Community celebrates artists with disabilities at festival
November 13, 2021, Community Engagement
ART:DIS participated in North East Community Development Council’s (NECDC) inaugural Shaping Hearts, a festival to celebrate the diverse artistic talents of our disabled community and support their careers as artists. Of the 150 artists with disabilities who took part in the two-week event that comprised exhibitions, performances, movie screenings and…
Young choir students sing with community groups for parade
October 30, 2021, Community Engagement
ART:DIS was ecstatic to participate for the second time running at Purple Parade, Singapore’s largest movement to support inclusion and celebrate the abilities of persons with disabilities. For its ninth edition, our choir students collaborated with community choir groups Equaver and Chordinate Singers to perform a special rendition of the…
40 years of work by late artist on display
August 25, 2021, The Straits Times
Two years after her death, the family of the late Singapore artist, writer and teacher Chng Seok Tin has put together a memorial exhibition spanning four decades of artistic output. The show runs at The Arts House till Sunday (Aug 29), gathering more than 60 pieces such as paintings, prints,…
The disabled and the arts
May 27, 2021, The Straits Times
My interest in connecting the disabled and the arts was inspired by three artists I admire: a musician, a painter and a poet. They convinced me that disability does not mean no ability. They showed me that a disabled person could still be a world-class artist. The human spirit is…