🌿 What does care mean to you? 🌿
🌿 How can we do better for each other in the arts workplace? 🌿
Over the past six months, some practitioners from CITRUS practices – a loose collective of arts workers committed to expanding conversations and work around Care, Intimacy, TRaUma-informed and Safer practices in the arts – came together to create a Library of Care. The project is conceived as a publicly-available online resource that introduces concepts and tools around care in artmaking processes. CITRUS practices will be sharing its first draft at this public dialogue. 🍊
The first part of the session features Divaagar, Shaza Ishak and Tan Beng Tian – arts practitioners from different disciplines and environments in the arts – in conversation with Corrie Tan from CITRUS practices. They will share about their experience in the past month experimenting and applying approaches from the Library. 🍊
In the second half of the session, attendees will have time to exchange with one another their excitement or suggestions for the Library; an invitation to start thinking and practicing better ways of working together in the arts. 🍊
Join us in this public dialogue if you’re curious and passionate about building our individual and collective care-pacities as arts workers! P.S. You will also get access to read the current draft site of the Library! 🍊
✨ Registration ✨
✨ Access ✨
Speech-to-text interpretation will be provided.
Wheelchair users may use a chairlift to access the Black Box, located on the second floor of 42 Waterloo Street.
✨ Please Note✨
All attendees need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or be able to produce proof of recovery or a medical exemption from COVID-19 vaccination.
Please arrive 15min before the session’s start time for registration.
Do note for archival purposes we would be taking photos and documenting the discussion through speech-to-text transcription.
The session will follow the Chatham House Rule. We seek your cooperation neither to reveal the identity nor the affiliation of your fellow attendees.
If you have queries or specific access requirements, please contact the co-producer Hoo Kuan Cien at kuancien@gmail.com.
🍋 CITRUS practices stands for Care, Intimacy, TRaUma-informed & Safer practices in the arts. We are a group of arts workers who came together in 2021 to dream, read and explore ways in building better practices around care and intimacy in artmaking.
IG: @citrus.practices
🍋 Divaagar is a visual artist who works through installation, performance, and digital media. His practice examines narratives; toying with attachments and proposing new models through the lenses of bodies, identities and environments.
IG: @diva.agar
🍋 Shaza Ishak is the Managing Director of Teater Ekamatra, one of the longest-running ethnic minority theatre companies in Singapore. She leads the company in its strategy and vision, and works closely with the Artistic Director Mohd Fared Jainal. She believes in effecting social change through the art of storytelling and is committed to forging progress for the ethnic minority arts scene in Singapore and beyond.
IG: @shazaishak
🍋 Tan Beng Tian is a disciple of the late renowned traditional hand puppet master Li Bofen and is a recipient of the JCCI Singapore Foundation Culture Award in 2005. A co-founder of The Finger Players and a proud member of SDEA (Singapore Drama Educators Association), Beng Tian is passionate about making the performing arts accessible for all.
🍋 Corrie Tan is a writer, dramaturg, critic and researcher from Singapore. She is a shapeshifter who works at the intersection of care ethics, collaborative performance practices, and new articulations of performance criticism and arts writing in Southeast Asia.
IG: @incorriegible
🍋 Speech-to-Text-Interpreters: Aditi Shivaramakrishnan, Sim Yan Ying and Su Paing Tun
Thank You
The Library of Care project is supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore. 💖