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Growing audience awareness and support for artists with disabilities
April 18, 2023, Lianhe Zaobao
How many of us have attended a performance or an exhibition and seen someone with a disability in the audience or as a fellow visitor? This would have been quite an uncommon sight a decade ago. Today, most of our cultural venues like the Esplanade, the National Gallery, the Singapore…
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Industry mentors take artists with disabilities under their wing
February 20, 2023, Channel News Asia
To level the playing field, ART:DIS is one of few non-profit organisations in Singapore to pair aspiring artists with industry mentors. Under its Industry Mentorship Programme, which first pioneered with the Performing Arts and has now expanded to include Visual arts too, persons with disabilities spend 1–2 years working with…
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Empowering persons with disabilities through arts
February 2, 2023, The Business Times
Being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at the age of five has not stopped Sky Shen from pursuing his interest in music. The 29-year-old recently released his extended play (EP) titled Wheel You Love Me?, which he said bore testament to his experiences in life. “I found that people tend to…
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Artists with disabilities pursue dreams on stage
January 7, 2023, Channel 8
Timothy Lee is a dancer and actor with down syndrome. Sky Shen is a singer-songwriter with muscular dystrophy. Both of them are mentees of ART:DIS’s BEYOND DIS:PLAY, a mentorship training programme theatre training programme that nurtures talented, performing artists, broadening their artistic skills while simultaneously deepening their practice through mentorships…