Synopsis:

Arts and culture centre Temenggong 18/20 celebrates its 2nd Anniversary with two webinars focusing on arts and cultural connections between Singapore and Hong Kong!

17 Jul 2020
10:30am & 2:00pm

With support from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Singapore, this edition of two webinars looks at how arts, culture, and creative practitioners respond to a new order of things in a world with a public health crisis. The webinars examine how arts and culture practitioners from Hong Kong and Singapore can play a role in bridging borders and shaping the future together despite travel restrictions.

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Webinar 1 | The Healing Fountain
10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring two well-known arts personalities from Singapore and Hong Kong, this panel looks at observations and learning points from the Covid-19 pandemic and the new role of the arts that has emerged from the pandemic and what different cultures/communities/cities can learn from one another.

Featuring:

Audrey Wong
Head, School of Creative Industries, LaSalle College of the Arts (S'pore)

Mathias Woo
Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director, Zuni Icosahedron (HK)

Register here: https://bit.ly/HealingFountain

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Webinar 2 | The New Normal: Red Pill, Blue Pill
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Renowned practitioners and a new generation of musicians from Singapore and Hong Kong share how they are re-fashioning their practice/organizations to adapt to the new normal and how they address social and economic needs while retaining artistic and creative integrity in their work.

Featuring:

Huzir Sulaiman
Co-founder and Joint Artistic Director, Checkpoint Theatre (S'pore)

Ms Ruby Yeung
Founder and Chairperson of HKALPS (which operates VESSEL HK)

Ka Jeng Wong
Pianist (HK)

Churen Li
Pianist (S'pore)

Register here: https://bit.ly/TheNewNormalRPBP

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Registration is free!

This event is organised by The RICE Company Limited, supported by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Singapore, and programmed by Global Cultural Alliance.