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Inaugural art prize celebrates persons with disabilities
August 7, 2023, Business Times
An intricate bulletin-paper artwork and a precocious drawing of playground slides were among the winners in a biennial art competition recognising artists with disabilities in Singapore. The inaugural UOL X Art:Dis Art Prize – organised by non- profit organisation Art:Dis and supported by UOL – was launched in May, with…
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How an NPO empowers persons with disabilities
July 28, 2023, CNA938
Peter Sau, Head of Performing Arts at ART:DIS, sheds light on how the non-profit has been steadily advancing disability inclusion in Singapore for the past 30 years – beginning from supporting those in the community access the arts to offering high-level training for aspiring artists, and even advocating for PWDs…
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A visually impaired actor stands proudly on stage
July 27, 2023, Channel News Asia
Artist-educator Claire Teo is used to being called a role model but feels ambivalent. As the first visually impaired person in Singapore to graduate from a local professional theatre programme, she has been held up as an exemplar and was honoured at last year’s Goh Chok Tong Enable Awards. “If…
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Championing arts for all
July 10, 2023, PORTFOLIO Magazine
In the 2021 superhero film Eternals, actress Lauren Ridloff played the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first deaf superhero. Closer to home, young actor Timothy Lee landed the role to play a regular main cast character with a disability in Kin, Mediacorp’s 2018 long-form drama, after just one audition. These might look like your…