Past Projects 2021

Call To Action is the first online and cross-cultural edition of the Living Newspaper, that engaged young people from Singapore, Southeast Asia and Scotland. It aimed to reimagine a new world post-pandemic through applied theatre techniques and digital mediums.

The project was led by SIF Arts for Good Fellows Clara Bloomfield (Scotland) of Collision Theatre, Shaza IshAak, Khairina Khalid and Rizman Putra (Singapore) of Teater Ekamatra. They gathered youths from Scotland and Singapore and created digital editions of The Living Newspaper focusing on their own realities. The first two editions explored ‘the power-laden relationships’ between self and society within their countries. Through reflection and deliberation, participants critically considered the lived experiences through their stories, and what they wanted to leave their viewers with through their digital living newspapers, as their Call To Action.

Read it here.

World Wisdom Map is an interactive digital map that documents life lessons of individuals from each of the 195 countries in the world, including personal reflections over the COVID-19 pandemic. The map includes curated collections such as a special deep dive of life lessons from Singapore, as well as contributions from diverse global changemakers. This unique database of stories has inspired a series of artworks by Southeast Asian artists and students, insightful data narratives, and a publicly accessible educational module. These have been designed to further amplify the inspiration and impact of each story and promote multi-cultural learning and exchanges among global communities.

World Wisdom Map is led by SIF Arts for Good Fellow Deepak Ramola and his team from Project Fuel in India. Explore the map here.

Interwoven Threads is a collaboration between First Drop Change Foundation (India) and Michael Cheng (Singapore), with the Singapore International Foundation as the Principal Partner. Playback Theatre practitioners of diverse abilities from India and Singapore come together to explore diversity in performance and multicultural understanding. In this participatory theatre performance on the Zoom platform, we invite the audience to interact with one another and share stories with us. 

In a New Light is an international online contemporary performance collaboration between artists and children in Scotland, Bangladesh, and Singapore to explore their collective voices in the current ecological crisis.