As part of the ICAF Hub partnership, our friends and colleagues from Drama Box will be facilitating a series of online conversations that explore, and give depth and nuance to the community arts field in the contexts of Asia. The upcoming panels, discussions and presentations will run monthly from January 2023 up until, and during,…
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…
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,…
Sunitha Janamohanan has worked in the arts since 1999 with a portfolio that covers a range of art forms and creative industries. She has been an arts manager, curator, producer, venue manager and heritage manager in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia. She holds an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, New York and is…
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…
Drama Box is a non-profit theatre company from Singapore. Formed in 1990, Drama Box has become well-known for creating and producing socially engaged works that offer opportunities for dialogue and provoke audiences to think differently about the issues presented. Singapore, where they are based, is a densely populated, land-scarce City State known for its rapidly…