Singapore Arts Festival 2008
presents
TheatreWorks’
awaking (World Premiere)
A new production conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen / TheatreWorks
With composer Qu Xiao Song
With video artist Choy Ka Fai
With musicians from Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre and Musicians of the Globe
13 & 14 June 2008, Friday & Saturday, 8pm
Victoria Theatre [more]
I am Here, the Time is Now
Keng Sen is appointed by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) to create and curate a new festival for 2009 entitled ‘I am Here, the Time is Now’. It is a festival of performance and visual culture. ‘I am Here, the Time is Now’ will urge the consideration of the specifics of the Europe of today especially in relation to its new communities of migrants and its immediate neighbours. It will present groundbreaking new works reflecting the diversity of Europe today.
Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence
Keng Sen is the Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies In Humanities, The University of Edinburgh. He assumed the residency in February 2008 and will run for a year.
Poetics of Space
Spotlight Singapore Moscow
4 - 7 June 2008, Khokhlovskaya Manufaktural, Moscow
Ka Fai, commissioned by Spotlight Singapore, will present a video work that is part of an interdisciplinary photography-video-sound installation at the Khokhlovskaya Manufaktural, a new and upcoming contemporary arts space in Moscow. More details on www.theartshouse.com.sg/cultural_relations.html.
Vivien and the Shadows
21 October 2008, Carolina Performing Arts, USA
Keng Sen is commissioned by the Carolina Performing Arts to present a soul-stimulating, post-modern spectacle inspired by The Streetcar Named Desire. Vivien and the Shadows melds film, performance, race, gender, and sexuality. The work will be shown in Singapore in 2009.
24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2008
July 2008
The annual playwriting competition returns. It is the only competition in Singapore that promises participants a fun way to write a play in an unconventional setting in 24 hours. TheatreWorks collaborates with Southeast CDC for this year's competition. More details will be announced soon.
Arts Network Asia
This regional re-grant body founded and managed by TheatreWorks received
more than 419 applications from across Asia this year. Only 19 projects were
awarded grants for 2008. More details at www.artsnetworkasia.org.
ASIALINK Residency
In partnership with the ASIALINK Residency, TheatreWorks will host Caroline Farmer and Deborah Pollard as artists-in-residence at 72-13 from June 2008.
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