WE ARE TEN!

By adelyn-1800, 25 April, 2024
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Ten years ago, on 21 April 2014, Centre 42 first opened its doors to the public. Over the past decade, we've run several programmes and residencies that have brought hundreds of practitioners through our doors. We've supported many artists and collectives, and built a community that believes in our mission to support the creation, documentation and promotion of Singapore theatre. 

2024 marks our 10th Anniversary, and we're celebrating it throughout the year with a series of programmes and events that celebrate our past works, platform theatre practitioners, and bring our community together. Scroll down to find out more about these programmes and events - we hope to see you there!

As we celebrate our achievements so far, Centre 42 is also looking towards the next ten years - and more! We are seeking the support of donors who believe in our work of celebrating Singapore theatre and making all stories possible. Join us as a Champion of C42, and support us in our future endeavours. Make a donation at https://www.centre42.sg/donation/!

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Champions' Welcome Brunch
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On 21 April, Centre 42 kicked off our 10th Anniversary celebrations with a Sunday brunch that brought our Champions of C42 together for an afternoon of connection and catching up! We welcomed a mix of old and new friends, brought together by their generous support for our work. 

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Highlights from Donors' Brunch include board member Andy Tan's short speech detailing Centre 42's eventful journey so far, from our inception, to our uncertain future after 42 Waterloo Street was returned to the NAC, and moving forward after the tumultuous pandemic years. 

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Centre 42's current Executive Director, Casey Lim, briefly reminisced about making Centre 42 a reality back in 2014 alongside co-founders Robin Loon, Chiu Chien Seen and Michele Lim - their motivations for founding the company, the challenges they faced in getting others to believe in their vision, and their eventual hard-fought success. 

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Centre 42's General Manager, Ma Yanling, shared more about Centre 42's much-anticipated programming for the rest of the year, including our upcoming presentations at the Singapore International Festival of Arts, our second collaboration with the Waterloo Street Kakis at the Singapore Night Festival, and this year's new writing residencies. 

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Our Champions enjoyed a free and easy brunch, filled with conversations between fellow donors as well as invited artists who shared about their past and current work with Centre 42. 

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A heartfelt thank you to all our Champions who joined us for the welcome brunch, and we can't wait to see everyone at our upcoming events too! 

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Upcoming Events
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18 May - 1 June
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Centre 42 will be presenting six new works and spotlighting independent playwrights at the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), alongside other local theatre companies.

Ongoing partnerships with large-scale presenting platforms such as SIFA are an example of how Centre 42 provides for and invests in new and local playwrights in the theatre scene. These opportunities amplify our efforts in new writing development for the scene.

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SIFA 2024: Tomorrow & Tomorrow
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30 June
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The Vault: Desert Blooms is a lecture-performance tracing the history of Singapore theatre from 1985 to 1995 through a queer lens. This work emphasises the importance of Centre 42’s active documentation and archival of our rich local theatre heritage and minority stories. 2024’s restaging is part a fundraiser, part a celebration of these stories, in tandem with Pink Dot festivities!

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Desert Blooms (Restaging)
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July
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Centre 42 is very much about supporting the journeys of its artistic community. To chart the growth of 10 noteworthy practitioners who have worked with us in the past decade, we are publishing editorials that trace their personal and artistic development and Centre 42’s role in their journeys so far.

In the next decade to come, we are committed to investing in and playing a significant role in nurturing theatre-makers through our training and residency programmes.

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Artist Features
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7 September
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In conjunction with Singapore Night Festival 2024, Centre 42 will present a work with the Proletariat Poetry Factory as part of our neighbourhood arts-led event called Waterloo Street Stories: Interplay.

Centre 42 has made Waterloo Street its home for the past decade, withstanding the challenges of lease renewal and the pandemic. Partnerships within our precinct help us to champion local stories embedded and layered in the surrounding communities, such as those that have lived and worked in and around Waterloo Street.

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Waterloo Street Stories: Interplay
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November
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Centre 42, together with NAC, will be presenting data and insights to shed more light on pre- and post-pandemic trends in local theatre. With the contributions from audiences, producers, art-makers, we have collected 7 years of annual theatre data since 2017.

As part of Centre 42’s active documentation efforts to resist cultural amnesia, this presentation aims to reflect how insights into data analysis of the local theatre scene can empower local Singapore theatre-makers & producers in their work and their artist journeys respectively.

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Theatre Data Insights
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18 December
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To close off a year of celebration, Centre 42 will host our annual Year-End Party, a gathering of C42’s communities of artists, supporters, donors, and partners. Together, we celebrate our joint achievements, thank our collaborators for support, and reflect on a year of theatre-making.

We look forward to this highlight year-end affair, as it is a testament to the relationships built and goodwill forged with all our stakeholders over the year.

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