WE ARE TEN!

Centre 42 will be presenting six new works and spotlighting independent playwrights at the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), alongside other local theatre companies.

Ongoing partnerships with large-scale presenting platforms such as SIFA are an example of how Centre 42 provides for and invests in new and local playwrights in the theatre scene. These opportunities amplify our efforts in new writing development for the scene.

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The Vault: Desert Blooms is a lecture-performance tracing the history of Singapore theatre from 1985 to 1995 through a queer lens. This work emphasises the importance of Centre 42’s active documentation and archival of our rich local theatre heritage and minority stories. 2024’s restaging is part a fundraiser, part a celebration of these stories, in tandem with Pink Dot festivities!

Centre 42 is very much about supporting the journeys of its artistic community. To chart the growth of 10 noteworthy practitioners who have worked with us in the past decade, we are publishing editorials that trace their personal and artistic development and Centre 42’s role in their journeys so far.

In the next decade to come, we are committed to investing in and playing a significant role in nurturing theatre-makers through our training and residency programmes.

In conjunction with Singapore Night Festival 2024, Centre 42 will present a work with the Proletariat Poetry Factory as part of our neighbourhood arts-led event called Waterloo Street Stories: Interplay.

Centre 42 has made Waterloo Street its home for the past decade, withstanding the challenges of lease renewal and the pandemic. Partnerships within our precinct help us to champion local stories embedded and layered in the surrounding communities, such as those that have lived and worked in and around Waterloo Street.

Centre 42, together with NAC, will be presenting data and insights to shed more light on pre- and post-pandemic trends in local theatre. With the contributions from audiences, producers, art-makers, we have collected 7 years of annual theatre data since 2017.

As part of Centre 42’s active documentation efforts to resist cultural amnesia, this presentation aims to reflect how insights into data analysis of the local theatre scene can empower local Singapore theatre-makers & producers in their work and their artist journeys respectively.

To close off a year of celebration, Centre 42 will host our annual Year-End Party, a gathering of C42’s communities of artists, supporters, donors, and partners. Together, we celebrate our joint achievements, thank our collaborators for support, and reflect on a year of theatre-making.

We look forward to this highlight year-end affair, as it is a testament to the relationships built and goodwill forged with all our stakeholders over the year.