CITRUS fest 2026

📆 Tue 3 Mar, 7.00-9.30 PM
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

CITRUS fest returns in August 2026 as a biennial festival of care by and for arts workers and the public! We begin preparations with a huddle, celebrating the 15th night of the lunar new year (chap goh mei, Hokkien), and breaking fast (buka puasa, Malay) together for Ramadan. 

If you would like to find out more about the festival and share your ideas, or are interested in the open call for huddle puddle ↗ (opens in new tab), a new programme co-facilitated by Faye Lim and Teo Xiao Ting, please come and speak with them or other CITRUS associates during the gathering.

Bring your festive snacks, and catch up with your peers and colleagues over hearty food and conversation. See you!

If you have questions or require assistance to enable your participation, please message us on Peatix or email citrus.practices@gmail.com ↗ (opens in new tab). 

This event is complimentary for ARH Subscribers. Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here ↗ (opens in new tab)!

Do you have ideas for how working in the arts in Singapore can be more joyful, fulfilling and sustainable? Are you interested in developing and testing care practices to grow an arts ecosystem where arts workers and organisations can thrive, be valued and nourished by one another?

In this open call, our understanding of “care practices” refers to and includes sustained actions that can effect systemic and structural change for improving wellbeing and longevity in the arts workplace.

At CITRUS practices, we believe in practising care together to support one another and make sense of how we wish to work in the arts. Hence, we are seeking three pairs of arts workers to be part of this programme, rather than individual applicants.

In total, there will be four pairs, of which one will be formed by CITRUS associates Chew Li Hong and Rayann Condy. As a sense of what is possible, their project focuses on building capacity and shared understanding around practices of intimacy direction and coordination within Singapore’s performing arts and media sectors. They will be conducting community mapping, research and dialogue with local practitioners and stakeholders. 

📝Submissions for this open call has closed

Read more about the programme: OPEN CALL — CITRUS practices ↗ (opens in new tab)

The second edition of CITRUS fest returns in August 2026 as a biennial festival of care for and by arts workers, commissioned by the National Arts Council’s Arts Resource Hub.

More details to follow.