EVENTS
TRUE COLORS FESTIVAL
True Colors Festival (TCF), an international performing arts initiative presented by The Nippon Foundation, celebrates diversity and inclusion on a global scale. Launched in Singapore in 2018, it brought together over 200 artists from across the Asia-Pacific region, fostering a vibrant cultural exchange.
The festival's innovative approach, exemplified by the inclusive Festival Village, actively engaged audiences with disability-related organizations. During the pandemic, TCF seamlessly transitioned to online platforms, producing captivating films and music videos that continued to inspire and connect audiences worldwide.
In 2022, TCF culminated in "THE CONCERT" in Tokyo, a global spectacle featuring 90+ performers from 12 countries, headlined by Katy Perry. To date, TCF has engaged a global audience of over 3.5 million.
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TCF continues to be a powerful platform for showcasing artistic talent and promoting a more inclusive and understanding world.
TOTSU- TOTSU
Dance 2023 & 2024
Totsu-totsu (TTD) is a Japanese word meaning faltering, unsophisticated, evoking the image of 'slowly wavering and hesitating'. TTD is not a dance that seeks perfect form of sophisticated physical expression, but an experimental project about day-to-day bodily communication.
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Since 2009, TTD has been bringing together workshops and performances led by dancer/choreographer Osamu Jareo and the elderly residents of Graceville Maizuru, a nursing home in Kyoto. Non-profit arts company Torindo is the producer of these activities.
It has been attracting attention as a new approach to dementia care, and work has begun in Singapore. P&PA partnered with Dementia Sg and trialled TTD in August and September 2023 as a form of therapy and emotional connection for/with people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners and caregivers, and introduced the method to a group of Singapore performing artists.
In 2024, 5 of these artists spent an intensive week of training workshops conducted by Osamu Jareo in a dementia care setting. Work is underway to further the training, empower more performing artists and run TTD programmes.
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The Totsu-totsu Dance programme is an initiative of torindo, a Japanese non-profit organisation engaged in artistic and cultural work that is focused on revitalizing communities.
GIBRAN – An Evening of Soul-Stirring Wisdom
An evening of soul-stirring poetry by the world's most well-loved poet, Kahlil Gibran.
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Join award-winning actor Remesh Panicker as he weaves a powerful journey through the poet's most universal themes of love, children, immortality, spirituality, friendship and more.
AGATHI
Narration Script
Boldly reimagined in collaboration with Wild Rice, this production poignantly shines the spotlight on the people who find themselves caught between countries and trapped in the headlines. Agathi brings storytelling to new heights through a unique fusion of theatre, poetry and Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance tradition in India.
PARAMA PADAM
Narration Script
The board game was created in the 10th century India and popularised by the British in the 18th century as Snakes & Ladders. Ladders allow you to ascend, just as good deeds pave the road to heaven, while snakes bring you down, like the cycle of rebirth.