’s performance: 3pm – 4pm\nSharing and movement activities: 4pm – 530pm\nLocation: Objectifs Lower Galleries\nFree admission \nPhenomenology of Light and Rhythms of the Earth is a project extended from Zen Teh’s residency project and exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin\, Germany. As part of her residency project\, she conducted walking workshops in Phnom Penh\, Bangkok and Berlin. This project idea draws on her ongoing research on our relationship with urbanity in rapidly developing cities. \nZen (visual art) and SueKi (dance) as collaborators\, are now interested in moving forward with research into Singapore’s urban context\, delving deeper into how they can explore the discourses on light and urbanity through multidisciplinary means: soundscapes\, multimedia data translation\, movement\, and tactile forms. This provides multiple entry points into the research as well as the interpretation\, creation\, and presentation of the data. Through artistic means\, they are interested in opening up a space where people can take time to process and discuss their embodied perspectives on light and darkness\, and how these ever co-existing elements are inextricably linked to life rhythms\, memories\, pollution\, urban development\, safety and surveillance\, environmental changes\, accessibility of energy\, and volatile global political states. \n— \nAbout Zen Teh\nZen Teh (b.1988\, Singapore) is an artist and educator interested in man’s relationship with the natural world. Her art practice spans photography\, sculpture and installation art. Teh has initiated collaborative interdisciplinary projects with artists\, art professionals and scientists to explore the impact of human activity on natural environments. Teh’s works have been showcased in Singapore and regionally including Thailand\, Cambodia\, Indonesia\, Korea\, Japan\, Taiwan and China. She was conferred the Young Artist Award by The National Arts Council\, Singapore in 2021. She was artist-in-residence at the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin\, Germany in 2024. \nAbout SueKi Yee\nSueKi Yee is a Malaysian dancer-choreographer (currently based in Berlin) who’s drawn to improvisation\, site-specific work\, and multidisciplinary experimentation and collaboration. With a Bachelor in Dance (ASWARA)\, she’s trained in contemporary dance\, ballet\, and various traditional folk and classical dances. Movement has become her entry point into understanding and exploring other art forms\, providing diverse entry points into her work and expanding the horizons of research\, creation\, and presentation.
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LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Black & White I Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Black & White and the Darkroom \nDuration\n4 sessions\, 2 hours 30mins per session \nCourse Description  \nExplore the artistry of black and white photography with renowned fine-art photographer Mary-Ann Teo. This course delves into the essential elements of light\, shadow\, and composition\, offering students a comprehensive understanding of the medium. Participants will have the opportunity to shoot with black and white film\, and work in a darkroom at Objectifs. Gain insights into shooting techniques\, basic darkroom skills\, and the nuanced appreciation of black and white imagery. \nDates: \nGroup A: 11 Jan to 1 Feb 2025 \nGroup B: 1 Mar to 22 Mar 2025 \nWorkshop Fee\n$320 Workshop Fee + Materials & Darkroom use $60 (includes one roll of black & white film\, paper and darkroom usage during class time) \nInstructor\nMary-Ann Teo \nPre-requisites:\nParticipants will need to have a 35mm film SLR or point-and-shoot camera. \nPlease note:\nThis is a very hands-on workshop. Participants’ learning will be most effective if they are able to make all of the sessions. As the workshop is repeated several times a year\, participants may wish to register for a future round if they already know they may miss several lessons during this period. Make-up lessons and refunds are not offered for sessions missed. \nAbout the instructor\nMary-Ann Teo is a photography and art theory lecturer who has taught at LASALLE and Nanyang Technological University. \nMore details – https://www.objectifs.com.sg/blackandwhite1/
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/black-white-i-workshop/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Photowalk: Haw Par Villa
DESCRIPTION:Let’s explore Haw Par Villa together! Formerly known as Tiger Balm Gardens\, Haw Par Villa is a unique and underrated Asian cultural park\, housing over 1000 statues and 150 giant dioramas. Join us for this photo walk where you will learn more about the techniques of taking photographs using your camera’s in-built flash. Participants are to bring their own cameras that they are comfortable using; smartphones are suitable as well. \nPlease register via the form on our website. \nThe class will meet at the entrance of Haw Par Villa (exact meeting point to be confirmed via email prior to the walk)\, for a guided shoot focused on the following: \n• Landscape photography and portraits taken during the ‘golden hour’\n• Compositional techniques and tips\n• How to make use of flash to evenly light up your subject in dimmer areas\n• Learn more about the history of the park\, as well as the Chinese legends and religious mythology\n• Review of images in group sharing session \nThe workshop will also dismiss from Haw Par Villa. \nRequirements\nParticipants are to bring their own cameras that they are comfortable with for this workshop. Smartphones are suitable as well. \nAs the session entails walking outdoor\, please dress suitably and bring along an umbrella/hat and sufficient hydration. The use of insect repellent/patches is also recommended.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/photowalk-haw-par-villa/
LOCATION:Haw Par Villa\, 262 Pasir Panjang Road\, 118628\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Children/Family (Events),Visual Arts (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Singapore Urbanscape
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by Tan How Jwat\n16 to 30 Nov 2024\nObjectifs Lower Galleries 1 & 2\nFree admission \nOpening: Sat 16 Nov\, 3pm – 7pm\n \nSingapore Urbanscape is a visual exploration of the intricate relationship between architecture and urban life in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. This fine art photography exhibition delves into the essence of Singapore’s ever-evolving cityscape\, where modernity intersects with heritage\, and the convergence of cultures is reflected in the structures that shape the skyline. \nThe exhibition highlights a diversity of architectural forms\, from towering commercial skyscrapers to the intricate beauty of religious buildings\, public housing estates\, and historical landmarks that anchor the city’s identity. Singapore Urbanscape goes beyond mere documentation\, inviting viewers to see familiar spaces through an artistic lens. \nThrough this exhibition\, Tan seeks to reveal the hidden beauty in everyday structures\, showing how architecture shapes not just a city’s physical form but its cultural and emotional fabric. \n\nAbout Tan How Jwat \nTan How Jwat is a fine art photographer specializing in architectural photography. Known for capturing the intricate beauty of urban landscapes\, his work has been featured in publications across Asia. Tan’s photography blends technical precision with artistic expression\, revealing architecture’s cultural and emotional depth.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/singapore-urbanscape/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Event of the Day,Visual Arts (Events)
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