CITRUS Fest

📆 28 Jun 2024, 7.00PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

In the spirit of all CITRUS gatherings, we want to meet old and new friends around tasty and healthy food. To kick off CITRUS Fest, we have invited special guests Practice Tuckshop and Chef Priscill Koh to cook up a storm for our opening dinner! Inspired by the colours of CITRUS’s logo and the festival’s focus on care and intentionality, Chef Priscill Koh will present a three-course communal dining experience. Her vegetarian dinner spotlights sustainably-grown local produce, and will include a selection of rescued veggie pickles and condiments.

📆 29 Jun 2024, 12.30PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

When we are told 'this is just how things are done here' or 'this is how things are', how might we respond? What are some small steps we can take to change our surroundings for the better? In this workshop, Adib Kosnan and Chong Gua Khee adapt a forum theatre script about working conditions in the arts into an intimate discussion and roleplay exercise. Participants will get to try out their own scripts for change, as well as watch and learn from other folks' experiments. By rehearsing together in a safe space, participants will build their own vocabularies for making a difference in our respective contexts, regardless of art form or role! 

📆 29 Jun 2024, 3.00PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

How have we made it work? How have arts workers in Singapore made decisions and created structures of support for parenting in our workplace? This conversation focuses on informal and formal strategies and hacks that have made it more possible for parenting (and caregiving) arts workers to maintain or grow aspects of their practice, including but not limited to creative work, residencies, networking and touring. The dialogue will start with sharings from interviews and research conducted by Faye Lim and arts researcher Dr Hoe Su Fern. Thereafter, invited panellists will kick off a broader conversation with audiences. 

This dialogue is part of The Artist Is Apparent, a project that welcomes artists, producers and arts workers to consider support structures for parenting/caregiving artists and arts workers in Singapore. It was first conceptualised by a few local parenting artists and is currently run by Faye Lim. 

📆 29 Jun 2024, 5.00PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

What do we need to foster connection through conflict and communication? In this workshop, Teo Xiao Ting will lead participants to explore how they communicate and ways to navigate conflict to facilitate repair. Drawing upon frameworks from CITRUS practices’ Library of Care online resource, as well as principles from embodied nonviolent communication and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities like Internal Family Systems, participants will have the opportunity to understand themselves amidst tension. Through interactive exercises, workshop attendees will engage in paired activities, deepening their understanding of themselves and what they need to feel grounded during conflict.

📆 29 Jun 2024, 7.30PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

What kinds of structures and practices help to keep performers physically, emotionally and mentally safe? This joint workshop by accredited intimacy coordinator, Rayann Condy and The Consent Collaborative, will cover the fundamentals of care and intimacy in and around performance. Weaving together theoretical insights and experiential learning, participants will be led through improvisation tasks, embodied exercises and learn to navigate care and consent dynamics. By working in pairs, attendees can try out diverse ways of expression, refining their attunement to and enactment of embodied communication.

📆 30 Jun 2024, 12.30PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

In today’s oculocentric world, how do we actually read a photograph? In this workshop, Chelsea Chua and Nurul Huda Rashid delve into the importance of the photograph as a tool of communication across various media. In the arts, photographs are used and reproduced in marketing and publicity channels in advertisements, media reportage, policy documents and resources in curriculums. On social media, we also see behind-the-scenes images from rehearsal spaces, artist studios and work-in-progress presentations. Through a discursive process, participants will collectively unpack select case studies and simultaneously create a resource on how to care better in working with images in the arts.

📆 30 Jun 2024, 3.00PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

For CITRUS Fest, The Backstage Affair attempts to compile some voices of backstage practitioners as they talk about their ideas of care.

📆 30 Jun 2024, 4.30PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

Is there a particular question you want to ask others, or a topic around care that you’d like to raise and discuss? Or maybe you have a lingering thought from the workshops that you’d like to dive deeper into?  In this session, participants will be supported to form small group discussions around one or more topics of your choice, facilitated by Chong Gua Khee.

📆 30 Jun 2024, 7.00PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

Combining the art of cooking, making conversations and storytelling into a single encounter, Recess Time by The Practice Tuckshop is an 'ugly produce' communal dining experience. It is a long-running participatory work that stages a social event, i.e. a meal, as the site for performance and engagement.

"Makan Masters" go on veggie rescue missions to salvage unwanted or ugly produce, and incorporate them into a menu of their choosing. Recess Time conversations are also documented using an auto-ethnographic approach by a floating interviewer, known as the "Kaypoh" (Busybody) Queen/King and recorded inside the Recess Journal, which also contain messages from past chefs, photos and food-waste friendly recipes.