In this episode, Su-Lin Ngiam, Executive Director of ArtsWok Collaborative shares her journey of setting up a socially engaged art intermediary in Singapore. Some of the topics we covered include:

Starting a socially engaged art intermediary in Singapore

Crossing sectors, building projects: Working with the healthcare sector and the importance of supportive funding

Opening up taboo topics through the arts

Finding the right partners and convincing stakeholders

Building in research into your process and program proposal

What are some of the challenges and what kinds of structural changes could make it easier to do community-engaged work?

Changing social frameworks and making career opportunities in the social arts sector accessible for youths

Setting up funding that celebrates and honours collaboration

Cross sector collaboration creates innovation; how to go about it

Impact of cross sector projects


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End-of-life in the Malay-Muslim Community Research Report: https://artswok.org/library/end-of-life-malay-muslim-community/