Date: 1–3 and 9 Oct 2024
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm (Singapore time)
Duration: 1 hour
Format: Zoom
Welcome to Postgrad Open Nights 2024
Advance your thinking and practice at LASALLE, Asia’s leading contemporary arts and design institution.
With our one year* postgraduate programmes, you will gain valuable insights to develop transformative ideas that can reframe the cultural and creative industries, and various socio-economic sectors.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, and engagement with global practices and practitioners, you will be able to advance your research and practice in broader, deeper ways to critically and creatively address the needs of a changing world.
As the highest ranked specialist arts institution in Southeast Asia for performing arts, and joint top for art and design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024), LASALLE is recognised for its critical discourse and leading-edge knowledge production through the arts. Our forward-looking graduates are cultural provocateurs and innovators championing the arts across cultures and sectors.
We welcome you to join us at Postgrad Open Nights 2024 to find out more about postgraduate programmes at LASALLE.
Attend our online talks and apply on-the-spot to enjoy a waiver on application fee.
*One year for full-time and two years for part-time students (except for MA Art Therapy and MA Music Therapy which are two years full-time programmes).
LEARN ABOUT LASALLE'S MA PROGRAMMES
AT THESE ONLINE TALKS
MA Arts and Cultural Leadership
Why study arts and cultural leadership?
Tue 1 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Programme Leader Audrey Wong – cultural policy expert, civil society advocate, arts and cultural scholar and the first Nominated Member of Parliament for the arts – has nurtured numerous arts managers and cultural leaders. At this talk, she will share the programme's take on cultural leadership and why good leadership in arts and culture is essential in today's complex world.
MA Creative Writing
Why study creative writing?
Tue 1 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Programme Leader Dr Rosslyn Prosser is an academic and writer who publishes in a range of forms and genres and has taught creative writing, literary studies, media and communications and gender studies in Australian universities for over 20 years. She will share more about the MA Creative Writing programme which is the first of its kind in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice
Think bigger. Think deeper.
Wed 2 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Join Programme Leader Dr Woo Yen Yen, an innovative educator and cultural designer, as she provides a map of the programme’s goals, structure and curriculum. You will get a sense of the research and practice, workload, culture, as well as the peers that form each carefully selected cohort. Most of all, you will get an insight into what the programme can do for the growth of your practice and teaching.
MA Fine Arts
Practice-based research in fine arts
Wed 2 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Programme Leader Dr Ian Woo is a renowned abstract artist and arts educator whose works are in the collections of major institutions. His talk will centre on how practice-based research is being carried out by LASALLE’s MA Fine Arts students.
MA Art Therapy
Is art therapy a career for me?
Thu 3 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
The MA Art Therapy programme welcomes you to engage in a unique dialogue with art therapy professionals and students. Programme Leader Ronald P.M.H. Lay (MA, AThS-HF, AThR, ATR-BC) will discuss the pragmatics of this globally-situated postgraduate art therapy training, showcase our arts-based community involvement and address your questions.
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MA Arts and Ecology
Sustainability now: putting arts in the centre of ecology
Thu 3 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Head, McNally School of Fine Arts Dr Cissie Fu will introduce this new, innovative and transdisciplinary studio-based programme that brings together creative practitioners, thinkers and planners across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences to explore critical discourses on the environment and critical action in communities through collective inquiry, compelling storytelling and contemporary art-making.
MA Design
An opportunity to redesign your world
Thu 3 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Design educator and Programme Leader Joselyn Sim will introduce the changing influence of designers as leaders, strategists and thinkers who form new perspectives to redesign the world.
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MA Music Therapy
The healing power of music
Thu 3 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Music improves mental health and well-being, and with training on the new MA Music Therapy programme, students with functional music skills can learn how to use it to bring benefits to their clients. Programme Leader Dr Indra V. Selvarajah will introduce the programme features of this important new MA and outline requirements for entry.
MA Asian Art Histories
Why study Asian art histories?
Wed 9 Oct, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
As a historian, researcher and curator, Programme Leader Jeffrey Say plays a pivotal role in contributing knowledge to the local and regional arts scene. Besides covering the aims, curriculum and structure, he will also explain some of the benefits and outcomes of this unique programme.
Artwork credit: Buried Engrams by Oindrila Sen, MA Fine Arts, Class of 2023
HEAR FROM OUR ALUMNI
Hear from our MA students and alumni to find out more about what inspired them to pursue a postgraduate degree at this stage in their lives, and why they chose LASALLE.
MA Asian Art Histories:
Vanessa Yeo
MA Arts and Cultural Leadership:
Grey Yeoh
MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice:
Tzang MT
MA Art Therapy:
Prarthna Agarwal
MA Creative Writing:
Mary Christina
MA Design:
Heider Ismail
MA Fine Arts:
Zul Mahmod
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