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The Substation arts centre was housed in a conserved building, formerly a power substation, at 45 Armenian Street (pictured) for more than 30 years. TODAY pic
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SINGAPORE, July 25 The Substation on Armenian Street, which announced its closure in March, is here to stay, with plans to be a company focused on original arts programming.
The independent arts centre, which was founded in 1990, intends to have a new team of arts professionals and practitioners from multiple disciplines and age groups leading what it dubbed “Substation 2.0”, it said in a media release on Friday.
New lease of life for The Substation as arts centre slated to morph into arts company focusing on original programming development
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The Big Read: The Substation story how a disused power station became an arts powerhouse that launched a generation of artists More than an open space for artists to craft their works, it was the people and the community the space created that became The Substation’s biggest draw, say art practitioners.
February 09, 2021 at 2:32pm
The Substation, Singapore’s first independent multidisciplinary arts space, has been told by the National Arts Council (NAC) that it must vacate in July the Armenian Street building it has occupied for the past thirty years, and that it cannot expect to return there in full capacity following a two-year renovation of the structure. Though plans to restore the building had been several years in the works following a 2017 assessment of the edifice, the Substation’s directors had been told that the organization would be allowed to move back in following completion of the work. According to