Photos from Who's Next Door?

In collaboration with Singapore Kindness Movement, we performed 6 shows at Centre 42.

This was a rich experience, painting a tapestry of tales over 3 days, listening and playing back stories of race and prejudice, of nostalgia, hope, and wistfulness, of neighbours wonderful and horrible, and of the kind of community we hope to build.

We also had a wonderful artist and Visual Practitioner Wendy Wong from Welenia Studios draw and record the themes and stories for each show.

Thank you to each and every one of you that shared this space with us.

  

Who's Next Door? A collaboraton with Singapore Kindness Movement

What kind of neighbourhood do we want to live in? What kind of neighbours do we become? What kind of society do we want to build? All these depend on you.

This year, we are using a form of unique improvisation called Playback Theatre, to help us create conversations around the issue of neighbourliness.

We want to hear your stories of ugly or wonderful neighbours. We want to know about the beautiful and unpleasant incidents that happened in your estate. We want to know what you feel about these incidents. And we want to learn from what you share.

What stories do you have to share about where you live? How can we encourage one another to take an interest in, care for, and support the people around us?

Who is next door? That is one of the key questions of community building. And the answer depends on you.

Produced By: Tapestry Playback Theatre
Presented By: Singapore Kindness Movement

Photo Review of Tapestry in 2012 (8)

 Our photo review of 2012 continues with our last update! Here's wishing all our friends an awesome 2013! Do come back to this space for news of our events in 2013!

Oct 27th - Artistic Director Michael Cheng gave a demonstration cum lecture on Arts for the Community at the SOTA-REACH Youth Arts Forum 2012.

Participants included students from the 3 National Art Schools, Pre-U institutions and Tertiary institutions.

They watched a demonstration of playback theatre by SOTA students who had used the form in Cebu, the Philippines, on issues of domestic abuse.

Nov 11th - Tapestry was engaged to perform at a Singapore Kindness Movement event at JCube.

Tapestry performers testing their microphones.

 Waiting to go on stage! =P

Dec 8th - Tapestry was engaged to conduct a workshop for foster children and their foster parents. Sorry! No photos available!

Dec 13th- Tapestry held a workshop exploring leadership using drama techniques. We also performed for around 160 youth from Singapore, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries.