Choose your own adventure at ‘ICAF Hub Singapore: The Gathering’!
ICAF Hub Singapore: The Gathering, taking place from June 12th-15th, 2025 in Singapore, is where arts and cultural workers from across the Asia Pacific will come together to celebrate and deepen community arts practices.
In 2021, ICAF launched a regional Hub in Singapore with Drama Box, a theatre company that spotlights marginalised narratives and encourages communal discussions around complex issues. This year, Drama Box marks 35 years of creating socially engaged theatre. To celebrate they are excited to gather a community of arts practitioners in person for the first time since the pandemic, bringing together voices from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, and beyond.
“The Gathering” is an invitation to learn from each other and discover the diverse ways artists are responding to pressing social issues and gain insight into the unique contexts across the region.
If joining (which we hope you are!), there are two routes you will choose to join during The Gathering: Masterclass or Workshop/SIC:
If you are a performing artist or are interested in working with communities of diverse abilities and backgrounds in a performance setting, the Masterclass route is designed for you in mind. If you’re an arts practitioner, producer or researcher, you will be excited by the Workshops designed for experiential learning, and in the Special Interest Circles (SIC) you will access in-depth exchanges around a shared interest in either producing for community arts, dramaturgy in applied theatre or youth development work.