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Engaged Critical Discourse and Arts Practice with Communities

Our work is focused on communities in Singapore and Asia.

Community Cultural Dimensions is a continuation of Community Cultural Development (Singapore), set up as a not for profit in 2012.

Community Cultural Dimensions aims to facilitate critical discourse around arts practices with communities in Singapore and Asia. There has been much development and recognition of arts practices and its significance in human development and social-cultural transformation. Agendas, approaches and outcomes bear intersectionalities that sometimes align, sometimes contradict each other, creating complexities that push against the boundaries of ethics and aesthetics. The CCD seeks to recognize and engage with complexities of the current times, without settling for quick answers nor social trends.

It does this in the following ways:

  • Guide institutions in reflecting on their arts pedagogical approaches and method of programme design, to achieve their desired engagement outcomes.
  • Present the Person-centered Pedagogical Framework as an intersectional mapping of the significance of community arts engagement across the personal, social, cognitive and cultural dimensions.
  • Support the development of arts research and social practice with practitioners, as a means to document and present the significance of arts engagement with Asian communities. This serves as a form of knowledge production and contribution to global socially engaged arts practices with communities.

Our Collaborators

CCD has collaborated with many others to develop research, discourse and programmes that enhance arts practices with communities:

Arts & Educational Institutions: National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, the Esplanade, UNESCO-NIE CARE, Singapore Teacher’s Academy for the aRts (MOE), NAFA Centre for Lifelong Education.

Healthcare and Volunteer Welfare Organisations: Singapore General Hospital, Changi General Hospital, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NTUC SilverAce Senior Activity Centre (Taman Jurong) the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children’s Home, Dementia Singapore, Methodist Welfare Services.

Arts Groups and Arts Practitioners: The Necessary Stage, Drum Prodigy, Alvin Tan,Serena Ho, Rodney Oliveirio, Ellison Tan, Peggy Ferroa, Michele Lim.

The People at CCD

  • Lee Pheng Guan

    Lee Pheng Guan

  • Melia Sin

    Melia Sin

  • Felicia Low

    Felicia Low

PG Lee (Lee Pheng Guan) is a visual artist with an MFA from LASALLE College of the Arts and a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Practicing primarily in the media of video, sculpture, and installation; Lee frequently incorporates performances in his work as he examines the ephemeral nature of human existence coupled with personal and collective memories. He has exhibited locally and internationally and had his first solo show, Weight/less, in 2015 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Singapore. Since 2018, Lee has devoted much time engaging the community through art by conducting regular workshops and outreach programmes in children’s home and senior activity centres.

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Melia Sin graduated from the National University of Singapore with a major in Sociology and a minor in Southeast Asian Studies.

Prior to that, she was a theatre student in School of the Arts, Singapore, where she developed a love for movement-based performance and expression. Since then, she has redirected her passion for the art form into stage management and has involved herself in various productions where she worked with artists like Ang Gey Pin, Yarra Ileto and Goh Shouyi. She was a digital marketer at A Good Space Co-operative, where she created content to inspire and encourage active citizenry in Singapore. She hopes to use her passion for the arts, ethnographic principles and community building to bring positive change through cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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Dr. Felicia Low, a graduate of Goldsmith’s College, is a visual artist, art educator and author.

A Lee Kong Chian scholar of the National University of Singapore, Felicia obtained a PhD in Cultural Studies in Asia in 2015. She has also developed research and written a pedagogical guide on Person-centered Arts Practices with Communities, with support from the National Arts Council (Singapore). She continues to work with various institutions and organisations to conceptualise and coordinate arts programmes and research.

Felicia was the recipient of the Outstanding Youth In Education Award 2005 and was selected for the President’s Young Talent Show 2009 organized by the Singapore Art Museum. She received the Teaching Merit Award from the Singapore University of Social Sciences in 2019. Her publications include Autogenous Culture as Political Form: An Investigation into Participatory Art Practices in Singapore (2017), The Art of Anti-Exclusion (2018) and Person-centered Arts Practices with Communities: A Pedagogical Guide (2019). She is an adjunct lecturer at NTU (BA in Public Policy and Global Affairs), NUS (MA in Arts and Culture Entrepreneurship) and Lasalle, University of the Arts (MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice).

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