Led by gerontologist and master coach Normala Manap, this small-group workshop rooted in Guided Autobiography invites participants to look back on the milestones that shaped them — family, career, health, identity, legacy — and leave with new perspectives, new connections, and a deeper appreciation of their own story. Specially designed for 60+ individuals, the AGEncy Fest: 2026 Public Creative Expressions Workshop runs weekly from October to November.
These six selected projects will receive a total of S$40,000 in funding from The AGEncy Fund, an enabling platform set up by T:>Works to provide vital resources for 60+ individuals. Together, these projects explore ageing in connection with community and life, while championing a future where creativity knows no age. Learn more about these selected project applicants, and join us on AGEncy Day in 2027 to witness these intergenerational and transdisciplinary processes!
Initiated by T:>Works and funded in part by the public, The AGEncy Fest is an annual showcase of the distinct vitalities and perspectives of 60+ individuals, including artists and cultural workers. Centring the agency to act and make choices as the transformative experience of ageing, the Fest opens in 2026 with Who Knows Where The Bird Goes – Dana Lam: Six Decades of Practice, an exhibition tracing the writer, gender equality advocate, grandmother, and visual artist across a lifetime of making works.
The collaboration of 60+ pioneers, Jacintha and Dick Lee, returns to the forefront in this one-night-only reprise of music from Lush Life.
Intergenerational in the fundraiser’s ethos like The AGEncy Fund, join the stars of Lush Life Jacintha and Frances Lee, together with jazz pianist Tan Weixiang, for timeless tunes over cocktails, canapés, and conversations to fundraise for The Open Call.
Proceeds will support 60+ individuals and intergenerational collaborators to The AGEncy Fund 2027 Open Call.
Helmed by internationally acclaimed Singapore director Ong Keng Sen known for his distinct aesthetic in creating documentary performance through collaboration with his performers and extensive research, Lush Life is an intimate documentary piece that weaves the lives, artistry and connections between the sublime, audiophile-grade jazz of songbird Jacintha and the bohemian spirit of pop icon Dick Lee.
Through personal narratives, archival traces and live music, this distilled work paints a dual portrait of artistic and life pursuits. Sink into the lush world of Jacintha’s music and Lee’s vibrant classics, revealed as chapters in their lives. Lush Life is a conversation across styles and generations, a meditation on what it means to live a creative life in its most resonant form.
PerºForm Open Academy returns in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Singapore and Maxim Gorki to present POA 2026: The Post-Migrant Academy.
POA 2026: The Post-Migrant Academy unpacks the artistic concept of post-migrant theatre in Germany, a term coined by Gorki’s Artistic Director Shermin Langhoff, through the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon of Gorki entitled ЯE:IMAGINE – THE RED HOUSE – Inventories, Interventions, Inventions), a transdisciplinary festival curated by Shermin, which detailed among other topics, the lives of Telefunken female Gastarbeiters (guest workers) who were selected primarily from Turkey to aid the recovery of the post-war economy of Germany.
A Public Conversation by T:>Works, musicians Shazza, Dick Lee, Abangsapau and weish look back at Singapop’s journey & its future
Globally influential, speedy evolution, trendsetting fashion…the pop world has a precedent from Asia which speaks to the world. Wherein lies the future of our pop scene – how to generate and sustain it beyond the quintessential Singapore songs? Is the answer strategic innovation of the entertainment industry? To expand and impact beyond our island shores, or concentrate on the niche? Apart from bottom-up indie initiatives, is National Infrastructure needed? What’s missing in the scene?
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