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Media release: Echoing Singapore’s cultural heritage through public art

4 Jan 2023

The multidisciplinary public arts festival ARTWALK will return to the vibrant streets of Little India and Katong-Joo Chiat for its ninth edition from 6 to 15 January 2023. ARTWALK 2023 …

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MA Art Therapy lecture: Carrying on with the mission – bridging borders through online art therapy

3 Jan 2023

Despite closed borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Red Pencil continued its overseas humanitarian mission work by leveraging on technology to reach its various beneficiaries. Singaporeans Yen Chua and Nicole …

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MA Art Therapy lecture: Art therapy intervention with asylum seekers and displaced people–a space to reconnect with internal resources

3 Jan 2023

This presentation is based on the art therapy interventions carried out as part of the Red Cross psychological care service with asylum seekers and displaced people in reception centres in …

MA Art Therapy lecture: Carrying on with the mission–bridging borders through online art therapy

3 Jan 2023

Despite closed borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Red Pencil continued its overseas humanitarian mission work by leveraging on technology to reach its various beneficiaries. Singaporeans Yen Chua and Nicole …

Open House 2023

3 Jan 2023

Find your place in the arts and realise your potential. As Asia’s leading contemporary arts and design institution, LASALLE will grow your creative talent through an inspiring, interdisciplinary approach, led …

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20 Oct 2022
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In conversation with: Grey Yeoh about why there is much to gain in pursuing an MA

28 Aug 2022

MA Arts and Cultural Leadership alumnus Grey Yeoh has worked in a diverse array of capacities in the creative industries, including being an art director in advertising, to working for …

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In conversation with: Tzang Merwyn Tong on how his MA helped him unlearn and relearn his craft

22 Aug 2022

For Tzang Merwyn Tong, the pandemic was an opportunity to slow down, to reassess his life. He had been making films since 1999, his first film being a no-budget teenage …

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In conversation with: Prarthna Agarwal on how her MA has been a transformative journey

21 Aug 2022

For Prarthna Agarwal, it was love at first sight when she came across LASALLE College of the Arts on her solo trip to Singapore in 2019. Originally searching for a …

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In conversation with: Mary Christina Stanislaws on feeling at peace with taking a career break to pursue an MA

11 Aug 2022

As with many children growing up in Singapore, MA Creative Writing student Mary Christina Stanislaws believed that the ultimate profession to aspire towards was being a doctor. Her education trajectory …

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Art therapy as ethical business of change: Conversation with Emylia Safian

1 Jul 2022

Art therapy as a profession began in the 1900s in Europe and the United States. Hospitals and individuals tapped on art therapy for psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder …

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Media release: ARTWALK returns for eighth edition, to include Katong-Joo Chiat precinct for the first time

17 Jan 2022

After seven successful years in Little India, the iconic ARTWALK event will expand beyond its home ground for the first time to include Katong-Joo Chiat. The eighth edition, which runs …

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In conversation with: Laura Kee on bettering working conditions for actors

11 Jan 2022

When actor Laura Kee got involved in the newly-registered The Actors’ Society (TAS) shortly after its inception in late 2019, she could not have foreseen the onset of the COVID-19 …

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In conversation with: Ian Goh on how his MA journey helped him fulfil his lifelong dream of becoming a video game writer

21 Dec 2021

While most of his peers in LASALLE’s MA Creative Writing programme chose to work on a novel, plays or poetry for their thesis project, Ian Goh set himself a unique …

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