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Nation & Writing | Workshop by Hemang Yadav

Nation & Writing | Workshop by Hemang Yadav

“Nation and Writing: Using the National Allegory in Playwriting” is led by Hemang Yadav from Brown Voices as part of Centre 42’s Co-Lab Residency. The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on…
Our Space In Time | Archival Residency

Our Space In Time | Archival Residency

March to August 2021 | Archival Residency | "Our Time in Space" is a project that aims to bring to attention the existence of the now-defunct community theatre group, Yellow Chair Productions and the role it played in Singapore’s theatre…

Creation Residency

The Creation Residency supports Singapore-based independent artists by providing a working incubation environment to develop original text-based work, both live and digital. Type of Work Supported The Residency welcomes proposals from projects that are: Focused on the process of creation…
Love Letters to 42

Love Letters to 42

"Love Letters to 42" began as a repository of letters about a community of artists' relationship to the space of 42 Waterloo street prior to mid-2020 and the history of the space prior to Centre 42’s birth in 2014. With…

Archival Residency

The Archival Residency invites independent artists and collectives to form a collection of a body of work, to tell their stories through the archival process. Type of Work Supported The residency invites artists to form an archival collection of their…
New Ways of Collaborating

New Ways of Collaborating

Centre 42's new Co-Lab Residency is for collectives, inspired by laboratory-style experimentation and investigation, and altogether focuses on collaboration. The aim of Co-Lab is to create and grow ecologies of creativity and expertise.
Arts Managers: Going above and beyond

Arts Managers: Going above and beyond

Since January 2021, the Arts Management Collective (AMC) has been working to produce RE:CALL, a movement work presented under Centre 42’s Vault series. While the experience has been challenging, it has also pushed the team to fully comprehend how being an…

Co-Lab Residency

The Co-Lab Residency is for collectives, inspired by laboratory-style experimentation and investigation, and altogether focuses on collaboration. It is an artist-driven residency with an emphasis on three fronts: Text-enabled practice Peer-to-peer learning Resource creation Explorations are not limited to theatrical…
Main Tulis Group

Main Tulis Group

The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on peer to peer learning & resource creation. 2021 is the first iteration of the Co-Lab Residency with a total of 4 Resident Collectives. Read more here.
Brown Voices

Brown Voices

The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on peer to peer learning & resource creation. 2021 is the first iteration of the Co-Lab Residency with a total of 4 Resident Collectives. Read more here.
Critical Ecologies | Critical Anomalies

Critical Ecologies | Critical Anomalies

The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on peer to peer learning & resource creation. 2021 is the first iteration of the Co-Lab Residency with a total of 4 Resident Collectives. Read more here.
The Care & Intimacy Working Group

The Care & Intimacy Working Group

The Co-Lab Residency is an artist-driven space for collaborative exploration of text-based practice, with an emphasis on peer to peer learning & resource creation. 2021 is the first iteration of the Co-Lab Residency with a total of 4 Resident Collectives. Read more here.
The Vault: RE:CALL

The Vault: RE:CALL

21-22 Aug 2021 | The Vault: RE:CALL is a performance response to the play Recalling Mother, about the personal stories two women tell about their relationships with their mothers. It comprises a movement showcase and a participatory workshop engaging with…
Reflections by Lim Shien Hian

Reflections by Lim Shien Hian

I’ve always been quite interested to explore what sets theatre apart from other media, especially film to which it is usually compared and put against – if you have 2 hours to entertain yourself on a weekend, would you rather…
Reflections by Ruzaini Mazani

Reflections by Ruzaini Mazani

A Mad World(wind) When I first came across the play, La Libre Latifah by Aidli Mosbit, I thought I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do to respond to it. I wanted to explore the life of…
Reflections by Cheryl Tan

Reflections by Cheryl Tan

“Why is the measure of love loss?” — Jeanette Winterson, Written On the Body All things amalgamate in Emptiness, to a serene and inevitable futility that awaits our best efforts at understanding and knowing the world in all of its…
Reflections by Ke Weiliang

Reflections by Ke Weiliang

Letters to/from Rosnah is an experiment I conducted with visual/performance artist ila and actor/writer Tysha Khan, in response to Haresh Sharma’s monodrama Rosnah. For this experiment, I invited both artists to embody two different versions of Rosnah, and interacted with…
Reflections by Lim Si Hui

Reflections by Lim Si Hui

A Letter to My Breastless Selves In closing out the project, I wanted to draw on the intimacy and personal nature of the past two months of research. This reflection, inspired by Weiliang’s project medium, takes the form of letters…