Dessa Quesada Palm is an artist-teacher-advocate from the Philippines. She is a board member of IMPACT, a global organization engaging arts and culture to transform conflict and build more creative, inclusive societies. Her passion in people’s theater was kindled at 13 when she joined the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). Dessa served as Head of…
The runup to ICAF 2023 kicks off with Drama Box’s online programme series Join us online via Drama Box’s Facebook Page or Youtube Channel this Friday, 13 January at 10am CET / 5pm GMT+8 to hear more from Mekong Cultural Hub. The runup to ICAF 2023 officially begins this Friday, 13 January, with the first…
Good mental health is recognised as an integral part of a person’s wellbeing and development embedded in all aspects of life, their beliefs, faith, culture, environment, spirituality, work, housing, education, family and community respect. The work of MeHelp aims to spread public awareness on mental health literacy in urban and rural India. Their work focuses…
Janet Pillai served as an associate professor at the Department of Performing Arts in University Sains Malaysia (until 2013) and currently works as an independent consultant specialising in arts education and community mapping. Pillai specialises in programming of community-engaged arts projects and conducts capacity-building training for cultural workers and artists. Pillai has researched and published…
Koh Hui Ling, Co-Artistic Director of Drama Box,is a Singaporean theatre practitioner who finds meaning in the process of community engagement, site-specific performances and the participation of non-artists in the art-making. She graduated with an MA in Applied Drama from the University of Exeter (Distinctions, UK) in 2010. Her desire to create alternative avenues for…
Janet Pillai served as an associate professor at the Department of Performing Arts in University Sains Malaysia (until 2013) and currently works as an independent consultant specialising in arts education and community mapping. Pillai specialises in programming of community-engaged arts projects and conducts capacity-building training for cultural workers and artists. Pillai has researched and published…
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Founded in 2002, Namoodack Movement Laboratory (S. Korea) works on finding the universality withing all of various movements such as body, mind, sound and the movement of the society. The Lab also aims to research on the ritual play which combines plays inside the story of masks, puppets and shadows. One main approach is the…
Kok Heng Leun, Co-Artistic Director of Drama Box, is a prominent figure in the Singapore arts scene, having built his artistic career as a theatre director, playwright, dramaturg, and educator. He is known for engaging the community on various issues through the arts and championing civic discourse across different segments of society. Heng Leun began…
3Pumpkins is a non-profit community arts company based in Boon Lay, Singapore. Its main focus is to study social structures that govern community relations, and to design interventions that form better social connections, especially for disfranchised communities. 3Pumpkins’ key projects include Say Louder Teahouse, an intergenerational video podcast series that aims to bridge socio-linguistic gaps,…