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Visually impaired artist shakes up art scene
November 16, 2022, Her World
Claire Teo has been “singing ever since [she] could remember”. “I’d admit, not very well,” she laughs. “But I knew it was something I loved, and I kept practising to enter my school’s choir.” When she watched a performance of The Phantom of the Opera at 15, it was a…
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ART:DIS opens third centre to provide more opportunities for persons with disabilities
October 17, 2022, Capital 958
ART:DIS, a non-profit organisation, opened its third art centre to provide a variety of opportunities for persons with disabilities to learn and train in the arts. Mr Edwin Tong, Minister of Culture, Community & Youth, officiated at the opening ceremony of the centre. Access the English translation below and listen to…
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New art venue supporting artists with disabilities opens
October 14, 2022, Channel News Asia
Persons with disabilities can now test-bed and showcase their craft at a new multi-disciplinary arts space. Non-profit group ART:DIS has opened the doors to its new art centre to support artists with disabilities in their professional development. The new facility adds to ongoing ART:DIS’s programmes that have benefited over 450…
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Visually impaired performing artist being nurtured to fulfil her dream
May 5, 2022, Channel 8
Claire Teo is an Emerging Artist of ART:DIS who, at the age of four, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. It is a medical condition which will cause her field of vision to deteriorate till it is no smaller than the size of a coin. Though Claire will eventually lose her…