The Four Themes
- Reducing stigma
- Enhancing peer support
- Normalising help-seeking behaviour
- Addressing shortfall of support avenues
- Addressing mental health stressors due to COVID-19
- Helping vulnerable families/individuals affected by COVID-19
- Support for migrant workers
- Appreciation for low wage workers
- Jobs and career guidance
- The future workplace
- Food security
- Zero Waste (reduce waste, encourage use of reusables and recycling)
- SG Clean (fostering good hygiene habits and culture of keeping surroundings clean)
1. Project funds
Need a little support to get things going? A small project fund, subjected to approval, will be provided for each team to help them to start that first step.
2. DIWO e-Playbook
We have prepared a guide book containing all the knicks & knacks of the DIWO techniques and other inspiring material.
3. Vision objective
ArtsXplore is a journey that continues beyond the programme. Throughout the incubation programme, we will help to explore new skills and knowledge.
4. Knowledge of arts process and subject matter
A panel of experts and professionals have been specially selected to help your team with the subject or arts discipline in your works. Learn from them on how they do what they do best.
5. Establish a strong network
Throughout the programme you will meet other creatives, an array of professionals to discuss your selected social issue, and artists that will deepen your skillset. ArtsXplore provides a space to exchange ideas and the opportunity to build long-term, beneficial relationships.
6. Gain exposure for what you do best
You could be beatboxing while a poet recites, or strutting a fashion show with art installations. We’ve created an environment for you to flourish relationships with other creatives with complementary strengths.
1. Project funds
Need a little support to get things going? A small project fund, subjected to approval, will be provided for each team to help them to start that first step.
2. DIWO e-Playbook
We have prepared a guide book containing all the knicks & knacks of the DIWO techniques and other inspiring material.
3. Vision objective
ArtsXplore is a journey that continues beyond the programme. Throughout the incubation programme, we will help to explore new skills and knowledge.
4. Knowledge of arts process and subject matter
A panel of experts and professionals have been specially selected to help your team with the subject or arts discipline in your works. Learn from them on how they do what they do best.
5. Establish a strong network
Throughout the programme you will meet other creatives, an array of professionals to discuss your selected social issue, and artists that will deepen your skillset. ArtsXplore provides a space to exchange ideas and the opportunity to build long-term, beneficial relationships.
6. Gain exposure for what you do best
You could be beatboxing while a poet recites, or strutting a fashion show with art installations. We’ve created an environment for you to flourish relationships with other creatives with complementary strengths.
Spang & Lei is Serena Pang and Ng Wen Lei. They are digital art advocates and educators who explore interaction as a form mediated through technology. Spang & Lei are Artistic Director for Noise Metaverse, National Arts Council's first immersive media and tech youth incubation programme. They have also developed a collaborative artwork with residents of Punggol to visualise neighbourhood environmental data into "Data Sculptures". They are founders of Betwixt Festival, Singapore's first home-grown digital interactive art festival created with the purpose of putting Art into Singapore's Smart Nation endeavour.
Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through photography, video, and participatory workshops that address modes of radical hospitality, reciprocity, caregiving, and wellbeing to explore issues of identity and the search for self. Her recent projects include ramah-tamah, Asian Civilisations Museum, a collaboration with the community engagement platform Both Sides, Now, Singapore, (2019-2017); a research project for the Touch Art Collection, Singapore Art Museum and Between Earth and Sky for Personally Speaking, Objectifs (both Singapore, 2018). She is the co-founder of Brack and Unseen Art Initiatives, and co-artistic director of Ubah Rumah Residency.
Chirag is the co-founder of Talk Your Heart Out, a Singapore-based online counselling and coaching platform.
He previously worked as a diplomat in Singapore and a management consultant in Australia. He currently also works as a public policy and government affairs consultant. He has also written op-eds on a wide range of socio-political issues that have been published in various newspapers. Chirag undertook his Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences) at the National University of Singapore and his Master’s in Public Policy and Management at the University of Melbourne.
As a social entrepreneur since the age of 19, Cindy believes in the power of business & civil society in shaping change.
With her rich experience in stakeholder management & community engagement, Cindy leads the team to create high impact partnerships to benefit the communities we serve. She is an ASEAN Youth Award winner & the first Singaporean recipient of the Royal Commonwealth Society Associate Fellowship. She is also an active grassroots volunteer & was conferred the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2020 in recognition of her contributions by the President of the Republic of Singapore.
A UK-trained applied theatre practitioner, Grace completed her Master’s Degree in Applied Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2016. An Honours graduate from the National University of Singapore’s Theatre Studies programme in 2009, she also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education (Singapore). In 2017, Grace was International Artist-in-residence at Graeae Theatre Company (London) – UK’s flagship disability-led inclusive theatre company.
A director, performer, dramaturg, researcher, educator and producer who works internationally, Grace’s most high profile project is ‘And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore-UK ‘d’ Monologues’ where she served as associate producer and performer. The international production about disability, diversity and difference between the 2 countries premiered in Singapore, opened at the Southbank Centre in London and toured the U.K. in 2018. In 2019-2020 she was appointed a Singapore International Foundation Fellow. Check out her website to find out her other exciting projects!
Nor Lastrina Hamid is the co-founder of Singapore Youth for Climate Action. She is primarily interested in climate issues and how people respond to climate impacts. Learn more about her through her LinkedIn profile!
More interesting things to know about Nor, is:
- She has a personal interest in Arts X Environment and has reflected on how we can use art to influence the climate change narrative here
- Produced impromptu documentation of how some of her friends reflect upon arts and culture in Singapore
- Attempted to make people visualise waste
Nor looks forward to working with young arts enthusiasts to incubate ideas that can highlight Environment and Sustainability issues!
Khairul Rusydi lives at the intersection of design, education technology, and youth development. A previous Enterprise Singapore (ESG) scholar, Rusydi consulted for SMEs in the domain of human capital development and business excellence. He has previously served on the board of *SCAPE, and currently serves on the SG Youth Action Panel with the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY). He is an Apple Professional Learning Specialist, is a member of the Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP), and an alumnus of the Temasek Foundation Young Societal Leaders fellowship. Rusydi currently leads Reactor as the co-founder and CEO.
Debbie Ding, who also goes by DBBD.SG, is a visual artist and technologist who researches and explores technologies of perception through personal investigations and experimentation. Prototyping is used as a conceptual strategy for artistic production, iteratively exploring potential dead-ends and breakthroughs–as they would be encountered by amateur archaeologists, citizen scientists, and machines programmed to perform roles of cultural craftsmanship–in the pursuit of knowledge.
Explore art through her lens here
Han Xuemei (韩雪梅) is a theatre practitioner based in Singapore. She believes in socially engaged practice, and imagines the arts as an integral ingredient for beauty and hope in society. Her artistic practice involves designing experiences, spaces and conditions for people to exercise their right to be creative, disrupt routines and deconstruct paradigms.
Her recent explorations FLOWERS (2019), The Gift (2018) and MISSING: The City of Lost Things (2018) are multi-disciplinary experiences that engage the audience in deeply visceral and personal ways.
She has been a resident artist with theatre company Drama Box since the end of 2012, and was most recently invited to be on the curatorial team for the upcoming 2021 ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) Artist Lab by the Taipei Performing Arts Centre.
Urich Lau, born 1975, is a visual artist, independent curator and art educator based in Singapore. Focusing in video art, photography media art, his works have been presented in Singapore and other countries including Argentina, Australia, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Serbia, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan. His exhibitions include Singapore Biennale 2013, VII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Pyeongchang Biennale 2017, Drawing Biennale 2004 (Wakita Museum Of Art - Karuizawa, Japan) and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2014, 2016 and 2019 in Hong Kong.
His curatorial projects include SUPER–TRAJECTORY at Tainan Art Museum (Tainan, 2019) and ArtScience Museum (Singapore, 2020), Sim Lim Square Art Residency (Singapore Art Week 2018), METAGRAPHY at DECK (Singapore, 2017) and MEME Space (Taipei, 2017), Singapore Open Media Art Festival 2015 at Gillman Barracks (Singapore, 2015); The Third Print at Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2014); Videologue at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2012); Videology at The Substation (Singapore, 2008) and Displacement Project: Bandung–Singapore 2006.
Graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2004, he is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts. He is the founding member of the art collective INTER–MISSION and the studio Hothouse.
A company artist with Frontier Danceland since 2019, Ma Yue Ru began her formal dance education in the pioneer batch of School of the Arts Singapore, and later graduated summa cum laude from The Boston Conservatory.
She has worked professionally in the United States and Spain, in companies such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Danza Organica, Present-Day Dance Theatre, among others. As a choreographer, she is interested in explorations of somatic and socio-cultural practices, particularly around themes of empathy, memory and language, often through interdisciplinary elements and collaborations.
