Cooking up arts-based narrative change with ArtsWok

Onions Talk: Change making through social engagement

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 Website: https://artswok.org Support ArtsWok: https://www.giving.sg/artswok_collaborative_limited End-of-life in the Malay-Muslim Community Research Report: https://artswok.org/library/end-of-life-malay-muslim-community/