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Virtual Workings | PERTIWI : Resilience in the arts
Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Kamiliah Bahdar from Singapore and Savitri Sastrawan from Indonesia worked together on “Pertiwi” under the mentorship of Luckana Kunavichayanont. The two curators talk about the project’s development and working virtually with a mentor in their final article below.
Resilience is one of those words and concepts that is very hard to pin down, but also perhaps because of that, it is a term used in many contexts from ecology and economy to psychology, and a favourite between us, the name of the stimulus package in Singapore named the Resilience Budget, with its subset, the Arts and Culture Resilience Package. While the dictionary definition seems to capture something of the essence of its meaning, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, and the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape yet it remains very open-ended. These qualities
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Ministers and representatives from the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC), Eurasian Association (EA), Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) and Yayasan Mendaki joined 20 students from Big Heart Student Care @ Zhangde Primary on Thursday (Feb 18) to celebrate the anniversary of their joint venture as well as the opening of the latest centres.
The Big Heart Student Care centres, which have more than 4,200 students enrolled, began operating at Xishan Primary School and Zhangde Primary School in January this year.
Ms Low Yen Ling, Mayor of South West District and chairman of the self-help groups joint venture company, said: It s with the support of the self-help groups and community partners, that Big Heart has been able to meet our aim of providing quality and affordable after-school student care services for students from all backgrounds.
January 27, 2021
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Over the past year, the entertainment sector has been one of the worst-hit industries globally. Live concert and movie box-office sales collapsed as theatres shuttered in the wake of nationwide lockdowns and coronavirus containment measures.
However, in a number of Asia-Pacific markets like Japan, China, Taiwan and Australia, where outbreaks have been controlled and infection levels have fallen significantly, theatre-goers have been returning - some in droves.
Although the global box office shrunk 70 per cent in 2020 to US$12.4 billion (S$16.4 billion), Asia-Pacific accounted for 51 per cent of the total, according to data from Comscore and Gower Street Analytics.