Notes for Future Gathering | Robyn Archer in Conversation with Suenne Megan Tan

Описание: What is the festival? What is the future of the festival, if conditions remain unsafe for crowds to gather in the near-term, and what might this mean for developing a sense of community? What alternate ways of togetherness are possible/needed? Now, more than ever, how might we come to better understand and to champion the essentialness of the arts?

In this final talk of as part of “Proposals for Novel Ways of Being: CIRCUIT BREAKER,” Robyn Archer (singer, writer, artistic director and advocate for the arts) discusses these questions with Suenne Megan Tan (Director, Audience Development & Engagement, National Gallery Singapore).

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About the speaker

ROBYN ARCHER AO FAHA is a singer, writer, artistic director and public advocate for the arts. She was formerly Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, creator of “Ten Days on the Island” for Tasmania, creator of Melbourne’s “The Light in Winter,” and creative director of The Centenary of Canberra 2013. A former Deputy Chair of the Australian Council for the Arts, she combines advisory and mentoring roles with her own creative output.

Archer is recognised internationally for her expertise in the repertoire of the Weimar Republic and for many other stage successes such as “A Star is Torn”. She received the Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer 2013, and was named Cabaret Icon at the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and currently performs highly acclaimed recitals of French, German and American songs. She has written plays, devised cabarets, released 11 albums and published numerous books. 

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About “Proposals for Novel Ways of Being: CIRCUIT BREAKER" 

“Proposals for Novel Ways of Being: CIRCUIT BREAKER” is the first in a series of talks programmes inaugurated by “Proposals for Novel Ways of Being”, a range of exhibitions and programmes variously organised by 12 Singapore institutions, art spaces and collectives broadly in late 2020 in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This evolving series will host speakers that speculate, unpack, polemicise or otherwise provide perspectives on how art and culture can intimate new possibilities for the future and the role museums can play.

Taking its subtitle from Singapore’s version of a lockdown to limit the spread of the virus, CIRCUIT BREAKER is a series of talks and roundtables where speakers and interlocutors from various fields of thought and practice—from academics to artists to museum and other cultural workers—are invited to respond to the current crisis as an opportunity for change in their various domains.

For more information about Proposals for Novel Ways of Being and its programmes, visit novelwaysofbeing.sg

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