How an NPO empowers persons with disabilities
July 28, 2023, CNA938
Peter Sau, Head of Performing Arts at ART:DIS, sheds light on how the non-profit has been steadily advancing disability inclusion in Singapore for the past 30 years – beginning from supporting those in the community access the arts to offering high-level training for aspiring artists, and even advocating for PWDs…
A visually impaired actor stands proudly on stage
July 27, 2023, Channel News Asia
Artist-educator Claire Teo is used to being called a role model but feels ambivalent. As the first visually impaired person in Singapore to graduate from a local professional theatre programme, she has been held up as an exemplar and was honoured at last year’s Goh Chok Tong Enable Awards. “If…
Championing arts for all
July 10, 2023, PORTFOLIO Magazine
In the 2021 superhero film Eternals, actress Lauren Ridloff played the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first deaf superhero. Closer to home, young actor Timothy Lee landed the role to play a regular main cast character with a disability in Kin, Mediacorp’s 2018 long-form drama, after just one audition. These might look like your…
Embracing music and its power to connect
June 19, 2023, CNA938
Pursuing professional careers in the arts is hard enough, what more if one is a person with a disability. Visually impaired actor-singer Claire Teo and singer-wongwriter with muscular dystrophy Sky Shen share the triumphs and challenges they have experienced in the industry, especially the power of the medium to bridge…