13th October 0930hrs
AN ECOLOGY OF CARE FOR THE ARTS
Elizabeth de Roza (www.elizabethderoza.com) is an Artist-Scholar and Academic, Interdisciplinary Performance-Maker, Theatre Director, and Actor-movement trainer. She has been making theatre/performances and teaching in higher education for over two decades. Her artistic works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural | disciplinary performances to intense black-box physical and online/digital performances. In 2021, she initiated and co-curated the first Magdalena online festival, Bodies:On:Live
(https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/), for women in contemporary theatre and performance. Elizabeth also collaborated with fellow artist Laurie Young and created an intimate-immersive movement audio guide (https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallerysg/sets/closer-audio-guide) for Antony Gormley’s sculptures at the National Gallery of Singapore. Apart from her artistic and teaching roles, Elizabeth is also an active researcher and has published her research in various theatre and performance journals.
Speakers
The Homeowners of Koalisyon Pabahay ng Pilipinas Collectivising a System of Mutual Aid and Care through Self-Revelatory Narratives and the Ideation of a community-owned Sustainable Village
Issa Manalo LOPEZ is a Manila-based independent theatremaker, director and instructor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her creative works and practice-based research examines women’s narratives on female identity and social history. She directed, “KAPIT: a documentary theatre performance on the survivors of Super typhoon Yolanda”, which she devised with Filipino collaborators to surface stories of resilience and cooperation. As a featured director in the Asian Performing Arts Farm Exhibition 2019 in Tokyo, Japan she collaborated with Asian artists in devising “ASIA/N/ESS/ES”, a work that interrogates the multiplicity of “how asia views Asia”.
Currently, she is the Artistic Director of Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in UP Diliman.
Onstage/Online – keeping the lights on during and after COVID
Dominic (@domlucien on Instagram) co-owns Monday Show School of Musical Theatre. He has been a director, music director, actor, producer, reviewer, and performing arts coach since 2003. With a BA in performing arts from Singapore, Dom continued training at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the American Repertory Theatre in Boston, completing his MA in music and then in gender studies while receiving training in musical theatre there. Dom has played lead roles in Angels in America, Constellations, The Weight of Silk on Skin, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and has directed musicals like Avenue Q, Tick Tick Boom, and FAME.
Don’t panic. It’s just a pandemic
Nur Khairiyah Bte Ramli is a London-based Muslim-Malay independent producer from Singapore. She graduated with a Masters in Creative Producing (Distinction) in 2019 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She runs a platform called RUMAH to empower Asian diaspora creatives in the UK. Her work with RUMAH has been supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Metroland Cultures, and Arts Council England. In 2022, she was nominated for the Asian Woman of Achievement by NatWest.
Her recent producing credits include Departure Lounge Festival for In Good Company, Assistant Producer at Complicité and guest curator for Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield.
What Remains of Care?
Dr. Adelina Ong is an independent applied performance researcher who has been working with young people from low-income families in Singapore (2003 to present) and adults living with mental health conditions in London (2012 to present). Her synthetic (AI) applied performance practice is inspired by urban arts (street dance, skateboarding, graffiti, parkour/art du déplacement), placemaking practices and Death Cafes. She has published in Theatre Research International and Research in Drama Education (RiDE). She is currently co-editing Performing Homescapes with Prof. Sally Mackey and RiDE 2056: The Futures of Drama Education and Applied Theatre and Performance.