Esplanade Presents

Workshop | Talk

Shall We Play This Way? - an interactive artist sharing

ASSITEJ Singapore

8 Mar 2025, Sat, 7pm

3hrs

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Rehearsal Studio

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Synopsis

How can one think about child-centred play, and how does body safety factor within it?

 

In this interactive sharing session co-led by Faye Lim and Chew Shaw En, participants will engage in activities that activate the space, consider its permissibility, and reflect on the boundaries both adults and children bring into play. Based on their experience working with children through the arts, Faye and Shaw will share within the contexts of their work with children in their respective communities, bringing in elements of consent, body safety and play.

Language: English
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Artist Information

Chen Shaw En

Chew Shaw En is a performer, dance artist and facilitator with a multidisciplinary practice across various contexts. Among her facilitation roles, Shaw is a creative facilitator at Tak Takut Kids Club (TTKC), a community space dedicated to children and youths from vulnerable backgrounds. Through TTKC, she has contributed to long-running projects such as Community Getai (2021–2024), a grassroots weekly performance night fostering a culture of self sustaining performance-making and hosting by and for the community, and Let’s Go Play Outside!, an initiative that transforms public playgrounds into community spaces where children and families can gather. As an artist-facilitator, Shaw also collaborates with Superhero Me on projects that push the boundaries of inclusion, such as GROW, a partnership with Apple (2023 & 2024), that engages neurodivergent children and their families.

Faye Lim

Faye Lim is a dance and teaching artist with a background in research, training and sexuality education. As co-director of Rolypoly Family, Faye produces body-based art, programmes and body safety education, while leading the team’s training and professional development, as well as consulting on projects. Her choreography and direction, for performance and for camera, collaborations and commissions have been presented in schools, community places, stages, and galleries in and beyond Singapore. Faye’s advocacy work includes expanding on care practices in the arts with CITRUS practices and safeguarding children’s rights to safety, health, education and joy.

Date & Time

8 Mar 2025, Sat

7pm

Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
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