Celebrate Drama! 2012 – Connecting Communities through YOUth

Celebrate Drama! 2012 Programme Line-up

• 1 June, Friday
• 2 June, Saturday
• Free!

• Performances

  Just Stressed Lah!

  Ahmad Musta'ain Khamis and Marianne Sim
  Performance and Discussion

  Time: 7PM - 9PM
  Duration: 120 minutes
  Venue: Play Den
  Audience Capacity: 80
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  Just Stressed Lah! explores stress-related issues through the eyes of two distinct, yet complementary communities - teachers and students. This devised piece has the cast actively engaged in unearthing, prodding and confronting the voices that normally take a backseat in the classroom (or the corners of the staffroom). It is from this healthy, vivacious banter and some theatre magic, that these issues are foregrounded, with hopes that the audience will find it all insightful.

  Kids Interrupted

  Sangeeta Nambiar and Playacting Productions

  Time: 2PM - 3.30PM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Living Room
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  14 kids have been called to the Camp Director's office. Whilst waiting for catastrophe to befall them, each one wonders what they did wrong, in order to be called there. Old insecurities resurface, old friendships get tested and some shy children finally take a stand. The play explores the psyche of children when confronted with problems and how, in the absence of adults, they create their own universe and work within it.

  Catch You When You Fall

  Performance Showcase

  Time: 7PM - 9PM
  Duration: 120 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  This showcase on original 10 minute plays created by students are based on given titles, 4 chairs and all the props they can fit in a big, blue IKEA bag. The plays show that with open communication and acceptance of people as they are - we can help in suicide prevention.

  Workshops

  Drama Tools in Counselling

  Sharmini Winslow

  Time: 10AM - 1PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Blue Room
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  This workshop aims to equip participants with ideas for running group Counselling using drama. The session will cover establishing rapport and safety in the group; initiating spontaneity and building group cohesion; creating awareness in areas that clients need to address; and facilitating role play and effective group sharing after enactments. A simple model will be presented and participants will get to experience the process of a typical session run by the facilitator.

  Rehab Theatre in Prisons

  Peggy Ferroa

  Time: 10AM - 1PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Participants Capacity: 20
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  Any arts project in prisons is an obligation to help in the process of rehabilitation. Many inmates agree that change comes from within, from an individual’s deep desire to move out of the present cycle. How can theatre be used to work with inmates and the correctional institution to help shape the desire for change? This workshop deals with how to plan outcomes and assessments that help this journey.

  Listen

  Teng Zi Ying and Asyraf Aziz

  Time: 2PM - 3.30PM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $40 (Public), $30 (SDEA Member)

  Listen is a workshop in collaboration with Action for AIDS designed to help participants identify the different modes of transmissions beyond the typically-known ones, recognize the stigma and discrimination that takes place both beyond and within people living with HIV (PLHV), and outline the importance of way we treat PLHV over the disease itself.

  Feeling Special

  Kenneth Kwok

  Time: 10AM - 1PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Living Room
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  This interactive workshop will immerse participants in an introductory Forum Theatre experience designed for teenagers to address the issue of bullying. Ideal for teachers in a secondary school or tertiary education setting.

  Devising drama for Youth at Risk

  Oniatta Effendi

  Time: 2PM - 5PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Blue Room
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  This 3-hour workshop will look at two specific projects which were crafted and facilitated by Oniatta with Youths-At-Risk. The projects are “Hello Hero!” and “- am.” “Hello Hero!” was a heartwarming project that engaged youths from homes in a letter writing process through the process of drama. The resultant letters are heart-wrenching moments filled with heartfelt regrets, apologies, ambitions and aspirations.

  Forum

  Guiding Youths in using Drama for Social Change

  Time: 3.30PM - 5PM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  With more young people using drama to work with voluntary welfare organisations and community groups, this forum aims to identify and clarify:

  • planning considerations when embarking on Social Change projects
  • requirements for the supervision of young people by VWOs/Teachers
  • how to set and manage outcomes
  • the ethics involved in using applied drama for social change
  • the knowledge, skill-sets and time frame required
  • concerns regarding emotional and physical safety, including confidentiality issues

  Panelists on the forum will include representatives from MOE and international schools, MCYS (Youth division), the National Arts Council, a Voluntary Welfare Organisation, and teaching artists. They will talk about their personal experiences as well as engage in a Q&A with the audience.

  This forum is moderated by Kenneth Kwok.
  

• Performances

  When I'm 64

  Theatre Cell and Ageless Theatre

  Time: 7PM - 9PM
  Duration: 120 minutes
  Venue: Play Den
  Audience Capacity: 80
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  When I’m Sixty Four is a collaboration between Theatre Cell and Ageless Theatre that aims to re-tell stories drawn from the wealth of experience of seniors. Their stories represent a rich oral history that is representative of Singapore’s cultural and social identities. This production aims to capture, document and propagate these identities through the medium of theatre.

  The Journey

  Down Syndrome Association, Performance and Discussion

  Time: 2PM - 3.30PM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Play Den
  Audience Capacity: 80
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  A sudden dream jolts a man out of his daily routine and sets him on a journey of discovery. Is the journey real or is it still part of his dream? What will he discover?

  Conceptualised and directed by Julius Foo and assisted by Jean Ng, this piece is performed by 9 persons with Down Syndrome and one person with Autism. The performance combines movement and music with some text. There will be a talk-back after the show to share the process.

  Self:Harm

  Theatre:Connect, Performance and Discussion

  Time: 2PM - 5PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Audience Capacity: 80
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  Self:Harm is a devised performance that stemmed from a need to address an "Issue" that is never discussed, at least, not in public. Written and created entirely by the young people in Theatre:Connect, Self:Harm will bring to lif young people's lives and what we can do to make it a little easier. Following the performance, there will be a discussion on the process of devising a piece on a sensitive and potentially risky topic.

  Catch You When You Fall

  Performance Showcase

  Time: 7PM - 9PM
  Duration: 120 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  This showcase on original 10 minute plays created by students are based on given titles, 4 chairs and all the props they can fit in a big, blue IKEA bag. The plays show that with open communication and acceptance of people as they are - we can help in suicide prevention.

  WORKSHOPS

  Connecting to the Community

  Dr. Jennifer Kulik

  Time: 10AM - 1PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Blue Room
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  During this workshop, participants will learn about a local community drama program designed to help strengthen intergenerational understanding. This VIA project used Reminiscence Theatre and Playback Theatre strategies to build relationships between students from Victoria Junior College and elders from the Touch Centre during an 8 week programme. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Kulik, designer and facilitator of the project, and students / elders involved in the project

  Using Arts in Classroom to Develop Community

  Dr. Jennifer Kulik

  Time: 2PM - 5PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Blue Room
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  During this workshop designed for educators and teaching artists, participants will identify elements of strong classroom communities, learn and share arts-based strategies to develop trusting and comfortable classrooms, and engage in hands-on activities that can be used in the classroom.

  Drama for the Intellectually Disabled

  Edith Podesta

  Time: 10AM - 1PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Living Room
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  This workshop centres around the practical use of the actor's body in space and in relation to other actors so as to develop spatial, dynamic and aesthetic awareness. It further examines movement through Anne Bogart's viewpoints and calls upon the principles of Laban and Animal work, and the late teachings of Stanislavski on actor's physicality and element work.

  Drama for the Physically Disabled

  Edith Podesta

  Time: 2M - 5PM
  Duration: 180 minutes
  Venue: Living Room
  Audience Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $80 (Public), $60 (SDEA Member)

  This workshop is a practical introduction to devising physical theatre with disabled and non disabled actors. It will explore various entry points into devising designed to both inspire actors and jump-start the creative process at all levels.

  To Timor With Love

  Shalyn Yong and Fatin Syahirah

  Time: 11.30AM - 1PM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  This workshop shares the framework and strategies of an interactive drama programme crafted to help children of the young nation of Timor Leste. Through drama, children gained ownership of their healthcare and increased their awareness of the different diseases and the preventive measures that can be taken. Children were enrolled as members of a Health Army, fighting against different ‘Unhealthy Monsters’ by dramatizing how diseases common to their nation can be cured.

  An Empty Bowl

  Joseph Tan and Afriyanto Ayub
  Performance Workshop

  Time: 10AM - 11.30AM
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Venue: Chamber
  Participants Capacity: 25
  Ticket Price: $25 (Public), $20 (SDEA Member)

  An Empty Bowl approaches the issue of Anorexia through exploring a story, interacting with different characters, and solving dilemmas through drama. Participants place themselves in various situations and attempt to assist a protagonist face their problems. Through the use of drama, participants learn and understand Anorexia Nervosa from the perspective of the someone who has Anorexia. Participants will learn the various factors and consequences of this disorder and how they can help someone if they think he/she is anorexic.
  

• 1 & 2 June, Friday & Saturday, Full-Day Exhibition, Installation, Roving & Interactive Performances!

  To Timor With Love

  Exhibition
  Venue: VIP Room
  This exhibition shows how drama was used to basic hygiene skills to young children in Timor Leste.

  Sensing Time

  Shireen Abdulla and Abhishek Cherian George
  Venue: Foyer
  The installation will explore how memories are expressed and retained, and, which of the senses lead in the forming and recalling of the memories. Sensing Time is meant to be a multi-sensory, free flowing experience (not documentary or factual) that will wash over the audience. It is hoped that the installation will trigger the audience's own memories and, upon reflection, offer some interesting perspectives on how memories are created and recalled.

  Puppets on Wheels

  Roving Performance
  This free roving performance features wheelchair-bound children who are proud to present their new performance skills to you.

  Say No to Dengue

  Interactive Performance
  Venue: Gallery
  This piece combines both Forum Theatre and Theatre-in-Education for lower primary school children. It explores the plight of two housewives. Mrs Lim keeps her house Dengue-free, while Mrs Tan remains completely ignorant that her house is on the way to becoming a dangerous breeding hotspot. Mrs Tan’s attitude takes for a turn when her son contracts Dengue Fever and the NEA Officer, together with his fleet of trainees, steps in to save the day. The NEA Office imparts his knowledge and Dengue-prevention techniques which is a valuable take-away for all.