GREENFIELD EVENT TO KICK OFF IN NOVEMBER: CREATIVE COMMUNITY SINGAPORE, MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS PRESS RELEASE, 26 OCTOBER 2006
A showcase of creativity and community entrepreneurship in
It is an exchange platform where members of the public are encouraged to interact with like-minded creative people, and in the process can be inspired by those who have achieved their goals.
Happenings at
The creative projects will be displayed in unique and elegant modular see-through containers never before used for exhibitions in
Besides the exhibition, visitors will also enjoy workshops and stage performances as project owners share their novel ideas. Don’t miss interactive drama workshops, mini-musicals, as well as see how you can “spin” live music from the computer instead of the traditional record vinvls.
As an anchor highlight within
The event continues beyond the Atrium@Orchard. Two Creative Industries partners will open up their premises to unveil the secrets behind their successes. Mobile Immersive Theatre will present a 3D immersive animation show and an interactive gaming show on 25 November. Wessex Estate at one-north will be organising an open house on 26 November where visitors can take a peek at the unique heritage community that is home to a diverse profile of artists, designers, musicians and other creative talents. In addition, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and CCS will co-organise a talk on "Creavity & IP: At Work, At Home and At Play" on 27 November.
Finally the second Joint BlueSky-Greenfield Networking Event will close
A CCS Initiative
Projects showcased at
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About Creative Community
Officially launched by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts on
About Crea©tive 2006
Crea©tive 2006 – Reinvent Your Future is a month-long showcase to celebrate and promote
Bringing to
For more information, please visit www.mica.gov.sg/creative2006.
Appendix I
SUMMARY OF CCS-SUPPORTED PROJECTS
1. Age Invaders by Mixed Reality Lab
Age Invaders is a new type of entertainment that promotes social and physical interaction between the young and the elderly. The project combines technology and art into a system that allows inter-generation interaction opportunities.
2. Artistes & Repertoires Challenge (ARC) by Virtuoso Arts Pte Ltd
The ARC project proposes to groom Artistes and Repertoires talents for the music recording industry, as well as to raise awareness for the various supporting Creative Industries such as recording engineering, music arranging, artiste management, hairstyling, fashion, marketing, designing, etc.
3. Aspiration Pathfinder by National Library Board
Through this project, mid-career adults will explore alternative professions in the Creative Industries by understanding the diversities of the industries and experiencing them first-hand. In the programme, up to three creative professions were explored and deconstructed to demonstrate how different disciplines contribute to each profession.
4. AsPI Movement for Young Elderly by National Library Board
Through this movement, participants are encouraged to explore new areas in the varied disciplines of the work industry. For example, a person in a business profession can be exposed to the arts or humanities industry. In this exposure, participants would be able to gather new insights and be able to purposefully apply them into creating new ideas and solutions.
5. Beat-by-Beat by Musical Theatre Society*
Beat-by-Beat is a musical incubation programme that mentors enthusiasts to create mini 45-minute musicals without frills, props, or costumes. Selected mini musicals will be developed to full-fledged, 90-minute performances which will be more elaborate in terms of presentations. So far, 20 mini musicals have been launched with resounding results.
6. Beat by Beat with 3D by IM Innovations
Beat by Beat with 3D trains students how to create digital scenes using CINEMA 4D software and incorporate them into a selected local musical in collaboration with the Musical Theatre Society. This is the first time in
7. Brief Encounters by National Library Board
Aiming to be a source of publicity for the multidisciplinary art content created by the community at large, the project sees amateurs, who have interests in producing publications, media or art, being put through a three-month creative process to develop their products.
8. Budding Artist Fund by The Old Parliament House
The fund aims to reach out to and to provide a platform for children and youths who are distanced by socio-economic circumstances to develop their innate artistic talents. It also provides an avenue for professional and established artists to impart their skills and knowledge. Through this Fund, The Old Parliament House will engage arts professionals to train, develop and showcase the creative talents of the children and youths in music, dance, theatre, visual arts and theatre.
9. Community Blogging by National Arts Council
As a component of the Singapore Writers Festival 2005, this project teaches young elderly how to blog. It aims to promote blogging as a new communication channel to interact with the web community and to share ideas, information and thoughts.
10. CrashOut by Gatecrash Ticketing Pte Ltd
CrashOut is a programme that seeks to develop a thinking and appreciative audience for the arts scene in
11. Creative Denominators by National Library Board
This research project helps to define the denominators of the creative process. Co-developed by the National Library Board and Johnny Lau (creator of comic character Mr. Kiasu), the programme aims to introduce the principles of creativity and a framework found to be useful in developing ideas and delivering initiatives in the Creative Industries. It seeks to discover how idea generation, idea realization and even external considerations could affect the eventual outcome of the idea and how to best maximise the value of the ideas.
12. Street Art By UnionWorks Pte Ltd and Clear Channel
Street Art 2005 was a competition for youths to create artworks using varied materials such as spray paints and digital photography on an alternative canvas – bust stop panels. In partnership with Clear Channel, creative works were displayed at 30 outdoor bus panels all over the island. These works were subsequently auctioned off to raise funds for the Buddng Artists Fund.
13. Digital DJ by Edublitz Pte Ltd
This project aims to promote digital DJing as an art form and offer underprivileged youths a healthy form of leisure and expression. Digital DJing is an entirely new methodology as disc jockeying concepts are applied onto digital platforms such as laptops and digital audio formats instead of traditional record vinyls.
14. Dream Factory by Young Leaders Foundation
Dream Factory™ is a non-profit integrated web portal initiative to aspire youths from all walks of life in making their dreams a reality. The portal offers youths an opportunity to indicate their dreams and work out a concept paper and budget plan using the online systematic development tutorial on the Dream Factory™ site. The Dream Factory™ is working with corporate partners like the Esplanade Co Ltd, The Old Parliament House Ltd and IKEA to create workshops and work attachment opportunities for these dream seekers.
15. ep-Bus Mobile Youth Bus by Heartware Network
epBus is a first of its kind, open-top double-decker bus equipped with the latest digital technology to teach youths on photography, printing techniques, new technologies, digital art and marketable business skills.
16. H.Y.P.E. by Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Pte Ltd & The Old Parliament House Ltd
HYPE is a unique gallery that provides anyone - emerging artists, amateur photographers, budding filmmakers, etc with the opportunity to showcase their works on HP Designjet printers and digital projectors. It is a revolutionary showcase for artists and non-artists alike to display their works whithout any barriers, thus motivating budding visual artists to express their creativity without fears of rejection.
17. INC3 – INC3 Pte Ltd
INC3 (pronounced inc cube) is a privately-owned incubator company with a mission to identify business opportunities and investments, bridge interdisciplinary innovation, and provide a forum for interaction and collaboration amongst creative practitioners and enterprises. Since its inception, INC3 has identified ten creative businesses for its incubation programme. Coming from different sectors of the Creative Industries, the "incubees" are seasoned creative practitioners and have been selected for their new visions that they want to develop for their businesses.
18. Jam Series by Arts For Us All Ltd
The Jam Series brings busking to the heartlands of
19. Jumpstart Incubation Project by
This project aims to improve the quality of life of low-income women by teaching them new skills in craft making, design and simple business skills such as finance and marketing, with the objective of setting up a co-op. Drama and story-telling skills will also be imparted as a tool for empowerment, confidence-building and bonding.
20. MAAD Sunday by Dry Run Pte Ltd
MAAD (“Market for Artists and Designers”) Sunday is a weekend bazaar where creative artworks can be displayed and sold – providing a testbed for budding artists and designers to showcase and sell their works. It is the only arts and design bazaar in town, with more than 30 tenants to date.
21. Machinima Asia by AKQA@ADK
Machinima refers to animated movie-making, using 3D video game engines - leveraging on sophisticated game engine tools for high quality CG video. It aims to stimulate creativity and expose the public to Machinima’s potential, fostering the belief that a world-class Machinima community in
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Mobile Immersive Theatre is a travelling programme that showcases creative digital media works in the form of music, 3D arts, stereographic animations and interactive games to community clubs and schools. A training programme is also conducted with the aim of enhancing creative skills and capabilities of youths. Selected local talents, comprising of youths and graduating students, are offered a chance to turn their creativity into 3D reality via a mentorship/internship programme with NTU Str, ategic Research Program of Virtual Reality and Soft Computing.
23. Moving Minds by Asian Film Archive
This project educates locals on Asian film heritage and how to use films as entrepreneurship tools to pre-tertiary students by engaging them in brainstorming solutions to problems, and providing them with necessary thinking tools.
24. Noise Apprenticeship by National Arts Council
This apprenticeship programme seeks to enable youths to obtain guidance from industry gurus in
25. Noise
Aiming to unearth fresh talent and inspire groundbreaking content from the youths in
26. Out-of-the-Box! – An International Puppet Festival by Teamwork Productions
The project comprises of puppet performances, workshops, film screenings, and master classes to promote the art of puppetry. Public performances, school shows and workshops by puppet theatre groups from
27. National Youth Poetry Slam Competition By Word Forward Ltd
Poetry Slam® is the competitive art of writing and performing poetry, which has become a worldwide literary movement in the last 20 years. The competition aims to inspire youths to find interest in language, literature and to project poetry as a lively, contemporary and engaging community-based art-form. It opens avenues for self-expression and thereby encouraging confidence and self-esteem in the youths.
28. Objectifs Residency and Lab by Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking
As a platform for photographers and filmmakers to come together with the community in a purposeful manner, this project is developed to raise the level of creativity for both the artist and the community through a series of outreach and educational activities. International and local artists are encouraged to interact via the project, allowing greater exposure of cultures and creativity.
29. Project AMISS by Visual Treatment Pte Ltd
AMISS stands for “A Made in Singapore Story”. This project aims to train the public in creating scripts using storyboards instead of drafting out the full script. It aims to increase the number of screenwriters in
30. Red Art Art Jam by Red Art Liveworks Pte Ltd
The Red Art Art Jam is a project that provides non-artists an avenue to express themselves through art. It is an inclusive activity that allows people from all walks of life to experiment and participate in visual art without any inhabitations and in a conducive environment. Participants are given an option of three different sizes of blank canvases on which to create their masterpieces.
31. Saturday@Clementi Central by South West Community Development Council
Targeting at students and local community groups in the South West district, this project provides platform for creative talents in the community to share and showcase their works in the form of visual arts, handicrafts, fashion design and more.
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The funding project allows drama educators to reach out to the disadvantaged community by giving them the chance to experience drama as an art form and tool for self-expression and conficence building.
33. South West Community Net TV by South West Community Development Council
The programme trains the public in video production, and then showcases their completed work via web casting, with its aims set to provide high quality multimedia contents that are meaningful and beneficial to the residents.
34. Young at (he)Art by National Arts Council
This pilot programme equips preschool teachers with creative ways to teach literacy, numeracy, and high quality arts activity. Arts education from a young age is an effective means of nurturing creativity and laying the foundation for a lifetime of interest in the arts.
35. Young Creative Producers by Han iP Centre
It is an educational and creative outreach programme for secondary and primary school students to stage, produce, edit and eventual market educational programmes that showcase the art of puppetry. It encourages schools to set up clubs to sustain and explore these methods of expressions to further the cause of creative entrepreneurship.
Appendix II
Call for New Ideas – “Creating Opportunities, Transforming Lives”
Creative Community Singapore (CCS) is calling for submission of creative projects. The ideas should be fresh, bold and original, and aims to transform the lives of Singaporeans and create opportunities for them in the Creative Industries.
The ideas should span across the following sectors:
Selected projects will be supported by CCS through co-funding, co-branding marketing and facilitation.
Send your ideas to www.creativecommunity.sg – “Submit Proposal” by
Visit www.creativecommunity.sg for more details.