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Arts-Based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward

Arts-Based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward

Justin Lee, Jui Liang Sim
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522517276|ISBN10: 1522517278|EISBN13: 9781522517283
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch018
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Lee, Justin, and Jui Liang Sim. "Arts-Based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward." Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art, edited by Leigh Nanney Hersey and Bryna Bobick, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 391-411. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch018

APA

Lee, J. & Sim, J. L. (2017). Arts-Based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward. In L. Hersey & B. Bobick (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art (pp. 391-411). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch018

Chicago

Lee, Justin, and Jui Liang Sim. "Arts-Based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward." In Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art, edited by Leigh Nanney Hersey and Bryna Bobick, 391-411. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch018

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Abstract

Socially engaged artists have to work within a landscape of state-sponsored grassroots organizations and controlled community development in Singapore. This has created both constraints and opportunities for artists. Arts-based community engagement that focuses on building national identity and inter-racial harmony receives much government support and funding. Community art that helps support therapy, health and social care are also welcomed by the arts administrators, social service providers, hospitals and community organizations. Art that is politicized or calls into question government policies are discouraged, and the socially conscious artists who use art for advocacy or public education often have to negotiate with the state where these boundaries should lie. Nonetheless, a strong supportive ecosystem for socially engaged artists is growing in Singapore, made up of intermediary organizations, capability builders and market aggregators.

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