The Postgrad Experience
Talks: 5, 6 & 11 Nov 2026, various timings
Exhibitions: 30 Oct–10 Nov 2026, various timings (closed on Sunday, public holidays and during College closures)
1 McNally Street
Singapore 187940
The Postgrad Experience 2026
Push beyond what you know and explore new possibilities. Get a first-hand look at postgraduate study through The Postgrad Experience and explore the practice and research cultures of LASALLE’s MA programmes.
Through engaging talks and inspiring exhibitions, gain real insights into the programmes that shape the cultural and creative industries. Meet lecturers, connect with students and alumni, and find out how a LASALLE postgraduate education can advance your thinking and practice for your professional journey.
Programme highlights
Why study Asian art histories?
5 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Join Programme Leader Jeffrey Say and Senior Lecturer Francis Maravillas for an evening of conversation and exchange.
Alongside an alumna, they will share first-hand insights into the MA Asian Art Histories programme's approach to learning, its culture and how academic study connects with professional practice.
The session will segue into a guided tour of a graduation showcase featuring research posters and an interdisciplinary project, where you will also have the chance to meet and interact with graduating students.
Reflections on studio practice as research
5 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Programme Leader Dr Ian Woo will share insights into the development of practice as research within visual arts disciplines.
Featuring selected works by recent graduates of the MA Fine Arts programme, the session will examine how creative research manifests across studio practice, project proposals and exhibition-making.
Think bigger. Think deeper.
5 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Join Programme Leader Associate Professor Woo Yen Yen as she maps out the MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice programme’s vision, structure, and curriculum.
Find out what to expect on workload, culture and research-led practice, as well as the dynamic community created by each carefully selected cohort. Most importantly, learn how this programme can foster your growth as both a practitioner and an educator.
An opportunity to redesign your world
5 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Discover how design professionals are driving new perspectives to actively reshape and redesign the world. Join MA Design Programme Leader and design educator Joselyn Sim as she examines the evolving role of designers as leaders, strategists and critical thinkers.
Professional art therapy: Postgraduate training and impact in the context of Singapore
5 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
The MA in Art Therapy at LASALLE is an established, progressive postgraduate training programme approved by the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and informed by the Art Therapists’ Association Singapore (ATAS).
Two decades on, the programme continues to make significant contributions to mental health and well-being across Singapore, the region and beyond. This impact is uniquely achieved by creative, evidence-informed, and culturally responsive strategies that elevate creative self-expression, enrich quality of life, and advance the arts-in-health landscape.
Discover what sets this progressive training apart in a dynamic presentation and discussion with Programme Leader Professor Ronald PMH Lay, AThS-HF, AThR, ATR-BC.
Sustainability now: putting arts in the centre of ecology
6 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
The MA Arts and Ecology programme brings together creative practitioners, thinkers and planners across the arts, humanities and sciences to address critical environmental discourses and community action through collective inquiry, compelling storytelling and contemporary art-making.
Join Head, McNally School of Fine Arts, Associate Professor Cissie Fu, alongside the core programme team, for an introduction to this transdisciplinary, studio-based and research-driven degree.
The interactive session will segue into an exhibition tour, where current students and alumni will share highlights from their practice-led learning journeys.
What does arts and cultural leadership mean?
6 Nov, 6:30pm–9:30pm
What does it mean to lead in the field of arts and culture? What do cultural leaders actually do, and why does their impact matter now more than ever?
Join Programme Leader Audrey Wong to explore these essential questions and discover how the MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme can empower your career and shape your vision as a cultural leader.
Why study creative writing?
6 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Join Programme Leader Associate Professor Rosslyn Prosser as she presents the MA Creative Writing programme, the first postgraduate degree of its kind in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Discover how the curriculum empowers students to refine their craft, engage with regional literary festivals, and connect with a vibrant community of writers, editors and publishers.
Building a career in music therapy: Professional training for meaningful practice
6 Nov, 7:00pm–8:30pm
As Singapore’s first postgraduate qualification in the field, the MA Music Therapy programme at LASALLE prepares students to become reflective, culturally responsive and research-informed practitioners.
Through academic rigour, experiential learning and supervised clinical placements, students build essential musical and clinical competencies to serve diverse populations across healthcare, education, disability and eldercare.
Join Programme Leader Dr Indra V. Selvarajah as she outlines the programme's distinctive framework, entry requirements and career pathways in Singapore and the wider region.
Cultural Analytics and AI in Action: A Decision Making Theatre
Singapore as Laboratory: Reimagining the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators
11 Nov, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Join Associate Professor Natalia Grincheva for an immersive showcase featuring the Decision Making Theatre: Singapore as Laboratory: Reimagining the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators.
This interactive session bridges technology and creative foresight across two experiences:
— Culture in SDG Observatory: Discover an innovative app, designed by the Culture Futures Lab in collaboration with UNESCO, that leverages satellite imagery and non-traditional data proxies to map cultural vitality across the region.
— Speculative design environment: Take a sensory, immersive journey across VR and digital creative praxis, futuring scenarios across four dimensions: Environment & Resilience, Prosperity & Livelihood, Knowledge & Skills, Inclusion & Participation.
Designed for cultural practitioners, policymakers, creative entrepreneurs and prospective students, this session reveals how the new MA in Cultural Analytics and AI programme equips leaders to harness artificial intelligence for cultural policy design and sustainability. Engage with pioneering tools. Collaborate on real-world challenges. Help shape the next decade of cultural decision-making.
Exhibitions
Access Points and Contact Zones: Encounters through MA Arts and Ecology
30 Oct–10 Nov 2026, 12:00pm–8:00pm
6 Nov, 12:00pm–9:00pm
(closed on Sunday, public holidays and during College closures)
LASALLE’s MA in Arts and Ecology grows from, perches on and hovers above the nexus of various overlapping practices, discipline and concerns.
From textiles to agriculture and biochemistry to shorelines, ecological research—through the idiosyncratic power of imagination that only art thinking can activate—traverses boundaries and opens borders, towards formulating different questions, testing fresh propositions and making better problems that motivate collaborative action.
This open-ended work of re-worlding is always in process (the ends needn’t justify the means) and in progress (the ends needn’t meet the means): its movements are experimental (at times humble and hesitant) and courageous (often driven by curiosity for empathy), with its initiatives crossing lines, shaping lives and drawing alliances anew.
This exhibition stages a timeslice of the encounters that sustained our Class of 2026—Alison Schooling, Kamilya Beisembayeva, and Sim Kim Cheng Uniz—in the company of those who travelled with and follow after their roots, shoots and wades.
Each presented moment is a portal into deeper and wider sets of ecological enquiry that past and current MA Arts and Ecology students continue to commit to create.
Step in and walk with us.
Protocol & Paradox
30 Oct–10 Nov 2026, 12:00pm–8:00pm
5 Nov, 12:00pm–9:00pm
(closed on Sunday, public holidays and during College closures)
Design thrives at the edge of contradiction. Protocol & Paradox explores the friction point between rigid operational systems (protocols) and the fluid, unpredictable nature of human experience (paradoxes).
As global structures grow more automated and complex, design can no longer rely on simple formulas. The MA Design graduate showcase positions the contemporary designer as a critical researcher operating within these systemic tensions.
By embracing algorithmic rules, societal infrastructures and technological frameworks, the graduating cohort uncovers unexpected vulnerabilities to design meaningful interventions for public life.
The exhibition is structured across three research themes: Design For Social Change, Systems Design and Technology and Design Innovation.
Graduands:
Akshara Ramanathan
Alvin Mark Tan
Dia Sharma
Franca Isabelle Pilchner
Gunika Jain
Khuu Thuy Linh
Li Xiangyu
Lim Eng Kit, Rachel
Lim Shue Pann
Ly Du Khanh Han
Masturah Binte Mohamad Maidin
Mega Mario
Raghunandan Rakshitha
Rhea Pasricha
Arts Pedagogy Lab 2026
30 Oct–10 Nov 2026, 12:00pm–8:00pm
6 Nov, 12:00pm–9:00pm
(closed on Sunday, public holidays and during College closures)
The MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice is a programme for arts practitioners and educators driven to experiment across disciplines, modalities, and spaces—from formal classrooms to stages and exhibition walls. Each year, a select cohort deepens their skills, poses critical questions and learns to articulate their roles as artist-citizens.
In this exhibition, we present Snapshots—an annual short documentary series capturing the teaching practices and creative journeys of our graduating cohort.
Alongside these films, explore an exhibition of thesis research spanning multidisciplinary fields such as crochet art, theatre arts, comics and street dance, as we celebrate 14 new MA graduates from the Class of 2026.
Join us on 6 November at 7:30pm, where graduating students will share their arts-based thesis research journeys and current students will showcase their first semester creative responses to Associate Professor Teo You Yenn’s book, Unease: Life in Singapore Families. The evening begins in the Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, before moving into the Creative Cube for a performance and artist talkback.
And the rain witnessed…(Epilogue)
MA Fine Arts postgraduate showcase
30 Oct–10 Nov 2026, 12:00pm–8:00pm
5 Nov, 12:00pm–9:00pm
(closed on Sunday, public holidays and during College closures)
Inspired by a quote from Bladerunner (1982), “And the rain witnessed…” speaks of the intersections of time, place, personal histories and even mood in contemporary imagination.
The act of witnessing is oftentimes unspoken, and yet in the year-long research praxis of these artists, these very acts or observation processes are instrumental for them to position themselves in their quest for balance, reflexivity and fictive elements.
The title also signals the undercurrents of hopepunk as a way to embrace the gentleness and the counterpoint to the uncertainty and dystopic situations that we are currently facing.
Artists:
Agastya Sharma Laimayum
Ashley Hi
Brenda Lee
Caddie Aiw
Deanna Ng
Jean Ho
Jerome Romulus
Sharon Hardjono
Chen Shitong
Wong Shih Yaw
Xin Yue
Chong Yanhong
Yen Melia
Yin Chua
This exhibition is curated by Adeline Kueh and Ian Woo.
Shophouse 2026
MA Creative Writing graduand reading
11 Nov 2026
7:00pm–9:00pm
Join the graduands of the first taught MA in Creative Writing programme in Singapore and Southeast Asia as they read from their creative writing theses.
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